Summer Summer Time
We are on holiday until 3rd July, that 's when Freddy Fresh Book winner will be announced.
Seperated At Birth While looking through the CD cover of Lil Wayne's 'Tha Carter 3', wifey recently pointed out that Bradley from S Club 7 looks every bloggers favourite MC Lil Wayne. What do you lot think?
We love 1986 Part 3 As the old saying goes "things come in three's" so we had to further express our love of 1986 further. But like all trilogy's our third part of the argument isn't as good as the other two.
In case you can't be bothered to read parts 1 and 2 here is a quick synopsis. Part 1 expressed how Hip Hops old school sound, developed a new niche and lost its electro edge. Part 2 celebrated UK Hip Hop developing and the birth of the wonderful Music Of Life.
Here in Part 3 we are going to discuss the MC. 1986 was the year MC's got more scientifical when they picked up the mic. After Rakim destroyed all competition with the classic 'Eric B is President', other MC's had to step up their game.
Run DMC released their third LP 'Raising Hell', which was a cultural milestone as the masses excepted Hip Hop was not just a fad.
Def Jam started to take control of the Hip Hop scene. LL Cool J 'Radio' went Platinum.
And finally the legendary Public Enemy were signed by Rick Rubin to Def Jam.
So to some up, 1986 was the year that advanced Hip Hop and if these events did not happen would we have the scene we have today???
Cool Ish Every morning before I have my Cheerio's, I wake up to the sound of the legendary Public Enemy front man Flavor Flav hollering "Yeeeah Boy" at me. I love this limited edition clock which I picked up from Rapandsoulmailorder about 3 years ago. But wifey hates it. She would hate it even more if she knew how much we paid for it.
Classic Mix Tapes Right we are off on holiday in 2 weeks time and we needed some tunes to take with us. Rather than fill our i-pod and mini-disk up with the latest 'Ye Weezy or Jeezy, we opted for classic mix tapes. So we hunted under our beds and found ten shoe boxes full of dopeness. Anyhow, did anyone ever win the Ivory competition of naming all the tracks off the playlist because we think we cracked it:-
1.intro 2.360 degrees - years to build 3.lazy laz - mystery 4.get wit it productions - are you ready 5.busy boy - classical 6.makeba & scratch - ain't it funky 7.lightnin lee & poppy p - big time chillin 8.kev e kev & akb - listen to the man 9.bizzie boys - hold the lafta 10.cobra mcees - the m go 11.supreme nyborn - what if i was serious 12.eric b & rakim - let the rhythm hit em 13.iii most wanted - calm down 14.bolaji - run 4 cover 15.sir ibu - im the peacemaker 16.phase n rhythm - brainfood 17.raheem - i'm the king 18.lord finesse - keep it flowin 19.jvc force - 6 feet back on the map 20.aaron dee - soul power 21.krown rulers - kick the ball 22.steady b - get physical 23.2 deep 2 sleep - g thang 24.bdp - ya slippin 25.mc mitchski - brooklyn blew up the bridge 26.45 king & latee - brainstorm 27.dollar & bill & cut master kg - people don't know ya 28.live n effect posse - im gettin physical 29.tds mob - crushin em
Show the blog some love and we'll up all 3 volumes of these classics.
Our 3 regular readers know this already, WE LOVE VINYL. Hence, we have started a new section where we will upload our favourite picture disks. As usual if enough people show an interest we share the music. Our first featured vinyl is the classic Public Enemy 'Night Train'. Our memory is hazy but we think this is the first picture disk we ever bought.
Here at Fivemics we loved the indie scene in the mid 90's. So when One Leg Up Records (check http://oneleguprecords.blogspot.com) pressed this limited to 200 records, we snapped one straight away. The thing is we thought $80 was a bit expensive but the chaps at OLUR assured us it was an investment for the future. What do people think??? Will vinyl be worth anything in the future??? Or will it go the way of the video cassette???
We feel at present its definitely a buyers market and bargains are there to be had. Scratch Live has changed the game forever and currently people are thinning out their record collections. But this is a great time for people like us who can pick up gems they missed for a couple of quid. Anyhow we doubt very much that this Cenobites EP will be a good investment, but thats not what collecting vinyl is about, is it???
Yes we know we are late on this one. But we love everything about this album. Not only does it pay homage to classic Hip Hop Covers but it actually is a quality LP. 9th Wonder & Jean Grae are a good combination. We picked this up as a bootleg in 2004 and now the duo have decided to drop it officially. Amazon is currently selling the Das EFX cover but we hear all four covers will be released. Seeing these covers made us chuckle.
Can We Please Have A Moment Of Silence
Its another sad day in Hip Hop. The talented rapper Camu Tao sadly passed away over the weekend. Camu sadly lost his battle with lung cancer at the young age of 31. For those that don't know Camu was part of The Weathermen and SA Smash (Def Jux), MHz (Fondle ?Em) and Nighthawks alongside Cage on Eastern Conference Records.
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