Khalid Abdul Muhammad (born Harold Moore Jr.; January 12, 1948 – February 17, 2001) was an African American Muslim minister, black nationalist and activist who became a prominent figure in the Nation of Islam and later the New Black Panther Party. After a racially inflammatory 1993 speech at Kean College, Muhammad was condemned and removed from his position in the Nation of Islam by Louis Farrakhan. He was also censured by both chambers of the United States Congress.
]]>Tracklist:
Tracklist
Based on the dates mentioned during the cassette, this recording was made sometime in 1997. WRFL's late night show (12AM to 3AM), run by Sami Ibrahim from 1993 to 1998 appears to be the earliest hip hop radio station in Lexington.
This cassette was lent to me by him to digitize. In this recording, he plays many late 90s rap songs while discussing things like the latest in the underground and putting callers on air. It also includes a freestyle.
- Hip-Hop Archive
]]>Based on the dates written on the cassette, this recording was made on either November 20th, 1993, November 23rd, 1993, or November 24th, 1993.
WRFL's late night show (12AM to 3AM), run by Sami Ibrahim from 1993 to 1998 appears to be the earliest hip hop radio station in Lexington. This cassette was lent to me by him to digitize. In this recording, he plays many early 90s rap songs while discussing things like "A band that is the most talked about, in the underground scene right now, the Wu-Tang Clan, and their new album Enter The Wu-Tang 36 Chambers" before playing "The Mystery of Chessboxin'" and also mentioning "Snoop Doggy Dogg & DAS EFX's new albums."
This seems to be one recording, due to how smooth it is, and how the times correlate, "it's 12:15", towards the beginning, and, "It's straight up 1:00" towards the end. The B-side has 11/24/93, sharpied on the shell. The front, A-side, has "WEEK ENDING 11/20/93" printed on the label, but has also been sharpied with "11/23", so this recording could be from any of the 3 dates.
You can hear bits of a show called Counterspin in the background, as it had been recorded over.
Track Listing- Hip-Hop Archive
]]>It features new tracks (at the time) by Bahamadia, EPMD, Das Efx, GZA, LL Cool J, Mad Lion, Method Man, and more.
- DJ Chase March
]]>- DJ Herbal-T
]]>Side A
Side B
Some gems on here, including Tuff Crew's "Flippin' Keeloz" and somehow they figure out how to play G Rap's "Talk Like Sex" on the radio by doing live edits. Tony D "aka the escaped ex-con" is in the house, wearing "the smooth parole slacks."
Drops from Special Ed, De La Soul, Ed Lover, etc.
Side A
Side B (and then some)
Track List
A little before the 20 minute mark of side B, PRT rolls through to promote their upcoming album and their video shoot for "Rock This Funky Joint."
Side A
Side B
At this point, the phone number for PRB was 452-3655.
Side A
Side B
Random Rap Radio: Are these cassettes your own from the period/ swaps/ trades or stuff you dubbed off heads over the years ?
DJ Mighty Mi: I recorded all these mixes myself. My Mom lived in Brooklyn and my Dad lived in Philly when I was growing up. So when I would visit NY, I would always record Rap radio. Usually on a boom box that had the auto reverse function, so it would keep recording when I fell asleep. I would get great pleasure in listening and studying the mixes during the Amtrak ride from NYC to Philly. I’d consider DJ Red Alert to be the Godfather of Golden Era hip hop. His skills werent necessarily as impressive as Clark Kent or Flex’s…..but his taste in music was unmatched. He would always choose the best album cuts to play. He definitely shaped my lifelong music taste.
Random Rap Radio: Are these cassettes your own from the period/ swaps/ trades or stuff you dubbed off heads over the years ?
DJ Mighty Mi: I recorded all these mixes myself. My Mom lived in Brooklyn and my Dad lived in Philly when I was growing up. So when I would visit NY, I would always record Rap radio. Usually on a boom box that had the auto reverse function, so it would keep recording when I fell asleep. I would get great pleasure in listening and studying the mixes during the Amtrak ride from NYC to Philly. I’d consider DJ Red Alert to be the Godfather of Golden Era hip hop. His skills werent necessarily as impressive as Clark Kent or Flex’s…..but his taste in music was unmatched. He would always choose the best album cuts to play. He definitely shaped my lifelong music taste.
Random Rap Radio: Are these cassettes your own from the period/ swaps/ trades or stuff you dubbed off heads over the years ?
