Dirty Waters

I just wanted to drop a line to all the regular readers of this blog to inform you all that I'll be stepping aside from the blog game to focus on other things. Being back in school demands most of my time, and I'll soon have to plan for after graduation, so the blog is going to have a take a back seat. It's been enjoyable, for the most part, providing exclusive material for the past two years, but I'm sure as many of my fellow bloggers can understand, this is hard work that can be very time consuming.



I want to thank everyone who's helped me work on this site during the past two years, all the guest bloggers, all of the artists I have interviewed, all of the artists whose music I have posted, and also everyone who has shown support through comments, e-mails and visits to Dirty Waters. This may not be the official ending of the site, but posting from here on out will be considerably less. I've got plenty of treats in the archive, so be sure and check the back catalogue. The links that are dead I may not be able to re-up as I've changed computers twice in the past two years, but I would say a good 70% of the links on this blog are still active. Thanks to all for your support. Peace and Blessings.


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Brand Nubian - How Ya Livin?

I just saw One Leg up released a Brand Nubian record in their series of limited exclusive demo re-releases that included 'How Ya Livin' which you may remember I posted two years ago. I caught a rip of the record with this song on it, and it seems like they cut out the last verse and almost half the track, why? Well in case you wanted to hear the whole thing, here it is re-upped by request, enjoy...

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Mr. Magic & Mister Cee

Here's a nice R&B mix from Mister Cee from the Sunday night Hot 97 show he did with Mr. Magic during the late 90's. This one is from 1998.


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Biz Markie 89.9 Promo

Check out this Biz Markie Promo
done for Stetch & Bobbito's show..
Do do it, let's get on down
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Roc Raida Tribute

Here are some classic raido appearances from the illest of all time on two turntables. R.I.P. Roc Raida












Live on WNYU Halftime Show ? (5 min battle set)

Live on WNYU Halftime Show 1999 (5 min battle set)

Live on WNYU Halftime Show 2000 (5 min battle set)

Live on WKCR CM Fam-a-Lam Show 1999 (30 min DJ set)

Live on Hot 97 XL Show 1996 (with Mista Sinista & Rob Swift)

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R.I.P. Grandmaster Roc Raida

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new blog...

Just heard from my boy DJ Kaos (Artifacts, El Da Sensai). He just recently started his own blog so be sure and peep what he's got goin' on there and show some love...

artofdiggin.blogspot.com


Also, peep Kaos on the Halftime Show, WNYU, doing some routines in 1998, that Biz routine is a classic! Read More......

X-Men on Stretch & Bobbito 1995

Here's another Stretch Armstrong Show with Bobbito, Mr Sinista & Rob Swift filling in for Stretch.

This pre-dates a lot of things for the X-men, including the X-ercise video, the name change from X-men to the X-ecutioners, and even Sinista's name change from Joe Sinista to Mr. Sinista. You also got some freestyles and guest appearances from the Cracker Jax (promoting the "Rhymes like Dimes" 12") and Genesis on this tape.

There's a little something for everyone on this one, some turntablism, freestyles, old school hip hop, indie label stuff, more than two hours of unedited, classic Stretch & Bobbito. Peace to my boy Greg T, Stretch, and Bobbito for coming through with the date to label this one. Enjoy!



Stetch & Bobbito - 12-28-1995
(featuring Mr Sinista, Rob Swift, The Cracker Jax, & Genesis)




...Bobbito's Set
1) Erick Sermon - Focus
2) Fat Joe - Fat Joe's in Town
3) Group Home - 2000
4) Genious - Duel of the Iron Mic
5) All City - Metro Theme
6) Mic Geronimo - The Natural (Clark Kent Remix)
7) The Wixtons - Up Jump The Boogie
8) Choclair - Twenty One Years
9) Pitch Black - Hold it Down
10) Hilfiguz - Break it On Down
11) Kapone - In The Mix
12) Company Flow - Bad Touch Example
13) Cenubites - How the F*#K You Get A Deal
14) Ultimate Force - I'm not Playin
15) De La Soul - Change In Speak
16) Ultramagnetic MC's - Ease Back
17) Mic Break
...Mr Sinista's Set
18) Marley Marl - The Symphony
19) Masters of Ceremony - Sexy
20) Special Ed/Common Sense
21) Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause
22) Ill Distraction - No MC's
23) ?
24) Triflicts - Genuine
25) Mr Sinista routines (Artifacts, SWAT, Das Efx)
26) Mic Break
27) Cracker Jax Freestyles
...Rob Swift's Set
28) Public Enemy/ MC Shan - The Bridge
29) Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx
30) LL Cool J - Dear Evette
31) Kool G Rap - It's a Demo
32) B Boys - Girls
33) Stetsasonic - Go Stetsa Go
34) Ultramagnetic MC's - MC's Ultra
35) Bad Boys - Oh Veronica
36) Rob Swift Routine (Biz Markie)
37) Genesis Freestyles

