There I was, like a total rube, thinking I had this record. But nah, it turns out that this was incorrectly listed on the back cover of the Cappuccino 12″ but never pressed. Instead, this wonderful reimagining of a landmark Lyte moment is trapped in the purgatory of being a CD bonus track on the…
How is it that the inserts on these old bootlegs are always printed on the thinnest, facsimile-grade paper available? Cost savings, obviously. In this particular example, they author has gone all-out, managing to squeeze-in cutting-edge slang such as ‘hottest joints’, ‘phat reworking’ and referring to dedicated rap fans as ‘heads’. Here’s an hour of some…
The highlight of getting my book out this year has been getting back in contact with The Rap Bandit, who was pleased as punch to get a mention in the Bonus Beats section at the end. As a result, I’m happy to be able to share this section from the long-lost, fabled Rap Bandit book…
Before he was a judge on the Danish X-Factor, Soulshock was getting busy on the proverbial wheels of steel as a DJ and remixer. Here’s an hour of his best rap stuff. Download: Soulshock Remixes Mix
Not sure if this was just a trial run or the actual inspiration for the book, but seeing as though Elliott Wilson was the Music Editor and Chairman Mao was a contributor when The Source‘s 100th issue was published in January 1998, it’s interesting to see how some of these made it to the retail…
King Tee will always be a firm favourite at CRC HQ, on account of having Act A Fool stuck in my Walkman for months when I was in high school. If I recall correctly, it was one of those metal TDK tapes that weighed as much as a can of 7Up, and I had Def…
Tarrie B was signed to Eazy-E’s Comptown Records imprint, where she was marketed as the Madonna of Rap and recorded ‘Ruthless Bitch’, where she calls out Dr. Dre for punching her in the face at the Grammys (?!). After the standard stuff about his old Wrecking Cru outfits, Tarrie delivered the hardest diss Andre ever…
Hip Hop Connection magazine, August ’90, proving once again why it was Rap’s Greatest Magazine via the Hall of Fame column with reader’s pics of them mugging with rappers.
Listening to the 2LP reissue of No More Mr Nice Guy from last year, I noticed that one of the bonus cuts was the dub version of ‘So What’, which I’ve never heard of (there’s also the unheard ‘Return of the Bass’ mix of the title track, which sounds better than the normal one just…
Going to try and knock these one-take vinyl mixes out once a week, since this is the closest I think I’ll ever get to podcasting or whatever you want to call it. Here’s an hour of unauthorised Mobb remixes, white labels and guest appearances with rapper dudes who wanted some of that magic thun dust…
Update: I lost the first version of this so here’s a new comp, plus a bonus quote from AG: ‘I definitely didn’t like Showbiz featuring AG, that little tape that they put out. I don’t know what PayDay was doing at the time, but it’s all good. We gotta lotta songs like ‘Ain’t No Fun’…
This isn’t all that different from the mix we heard on the official release in 2009, but the ‘down the dial’ radio intro and amusing ad-libs on the fade-out make it the better option for all the ‘funk bitches’ out there.