Big Red & Diamond D - Created A Monster - 1995

12" - 1995 - Payday 

Big Red released this 12" alongside the legendary Diamond D on Payday Records in 1995. This remains Big Red's only official release. It contains the lead single "Created A Monster" (Radio & Instrumental) on the A-side and the track "How They Want It" (Radio, Dirty & Instrumental) featuring Diamond D on the B-side.

Big Red hails from the Bronx, NY (White Plains Road area) and was a member of the group The Fantastic 4, with K.Terror a.k.a K.Terroribul, John Dough and Los Angeles-based rapper Ras Kass. The group's production was handled by Diamond D. They released a single titled "You're In The Wrong Place" in 1998, which appears on the B-side of Diamond D's 12-inch single "With The Dope Sound", released on Dusty Fingers Records.

The Fantastic 4 was formed in the mid-late 90s, bringing together Big Red, John Dough, Diamond D and K.Terror (now known as Terror Von Poo), who had all grown up on the same block when they were kids. K.Terror had been Diamond D's hype man on tour since the early '90s and had already appeared on Diamond D's first two albums. As for John Dough, he was part of the hype crew in the early 90s for another D.I.T.C. member, Fat Joe. The connection between the crew and RasKass first happened when Diamond D worked with him on his "Soul On Ice" album. Diamond D produced a few instrumentals for him but Ras Kass didn't pick them and they don't appear on the album. That's all I know about the connection between the group members and despite the group's huge potential, no album was ever released unfortunately...

Information about Big Red's disappearance from the New York hip-hop scene after that remains unclear. I do know that he later pursued a high level career in combat sports, which may explain why he didn't become more involved in the rap game. "Created A Monster" is a really good 12" in my opinion and definitely one to have in your record collection. Grab a copy if you find one !  Peace

 

TriFe & D-Mob - Gun Town's Finest - 2026

 

2026 - 90's Tapes / HHV Records 

"TriFe & D-Mob are a hip-hop duo from the Bronx, New York, who emerged from the city’s independent underground scene in the mid-1990s. In 1996, the brothers released their collaborative album "Gun Town’s Finest" through High Wire Records. Produced by Tone in co-operation with both artists, the record embodies the raw New York rap sound of its era, built around heavy drums, dark samples and direct, uncompromising rhymes. Created outside the major-label system and far from the mainstream spotlight, the album remains firmly rooted in the aesthetics of East Coast underground hip-hop. The original vinyl pressing surfaced in limited quantities and has become a sought-after rarity among collectors over the years. Today, "Gun Town’s Finest" stands as one of those nearly forgotten independent releases that offer a distinctive glimpse into New York’s mid-’90s hip-hop underground." - courtesy of 90's Tapes 

Available in a limited run on 3LP (350 copies), 2CD in jewel case (300 copies) & Cassette (100 copies)

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MC Craz & DJ K-Wiz - Ready To Attack: The 1992 Demos EP

EP - 2023 - Chopped Herring Records 

Chopped Herring Records are back with a 6-Track demo tape originally recorded in 1992 by MC Craz & DJ K-Wiz from the BX : 

"1992 demos from MC Craz [pronounced Craze] and DJ K-Wiz pka Grand Creator K-Wiz. Heads will know K-Wiz from his 1988 album on B-Boy Records with Sparky D. Here we have 6 joints from their demo tape which they were pushing at labels back in 1992. The stuff has the feel of material from like 89-90 with nuff 808 bass sounds and familiar UBB samples. Everything is uptempo and bangs hard. Old school heads will no doubt approve!!! " - courtesy of Chopped Herring Records 

Pre-Orders : Black Wax (300 copies with regular Herring sticker cover) /  White label (50 copies with the Season Only Jackets).

Uptown Assassins - On The Rise - 1995

12" - 1995 - Fort Knox Records  

 

Here is the first and only 12" released in 1995 by the group Uptown Assassins (U.A.) from NYC. The crew was formed around 1992-1993, and the original members were BRK, Poe a.k.a Bo Gamble, L a.k.a LCE and the DJ/Producer Face a.k.a 2Feezy.

Their 12" came out on Fort Knox Records and consists of 2 tracks entitled "On The Rise" on the A-side which is the lead single, and "Live From Da Swamps" on the B-side. Nothing written about the productions on the labels but it seems that both tracks produced by Face were recorded at D&D Studios and engineered by Joe Quinde. Around 12-15 tracks produced by Face were recorded there at that time. 