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Madvillain

Here's another example of how much I prefer demo versions over album versions. This version of Doom and Madlib's 'Pretty Blood' is far better than the original in my opinion. I read somewhere that the Madvillain LP leaked and so they re-did all of the tracks. Whether that is true or not, don't fix it if it isn't broke. The chop Madlib did for this is sick.


Madvillain - Pretty Blood (demo version)
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Bumpy Knucks

Here is Freddie Foxxx aka Bumpy Knuckles on WNYU's Halftime show in 1999. This was right before the release of his second solo LP, Industry Shakedown. The session here starts off with what might be Freddie Foxxx's first appearance on vinyl, in 1986, on a song called 'Handling Things' under the name Supreme Force. Then you'll hear a more recent song from Freddie Foxx, followed by a freestyle session.




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Poetical Prophets

For those of you who don't know, Havoc and Prodigy carried the name Poetical Prophets before changing it to Mobb Deep. I don't know much about this first group they had or how many tracks they made under the name, but I have one here. Company Flow fans may recognize this one as the sample for Juvenile Techniques, 'The juvenile, delinquent living foul.' I'm not sure if this was even released on vinyl? I got this from a Stretch & Bobbito show.

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Les Paul R.I.P.

Not only was Les paul an amazing guitarist who intoduced solid body guitars, he also introduced multi track recording and overdubbing; an incredible contribution that revolutionized music recording. R.I.P.

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Question...

All my old school heads out there...Does anyone know the name of the group/song that does the track that comes in at 43:53 on Prince Paul's Halftime visit?? "Don't think that your too cool, to listen to the beat with the rap about school." Man, this is the freshest, funniest song. Drop a line in the comments if you know...

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Dorothy Ashby

'Afro Harping' and 'Dorothy's Harp' from jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby are/were two records near the top of my want list. I couldn't imagine paying less than $50 for even a VG copy of either of these, but I just came up on a pretty decent copy of 'Dorothy's Harp' for $20. It was one of those dream thrift store finds all you record nerds can relate to. The store owner seemed pretty knowledgable about the record, saying it was worth a lot more. Maybe he said this because he saw me eyeballing the shit out of it to inspect it before I brought it up to the counter, or maybe it's just a buyer's market right now.

This album includes a cover of 'The Windmills of your mind,' originally composed by Michael Legrand. Pacewon took this track for his song 'Got it Locked' and Pete Rock sampled this for Rahzel's 'All I Know.' This record is a banger front to back, recorded in Chicago, 1969, and Produced by Richard Evans. Read More......

Halftime Show (12-9-1998) featuring Prince Paul

Prince Paul makes a visit to WNYU's Halftime Show to promote his 'Prince Among Thieves' LP. This was an old school (late 80's, early 90's) show they did on December 9, 1998. DJ Riz and DJ Eclipse play the first half, and Prince Paul jumps on the wheels for the second half. Read More......

Mos Def & Kweli (Stretch & Bobbito Freestyles)

Mos Def, Kweli,
& Mastermind Freestyles
(WKCR September 1997)

Mos Def & Kweli Freestyles
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Radio Ruckus 2/6/05 (Mr Sinista)

Here's WRSU's Radio Ruckus show from February 6, 2005, featuring DJ Mr Sinista formerly of the X-Ecutioners. Your boy Nes jumps on the wheels for the first 30 minutes, then you'll hear DJ Force interview Sinista, some tracks from his mixtape 'Free at Last', and finally some juggles from Sinista. Enjoy...

Peace to Force, Halo, AB, Knowledge, all the Radio Ruckus fam. AB has some video footage from this night, where you at, need to youtube that... Read More......

The Whatnauts

The Whatnauts - Why Can't People be Colors Too?















