The members of the group Hardcore Reps were Daman and Majestic, two brothers from Far Rockaway Queens NY. In 1994 they dropped a very good 6-Track Demo Tape (Ramifications) fully produced by Angelo "ANG" Foukas.
Daman & Majestic - Photo courtesy of Daman
Daman : "The connection of the group was just the idea of we both knew we were talented so lets make this group, at the time we came from an era of real lyricism so we battled a lot of other people from our neighborhood and sharpened our skills. Basically the connection between ANG and us came about one night we were performing at a show and then soon after we were done ANG approached us, said he liked our music and inquired if we had our own production and if not were we interested in collaborating with him, we could give him a call and needless to say the rest was history, ANG processed a unique melodic sound to his beats, and the sound fit perfectly with what we were trying to do. ANG Foukas is originally from Greece, but resided in Jamaica Queens. After the Ramifications project we put out another single on a Treat Records collaboration album and we soon branched off into our own production studio which is called REP Studios, here we work with up and coming artist on their overall production, lyrical content and video production and editing. The name HardCoreReps was a representation of personalities, our music mentality and our environment, hard core rap music but with a heavy dose of lyrical word play between the two of us."
Only the tracks "The Music" and "Dead Um" were pressed on vinyl two years later on ANG's "Them Crazy Beats To Flip To!" instrumental project.
Mad Props to Daman for the info.
These guys were dope as fuck. Been up on them for several years and was familiar with the stuff off the ANG record and I think somebody uploaded one of the demo tracks to Youtube, but these other joints are fire too. It always makes my day when you drop some some shit on here I've never heard before, because I know it's going to be something ill. There is just so much "undiscovered" raw hip-hop from back in the day that needs to see the light of day. Thanks for posting it.
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