Thursday, October 17, 2019

Grown Man Rap Show - Ep #234 - Spotlight on 1980's Profile Records




Hosted by veteran DJ Toast and broadcast live every Sunday night 10pm-12 midnight (ET) from 91.5 WRPI (Troy/Albany NY), Toast brings you 2 hours of the best in vintage & contemporary true school Hip Hop.  

This is Episode 234 - Spotlight on 1980's Profile Records - DJ Toast - originally aired on October 13, 2019







Run-DMC “Rock Box” (1984)
Fresh 3 MC’s “Fresh” (1983)
Poor Righteous Teachers “Time to Say Peace” (1989)
The Kartoon Krew “Inspector Gadget” (1985)
Sweet Tee “It’s Like That Y’All” (1987)
Disco Four “We’re at the Party” (1982)
Too Kool Posse “Do You Want to Get Hype” (1988)
Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde “Genius Rap” (1981)
Cold Crush Brothers “Fresh, Wild, Fly and Bold” (1984)
Run-DMC “Sucker MC’s (Krush-Groove 1)” (1983)
Disco Four “Throwdown” (1983)
Spyder-D f. DJ Doc “I Can’t Wait (To Rock the Mike)” (1986)
King Sun “It’s a Heat Up” (1989)
Special Ed “I’m the Magnificent” (1989)
Run-DMC “Walk this Way” (1986)
Run-DMC “Peter Piper” (1986)
Too Kool Posse “Give ‘Em a Sample” (1988)
Word of Mouth f. DJ Cheese “King Cut” (1985)
King Sun “All In” (1989)
Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock “Joy & Pain” (1988)
Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock “It Takes Two” (1988)
Poor Righteous Teachers “Butt Naked Booty Bless” (1989)
Twin Hype “Do It To the Crowd” (1989)
Sweet Tee “I Got Da Feelin’” (1987)
MC Beta “There’s Nothing Like New York” (1988)
Sweet Tee & Jazzy Joyce “It’s My Beat” (1986)
King Sun “Coming Soon” (1989)
Special Ed “The Bush” (1989)
Special Ed “Think About It” (1989)
Dana Dane “This Be the Def Beat” (1987)
Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde “Freshest Rhymes in the World” (1985)
Special Ed “I Got It Made” (1989)
Dana Dane “Nightmares” (1985)
MC Tee & Lord Tasheem “Talkin’ Loud” (1987)
Dana Dane “Cinderfella Dana Dane” (1987)
Asher D. f. Daddy Freddy “Ragamuffin Hip Hop” (1987)
MC Tee & Lord Tasheem “Gangter Nine” (1988)
Pebblee-Poo “A Fly Guy” (1985)
Dana Dane “Dana Dane with Fame” (1987)
Special Ed “Taxing” (1989)
King Sun “Fat Tape” (1989)
Run-DMC “King of Rock” (1985)
Run-DMC “It’s Tricky” (1986)
Run-DMC “Papa Crazy” (1988)
Run-DMC “You Be Illin’” (1986)
Run-DMC “Miss Elaine” (1988)





Monday, October 14, 2019

SHS - Smoked Out - 1996



Tape - 1996 - TRP Recordings 



Here is a single which came out on TRP Recordings in 1996, on tape only. It was released by a Hartford-based emcee named Bradford Williams aka SHS which stands for Second Hand Smoke. 





Mikele "Bulletprf" Macon, who was the co-founder and manager of TRP Recordings gave me some time to talk about the story of this tape and his record label. 



Mikele Macon : "SHS was a solo artist. His DJ was Reebok. They were mentioned in a Source article. He changed his name to Varsity and focused on production and we formed a label called Trunk Rattlin Productions (TRP Recordings) that is where 'Smoked Out' was released. I was the Manager, co label owner and executive producer. I was also co founder and co owner of Trunk Rattlin Productions. I came up with the name of the label by mistake.

We got into production and producing artist after 'Smoked Out' ran it's course. We produced a group from Connecticut called YNR and they broke up then we produced an other artist who did not show up to a NYC showcase that I signed him up for. We focused on J-NYCE who I got nominated for an Undergound Music Award.