DJ Mighty Mi: I recorded all these mixes myself. My Mom lived in Brooklyn and my Dad lived in Philly when I was growing up. So when I would visit NY, I would always record Rap radio. Usually on a boom box that had the auto reverse function, so it would keep recording when I fell asleep. I would get great pleasure in listening and studying the mixes during the Amtrak ride from NYC to Philly. I’d consider DJ Red Alert to be the Godfather of Golden Era hip hop. His skills werent necessarily as impressive as Clark Kent or Flex’s…..but his taste in music was unmatched. He would always choose the best album cuts to play. He definitely shaped my lifelong music taste.
Track List
Track List
"People's Club, that was like one of the first black-owned clubs in this country. It was originally called the Q Club, but then it lost its license. In those days, clubs could operate without a license so it was like an illegal club and that used to go on until 6, 7, 8 o'clock on a Friday morning and it was just crazy. It was a real hood spot; you're talking about the '80s here so there was a lot of guys dressing like pimps and it would be a lot of their girls in there as well. There would be a lot of pimps, a lot of drug dealers. You couldn't use the toilet in there because it was like a drug-dealing [den]. By 6 in the morning, there'd be a smoke cloud in the basement and there'd be people smoking coke and crack and it was just one of those extreme street spots, but that's where I played every Thursday.And what used to happen was Whodini used to record their albums over in London 'cause they were signed to Jive Records and their studios were only in London so they'd be over. And people like Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, but they didn't really come to the club like Whodini did. And then when that Raising Hell Tour with Run-D.M.C., Beastie Boys and Whodini came, they all used to just come down there and freestyle for hours and just hang out and get high. Larry Smith, rest in peace, he used to come there every Thursday. You couldn't buy anything by the glass, it was only bottles. You could only buy like a bottle of champagne, a bottle of brandy, a bottle of wine. As a young kid, like 18, 19, 20, just growing up in that environment, it was like the best experience."
Casual and the Hieroglyphics crew battled Saafir and the Hobo Junction mob in the Wake Up Show studios at KMEL in Northern California. The beef had been marinating for a minute but no one knew just how animated it was gonna get [‘We shoulda simulcast this tonight’ !]. At one point, Sway had to settle the near fight with quick healing comments like ‘All the real men come to Rap’. The atmosphere in the studio was tense to say the least, at one point King Tech informing the soldiers and the weed carriers in the KMEL studio ‘Yall got to chill, this is a Rap thing, you can fight outside’ !! Sway made it sound like there were literally hundreds of people waiting in the building…maybe there were.
On the mic that night were:
Hieroglyphics : Casual, Tajai, Pep Love & Opio
Hobo Junction: Saafir, King Saan, Big Nous, Mike T & Jullie D
Weeks previous to the KMEL showdown ‘The Honey Presents Showcase’ was where, according to Hip-Hop folklore, Saafir presented Casual’s wallet to him at the end of an on-stage freestyle session [having pick-pocketed Casual while serving him in front of the crowd]. Maybe the cause of the beef was a mixture of pride or just plain show n prove, or according to even more lore, Casual provided evidence for his name, as earlier in the day, he hadn't bothered his arse making a phone call to show up to a studio session with Saafir. Which is rather rude tbh.
Regardless, the results of neither that or the KMEL battle dont seem to have been aired on the web in the past so we thought we’d compile a remix of the full freestyle, and remaster the whole show. The phone lines were opened and listeners had their chance to vote for a winner, but no on-air announcements were forthcoming until the following week. You can hear them for context at Random Rap Radio's remastered version of the battle.
The purity of actual freestyle rhyming is commendable, but if we look back to Harlem World in Christmas 1981, Busy Bee had to accept that Moe Dee wiped his ass with him due to a syllable perfect delivery of a jaw-dropping fully rehearsed Rap. Saafirs vicious styles had the same effect in 1994, pernicious pre-writtens taking out the majority of the Hiero crew. Casual had some great one-liners off the dome, but with Saafir delivering booming pre-writtens like “N----- you still play Pictionary with Mom and Dad/You grew up with wing dings named Buffy and Brad/You used to talk like this, that’s rad let’s go surfing”, there really was no competition.
- Irish Craig @ RandomRapRadio
]]>Thankfully, it's safe now, which is a good thing because this one of the last episodes of Raw Deal from 1993 (the show went off the air in March). (There is a slight possibility it could be from 1992.)
