Mixmaster Mike & Saafir - “Freestyle” (VHS, 1997)
OMG. From the Wrists Of Fury VHS (via Dstzero)
Tray Loc f/ Nga Fish - “Tray’s LocoMotive” (Afterlife, 1995)
Keith Murray - “The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World” (Jive, 1994)
Hit Squad Monopoly.
Erick Sermon - “Music” (J Records, 2001)
Relax to this very mellow and positive hit from the E Double featuring the ghost of the M Double. Enjoy the rare clips of Danny Devito running and jumping that are interspersed throughout the video.
Busdriver - “Never Bite The Hand That Serves You” (Afterlife, 2001)
Don’t get me wrong violent and unhinged Busdriver was cool too.
raptoravatar asked: Best Busdriver album?
Temporary Forever from 2002. Or at least that’s the best starting point. It’s not quite as violent and unhinged as the stuff that came prior and, unlike some of his later efforts, there isn’t even a trace of indie rock influence.
Fun fact this song, which is my favorite song, was produced by Conartist who later became Edit who then went on to get techno famous with the Glitch Mob.
Anonymous asked: What are the best blogs (preferably curated) for regional rap (blog-wave has not fooled me, there is amazing regional stuff that doesn't make it to my NY ear enough) ? Stay up man.
The Chicago-based Fake Shore Drive pretty much the gold standard for regional rap blogs right now, in part because its existence happened to coincide with a local renaissance and what might could go down in history as the earth’s last buzzed about local rap scene. It’s not a great regular outlet for thought if that’s what you’re looking for but Andrew and them compensat ewith broad local tastes and well informed scene reporting.
100 Grand on My Wrist, which focuses mostly on Bay Area gangsta rap (and its sister scene of Kansas City) is probably the last writerly regional rap blog and I’m glad that it exists. Thizzler On The Roof is more of an indiscriminate mass of of Bay rap mp3s, but a pretty comprehensive one. Their tastes tend to lean a little more to the party oriented/HBK side of Bay Area music.
DC Mumbo Sauce offers a similar sort of data dump for the greater DC area while Necktomace covers the street side of that scene with a bit more of a critical eye. Frankie Tha Lucky Dog is still out here penning in-depth reviews of every last $5 flea market CD in Louisiana, which is cool, but it doesn’t seem like he’s interested in offering anything resembling a wide frame survey of the rap scene(s) in that state that are actually popular.
There are a few more still trucking - sites focused on Philly, Seattle, San Diego and Miami for example - but not nearly enough. I think for a while these types of blogs offered a dual function in that they both translated scenes for outsiders and served as a resource for insiders, but now that the inside of that conversation has shifted to social media the external dialogue has become less of a priority. Or maybe it’s just less practical I’d love to be able to read about the scenes in Pittsburgh or Orlando or Detroit or St. Louis or Baltimore or whatever though. If anybody has more suggestions feel free to drop them in the ask box.
Anonymous asked: dumbest rapper you ever talked to
I’m not going to name names - I don’t think it’s a rapper that most readers would be familiar with anyway and that would just make this post meaner - but the dumbest conversation I’ve ever had was with a rapper who was big on claiming the south side of his city. I asked him to explain how his side of town differs from its north side and he responded, in dead seriousness, “well if you draw a line through the middle of the city on a map, everything above that line would be the north side and everything below it is the south side.”
He might’ve also just been really high.
