Conception Records

Scan courtesy of Danny Clavesilla aka Mr. Supreme

01 - J Rocc - Somethin' Funky For Your Walkman (Intro)  

02 - Eclipse - World Premier Featuring Arcee

03 - Jake One - No Introduction / No Introdeezy feat Kutfather

04 - Conmen Beat #1 (Interlude)  

05 - Fourfifths - Earth, Wind & Fire (Remix)

06 - Samson & Swift  - Watch Your Words

07 - Carl Johnson - Contribution

08 - Mr. Supreme - Any Last Words? feat 3D

09 - Eclipse - My Position

10 - Conmen Beat #2 (Interlude)  

11 - Jake One - Essay On Pseudo-ism feat Arcee

12 - Kutfather - Thoughts I Generate  

13 - 3rd Degree - Better Days  

14 - Diamond Mercenaries - Living To Die
15 - Kutfather - Neva Scared

The Ultimate Reign Of Musical Assassins Vol. 1 - 1995

12" - 1995 - Skunk Ent. Inc 

Here is the comp "The Ultimate Reign Of Musical Assassins Vol. 1" which was released in 1995 on Skunk Entertainment Inc, a record label based in the Bronx, NY and owned by Andy Landers (RIP) and Master Dee (member of the legendary group Jazzy 5 MC). 
On the A-side of the wax, you can listen to 4 tracks performed by various groups from NYC like Props, Pashun 'N ' Da Loonatik, 3rd Degree and B Supa, and fully produced by Edgardo Vargas aka DJ E-Man. The flip side is the instrumental side. 

E-Man : "There were 4 songs on it. "Props (Bring It On)" performed by Props. Props was B.Original and Storm... Storm passed away in 96, but me and B.Original stayed in touch, he's living in ATL now. "Lyrical High" performed by Pashun 'N ' Da Loonatik... they don't rap no more. "Many Styles" performed by 3rd Degree, a duo consisted of Sinister Cee and Stonewall. Stonewall passed away 3 years ago. Me and Sinister Cee stayed in touch, he's in Virginia now. "Destined" performed by B Supa, who was a kid from Queens, NY .. I ain't heard from him since 96 and I dont know nothing bout him...

We did these songs in my home studio, then we went to like three studios to mix them down, finally after 3 months we got em mix at Chung King Studios in NYC ...We were working on volume 2 but it did not happen... everybody went their ways ..."

The Original SKUNK SQUAD - 1995 (Master Dee (Jazzy Five),  Rennetta, Andy Landers (RIP), Storm, Marlon, B.Original, DJ Eman, Sinista Cee...) at Powerplay Studio - Long Island City, NY



Mad Props to E-Man 

3rd Degree - Nobody´s Bizness / Travel Through The Darkness - 1998

12" - 1998 - Mars Ent.

In 1998 , this 12" was released by a hip-hop trio named 3rd Degree  from Piscataway New Jersey, about an hour outside of New York City. The group consisted of Terrence Eldridge a.k.a Ill-Technique, Scott Mack a.k.a Macadon and Randy Sconiers a.k.a UCZ (pronounced Uceez). The 12" is composed of 2 tracks named "Nobody's Bizness" and "Travel Through The Darkness" available in their Radio, Street and Instrumental versions. 

If you want to dig this, you need to know that the wax is really hard to find online for a descent price and I've never seen one in a record store...

UCZ : "Tek and Mac are cousins that grew up together. I met both just walking to school around the age of 13 as I was new to the town. They were already doing music and I was already doing music so it was an instant connection. We were all creatives with a love for Hip-Hop Culture and it just started ! The 3 of us formed the group and the rest is history. We have so much music together as we recorded everything ourselves. Mars Entertainment was our label that we created. It was under that umbrella that all of our work was released.

UCZ :"We definitely had intentions on putting out the album and had so much material but we started doing side projects, producing for other artist, and it never materialized until we released an album called 'Mars Stars', which was a Mix Tape album with 3rd Degree and our artist. There was so much fire on that but we just didn’t push it enough. We’re thinking about releasing it on I-tunes cause it’s such a dope album. All produced by us.

Ill-Tek and I have produced for Scienz of Life. Tek actually did a few joints with them and it’s on their Best of Scienz of Life album as a producer. 

UCZ :"We grew up with JR, ID, so it’s dope to see JR still doing great work. We mainly did stuff for local artist out here. Born, B-Rock, L-Wyze, Naypalm, and some other local talent including singers as well. Our studio was also a business so we always had artist coming through for beats. We were selling beats/studio time back then with our ASR-10 Keyboard...that was our foundation.

We used to do Beat Battles and Showcases out here in Jersey so that was dope to showcase ourselves as producers as well. We were similar to the Beatnuts in that regard... 3 man team of MCs and Producers."

In 2016, Kyle Lilly uploaded a video recorded in 1998 with a full interview of 3rd Degree and a Showcase performance with 2 unreleased songs from the album. The video comes from a show called 'Video Explosion'. For those who don't know it,  it was a Hip Hop/R&B/Soul/Reggae and Pop video program produced and directed by Haywood "Hollywood" Oakman. The program debuted in Queens, NY in 1991 and was shot in all boroughs of NYC, and New Jersey. 

UCZ : "At that time we just did everything through word of mouth. We put up stickers and sent the 12" to Stretch & Bobbito and they played it and some other stations locally played it as well. It still getting posted on YouTube. We see people talking about it which is cool. We definitely wished we would have worked it more!"

Unreleased tracks coming soon on the blog... stay tuned ! 

Mad Props to Randy NewSteps Sconiers ... thanks for your time Bro. 

Conception Records Presents Walkman Rotation - 1998

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3rd Degree - Better Days - 1997

12" - 1997 - Conception Records