Neither Gimmicks nor metaphors here... BRK declared in a video that they rhymed for people in the streets about regular life shit...Streets, Money and Blocks... all the hood elements. 

Uptown Assassins manager was the hip-hop producer Christopher "Cat" Tucker a.k.a Cat Lion. An Uptown Assassins promo tape came out before the official release of the wax, that's how Cat based in Virginia discovered the group. Cat was originally from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, then moved to Lynchburg,VA in the early 90s. He became the executive producer for groups or artists from Virginia like Profits Of Rage or Starr Nyce, whose the album "Forever" was dropped on Hip-Hop Enterprise in 2021. 

I don't know exactly the story of Uptown Assassins after this 12", but years later some group members formed NMOB (Notorious Mobsterz) with other cats from NYC. 

Allah Be Universal - Indecent Exposure - 1997

12" - 1997 - Wild Beast Records 

One word... Enigma ! 26 years after the release of Allah Be Universal's first and only 12" on Wild Beast Records, this Queens-based MC is still like a ghost in the 90s indie hip-hop history. Even DJ Static from the South Bronx who produced the main single of the wax "Indecent Exposure", don't know much about him... All he can remember is that they just met at the studio through a mutual friend  and played him a few beats. "A.B. Universal picked that beat and started to write to it"... that's how the single was born ! The flip side of the record contains the track "Omerta" produced by Cross-One from East Elmhurst Queens, NY with scratches handled by DJ Goodfella. 

Fred Ones who recorded and mixed the tracks during the studio sessions declared in a recent interview I had with him  : 

Fred Ones : " I remember A.B.U.'s seriousness of the craft. This was over 20 years ago so exact details are hard but he had a real gift for rhyming… voice, rhyme flow and vocabulary. We all smoked and drank at the studio but when he got into the booth, it was time to work. Serious but chill dude !! "

About Wild Beast Records, It was managed by DJ Goodfella and a kat named Lex P. Lex P also released a 12" Test Pressing (Gladiator / Kinetic) in 1999, produced by DJ Static. About Allah Be Universal, if you want to grab more of his stuff you need to know that he also features on another 12" entitled Cliffhangaz (Ready 4 War / Curry Chicken Head) released in 1999 on Fat Beats Records, with productions managed by Shakim and the legendary Mista Sinista.

12" - 1999 - Fat Beats Records  

SLD a.k.a Sick Lyrical Damager

It was a real pleasure in 2020 to listen to an unreleased track from Sick Lyrical Damager dropped by Chopped Herring Records. I've been a true fan of this MC since day one and I would have liked there was more SLD tracks on this "Shazam X – The Producer Project EP", but it was better than nothing.

EP - 2022 - Chopped Herring Records 

For those who don't know this excellent Bronx-based emcee and to make a quick recap about how everything started for Rodney Summers a.k.a Sick Lyrical Damager, you need to know that SLD and the legendary Andre the Giant a.k.a A.G. from Showbiz & AG grew up together in the same neighborhood in the South Bronx, Patterson Projects precisely. SLD and Showbiz also went to school together. 

Everything began in the mid 80s when A.G. wrote a song called "A Bomb In My Pocket". Rodney heard the verse and he told him that he'd write a verse for that song and that's what he did. A.G. heard the verse and then they became rap partners. The duo was called Rod Swift and Dre Smooth. For the info, an unfinished album was recorded with A.G. at that time, with productions handled by a kat named Double DEE a.k.a Devious Devastator. Rod has also recorded a full solo album with this producer, but everything still remains unreleased. After A.G. appeared on Lord Finesse first album in 1990, him and Showbiz became a group and Rod became Sick Lyrical Damager and went solo. 

The legendary Rhyme Inspector Percee-P who is also from Patterson Projects, grew up with Sick Lyrical Damager... they went to kindergarten together. Percee P introduced him to DJ/Producer Shazam X at the record shop Shazam worked at. After hearing him rapped, Shazam X took him under his wings and became his producer. He put him on his EP released on TNT Records (sub-label to Freeze records) around 1993-1994 with the single "Scary Thoughts".

EP - 1994 - TNT Records

In the mid 90s, SLD and Percee-P performed in LeFrak City in Queens and Vance Reid saw their performance. After that he signed them to his record label called Vmax Records. Percee-P's 12" (Nowhere Near Simple/ Don't Cum Strapped) and SLD's first 12" (Scary Thoughts / It's Over) will be released by this label in 1996.

