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todayinhiphophistory · 2 months

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Today in Hip Hop History:

Boogie Down Productions released their debut album Criminal Minded March 3, 1987

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bey0utifulsoul · 6 months

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#music #hip hop #r&b #krs-one #j. cole #drake #kendrick lamar #sza #rihanna #jorja smith #jhene aiko #eminem #russ #beyonce #tupac #nas #50 cent #sexy redd #for all the dogs #lil yacthy #90s

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goodblacknews · 3 months

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MUSIC MONDAY: "MLK Day 2024" - A Celebration Playlist (LISTEN)

by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest) Happy MLK Holiday and Music Monday. Here is our first playlist of 2024. “MLK Day 2024” is a collection of songs and music from across the globe. They are tracks devoted to struggle, liberation, and celebration. I’ve included songs like “You’re A Winner,” “How I Got Over,” and “A Change Is Gonna Come” that…

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#Alpha Blondy #Bobi Wine #Freda Payne #Gil Scott-Heron #Kendrick Lamar #KRS-One #Lupe Fiasco #M.I.A.#Marlon West #Martin Luther King Jr.#Marvin Gaye #Max Roach #MLK Day #Nina Simone #Stevie Wonder

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warhead · 3 days

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#a tribe called quest #q-tip #phife dawg #ali shaheed muhammad #midnight marauders #the pharcyde #lootpack #labcabincalifornia #fatlip #madlib #ditc #d.i.t.c.#diggin in the crates #krs-one #bdp #return of the boom bap #hiphop #cassette #soundpieces

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omegaremix · 2 months

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Winter 1992 Mixtape.

Boogie Down Productions “Duck Down”

Grand Puba “Fat Rat”

A Tribe Called Quest “Jazz (We Got The…)”

Eric B & Rakim “Know The Ledge”

Cypress Hill “Duke Of Earl”

Lord Finesse “Return Of The Funkyman”

Naughty By Nature “Everything’s Gonna’ Be Alright (Ghetto Bastard)”

Shabba Ranks “The Jam” (f. KRS-One)

MC Serch “Back To The Grill Again” (f. various artists)

D-Nice “Time To Flow”

X Clan “Fire & Earth (100% Natural)”

Digital Underground Sons Of The P

A Tribe Called Quest“Butter”

Nice & Smooth “How To Flow”

TLC “Ain’t 2 Proud To Beg”

Cypress Hill “How I Could Just Kill A Man”

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ninetydeuce · 1 year

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Boogie Down Productions - My Philosophy

#boogie down productions #krs-one #krs one #scott la rock #my all means necessary

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oldladydrivers · 5 months

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you can't play both sides of the fence

#krs-one #return of the boom bap

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ourladyofomega · 10 months

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KRS-One & Kid Capri.

📸 source: FB

#KRS-One #Kid Capri #hip-hop #rap #NYC #New York City #BX #Bronx #omega #our lady omega

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top-the-cat · 9 months

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So I mentioned the other day that I had been vinyl shopping at Psychotron Records in Sutton Coldfield recently, and I am still working my way through my new finds…

We’ll start with this by Lee Scratch Perry and if you know Lee Scratch Perry, then you know exactly what this is going to be. Essentially, volume one of the 12” versions of his biggest hits of the 70s. They had the next couple of volumes in there, but I figured I would start at the start, as the opening track is the Original Upsetter 12” mix of Disco Devil, which you may know as Max Romero’s Chase The Devil or The Prodigy’s Out Of Space, or Dreadzone’s Iron Shirt, to name the first three that come straight to mind . (Apparently, according to Wikipedia, Max Romero’s came first, but Perry produced it and the original Disco Devil was his dub version)

But yeah, if you know that track, you know what this whole record is going to be about; five dubbed out tracks by either by him or produced for others by him, with plenty of echo, extended breaks, and let’s say hazy atmosphere to them.

My only criticism though is the bass isn’t as heavy as I figured it would be on the early tracks. I mean, they are all from the same end of the late 70’s but the tracks on the B side sound better, and I’ve got a pretty decent system to play it on, but its not as heavy and gut rumbling as I figured it would be… Still good though!

