That faithful winter of 1997, when Queensbridge went nuts finding haunting vocal samples from jazz greats like Nina Simone to rap over, gave us the CRC anthems ‘Alluminatti’ (or ‘Norematti’ if you’re Team NORE instead of Iman THUG) and ‘True Confessions’ via local beat merchant G-Money. This powerful sound eventually bled into Pete Rock’s consciousness and resulted in him utilising this Billie Holiday vocal to bring the 25TaLife sound to his Soul Survivor LP.
The retail version replaces the last two verses with Sticky Fingers and Cappadonna, which kind of makes sense since NORE is on another track anyway, while poor ol’ Meccalicious must have really upset someone because he soon found himself erased from audio existence, doomed to dwell in the shadow recesses of white-label hell.
I STILL have mine boxed up somehwere in vinyl hell..
Thanks for this Robbie.
I was REALLY looking forward to a Meccalicious solo album before Sylvia Rhone pulled the plug on Soul Brother Records in ’96. I’ve scoured the internet for the last 25 years for anything I could find from him and I’ve only come up with about 9 tracks, all produced by Pete except one. Some of them are under the name “Mecolicious” too.
@Old Man Dee interesting always wondered who Meccalious was didn’t know he was Pete Rocks artist and that he even had any music of his own is it possible to get a zip with the solo tracks you were talking about?
@Ben: I’ll try and cobble something together as well.
@Ben – I’ll try to find a link to what I found or up something myself this week.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DaIHZiJAXJ4r-2CXh6aKrtXiK4B68aoO/view?usp=sharing
@Ben
@Robbie
Sorry, for the delay. I uploaded Mekolicious’s (or Meccalicious’s) whole “Rude Youth EP” plus one song I found that he did with Starvin’ Art Clique. Enjoy!
@Old Man Dee: Cheers for this, much appreciated.
@Old Man Dee thanks for this can’t wait to give this a listen.
@Old Man Dee – much appreciated for that upload, thx!
Although I wasn’t mad at the album, this one would have done the job, plus I liked Pete’s verse on this version. My all-time favorite Pete Rock track…
You’re welcome guys, always glad to help!
Great work on the comp – just FYI it’s a different artist with a similar name (female MC) on the Starvin’ Art Clique album. The credit is incorrectly linked in Discogs too…