This is a weird one. The cynical part of my brain tells me that Marley Marl is deliberately messing with Ced-Gee and the crew here, as he acts as if he’s never heard an Ultramagnetic record before in his life – despite the fact that they’ve been making some serious noise since 1986 with ‘Ego…
If you don’t know the Ride The Rhythm album by heart then I’m not sure that we can be associates, let alone friends. Hearing this rough mix of Rob’s ‘Dope Rhymes’ has made my year. Download: Chill Rob G – Dope Rhymes (original demo version) Thanks again to Wilizm for putting me onto this incredible…
Here’s another one I used to rock the shit out of when a kid from my street got his hands on some Red Alert and Chuck Chillout radio tapes. I left the Black Rock and Ron and Latee promos in there because why wouldn’t you? Download: D-Nice – Call Me D-Nice (original version)
I just lost my shit hearing this on a KISS-FM rip tonight, thinking I’d unearthed some lost treasure for the first time in recent history…but quickly realised it had already been released on the Traffic Entertainment gun-shaped USB stick (and later the ‘Elite Edition’) of Criminal Minded. Regardless, it’s great to hear this new intro…
One of these dudes is G. Wiz I guess. Captain G. Wiz was a member of the Mighty Mike Masters, who held it down with Freddy B for the memorable ‘The Main Event’ and the not-quite-as-great ‘The Main Event (Round 2)’, plus that single they did with Ced-Gee and Paul C. (‘We’re Back’/’Coolin’ On The…
Stumbled across this while conducting my annual search for the cancelled version of ‘Return of the Boom Bap’ with the Oscar Meyer jingle. See also: the Kenny Parker remix.
Mr. Magic (or ‘Madame Tragic’ as Chuck Chillout’s boys The Dismasters once dubbed him) seemed to relish taunting anyone who was down with Red Alert, BDP or…basically wasn’t in the Juice Crew. Actually, ignore that – even his own crew wasn’t safe from the wrath of the Magic Man! Here are some timeless examples of…
As much as I enjoyed Black Thought’s incredible performance on Hot 97 a few weeks back, the star of the show was Funkmaster Flex’s reactions, as he had the best day at work…ever.
Here’s a vintage interview with Just-Ice from 1988 with the late, great Mike Allen. Just talks about his fronts, Sade and a single called ‘Poison’ which never came out. Courtesy of the P Brothers’ tape collection.
Grand Good came through in the clutch with this one – twenty minutes of the Ultra crew rapping on the radio. Wonder whatever happened to that Ced-Gee compilation that was meant to drop on Next Plateau?
Rising up through the ranks from the ‘Son of Bambattaa’ to the DJ at The Roxy and launching the Zulu Beat radio show on WHBI, Afrika Islam went on to release the very first cut and paste record, help found the Rhyme Syndicate and produce the majority of Ice-T’s first four albums after moving to…
Afrika Islam: I was a member of the Zulu King b-boys, under Afrika Bambaataa. That’s how I came into the culture, from the floor up. I went out to battle other b-boy crews across the city, representing the Zulu Nation. From there, my second step was becoming a Zulu Nation DJ – the first line…