Lee Scratch Perry presents Disco Devil Vol 1, Discomixes From The Black Ark

OK, so this is just the 12” single and listening to it, it’s not the exact version that I know and to be honest, I’m not really that impressed with it. The quality is fine, but it kinda’ goes on a bit too long and it feels just a little forced. It’s like there’s no soul left in it. There’s the instrumental on the other side, but again, it’s the instrumental of this alternate version and yeah, if I wanted to sample or battle with it, then it’s there, but lets be fair, neither of those are really going to happen.

Plus, the title of it is weird. Everyone knows that Grandmaster Flash had nothing to do with it and it was Sylvia Robinson of Sugar Hill Records that made it and in turn destroyed the Furious Five, but why call it Grandmaster & Melle Mell? What’s the & got to do with it??

White Lines (Don’t Do It) by Grandmaster & Melle Mel

Now were talking! If you don’t know, Buddy Rich was a classic jazz drummer, who played with all sorts of greats from Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Luis Armstrong to Count Basie and Charlie Parker. And when you listen to him, he fucking wails on those drums. I mean, he is firing off high speed drum & bass style breakbeats in perfect time, which as a teenager back then, would do the same things to you that jungle would do today.

The first side is a bit jazz standard business. Its calm and maybe a little smooth, but all the while you can hear him trying to restrain himself from going wild. Every now and then though, he lets loose with a little drum break or an inspired fill and it all kicks off. It picks up a bit on the second side with his band barely being able to keep up with him. Pure class!

Stick It by Buddy Rich

Have you been listening to BBCRadio6 over the last couple of weeks? They have been doing some specials on 50 years of hip-hop and some hip-hop specials from the decades. (It’s actually 90’s day on the radio today and I’ve been proper getting my rave on whilst I should be working!) But one of the groups they have been playing a fair bit is BDP, or Boogie Down Productions, which is essentially KRS-One, Scott La Rock, Red Alert, and a few other random DJ’s, producers, and people. And the point is, I’ve been quite surprised by how much I have been liking it. I mean, I’ve always been a hip-hop head, but figured all the best stuff came from the 90’s, as most of the best music does.

So I saw this from ’89 and figured I’d give it a spin as it was only £6. There are no tracks on there that I know but plenty of samples that I do. Its all classic funk and soul samples with the usual KRS socially conscious message over the top. Which is all good in my books.

Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip-Hop by Boogie Down Productions

I’ve spotted this in my local record shop a few times and looked it over it without buying it. And it was still there last time I was in, so I thought I’d have it away… and it’s like nothing else in my collection.

Essentially, its two guys, Big Black and Black Harold playing African, spiritual jazz on just kongo drums and a flute. There’s chants, rolling rhythms, screams, mysticism, and I’m sure the odd voodoo incantation in there for good measure.

It’s the soundtrack to beatniks sitting in a circle, smoking old grass, wearing polo-necks, stroking their beards, reciting poetry and I fucking love it!

I tell you, I was clearly born in the wrong time. I would have made a quality beatnik. Grooving to this, dropping out, getting stoned, writing bad poetry, sleeping around... Can you dig it daddy-O?

Message To Our Ancestors introducing Big Black

Last one for today and this was a compilation I spotted and bought it purely for the fact that it has Asha Puthli on it, who I first heard on Gilles Peterson’s show, about seven or so years ago. He was interviewing her, cutting with bits of her music, which was a mix of jazz, with a bit of sci-fi disco but not like how you would imagine. And he’s trying to get an age out of her, by asking what sort of year the tale she was relating to was and she stops him, and you could hear the look she gives him over the radio, and just goes “Darling. No” and I pretty much fell in love with her right there and then.

So yeah, bought this mainly as it opens with an Asha soulful disco jazz track and the rest are all fairly similar jazzy/disco rare groove numbers that would be make you feel like you’ve just uncovered some hidden gems going through your parents record collection in the loft.

Not sure why it's written out in biro on the label, and to be honest, it's not the best pressing either, but as the title suggests, these are cool classics....

Cool Classics Vol. 10

#more for the vinyl collection #psychotron records #asha puthli #lee scratch perry #sarah vaughan #message to our ancestors #jazz #hip hop #BDP #KRS-One #buddy rich #grandmaster flash #melle mel

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votava-records · 2 months

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