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo are supposed to show up, but don't. There's a good discussion of how people from Trenton actually say "Trenton."
Side A
Side B
- Laze
]]>Thanks to G for this great quality soundboard recording.
Side A
Side A
Side B
Side A
Side B
]]>
Back in March 1997, the federal state of Hesse developed first plans on launching a frequency for a non-commercial local radio station. At that time, two applicants in Frankfurt started a week of test broadcasts. That was when the first Funky Fresh show was broadcasted on Radio Tox. Radio Tox, however, was a bunch of unorganized hippies with autonomous structures, and so, after that week, the better organized team of Radio X received the license. A few weeks later however, they asked me to start a Hip Hop show on their frequency, as they were told that my test show on Radio Tox had been pretty good.
Although his successor has attained far greater heights, it was Jeff Young who paved the way for Pete Tong’s phenomenal rise to prominence at Radio One. His long-standing status as a knowledgeable and credible soul/ black music DJ in the South East stood Jeff in good stead to secure a highly influential weekend show on BBC Radio London. Although this was termed a ‘breakfast show’, its 8am start meant it was ideally timed for ravers gradually stirring following a night on the tiles. As very early house music from Chicago and New York started laying the foundations of what’s known as ‘dance music’ today, Jeff was in just the right place at the right time to be snapped up by Radio One in 1987 to host the new Friday night ‘Big Beat.’ This saw him playing music right across the black music spectrum, from Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley to Public Enemy, but his soulful roots were always evident. Jeff handed the baton to Pete Tong in 1990, and, apart from a stint on Capital Radio shortly afterwards, has kept largely behind-the-scenes roles since.
- DJ Step One
After being told we were done, at the VERY last minute, WESQ management told us they would grudgingly allow us to do one last show, as long as it was pre-recorded and submitted for management’s review beforehand. For a variety of reasons, it wasn’t practical for us to record it at WESQ, but thankfully, the nice people at Basement Music’s second home, WXDU in Durham, allowed us to use one of their production rooms to record the show. So all day on Thursday, March 23, I assembled clips from the last two years of the show, and when I was done, I drove the 80 miles to Rocky Mount, fetched co-hostess justBLACK, then drove the 80 miles back to Durham. At this point, late in the night of Thursday, March 23, we arrived at the station, got everything together, reviewed a very rough outline of the show, and finally, shortly after 4:00 AM on Friday the 24th, we started recording the show — in real-time. In order to try and retain some semblance of the “live” feel (and also because it was barely over 12 hours before the show would be broadcast), we didn’t have the luxury of stopping and re-recording any time we flubbed or made a mistake.]]>
All of the other recordings of the show provided to this site were recorded as broadcast, from a tuner tuned to the show (complete with all the attendant audio processing and broadcast artifacts), while this one is from the master DAT recording. Thus, this is a VERY noticeably higher-quality recording — which means every bit of random background noise during the air check portions is painfully noticeable. We weren’t used to this.
Somewhat comically, we removed the cursing from clips of old shows where profanity originally flowed freely. This was in the days before digital production (or at least before it was available to us), so all of it was done manually (and rather clumsily so).
After we finished recording the show, shortly after 7:00 AM, we left Durham and dropped the DAT off at WESQ a little after 9:00 AM on Friday. Later that day, management listened to the show, approved it, and a few hours after that, it aired on Friday night. For the first and last time ever, I (The DJ Without A Name) actually listened to the show as it was broadcast, with an acceptable amount of static in my dorm room in Chapel Hill, NC, and took calls on my dorm room phone from listeners who wanted to commiserate and wish us the best of luck. Back in those days, that was a long-distance call from Rocky Mount, so it was heartening to see how many of our listeners were willing to spend the money to call up and tell us what the show meant to them.
Sold out crowd, Run Dmc was halfway thru their set. Huge brawl broke out, somebody ripped a metal VIP rope off and started lashing people with it. Crazy night i’ll never forget. That and the KRS-1 fight were the wildest Mahorns nights ever!The Courier-Post ran this piece:


Mon, Jun 9, 1986 – 2 · Daily News (New York, New York) · Newspapers.com
Track List
Zulu pops into the studio during the airbreak at the end of the first side and tries to push for a Thursday Night Live, but it's not happening. PRT's Father Shaheed was in the studio earlier in the night.