12" - 1996 - Vmax Records 

A third 12" entitled "Respect Costs More Than Money" was released the same year, still produced by Shazam X. It came out after the other 12-Inches but the single was originally recorded prior the other tracks. In February 22nd 1996, SLD and Percee P were lived on the Stretch & Bobbito Show on WKCR for the Promo of this 12". Here is the freestyle aired that night :

After his deal ended with Vmax Records, SLD started his own label called Makin Millz Records and put his second single out "Makin Millz / Everybody" in 1998. Another wax to grab if you're enough lucky to find one for sale. 

12" - 1998 - Makin Millz Records  

For the info, in 2007 SLD added another name to his rap name... Lazy I... and put out a full album called "The Focus". 

And if like me, you're looking for more unreleased material recorded during the 90s, you need to know that a demo tape exists and was sold on ebay a few years ago. 2 demos from that tape are still unreleased... 

Mad Props to Rodney Summers 

Brown Sirround - The Set Up / Dead! - 1998

 

12" - 1998 - Leftshoo Records

Here is a 12" released by Djinji Brown a.k.a Brown Sirround in 1998. Djinji Brown is originally from Lafayette Housing Projects, Bronx and was the son of jazz alto-saxophonist Marion Brown (RIP). He is also known for being the vocalist of the hardcore NYC group Absolution founded in early 1987. 

 2 songs are pressed on this wax, "The Set Up" featuring Snake & Kali on the A-side and "Dead!" feat Chadio & Parlay a.k.a Par.Cognito on the B-side. Both tracks were fully produced by Brown Sirround, and were originally recorded in 1997. The 12" came out on Leftshoo Records, a record label managed by Marlene Duperley.

Coming from the Hardcore music scene, how and when did you fall into hip-hop exactly ?

Brown Sirround : "It's actually the other way around. I came from Hip Hop and fell into the Hardcore scene in 1986. I was deeply immersed into NYHC but by 1990 I made my way back to Hip Hop."

What were your hip-hop influences at that time ?

Brown Sirround : "When I got back into Hip Hop it coincided with my new vocation of audio engineering. I was lucky enough to land an internship at Greene Street Recording in the Soho neighborhood of NYC.

Many great Hip Hop acts worked there but when I got there in the spring of 1991, it was when I met my two biggest influencers in production. Eric Sadler of The Bomb Squad and Pete Rock.

Djinji Brown & Pete Rock in the B Room at Greene Street Recording (late 1991/ early 1992) - Photo courtesy of Djinji Brown

Brown Sirround : "Ironically it was during my time in Hardcore and my friendship with a man named Jerry Williams that influenced me to go to audio engineering school, but I never engineered for any Hardcore groups." 

How did the connection happen between you and the artists featuring on the wax : Snake, Kali, Par.Cognito & Chadio ?

Brown Sirround : "Snake I met through my manager Marlene Duperley who was also featured in the hook. On the record her artist name was Kali. Marlene was the manager and owner of Leftshoo Records. She actually was the one responsible for the pressings and putting the record out. 

On the B side the tune "Dead" features two friends of mine from my building in the Bronx where I lived and grew up, Chadio of the Hip Hop group CRU who had an album out on Def Jam at the time and Par.Cognito who was an unaffiliated MC as far as being signed but very talented nonetheless. Par.Cognito actually lived on the same floor  as I did at the time.

Any studio stories ? 

Brown Sirround : " The song "The Set Up" was recorded in November of 1997 at D&D Recording in midtown. I booked the studio time at D&D and when they wanted to provide an engineer I told them I didn’t need one. All I needed was an assistant to show me around the room and I was good to go. After the people in the studio heard the beat coming out of the room and then the finished product, I soon landed a job there as a staff engineer. 

The song "Dead" was recorded in late March of 97. It was recorded one late night at Greene Street Studio in Soho where I worked previously and knew my around those rooms quite proficiently. This joint sounds like it was created in the Dead of the night in a dark alley with only one way in and one way out. "

Do you remember how many 12" were pressed in 1998 ? 

Brown Sirround : "I can't remember exactly how many we pressed, maybe 500 more or less, but I'm not exactly sure."

Why did you stop after that 12" ?

