Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito Show - July 7th 1994 - WKCR

As the tracks were down, here is a re-up of the Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito Show aired on July 7th 1994 on WKCR. The guests that night were DJ Roc Raida, Mobb Deep and Funky Jilz. 

Intro

The Beatnuts - Yeah You Get Props

Tha Alkaholiks - Mary Jane Remix

Legion - Legion Groove

Scientifik - Lawtown Instrumental

Talk Break

Scientifik - Lawtown

Artifacts - Dynamite Soul

A Tribe Called Quest - Mr. Incognito (Previously Unreleased)

Notorious Big - What's the 411 

Lady Of Rage ft. Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg - Afro Puffs Remix

Kurious - Uptown Hit Remix

Wu-Tang Clan - Can it Be So Simple

O.C - Time's up Remix

Main Source - How My Man Went Down

Ill Al Skratch - Creep Wit' Me

Company Flow-Korners

Artifacts - Instrumental

Talk Break

Roc Raida Mix

Talk Break with Roc Raida

Artifacts - C'mon Wit Da Git Down

Melquan - Krunchtime

Mobb Deep - Shook Ones pt.1

Dredknotz - Causin A Menace Remix

A Tribe Called Quest - Keep It Rollin

Champ MC- Keep Shit On The Real Instrumental (Pete Rock Remix)

Craig Mack - Flava in Ya Ear

M.O.P - Downtown Swinga

Smif 'N' Wessun - Bucktown

Talk Break

Mobb Deep - '94 Stretch & Bobbito Freestyle

Gang Starr feat Jeru The Damaja & Lil Dap - Speak Ya Clout

Buddah Nation - Buddah Nation ft Downlow, Figures Of Speech, Ghetto Dwellers & Zhigge

King Tee - Dippin' Remix

A Tribe Called Quest - Oh my God Instrumental

Talk Break

Funky Jilz - '94 Stretch & Bobbito Freestyle

A Tribe Called Quest - Oh my God

The Beatnuts - Get Funky

Casual ft Pep Love - Rock On

Red Hot Lover Tone feat The Notorious B.I.G./M.O.P./Organized Konfusion - 4 My Peeps (Buckwild Version)

Das EFX - Kaught In Da Ak Remix

Masta Ace Inc over The Fugees - Nappy Heads Remix

Beastie Boys feat Q-Tip - Get It Together (Buckwild Remix)

Organized Konfusion feat Large Pro - Stress remix

Organized Konfusion - Keep It Koming

Instrumental

Slick Rick - Let's All Get Down

Crooklyn Dodgers - Crooklyn

Tha Alkaholiks - Relieve Yourself

Jeru the Damaja - Jungle Music 

Bob James  Nautilus

Instrumental

Black Moon - Reality (Killing Every)

Roughneck Soldiers - ?

The Beatnuts - Hit Me With That

Jeru The Damaja - Da Bichez

House Of Pain feat. Diamond D - Word Is Bond

Rappin' Is Fundamental - You Ain't Really Down

Kurious feat Sadat X & Mike G - Mansion and a Yacht

Mr Voodoo - Come Off Hard

Dredknotz - Respect

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Talk Break

Check the Stretch&Bobbito Archives for more shows !

HDM - Da Professional / Real Mc's - 1997

If there is a good and cheap 12" which should be in every record collection, it could be this wax released by HDM a.k.a Hype Da Madman on Jungle Nills Records in 1997... 

12" - 1997 - Jungle Nills Records

A little resume for those who don't remember HDM, he began in the early 90s in a group from Staten Island called The Red Eye Krew, which was also composed of two other members : Oob and Jun Jak a.k.a Jungle Jak a.k.a Double J. Their first appearance on a magazine was in the Unsigned Hype Section of the Source magazine of March 1993, when they dropped their 4-Track demo. At that time HDM was under the moniker "Hype". 

Double J : "We grew up in the same Projects. HDM heard me spit, heard Oob do his thing, collaborated with Schott Free and formed The Redeye Crew."

From The Source - March 1993

The group was also affiliated with the Jungle Nills and with other artists like Legion Of D.U.M.E and Funky Jilz.

Double J :"We were all from Mariners Harbor Projects, home of The Force M.C.'s, later changed to the Force M.D.’s. Jillz is Big Bro from my hood ! actually a Solo artist, but we all rocked together. He actually founded the Darc Mind Inc project we all was on, Legion of Dume/Doom, Redeye Crew and Funky Jilz"

In 1994, HDM made his first solo appearance on the original Mobb Deep's Demo of "Right Back at You", but unfortunately the demo won't be the version on the album... 

Double J :"I was actually in the booth with him at the session ! One of my favorite days...that's me whistling in da background towards the end of his verse. Before I went to prison we were rocking hard with Mobb Deep..."

The story of that demo version has been told by Schott Free who produced the track, in the "The Making of Mobb Deep's 'The Infamous'" posted by Complex.com website in April 2011 :  

Schott Free : "I remember I said, ‘Yo let me throw one of these little Staten Island cats on.’ So he hit me with this kid named HDM, Hype Da Madman, and Hype had spit on it. Hav loved Hype and he wanted to leave it, but P was just like, 'I want him to say something else. Just tell him to come to the studio and lay down this other shit.' Hype—being the type of dude he was—was like, 'Fuck that. Fuck you. That version is hot man. I’m not changing shit.' So he didn't change the verse so Hav was like, 'He's gonna have to come up off of there. We'll do something else.’ So I said, 'If it's not gonna be him, let me keep it Staten Island. Let me get Rae or Ghost up on it.’ They was cool with that and he just called Rae and Ghost. You can imagine my boy HDM wish he woulda changed his verse right? This story coulda been different, but he didn't."

Double J & HDM - Photo courtesy of Anthony Jackson

 After that, Oob quitted the group, Double J has been locked up for three years and HDM went solo.
In 1997, he released the classic 12" single "Da Professionnal / Real MC's". The track "Da Professional" was produced by Monochrome (Shadowz in The Dark) and "Real Mc's" was produced by Nick Wiz. 

Mad Props to Anthony Jackson aka Double J 

Unsigned Hype : Funky Jilz - The Source Magazine - June 1994

-= From The Source - June 1994 =-