The East Flatbush Project - First Born Overdue - 2022

 

LP - 2022 - Smoke On Records  

A1 - Tried by 12 Feat. Des

A2 - Head to Head 2005 Feat. Stress and Dox 

A3 - Inhale Feat. Stress and Fallon

A4 - Day in a Life Feat. Stress and Peter Pallis from Anaka

A5 - Thirsty Feat. Mirage Black and Stress 

A6 - Head to Head Feat. Ruste Juxx and Mirage Black

A7 - Tried by 12 [Instrumental] (Bonus)

B1 - Ruste Juxx Feat. Ruste Juxx

B2 - 718.973 Feat. Ruste Juxx and Mirage Black 

B3 - A Madman's Dream Feat. Payday

B4 - Can't Hold It Back Feat. Esteem

B5 - Tried by 12 [Joe Buhdha Remix] Feat. Des and Mr.45 (Bonus)

B6 - Tried by 12 [Scientists of Sounds 'Laid to Rest' Remix] Feat. Des (Bonus)

Available on Black Vinyl (100 copies) and Gold Black Colour vinyl (200 copies)

Shipping Date : 5th April 2022

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Bandits - Flatline Records

Canada was definitely the second best indie hip-hop scene during the 90s, especially the city of Toronto who gave birth to a massive number of independent hip-hop artists or groups...and Bandits was definitely one of them. 

Bandits was a group from Toronto, Ontario, consisted of Speng, Dman Dillinger and Alkatraz. In the late 90s / early 2000s, the crew dropped two 12-inches on Flatline Records, fully produced by Scam of Concrete Mob. The tracks of the first wax are "Movin Tha Pawns" &  "War". The tracks of the second wax are "Trust " and "How Ya Living" featuring two other emcees named Des and Savagas. 

Alkatraz : "Speng and myself knew each other since grade 6. He went by the name of Abdullah Hussein when we first started. Dman we met at Eastern Commerce in grade 9, we brought him to Bleeker St and he never left us... I’m from Regent Park / Bleeker, Speng is from South Bleeker and Dman is from Coxwell and Gerrard / Scarborough. Scam was from Esplanade and I hung out with his friend who was the big dog of that area and he introduced us, and the rest was history..." 

12" - 199X / 200X - Flatline Records 

12" - 199X / 200X - Flatline Records  

Alkatraz : "Des a.k.a Ion Mike was a young boy from my hood, he was coming up trying to be in the rap game ...very conscious guy, we invited him to the studio, he blessed it... and Savagas came to the hood from Montreal and hung out with us, he had some skill and happened to be there that night drinking with us, so I helped him write something sort of as a joke originally but the guys liked it so we put him in..."

Those 12-inches are their last official releases... 

The group stopped after that and the members went separate ways...

Alkatraz : "I went solo and dropped 3 albums and life got the rest..."

Mad Props to Alkatraz, thanks for your time.  

The East Flatbush Project - Tried By 12 Feat DeS - 1996

12" - 1996 - 10/30 Uproar Records  

The East Flatbush Project - Tried By 12 Feat DeS - 1996