Brown Sirround : "I didn't stop producing after this single, but in the next coming years my production direction did shift. I was still at home in my studio making beats on the SP1200 and then on the MPC2000XL, but it wasn't until around 2000 that I started working with the label 7 Heads Entertainment. Most notably producing a few tracks for the group Unspoken Heard. Then in 2002 I dropped my first solo album mainly of instrumentals, it was called "Sirround Sound". The album was like a display of different beat styles I could create. In my mind they all had a similar thread which was my approach to the drum programming but I think the album went under the radar too because it was hard to classify into one genre."

Does an unreleased Brown Sirround album exist ?

Brown Sirround : "I have many unreleased tracks that could complete an album, but I haven't tried to put them out yet."

If you're looking for a copy of this 12" for your record collection, a few copies are available on Discogs !

Mad Props to Djinji Brown, thanks for your time fam.

Da Phenoms - Old School Rule - 1993

 

12" - 1993 - C & S Records 

 "Da Phenoms - Old School Rule" is a good jazzy single produced by DJ Scribe which came out in 1993 on C & S Records. I've had this 12" in my collection for a long time but to be honest I had no info about Da Phenoms when I bought it. 

Here is what you can read about this 12" on the promo sheet written by C & S Records : "Previously unavailable as a single, "Old School Rule" by Da Phenoms was originally included on the Street Jazz I Compilation, but has now broken out as a phat hip-hop track on the acid jazz tip that gives props and much love to many of the influential fathers of hip-hop."

What wasn't written on the promo sheet is that this track isn't from Da Phenoms but from the Bronx-based MC Jokazwild... in fact Da Phenoms doesn't exist and has never existed ! The track was released by Scribe on vinyl via C & S Records without telling it to Jokazwild... 

Jokazwild is cool... I had a talk with him recently and he told me the story behind this single.

Jokazwild : "I just found out my producer/friend cut a deal and released this song... The Phenoms was the original name of the session not even the album title, it was more soft title for the song then I said let's do an ode to the old school because the game at the time was changing. Scribe added my name as A writer, I am the writer and linked it to his publishing company on BMI. I wrote the song and Scribe (Ben Goldfarb) produced the track with my direction. It's good that it was released so I'm honored and frustrated at the same time....I'm glad people like it.. no deal, no check and now it's on vinyl..."

Jokazwild : "Being from Uptown and moving to the BX, I was always into HipHop from day one back then you had to carry record crates or speakers to get in the jams for free and I got to meet the guys who I listened to and looked up to. Like GMC Grand Master Cas, Melle Mel, GWT Grand Wizard Theodore, Charlie Chase, Kool Herc, Jazzy jay,GMF, Bam, Red Alert, All these guys are like my uncles they got me in alotta spots screaming let shorty rock rhyme, and the older dudes (MCs) was like somebody writing for em... they be like naah he got his own rhyme books lol. I was about 13 at the Harlem YMCA rocking the mic with The Cold Crush, Fearless 4 and The Sapphire Crew that's how I met Bfats.. and I later wrote songs for him once he found out my pen game was serious. So it was them I let critique my songs straight out the lab. It was them that nicknamed me JOKAZWILD, so it wasn't hard for me to dedicate a song to them and I first wrote the lyrics for a song called the Phenoms and was testing tracks to see which fit the flow and feel it didn't fit it was to hard for that jazzy track...we tried.. because you had my G Kieth (Guru from Gangstarr) and the older GOD Rakim going jazzy so we already had The Album title "Laugh Now Cry Later" I just figured we get this one done with the same old school format concept, lyrics with a message, hooks, and a dope chorus and Uncle Red would brake it on Kiss FM.

The direction of hip hop was changing everyone took the thugged out approach must with none in 'em no more concepts no more catchy flows no more messages. And me the way I've always moved is call 'em out on they sucka shit and show and prove.  I remember I did a show at The Parliament at The Allah School in Mecca (Manhattan) and did 2 songs "Allah is God" and "Save The Babies"...with King Sun, Just Ice, Ced G from Ultramagnetic, Rakim and Daddy O from Stetsasonic. So going to record this record was on my mind if not for the track I wrote to a harder beat originally. Then I thought lemme try it and it locked in the flow and there was a cool Block party/house party vibe that I remembered so I wrote down a list of the elders I knew that past and shouted them out in the chorus snatched DougE Fresh looped him and that was it.