Side A
Side B
Later in the show, with Jay-Ski and Eazy ready to roll out of the studio. G says he’s sticking around for a while to wait for Money Moses and Lamar, who show up one break later to discuss goings-on in hip-hop including Eazy-E showing up in New York with bodyguards and Tim Dog calling him out, Delicious Vinyl’s signing of “a new group called The Pharcyde,” and G’s upcoming trip to Stretch & Bobbito’s show. This is one of those good “time capsule” episodes, hearing what was being discussed in hip-hop at the time.
Before tape
Side V
Side X
Side Y
Side Z
After
Track Listing
- DJ Step One (added track listing info from Jonathan)
]]>Trumungous shouts to Weevie for the jones…
Show is dated by mention of a dope show at the Trocadero in Philly the following Monday.

At the start of side B, G begs Eazy to let him have a regular set. At this point he was still primarily answering phones and co-hosting, but not spinning. MC Smooth joins the crew in the studio.
The show finishes off with a dope set from Eazy M with some nice blends and cuts.
Side A
Side B
Side C
]]>
KMEL shared that after this episode, a rep from Ruffhouse Records drove to the studio to meet him. She asked, "Who was that rapping on the radio?" and everyone pointed to KMEL. She asked if the group had a demo tape and a manager, so KMEL put her in touch with their manager. "After that things went a little south," KMEL said. Their manager said he "'lost' the demo tape, but it turns out he and [the rep] had fallen out of sorts and that was it."
Then, Camden's own Krown Rulers (now briefly known as XLG) kick the ball with a nice taste of what they're up to at the time.
I'm dating this one at April 23, 1992 because G mentions the Source Tour coming to town that coming Sunday. Thanks to @oklo_audio for digging up an old Source ad to help find the date (don't miss his Source Ads tumblr).
Side A
Side B
Props to Dj Jaz for the help on the Tracklist.
Track List
Original track list and description courtesy of stretchandbobbito.blogspot.com
]]>Track List
Track list and description courtesy of stretchandbobbito.blogspot.com with some corrections from Joseph
]]>Digitized by Solo11
Torrent by www.theBoombap.nl
May 2008
Read this:
http://www.theboombap.nl/theBoards/read.php?1,1205439
PLAYLIST:
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 1.mp3 Method Man - The Riddler
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 1.mp3 Special Ed - Freaky Flow
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 1.mp3 Grand Puba feat. Sadat X - Play It Cool
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 1.mp3 Total (Remix Feat. Keith Murray) - Can't You See
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 1.mp3 Big L - MVP (Most Valuable Poet)
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 1.mp3 Lords Of The Underground (Feat. Keith Murray) - What I'm After
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 1.mp3 Lordz Of Brooklyn - Interview
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 1.mp3 Lordz Of Brooklyn - Tales From The Rails
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 1.mp3 Raekwon, Masta Killa & Ghostface Killah - Glaciers of Ice
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 1.mp3 Raekwon, Masta Killa, KRS-One,Notorious B.I.G. - Run G, Start The Break
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 2.mp3 Raekwon, Masta Killa, KRS-One,Notorious B.I.G. - Run G, Start The Break
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 2.mp3 Jemini The Gifted One - Funk Soul Sensation
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 2.mp3 Junior M.A.F.I.A. Feat. Notorious B.I.G. - Player's Anthem
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 2.mp3 TooTall - Dutchmasters intro
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 2.mp3 DRS?? - now I'm gonna show you how the westcoast smacks kids
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 2.mp3 Chubb Rock, O.C., Jeru The Damaja - Return Of The Crooklyn Dodgers
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 2.mp3 AZ feat Miss Jones - Sugarhill
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 2.mp3 Hurricane - Live on stage
DutchMasters 1995.06.26 - 2.mp3 Craig Mack - Flava In Ya Ear
Digitized by Solo11
Torrent by www.theBoombap.nl
May 2008
Read this:
http://www.theboombap.nl/theBoards/read.php?1,1205439
PLAYLIST:
Dutchmasters 1995.05.22 - 1.mp3 Artifacts feat. Mad Skillz - Dynamite Soul II (Lip Service Remix)
Dutchmasters 1995.05.22 - 1.mp3 Tha Alkaholiks & Diamond - The Next Level (Remix)
Dutchmasters 1995.05.22 - 1.mp3 o.a. Notorious B.I.G., Coolio, Redman, Busta ... - The Points
Dutchmasters 1995.05.22 - 1.mp3 Mad Lion - Double Trouble
Dutchmasters 1995.05.22 - 1.mp3 Grand Puba - I Like It
Dutchmasters 1995.05.22 - 1.mp3 Mobb Deep feat. Q-tip - Drink Away The Pain
Dutchmasters 1995.05.22 - 1.mp3 AZ - Your World Don't Stop
Dutchmasters 1995.05.22 - 1.mp3 Resident Alien - Shaky Grounds
Dutchmasters 1995.05.22 - 1.mp3 The Roots - Proceed
1995.05.22 - 2.Extince Intro
1995.05.22 - 2.Funkmaster Flex feat. Biz Markie, Ol' Dirty Bastard - Nuttin But Flavor
1995.05.22 - 2.King Just - Shoalin Soldiers
1995.05.22 - 2.Main Source - Fakin' The Funk (Remix feat. Neek the Exotic)
1995.05.22 - 2.Large Professor - Interview
1995.05.22 - 2.Large Professor - Get Off That Bullshit
1995.05.22 - 2.Lost Boyz - Jeeps, Lex Coups, Bimaz & Benz
1995.05.22 - 2.Sam Sever and the Raiders of the Lost Art - Words of Wisdom (They Don't Know)
1995.05.22 - 2.Psycho - Where Is He?
