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12.22.08

TAPE DIGGIN’-PART DEUX MC's | (0)
Notice that the tagline for this blog reads: From The City Of Bridges and Beyond- So, with that in mind, we take a quick detour to NYC via London w/ some crusty freestyle sessions from Tony Bones. I came across the following tracks while going through a cache of Stretch & Bob tapes from their heyday. Wish I would have listened to the advice of friends and labeled my tapes, at least mark the year. This has to be 95/96-Help me out Stretch! As a matter of fact-run over to Stretch's blog here for more treats like this. Anyway, what we have here ...
12.22.08

TAPE DIGGIN’ MC's | (0)
I knew that obsessively taping my radio programs would serve some purpose in the future. I am currently sifting through literally thousands of tapes, running the gamut from the old school Rite Aid specials (certron c-90) to the high-bias TDK joints I used towards the end of the cassette tape era. While on the mission to archive my shows for this blog, I came across a gem from local MC J-Flint that I completely forgot about. I hit rewind several times and immediately loaded up Cool Edit to preserve this chunk of niceness. The track, produced the Geeman-The Grand Ear ...
12.20.08

WHO’S THAT PEEPING IN MY WINDOW? MC's | (1)
Pick up KC & The Sunshine Band's (or is it George McCrae's) "I Get Lifted", throw it in the SP-12, and add equal parts simile and metaphor. What do you have? Simply a Pittsburgh classic that heads still go bananas to in the club, to this day. One could liken it to the craziness that goes down when a Philly selecta throws on Tuff Crew's "My Part Of Town". I am talking of course about Mel-Man's classic introduction as a solo MC (formerly part of the Hardcore Crew Collective) " The Mel-Man". Released as a very limited (I'm gonna take a stab and say 500 pieces) promo pressing in ...