At that time, I used to go to clubs that had Open Mics... I spit, I rock the mic and rock the crowed... "Yo you have to do some more !!! "... So I came back again and rocked the mic again !! It was at the Lion's Den in Greenwich Village, that's the place where I met Scribe... he let me know that he made beats and we took it from there...

We did a lot of tracks. I told Scribe "just make me like a whole package of beats that you think it would fit with my voice"...so he gave me like 10 or 11 beats and put them on a tape. I wrote the name Da Phenoms on it ... that's how the whole shit came about with Da Phenoms, because Da Phenoms was what I named the whole session, the tape of songs that he gave me...Da Phenoms was supposed to be a track and It didn't happened that way, but still it was a beautiful time, because we had so much music done, you know what I'm saying...

That's crazy, basically that's the problem I'm having right now... we had a whole album, it was called "No Laughing Matter". At that time I had a DJ, my man DJ Shames , and Scribe was also like my DJ ... when we did the album , half of the tracks was from Shames and the other half was from Scribe... basically I'll let them 2 battle it out, Producer vs Producer in this crazy shit biz. Shames is black and Scribe is white, so you've got like the uptown nigga vs the Jewish kid, and I was in between both of them... Uptown vs Downtown ... I said "Fuck all this shit ... let me get them both together !" , so I brought them both together, like I would do with 2 women lol !!! so we figured it out and worked together."

Jokazwild : "The reason why the album never got released is that we had 3 different labels interested in the album. We had Tommy Boy, Atlantic and a silent deal with Elektra. What happened was when Tommy Boy went down... Treach (of Naughty By Nature) is my man... Treach was basically the face of the label at the time... so Treach being my man was like "Yo Joka, don't fuck with Tommy Boy right now, because they've got this other nigga from the West Coast coming in and named Coolio, and they put a lot of money behind this nigga, and it's gonna eat the whole Tommy Boy budget" ... fucking with me and my new shit and Digital Underground and their new shit, and De La Soul and their shit ... So when Treach gave me that information, I knew they didn't have the money ... thinking about releasing a new artist under Naughty By Natures's second album, Digital Underground's first album and Coolio's first album, you already blew your budget... so when the Tommy Boy deal came through, I was like "Fuck" and I didn't show up ...

At the time I was young, I didn't figure out the fact that all these motherfuckers worked together. They hung out together, they talked shit with each other and all that... so for the deal with Atlantic, I was like " Yo, you want this product or what ? , because I've got it and I'm not gonna give it to Tommy Boy ! "... so when they hit me, they hit me with a baby budget !!! They didn't have the money like a Def Jam, like a Tommy Boy you know what I'm saying... They didn't have the money to facilitate what I tried to do...

"No Laughing Matter" consists of 12 tracks. All have been record at the same session. To be honest, "Old Shool Rule" was number eight on my tracklist. I come from an era where the whole album is a vibe, you know what I'm saying... so the vibe of the record put "Old School Rule" number 8... and like I told you, it was never Da Phenoms... Da Phenoms was just the name on the tape, It was what I named the whole session... "

Mad Props to Jokazwild, thanks for your time.

Page The Hand Grenade - 2-22-2020 "A Day In The Bronx"

 

2-22-2021

"A Day In The Bronx"

It is February of 2020 as I just bought a ticket for a show called "Checklist The Play" which was written and directed by Wali "World" Burgos. 

I was not sure that I was going to be able to attend as I had mixed feelings about taking the trip.  I have not travelled to "The Bronx" since February of 2019 when my mother was still alive.  As I currently live in North Carolina, this would be the first trip up there without seeing her.  I created an itinerary to keep me busy for one day in the Bronx.  On 2-21-2020, at 3 PM EST, I left my job and boarded the Greyhound bus for an overnight trip that made stops in many cities along the way.  A week prior to my departure, I booked studio time at D.I.T.C. Studios in the Bronx.  "Checklist The Play" started at 7 PM and my studio session was from 2 PM to 6 PM.  I booked a hotel room at the Days Inn on Third Avenue alongside Bruckner Boulevard.  As soon as my bus arrived the next morning, I jumped on the subway and headed to the Bronx.  I had no idea what I was going to record when I booked the session.  I just wanted to record in the "Big L" booth with his picture on the wall for inspiration.  I was in a dark place mentally with my mother recently passing away along with me living in a homeless shelter for veterans.  While travelling overnight, I wrote two sixteen bar verses to an instrumental Buckwild track titled "I dream of wealth."  I checked into my hotel room, showered, changed and took an Uber straight to the studio.  