We shopped all projects but never got a deal...We had inquiries but each time something happened the label went down or the person got fired or the project just stalled... 20 years of trying to brake in until we just got tired...


How did the connection happen with SHS ? ... well I was managing some artist in Hartford. A collective called Palm Expedition. They were all nominated for the Hartford Advocates Best Hip Hop artist award. Anyway the producer Paris introduced me to Brad. Brad had some music and I was going to NYC to Epic records for a meeting. I liked his music so I took it with me for the meeting. I also had a stop at the Source Magazine this was 1991... before the Source got big they were not national yet.
Anyway the guy at Epic shitted on the tape and the only tracks he liked were Brads. The Source told me to focus on Brads production.
So when I came back to Hartford after the trip and told Paris we need to use Brads production for their sound he was not happy but relented to me. We had a practice session at Paris fathers business.  It was a dry cleaners business in Hartford. Brad left his keyboard there. When we went to practice Paris told us that there was a brake in of the business and the only thing taken was Brads Keyboard...

I was so pissed off and I apologized to Brad. He knew Paris before me they were all childhood friends. I could not condone the theft so I stopped managing Palm Expedition right then. Anyway a meeting later happened between me and Brads cousin P, who told me that I was a good manager and I was not appreciated by Palm. Anyway I was 21 or 22 at the time. I wanted to stay in Music and I moved to Hartford. So without friends and in a new city, Me and Brad and his family bonded. We became friends and they decided to let me manage them. We put our own sound and label together then... That is the short long story of how we came together !

I pressed 2000 copies of the cassette... It was all I could afford at the time. I think that was the minimum... it was all underground, just to release something and get our name out there. I got tired of trying to get a deal so I released the single on my own and did distribution myself with a retail outlet Record Express... I knew the manager. The Chain took our single and I sold it for 99 cents, just to get it to fly off the selves. We sold 1000 copies actually and others I gave for promotion. We had like an underground hit, then we never came back and money got tight, so we focused on producing other artist."



Mad Props to Mikele Macon & Phil Wätter

Video : Mad Pack - Six Souls Singin - 1993




Mad props to my man Marlon Posada Carvajal and his youtube channel named "Classichhr" for the upload of this video. The single  "Six Souls Singin" released by Mad Pack in 1993 is an indie classic but I had never seen the video before today... Enjoy !





Saturday, October 12, 2019

Documentary : The Untold Story of STEZO




"Steven STEZO Williams was the Hip-hop Dancer for Super group EPMD back in 1988. Stezo created a dance , wrote and produced a song called the "The Steve Martin" that was on the classic Epmd Album " Strictly Business" The dance caught on took over hip-hop Culture. STEZO parted ways with EPMD and signed to the same label " Sleeping Bag/Fresh Records" and put out his own hit record called " It's My Turn". This documentary chronicles his career and impact on hip-hop culture. Written, Directed and Produced by James " Kraze" Billings for King of Content Productions."







Watch the full documentary HERE  



Friday, October 11, 2019

Kollage Graduate



From Hip-Hop Connection - June 1996 



Video : O The Great Feat. XP The Marxman - World Series - 2019





Music video of "World Series" released by O The Great featuring XP The Marxman, produced by Shadow Magnetic and Directed by Alphabetic. 



Kevin Keith & The Dirty Dozen Show - Dec 17th 1994 - WNWK






Magic Juan - Kevin Keith & The Dirty Dozen Show Promo
Jemini the Gifted One - Funk Soul Sensation 
Advert
Tha Alkaholiks - All The Way Live
Magic Juan - You Don't Gotta Clue
? - Damn It 
Group Home - Supa Star Intro
Advert
Talk Break
ABU Nation Interview 
ABU Nation - Black Panther Style
ABU Nation Interview 
Talk Break
Black Sheep - Freak Y'All
J-Force - Bull's Eye 
Advert
The Legion - Legion Groove Instrumental
Talk Break
People Without Shoes Interview 
People Without Shoes - Evil For Eternity Remix
People Without Shoes Interview
People Without Shoes Freestyle
Talk Break
Rahzel - Beatbox Session
Talk Break /  Promos
The East Flatbush Project - A Mad Man's Dream



Props to Bo Nedelchev for the rip of the tape and the upload.