March 2, 2006

AUDIO: New Mix from DJ 3D

3d covering some late 80s/early 90's basics:

DJ 3D on the Underground Railroad, 2/25/05

Del - "Mistadabolina"

Kid n Play - "Last Night Changed It All" ..nobody takes them too seriously now, but at the time of this first album (when they were also ghostwriting for most of Hurby Luv Bug's other acts [allegedly]) they were among the most important emcees out there, bar none.. Gettin Funky is still one of my favorite 80s tracks.

Kwame - "The Rhythm"

Heavy D - "Overweight Lover's in the House" ...another guy who was among the biggest names in his prime, but is now pretty much a footnote in the hip-hop history books.. i'll rarely hear him cited when people discuss the Important and Influential Emcees from that era..

Diamond D - "K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid)" ..my favorite from that album..

LOTUG - "Chief Rocka"

EPMD - "Crossover"

Terminator X "Buck Whylin"

LL Cool J "Mama Said.." ..i always thought LL was saying "DAMMIT!" in that part, and when I found out it's really "damage" that kinda ruined the song for me..

Fu Schnickens - "True Fu Schnick"

Roxanne Shante - "Have A Nice Day"

Run-DMC - "Sucker MCs"

Main Source - "Looking At The Front Door"

Ultramagnetic - "Ease Back"

T-Ski Valley - "Catch the Beat"

Eric B and Rakim - "Don't Sweat the Technique"

Bizmarkie - "This is Something For the Radio" ..was this the first rap record that used a Prince loop?

Malcolm Mclaren and the World Famous Supreme Team

Posted by jsmooth995 at March 2, 2006 4:04 PM

Comments

absolute co-sign on kid-n-play... before the movies their flow was, i think, truly respected...
it seemed to me like they would take over the (rap)world...
and i guess they did in a way... but in a totally different way than i thought they would.

sort of related: remember when de la soul was an underground street group loved by the hard-rocks?

Posted by: rio rocket at March 2, 2006 6:37 PM

The whole album was on serious replay.
Down @ A1 records the original pressing (supposedly the one with writing on the skinny left side as opposed to the sticker on the celephane release) used to be on the wallpriced at $140. WHOA.

Posted by: Uncle Cheddi at March 2, 2006 6:37 PM

The Diamond D is what I was refering to. oops

Posted by: Uncle Cheddi at March 2, 2006 6:38 PM

I agree with you regarding Kid N Play. They had pretty advanced flows for the time period. There battle in "House Party" is a I just put in their first CD and listened to "My Way". I used to pump the shit out of this when I was like 11.

Posted by: Writebrother at March 2, 2006 6:40 PM

I am totally diggin this mix, Jay. Hell yeah.

Posted by: Jess at March 2, 2006 9:50 PM

I was just thinking about that Terminator X joint the other night, wondering why nobody ever talks about the fact that Terminator was the first member of PE to do a solo album, 5 years before Chuck. Oddly, I have owned a copy of Valley of the Jeep Beats (on tape, natch) for like 10 years without ever actually listening to it, so I still don't know if Juvenile Committee were any good.

Posted by: Ricky D at March 3, 2006 9:30 AM

I liked Kid n Play back in the day, but most important emcees? I think that's overstating things. They made good music, but I was never sitting around pining for mor Kid n Play music.

Posted by: David at March 3, 2006 9:35 AM

nah, around this time, when "Do This My Way" and "Gittin Funky" dropped? Not an overstatement at all..

Posted by: Jay Smooth at March 3, 2006 12:32 PM

I liked kid n play, and I'm sure if I dug through my tape collection, I could find their first couple of albums. But, having said that, if a kid n play song wasn't playing at that very moment, I wasn't thinking about them. At all. It was pretty much the same for all the acts in that Hurby Luv Bug stable, with the possible exception of Salt n Pepa. When I think "important, underrated emcees," I think Whodini, not Kid n Play.

Posted by: David at March 3, 2006 1:55 PM

you missed:

Original Flavor ft. Jay-Z -- Can I Get Open?

on the tracklist between fuschnicks and roxanne shante

Posted by: konijn at March 4, 2006 12:49 PM

--and Whistle - Only Buggin' --right before looking at the front door

Posted by: konijn at March 4, 2006 12:54 PM

You can't be 56452 serious?!?

Posted by: Mary Box at August 9, 2006 4:07 PM