The Moments featuring The Whatnauts - Girls
















The Whatnauts - Soulin With The Whatnauts

















The Whatnauts - Help Is on the Way










I first discovered The Whatnauts after hearing 'Why Can't People Be Colors too,' which has a drum break used on many classic hip hop songs. After digging deeper into their catalogue you'll see all of their albums are pretty bangin' with a lot of good material for samplers. The group experiments with a variety of genres, ranging from disco, soul, and funk.

The Whatnauts and Stang label mates The Moments recorded 'Girls' dedicated to the ladies of all shapes and sizes (one of my personal favorites). 'Soulin with The Whatnauts' is the song used for Mike Zoot & Tek's 'Midnite Run', produced by Mr. Walt. Fans of De La Soul will recognize 'Help is on the way' as the track used for 'Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey).' Read More......

To each his own...

The Natural Elements made a nice re-make of EPMD's 'Kick Knack Paddy Wack' in 1995. They actually did a few remakes, this one features all of the members: Mr.VooDoo, L-Swift, A-Butta, and Essence.









*Bonus - Here's a freestyle from L-Swift, A-Butta, and Ghetoo Communicator at 4:30 in the morning on Stretch & Bobbitos show sometime in 1996.
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Kool G Rap & Papoose

I'm still diggin' through the cassettes over here. I know I've been slackin' on the postings lately, but I still got treats for everyone so don't worry. Hope everyone out there is enjoying the summer.

Here we got some Kool G Rap, Papoose, and some other dude on Marley Marl & Pete Rock's Future Flavas show on Hot 97. The date on this is January 1999.

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Saafir

Peace to everyone on the west coast..



Saafir Freestyles
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Stretch & Bobbito 8-20-1998

Here's some more Stretch & Bobbito goodness courtesy of Relm, a Stretch Armstrong Show dated August 20, 1998. This one is jam packed with guests and treats. Some missing info in the track listing if anyone wants to help fill it in hit the comments. Enjoy...






Stretch & Bobbito - 8-20-1998

1) Camp Lo -
2) Camp Lo Freestyle
3) Camp Lo -
4)
5) Gangstarr - The Militia Remix (featuring WC & Rakim)
6) De La Soul & Ini & Pete Rock - Stay Away
7) High & Mighty - Mind, Soul & Body
8) Mr Live & Tony Bones Freestyles
9) Prince Poetry - ?
10) Pete Rock - True Master (featuring Inspectah Deck & Kurupt)
11) Missin' Linx Freestyles
12) Eminem - My Name is
13) Eminem & Royce 5'9 Freestyles
14) Scaramanga - Special Efx (featuring Godfather Don)
15) Diesel Don & The Govna - Ghetto Red Hot (featuring Redman)



peace to Stretch & Bobbito


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Supernatural

Supernatural sets it off on the freestyle tip, one of the best out there. Here he goes with Main One on the Stretch Armstrong show with a nice 11 minute freestyle segment. Read More......

Hawthorne Radio #2

If you liked the first one, this one is just as good but a little shorter...






















Hawthorne Radio, Episode 2 Playlist:

Robert Parker “I've Caught You In A Lie”
The Mighty Lovers “I Ain't Gonna Run No More”
The Toys “Deserted”
The Continental Four “The Way I Love You”
Sly, Slick & Wicked “Ready For You”
The Marvelettes “Don't Mess With Bill”
The Moments “So This Is Our Goodbye”
The Ethics “Searching”
The Main Ingredient “Spinning Around”
OC Smith “On Easy Street”
The Impressions “A Woman Who Loves Me” Read More......

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R.I.P. Michael Jackson

Just heard this news. Despite all the scandal with this guy, he made some really good music. He made Thriller dog, Thriller. R.I.P. Read More......

Stretch & Bobbito 4-7-1994

This is probably one of the first times I recorded the Stretch Armstrong Show back in April of 1994. There is no guest MC on this one (at least in the two hours I have recorded here) but the tape has treats throughout. The first hour has some new music for that month, and the second hour Stretch takes it back to the 80's. They have a guest in the studio tlking about skateboarding, and how Nike should put out a skateboarding shoe (8 years before the SB line was introduced).

I had the pleasure of meeting Stretch Armstrong with my friend Greg Wednesday afternoon and I definitely want to say thanks to Stretch and his friend Dominique for their hospitality, and also for transfering Greg's cassettes to mp3's. Be sure and check out the projects Stretch is working on for his Plant music label, and if you have some old WKCR cassettes, he's definitely the man to bring them to.

