Comments on: Beater

By: CS

CS — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:31:05 +0000

@Fab – DUDE! SHOOT ME AN EMAIL: chris@willcycleforcharity.com
I’d LOVE a copy of that! I fear not of man!
@Sup – I’m downloading ecstatic as I type. I’ve been out of the hiphop world for a bit lately so I didn’t know he came out with an album last year. I’m most definitely looking forward to it.

By: Sup Freshher aka Spokely Carmichael

Sup Freshher aka Spokely Carmichael — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:43:38 +0000

new danger is awsome but true magic(’06) and his latest the estatic are dope too. if you have to choose the estatic’s the way to go. @fab you’re a rec. eng. all makes sense now. my dad’s best friend was an eng. @ columbia/sony in nyc.

By: FabFive

FabFive — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:27:11 +0000

Listen to us! I feel like an old man on the porch of a southern retirement home with a glass of lemonade. Ya remember when… Ha ha ha. @CS- Big up for the mention of the New Danger. In my opinion, even with how totally killer and defining of this East Coast, NYC Brooklyn style Black on Both Sides and Blackstar were, the New Danger is his best record because he risks so much and breaks so much ground, than you can’t be amazed enough by the product. I was lucky enough to meet Mos when he came to London in 2004 for an acting thing and got to know him a bit on 4 other visits (the wonder of being a recording engineer and puffing in a foreign land. People find you. Quick…..). According to him he got nothing but crap for the record. I can believe that, but it’s such a pity.
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Something you should try to find and if not maybe we I can burn a copy and pass it around, is a 4 disc compilation of Mos called “We are Hip Hop, You, Me, Everybody” – it Is in essence all of Mos’s songs on other people’s records – some that you’ve heard like Macy Gray’s I’ve Committed Murder, and TONS that I had never heard anywhere. B-sides of Blackstar stuff – probably through 1999-2000. Hard to find but worth the look. Don’t be afraid to ask if you are interested.

By: Sup Freshher aka Spokely Carmichael

Sup Freshher aka Spokely Carmichael — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:39:10 +0000

just saw most wu @ the roots picnic, saw ghost last year @ cs daytona 500 is my shit! ghost dog awesome! mix master mike sick! @ fab i know how you feel grew up going to shows @ clubs in the old (pre-giuliani) nyc so since i was 13. i first heard mos w/ a tribe called quest. i grew up on native tounges saw busta rhymes live when he was in “leaders of the new school” so i know about feeling old.

By: FabFive

FabFive — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:21:01 +0000

Hi-Tek produced Black on Both Sides, Reflection Eternal, Blackstar, Pharoah Monche’s first record, Hi-Teknology 1 and 2. He’s the beats behind all that early Rawkus stuff. I love his stuff. His first solo record was Teknology Vol 1 and its awesome.
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Ghost Dog – mate there are two versions. 1 is a blue cover and was released here. It’s lots of hip hop Wu style that wasn’t really in the movie but is killer. The other is white and is the score. Which is all that AMAZING music from the movie with 2 songs with lyrics. You can find the white one, but you need to look for it. If you give me an address I will burn one for you. And yeah – I love the movie.

By: CS

CS — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:12:28 +0000

DUDE! The Ghost Dog soundtrack was fucking amaaazing!!! Not to mention the movie was totally bad ass. I haven’t watched that in years, I need to put it in my netflix list. I miss those days with the Wu-Tang clan. I wasn’t super super into it at the time, but I liked a lot of the music and now going back through old cds I love it. Daytona 500 on Ghost Face’s Ironman record – best song ever. One of the other things I liked about some of the guys from wu-tang is that they went on to do bigger and better things. I mean you look at the list of stuff that the rza has done during that time and since then and its amazing. So many music artists hit their moment of fame and then don’t really go anywhere with it and fade away, it’s cool that some of the clan has done something with the fame.
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Man that would have been cool to see the beastie boys that early in their career. I’m always on and off with them because they can get a bit repetitive, but they have sooo much solid work. Mix Master Mike actually came through STL years back and did a solo show which was awesome. I’ve always been into rap and hip hop that has more of a diverse melodic landscape so hearing what he did when he was the only focus was really cool.
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Speaking of beats, have you guys ever heard any of blockhead’s solo stuff? He did a lot of beats for Aesop Rock’s early albums. Downtown Science, good album.
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I actually haven’t heard Hi-Tecknology. I do like Hi-Teck’s work so I’m going to look it up. I think out of that whole Blackstar’s Mos Def, Talib, Hi-Teck I’ve always been into Mos Def’s stuff the most. He has the most diversity and its always interesting to see how his music evolves. Like you listen to the jump between Black on Both Sides and The New Danger and it’s vastly different but both (in my opinion) equally good. Man, I’m going to be going through all of my old music tonight!

By: FabFive

FabFive — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:44:52 +0000

Dude you are a whipper-snapper. I was a junior in college when Doggystyle came out. Although, I’ve got one better – when I was 13, and here for a semester to see if we liked it over Italy, I went to go see Madonna (Like a Virgin tour) at Radio City and the Beastie Boys opened up for her. 2 years before License to Ill. I had no idea what they were screaming for. Didn’t get it, AT ALL, but loved it and was wicked disappointed afterward when I couldn’t find anything like it.
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As regards Talib, I think Reflection Eternal with Hi-Tek is as good as it gets. Although his work on Hi-Tek’s first record, Hi-Teknology, together with Mos is right up there.
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Was listening to Method Man’s first record Tical in the car today. Produced by the RZA in that first burst of Wu together with Enter the 36 Chambers, ODB’s Return, Ghostface and Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Links, and Ghost Dog’s score and soundtrack all within 18 months of each other. In the Wu-Tang Manual book by the RZA he describes the period as basically a never ending session that chopped up into records only for necessity but that the same methodology ruled the roost. Freaking killer…

By: CS

CS — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:02:06 +0000

Talib – Rush. Quality was one of my favorite albums back in college. It also makes me sad to say that b/c it makes me realize how old I am. I like dead prez but I can’t get past the irony of them talking about getting it over on the system all of the time but at the same time collecting money from the record industry.

By: Sup Freshher aka Spokely Carmichael

Sup Freshher aka Spokely Carmichael — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:41:38 +0000

@ cs talib w/ dead prez?, dp those two are like the nwa of the naughts

By: CS

CS — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:24:09 +0000

‘I’m sharp like the blade on the logo Rawkus Records’