Wonder where they went... pt. 1

As I dig through tapes I come across rappers who we've only heard from a handful of times. Sometimes there is some "nobody" who steals the show on a track and never again is another verse from him, other times someone garners a buzz and nothing materializes.

Three of these rappers I want to track down this week:
Thunderfoot, Doe-V, and Karachi Raw.

Thunderfoot

In 1999 OGC released their album M-pire Strikez Back. I never feel it got the respect that it deserved, a soild four mics in my opinion. On the title track an unknown MC called "Thunderfoot" made his first and only appearance on a record. He has a sick voice and some really clever word-play. Peep his work here, as he leaves more "niggas face-down like Gulliani cops do:"

M-Pire Strikez Back ft. Thunderfoot

Karachi R.A.W.

Karachi R.A.W. made his only appearance on Camp Lo's acclaimed Uptown Saturday Night. Karachi R.A.W.'s raspy voice takes over the mic around the 1:20 mark of "Negro League" he just starts spitting that rediculous shit. His partner in crime Bonez is forgetable. Peep out Karachi here:

Negro League ft. Karachi R.A.W.

Doe V

Doe V has something to brag about, the only song he ever appeared on was a collaboration with KRS One. Doe-V should also brag about the fact that his contribution to DJ Honda's II is an especially dope track. Aside from KRS' corny intro, everything about this song is sick. KRS is his usual self, he'll "punch you in the face and then discuss time and space." Doe-V is no slouch either, admitting that he feels no better pleasure than exposing cats who are fraud "like saggy tits in a push-up bras."

What I find so fascinating about Doe-V is that he sounds like a veteran, yet I get the idea that this is his first credit on wax. This isn't because he says he's been doing it since the 80s, but it's in his voice and command of the track. Something tells me that this guy could rock a block party at any given moment.

Team Players ft. Doe V

If anyone has more information on these rappers and what other tracks, mixtapes, 12s, or releases they may have put out please get in touch with me ASAP:

mustafagoodprose at gmail dot com.

Dug a few joints up today...

A while back I did a review for the Skitzofrenik's "On My Own Shit" EP. Featured on that jawn was a man named K No Suppreme, who won high praise for his efforts and contributions to the Skitz release.

Today I dug up two more tracks that he was featured on:

Falsehood- Untitled (Pac Man Beat)

I think Nabo Rawk produced this and it's typicial late 90's underground fare, this time under the geeky influence of the time-period's trend of sampling video games. Falsehood is K No's team but I do not know the name of his acomplice on this track.

It's kinda fresh, but I prefer K No over heavier beats like the ones he rocked on the Skitz EP.

Right now there is a lot of attention being paid to Kay Slay artist Papoose. Real heads knew what was up in 1998 when G. Rap put out Roots of Evil. That year also had two 12's on AV8 records, of which I own one. One appearance that has flown under the radar is his appearance on DJ Hurricane's album, a track with Kool G. Rap, Jinx the Juvy, and Money Mark called "The Life."

There are a lot of people who check for Pap but prefer his old work to his newer material, so I uploaded "The Life" because it is an older track that a lot of people may have missed.

Later this summer I am going to be selling mix cds here and one of them will be a Papoose disc with a lot of his material from the mid to late 90s. Be on the look out for that shit.

Death Row is Officially Back

Plus...

New Cormega Shit...

People were wondering why QB heavyweight Lakey the Kid signed with Death Row.

Lakey's Webpage

Hit that link and find out why. The new songs are stoooopid fresh. Peep that "30 30" track, best shit I've heard in a while and I'm shocked that this is coming from Death Row Records. "Aniversary" is also a dope track. These beats fucking knock, it's 1996 all over again. True, grimey, thug-shit.

Also, here are two new Cormega features.

Say Word

German Cormega Joint

Peep them both, they bang and the German joint is nice as well.

So it's been a while...

Been terribly busy as of late so here is some dope shit for you all...

WE'RE ON SOME PHILLY SHIT!

Aight, I have a few treats today as I commemorate hip hop contributions coming from the City of Brotherly Love.

Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince- Live at Uion Square (Full version, not found on He's the Dj, I'm the Rapper)


I'll forgive you for not knowing the deal about JJFP if you're 25 or younger. You might think the current version of Will Smith is wack but 20 years ago that wasn't the case.

What I always liked and respected about the Fresh Prince was that he was true to himself. As a rapper he didn't want to be anything more than an entertainer. Aside from one line in his pre-Will Smith catalog (You saw my blinker.... ah shit... if you're a fan like me you can finish that line) the Fresh Prince never strayed away from party rhymes and having a good time. Hip hop was much different back then. It was OK to listen to gangsta shit like NWA and then listen to the Fresh Prince because there were less haters and more fans. Back then, every critic wasn't a struggling closet rapper and people could appreciate the difference in hip hop music, as opposed to today where critics and regionalization are pushing the divide further.

In the 80s respect came from how well you could rock a live set, and as the Fresh Prince proves here... he was a master at it. You can tell by the enthusiasm of his voice that the Fresh Prince had a star quality in him that could possibly transcend rap at some point.