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Quality posts since 2007...

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Halftime (Best of 93-97) featuring Dutchmin

The Halftime Show on WNYU 89.1 used to do what they called the summer sessions, where they would play strictly 1993-1997 hip hop joints. I'm wondering if they still do these in the summers? I think it was the first Wednesdays in each summer month, so maybe they'll start next month or the following? I'll be tuning in so who knows. What I have here is one of the later volumes from May 2004 with special guests the Dutchmin. DJ Eclipse serves up a nice set with a lot of independent label treats. You'll have to excuse the static throughout this one, but it's not overwhelming.


Halftime best of 1993-1997 (2004)

1) J-Force - Bullseye
2) Rubbabandz - Purple Rain
3) Dutchmin - Get your swerve on
4) Dutchmin - Surrounded
5) Dutchmin - Freestyle
6) Necro - Get on your knees
7) Heltah Skeltah - Operation Lockdown
8) Show & AG - Next Level
9) Big Daddy Kane - Show & Prove
10) The Points
11) Trigga Da Gambla - Remix
12) Nas & CNN - Music makes this thug come down
13) Mobb Deep - G.O.D.
14) Pitch Black - I Gotcha Back
15) Lord Digga - Mandigga comin through
16) Natural Resources - I Love this world
17) GrassRoots - Grass Roots Drama Read More......

Drum Crazy 16

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When I say Heltah...

Here's one half of Heltah Skeltah, Rockness Monstah with some radio freestyles...











Roc & Lil Roc on Halftime, WNYU from August 1998.




solo appearance on CM Famalam, WKCR from October 2001.




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Marley Marl Scratch

I came up on four copies of Marley Marl Scratch one day, all for like a couple of dollars each. I sold one, hooked my boy up with one, and kept two for my self. One VG+ and one sealed with a 'Love that Wiz' sticker on it. You've probably all heard the regular version so check the Demo version.





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Coke La Rock & RC La Rock

I think a good majority of DJ's or turntablists are aware of (and correct me if I'm wrong) Cool Herc being the pioneer of hip hop and hip hop DJ'ing circa 1973, and Grand Wizard Theodore inventing the scratch, but what about the first MC? Who was the first?

Apparently, the answer to that is Coke La Rock, down with Cool Herc. For more insight into the history, check the youtube video below for words from the man himself.






Speaking of La Rock's, I had a beat up original copy of RC La Rock's record under the name Radiance called 'Micstro', which is amazing. It's got a disco/party vibe and a really good energy. RC La Rock kills it with no hook for like 5 minutes until a bridge comes in. The Ego Trip compilations featured this one on singles from 1982, and then a reissue was going around, seen here. If you've never heard this I urge you to check it out.




Despite some of my posts here where I might sound like I know what I'm talking about, I'm not really going to pretend like I know anything about hip hop or the history of hip hop. The truth is, as a young kid grabbing my older brother's cassettes back in the late 1980's, listening to albums like Rasin' Hell, Liscence to Ill, Paid In Full, etc., I wasn't even 10 years old, and we're talking about some fifteen odd years of hip hop being around. I don't really mind the era I grew up in but I completely missed a lot of good hip hop years and a lot of good records like this one I'll probably never know about. Anyone who actually remembered this song when it came out or knows more about Coke La Rock or RC LA Rock I'd love to hear about it.. Read More......

Big L

Here's a Big L freestyle I'm pretty sure isn't floating around online, it's a quick 2 minute verse on WBAI's Underground Railroad. The beat used is Raekwon's 'Heaven or Hell' and the year is 1995. Check out Underground Railroad's host Jay Smooth at Illdoctrine.

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Nighttrain January 1998

Here's a Nighttrain Show with DJ Eli and friends from January 1998. For those who don't know, the show was on WKCR, Tuesday nights from 1-5 during the late 90's. The show was primarily funk/soul/jazz incorporating some hip hop.


This might be two different nights, there are some pause edits on this one so it jumps around a bit. I cut out most of the talking and certain songs here and there when I recorded this. Towards the end some freestyles from Sir Menelik, Percee P, Saga, Kweli, L-Fudge, and Shabaam Sahdeeq. This was a good show for those who remembered. Read More......