1995.05.22 - 2.?? - ??
1995.05.22 - 2.Red Hot Lover Tone f/ Big Daddy Kane, Rich Nice - In The Game
1995.05.22 - 2.Shyrock - Pops Blows The 9
1995.05.22 - 2.mp3 Bob Marley - War
Digitized by Solo11
Torrent by www.theBoombap.nl
May 2008
Read this: http://www.theboombap.nl/theBoards/read.php?1,1205439
PLAYLIST:
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 1 Inspectah Deck - Let Me at Them
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 1 Tha Alkaholiks & Diamond - The Next Level (Remix)
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 1 Grand Puba Feat. Sadat X - I Like It (Buckwild Remix)
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 1 Junior M.A.F.I.A. Feat. Notorious B.I.G. - Realms Of Junior M.A.F.I.A.
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 1 Sunz of Man - Soldiers of the Darkness
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 1 Mobb Deep - Give up the goods
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 1 Shyrock - Pops Blows The 9
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 1 Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It (Funkmaster Flex Remix)
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 1 Funkmaster Flex feat. Biz Markie, Ol' Dirty Bastard - Nuttin But Flavor
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 1 Low Profile - Funky Song
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 2.mp3 Rahzell Intro
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 2.mp3 Showbiz & AG Feat. Lord Finesse & D-Flow - Add On
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 2.mp3 Deadly Maniacs - Lyrical Shots
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 2.mp3 Ol' Dirty Bastard - Raw
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 2.mp3 Naughty By Nature - Clap Yo Hands
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 2.mp3 PHD Poet Feat. Havoc & Hostyle - Set It Part 3
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 2.mp3 Bounty Killer - Cellular Phone
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 2.mp3 Mad Skillz - Skillz In '95
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 2.mp3 King Just - No Flow On The Rodeo
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 2.mp3 Bizzy B - Running Things
Dutchmasters 1995.05.15 - 2.mp3 Hurricane - Ain't Nothing Here Yours
Digitized by Solo11
Torrent by www.theBoombap.nl
May 2008
Read this:
http://www.theboombap.nl/theBoards/read.php?1,1205439
PLAYLIST:
DutchMasters 1995.05.01 - 1.mp3 Tha Alkaholiks - The Next Level
DutchMasters 1995.05.01 - 1.mp3 Redman - Can't Wait To Get It On
DutchMasters 1995.05.01 - 1.mp3 Ill Al Skratch - Chill With That
DutchMasters 1995.05.01 - 1.mp3 Da Bush Babees - Remember We
DutchMasters 1995.05.01 - 1.mp3 Extince - Villa 65 intro
DutchMasters 1995.05.01 - 1.mp3 Boot Camp Clik - Headz Ain't Ready
DutchMasters 1995.05.01 - 1.mp3 Big L (Feat. Fat Joe) - Put it On
DutchMasters 1995.05.01 - 1.mp3 Geto Boys - Mind Playin Tricks On Me
DutchMasters 1995.05.01 - 2.mp3 Scissors - Live on stage
DutchMasters 1995.05.01 - 2.mp3 Twinz - Round & Round
DutchMasters 1995.05.01 - 2.mp3 Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
DutchMasters 1995.05.01 - 2.mp3 Onyx - Last Dayz
DutchMasters 1995.05.01 - 2.mp3 Ol' Dirty Bastard - Brooklyn Zoo
DutchMasters 1995.05.01 - 2.mp3 Digable Planets - Dedicated
DutchMasters 1995.05.01 - 2.mp3 Gravediggaz - Mommy, What's a Gravedigger?