I was greeted by Jahlil as he helped me get the words out clearly using his accurate punching in skills while I recited my rhymes by reading from my rhymebook.  After the session, I headed back to my hotel room for a quick break before I called another Uber to take me to Lehman College for the play.  Wali "World" Burgos along with his brother and sister Khalid and Asia, produced a great show.  The whole cast was amazing and talented as DJ Famous and Frank Vocals provided good musical vibes.  After the play was over, I rode the number two bus from Bedford Park Boulevard, all the way down to 138th Street and 3rd Avenue back to my hotel room.  I ordered McDonalds from Uber Eats and went to sleep.  I checked out of my hotel room the next morning and walked to Giovanni's on 149th Street and Grand Concourse for breakfast.  I then proceeded to the bus terminal to head back to North Carolina.  My bus arrived back to North Carolina at 6:30 AM on 2-24-2020 as I called an Uber and went straight to work.  From 2-21-2020 to 2-24-2020, I spent "A Day In The Bronx" on 2-22-2020.

Thank You For Reading

Stanley Grimes Jr.

2-16-2021

The Bancheez - Didn't I Tell Ya / Start My Mission - 1994

12" - 1994 - Juss Fatt Records 

I've been madly looking for the members of this Bronx-based group named The Bancheez for a long time... K.Worrell and T.Worrell who might be two brothers and J. Anderson... but no way to find them online unfortunately...

Their first and only one 12-inch "Didn't I Tell Ya / Start My Mission" was released in 1994 on Juss Fatt Records and produced by the legendary Soulsonic Force Member DJ Jazzy Jay. Both tracks of the wax are really dope.. this is definitely an other 12" to catch if you're enough lucky to find one ! 

 

 

Mercenaries Feat RMR ‎- Rhymorator - 1994

12" - 1994 - Mercenary Records  

Here is the 12" released on Mercenary Records in 1994 by the duo named Mercenaries from Bronx, NY consisted of Rashiid Hewitt a.k.a RMR (one half of the legendary underground group Strickly Roots) and Craig Burrus a.k.a Chaz Rich.

RMR : "Chaz and I met in the Bronx through a gentleman who is now deceased. Chaz heard me rap and wanted me to join his group Nu Sounds, we were signed to MCA records and made an album. The subsidiary Uni-Records that we were signed under was dropped in a merger and we subsequently were released from MCA. Between 1991 and 1994, I banded together with another friend and created the group called Strickly Roots. There was some turmoil with the management so I left and help to found Mercenary Records with Chaz and an other gentleman, and I led the group as the artist."

Promo Photo courtesy of Chaz Rich 

This wax is composed of 3 tracks. The first one and the lead single is "Rhymorator" featuring RMR and produced by Cedric "Big Ced" Thornton. I can't blog the youtube video of "Rhymorator" certainly due to copyrights but you can check it here. The video was Produced, Directed and Edited by Wayne J. Keeley, and was shot in their neighborhood, Lafayette Housing Projects, Bronx NY. 
The other tracks of the record are "Bounce" featuring RMR and produced by Lamont "LP" Porter and co-produced by Big Ced, and "Stick Up, Stick Up" featuring RMR & Chaz Rich and produced by Yogi a.k.a Yogi Bear. 

RMR : "Ced was and is still a friend of mine from the early 80’s.  I asked Ced to create the music for me to rap on, because he was a dope producer and a friend. That’s the way our neighborhood worked back then. LP and Yogi were from my neighborhood too, a lot of talent existed there. Yogi was in the rap group CRU and he was one of Puffy’s Bad Boy producers.

There is no album after that 12" because we were financing everything out of our own pockets and the major labels were trying to offer us deals that for lack of better words (Pimp contracts) and instead of becoming a victim of that predatory environment I decided to leave the industry and open up a few businesses, raise my kid up in a quiet environment and ride off into the sunset with the money and mind my business. lol. But I’ve never stop writing and have ghost written for people that I can’t mentioned, but the money was beautiful."

To be honest ... there is no chance to dig this good wax in a record store nowadays, but you can still break your piggy bank and buy it online for less than a hundred dollars... 

Mad Props to RMR (thanks for your time and for the interview), Cedric "Big Ced" Thornton and Chaz Rich.