This one is from years back, when Pete Rock and CL Smooth bootlegs were the popping up every other day. I’m assuming the title is an attempt at some cheap humour, since three of these songs had very much ‘come out’ on movie soundtracks, and ‘In The House’ is just a regular old song from…
Category: The 90’s Files
The Wacky World of Rap White Labels: Awesome Two Edition
I can’t seem to leave the house these days without tripping over a crate of rap bootlegs with 300 Yen price tags on the sleeve. Apparently Japanese record dealers have decided to unload all of the nineties rap white labels they bought by the container-load from Beat Street Records, and as a result the place…
Looking back at the first hundred issues of The Source magazine
Issue #62 of The Source (with a cover date of November 1994) marked the point that co-founder Dave Mays said ‘fuck it’ and threw-in a four page special on the group he was managing at the time just before the issue went to press. As a result, Jon ‘J. The Sultan’ Shecter, James Bernard, Reginald…
Video: Doo Wop and Da Bounce Squad – 1994 Electronic Press Kit
This is amazing on a number of levels. If you’re wondering why Da Bounce Squad album never dropped on Noo Trybe, Wop discussed that with me in 2009: So how did you get the Virgin deal? I only ever saw the 12″. Doo Wop: ‘The Bounce Master’ and ‘Hit ‘Em In The Head’. That’s what…
Apparently A$AP Twelvvy Is A Big L Expert
“Foul Child: The Legend of Big L incorporates rare archival interviews and performance footage of Big L alongside exclusive interviews with cultural consiglieres of Hip Hop and Harlem including RZA, Buckwild, A$AP Ferg, Dave East, A$AP Twelvyy, Stretch Armstrong, Bobbito Garcia and Peter Rosenberg.” You wot, mate? Buckwild/Stretch and Bob are clearly qualified to talk…
The Source magazine’s Ear To The Street, May 1990
Sheck meets Ced Now this is the kind of rap news I can get behind! A summary of Biz Markie’s Mom Jokes and news about a Kool Keith solo album produced by Ced Gee that never saw the light of the day. [pdf-embedder url=”http://www.unkut.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Pages-from-9-The-Source-May-1990.pdf” title=”Pages from 9 The Source – May 1990″]
The time that Daddy-O from STET was a rapping parrot to sell string cheese
If you’re of the right vintage, you may recall that the Polly-O rapping parrot from this 1991 TV commercial sounded remarkably similar to a certain Stetsasonic member. After being outed for this spot in the Pistol Pete column of The Source, it’s unclear whether the ODAD upped his fees or just retired from voicing Lyrical…
Main Source – Looking At The Front Door [Uncut Alternative Version]
Stumbled onto this one again the other night, as heard on one of the many weird re-issues of the first Main Source LP. Even though I posted this in 2008 while discussing how much Large Pro doesn’t like TV, hearing it again reminded me of how great it is to hear alternative takes of classic…
Download: A Salute To Album Tracks That Could Have Been Singles [90s Edition]
Twenty rap album deep cuts from the nineties that could have made great 12″ releases if they’d been given the chance. Download: A Salute To Album Tracks That Could Have Been Singles [90s Edition] Track listing:
Appreciating the brilliance of The Beatnuts’ Street Level LP
A lot of good rap was released in 1994. But for my money, the finest example of the artform was demonstrated by the Intoxicated Demons from Corona, Queens. While Illmatic took rhymes to new heights, as a complete package there was nothing that approached the first long player from this trio of rap maniacs, with…
Great Rap You Can’t Stream: Akinyele’s Vagina Diner LP
Akafella, you mad bastard. Sure, the Ak is no making bank off his strip club that, legend has it, was paid for by the payout he got from a mechanic that fucked up his motorcycle repairs and almost killed dude. He also made the immortal ‘Put It In Your Mouth’ which recently received an oral…
Melquan and the Krunchtime triple threat
The otherwise forgettable sophomore album from Terminator X contained a pretty good late-era Whodini song and a great Brag Rap demonstration courtesy of Strong Island resident Melquan (aka Mel Quan Son Slaughter the Ghetto Beethoven to his friends). While ‘Krunchtime’ got some b-side shine on the flip of the ‘Under The Sun’ single, it turns…