- JTPE
]]>Digitized by Solo11
Torrent by www.theBoombap.nl
May 2008
Read this:
http://www.theboombap.nl/theBoards/read.php?1,1205439
PLAYLIST:
DutchMasters 1994.08.22 - 1.mp3 Biz Markie - Beeny & The Jets
DutchMasters 1994.08.22 - 1.mp3 Montell Jordan Feat. Redman - Something For The Honies
DutchMasters 1994.08.22 - 1.mp3 Souls Of Mischief - Soul For Real
DutchMasters 1994.08.22 - 1.mp3 Hurricane - Freestyle
DutchMasters 1994.08.22 - 1.mp3 Diana Washington - The Big Apple
- JTPE
]]>Side ?
What's most interesting about this is that Fresh J very clearly refers to the show as "Raw Deal" even though the show was still in transition from "Club Krush" to the new name a full month-and-a-half later. It is possible the tape was recorded over and this is actually a show from later in 1991, but I kind of doubt it.
Really dope music on this one.
Side C features two very rare tracks: Tony D's "Forked Tongue" and YZ & G-Rock's "Check the Quickness."
There's a bit of tension in the airbreak on side C between Forrest from the Family Weekend committee when he thinks Tone makes a snarky comment while he's talking.
Side A
Side B
The show starts at 10:15 on side A. For some reason, side A seems to be at a slightly fast speed. The show kicked off with some technical flubs, but overall, was a solid mix with some great tracks by Raw Produce (RIP Cadence), Mountain Brothers, Spearhead, and even an early radio-edit demo version of a track I did with Poetic.
Side A
Side B
Did I ever tell you about Jay-Ski?
He was the first hip-hop DJ I ever knew (somewhat) personally. Way back in the late 1980s, I was in 7th grade and would call around to Bulletin Board Systems (don't know what I'm talking about? You better ask somebody!) from my middle school's computer lab. There was one I called into that was run by a metalhead, but I bumped into one other user on there named Gemini that was into hip-hop. That was Jay-Ski. We talked once about trying to work together (this was back when I was just starting to write lyrics), but that never came to be. Probably for the best since I was completely wack at the time.
I only met Jay in person once, when he was working at Sound Express (Jersey's answer to Funk-O-Mart/Sounds of Market) in Willingboro. Then Jay got famous showing up all over Philly radio. We've caught up online a few times in recent years. He's good dude. And crazy talented. Check Jay out these days over at PureElementz.net.
Anyway.
On this episode, they do a giveaway for an Erick Sermon/Def Jam show in New York. The winner gets to ride in a "a phat stretch limo with a television, VCR, and all that" and hang with Mike Elliott and Shelly Shel. This results in a pretty hilarious call-in section where people call in telling why they should be the ones to win the tickets.
There's some outstanding music here, especially for fans of that 93 sound. Lords of the Underground, The Mexakinz, Original Flavor, PRT, post-Large Pro Main Source... it goes on and on. Some tasty remixes and lots of heavy signature Jay-Ski cuts. There's one track called "That's Life" from a Philadelphia group that seems to like to reference Sweden (I couldn't make out their name when Mike Elliott said it... something Soul).
Fat Joe shows up in studio, but for some reason, I cut that part out. The real treat comes on side B when Souls of Mischief roll through to hype their upcoming '93 Til Infinity.
Definitely worth checking out. Total runtime is a little over an hour.
- Laze
]]>Side A
Some good airbreaks here, with lots of jokes and Tone dissing K-Solo. The best part of this tape, though, is “Cock Diesel,” a hard to find Tony D track where he declares “Fuck BMW, I’ve got a Toyota Supra!” Some pretty solid mixes, too. The question of the night is “What is ghetto heaven?” Unsigned group Young, Gifted & Black from McGuire Air Force Base is in the house.
Lots of people in the studio (couldn’t figure out who they all were).
Side A
Side B
Side C
In the last half hour, Tone promotes his new studio with Troy Wonder. The crew discusses the DMCs (didn't know Reggie Reg finished 4th in the US finals!) and a SEPTA accident that happened the day before.
Side that was recorded over
End of show