On the random-rap tip I have something fresh for you guys. The next artist I would like to talk about is someone who I have no information on- just songs from- I don't even know his name. I was told he was from Philly and he certainly has a Philly accent/pattern of speech. He also makes a refference to West Philly as well. All that I know is that these songs were recorded between 1997 and 1998. Maybe one of our Philly readers can identify this man, because he has a great ear for beats and does a dope kind of hip hop that reminds of second-teir Wu Tang groups La the Dark Man mixxed with D'Angelo. When I say second teir Wu Tang I don't mean that as an insult. The Wu Tang Clan are the gods of rap and everything dope, second teir to their status is still the status of saint or very holy man in my book. Please give this stuff a listen.

Unknown Philly Artist- Bitches Won't Fuck Me

Unknown Philly Artist- In the Life

And the third group bit of music I have for you is a crew called All in the Family. They put out an album in 1998 called Smoked Diamondz but most of it was recorded between 1996 and 1997. The front cover shows eight members and what I find interesting is the racial representation in the crew- blacks, carribean islanders, and hispanic. One thing that always impressed me about the Philly rap scene is how diverse it is without being the home to a lot of white rappers. Look at the Latin influence of that scene's heavyweights now- Jedi Mind Tricks (Stoupe) and Outspace (both members). We shouldn't forget about the now-broken up Mountain Brothers either, I think Philly is the only place on the East Coast to give an Asian cat respect. Philly doesn't discriminate they way New York would and as far as I'm concerned that's a good thing.

What I like about this album is that it is quite raw. It's solid through and through but I feel that the sequence of dope songs after track seven is where it really picks up. It goes strong until the very end, a recording of a radio performance on track 16.The beats are dope and the theme is also very Wu Tang-ish in the way that there are a lot of refferences to government conspiracy and martial arts. Something else I see is that a lot of AIFs rappers contort words much like Black Thought does so that they actually rhyme when in all actuality they only sound similair. I do not find this to be biting on Thought's part or maybe AIF's part but a local stylization unique to Philadelphia at the time. I don't know the names of any of the members of AIF but they are all solid on the mic, and more than a few of the rappers are using a style later popularized by Freeway and Benie Siegel by rhyming the same words. Aside from being a dope record to listen to, this album speaks volumes about how certain local stylizations reach the mainstream.

While Philly may be home to one of the ost ciminalized hip hop scenes (Steady B. is on death row, one of the Ram Squad dudes wasn't lying on his album, Beanie is constantly on trial, Freeway's fuck-up... Philly never gets enough credit for how thoro it is), there is a vibrant subcuture of music that accompanies it and goes unoticed. Also, it appears that Philly is unique because it supports it's artists on an underground level but not at a mainstream level with the one exception being The Roots, and they really jumpstarted the whole underground movement anyway. But look at how the Young Gunz were dropped. If memory serves me right Freeway always did disapointing numbers as well and Beanie has only gone gold (do correct me if I'm wrong though). But, on the flipside Jedi Mind Tricks, Ill Advised, Reef the Lost Cause, and Outerspace all do well enough to rap fulltime. Well, Reef still has a job but I was told he'll be leaving that soon... but you get my point. There are cats like iCon the Mike King who are about to do big things as well. Philly is appreciated here at MGP's blog.

The best instrumental version of an album I've heard in a minute...

Q Unique's Vengance is Mine was one of my favorite albums of 2005 but I will says it's production stands out well on it's own.

Vengance is Mine

There are very few albums that I feel can be tollerated on production alone. It's not that they are bad but they are made for rapping over/with rather than listening to.

Necro avoided that curse on Sabac's album and this album shares that kind of mood. In the instrumental version it's easy to hear the details that one misses in the vocal version.

On Q's album I especially enjoy the rumble of the symbals that I originally didn't notice on "One Shot," the cracking or bubbling sound of the drums underneath "The Set Up," and the amalgamation of samples layered together for "H to the C" espeically with the off-kilter drum beat. "Psychological Warfare" is especially dope without the scratches and news clips as well.

While those tracks are all dope in their own right, the real winners here are "Better You Than Me," "Father's Day," and "Stone Cold." "Better You Than Me" starts off with a really nice piano loop that one would think would lead into a continuation of the original sample but the beat switches up to a similair loop from a piano in a different key. It really does a good job of stylistically displaying to beats at odds with each other due to their similarities, deuling with each other over ..... . "Father's Day" has a mellow horn that rings with the somber feeling of a siren. There are other details like a shaking tamborine and soft cha-chas before the high-pitched organ comes in. I can only imagine what went into making this beat, it's so detailed. "Stone Cold" is also genius, fleeting sounds of symbals and escaping violins over the soft piano loop really play out well. The beat evolves with synths and more piano notes which I think are actually used to fill in the bass.

If there was anything I'd change to this as an instrumental album I would cut out "The Resume" and use "Diamond in the Ruff" as the opening track. That beat really reminds of the kind of music I heard as a kid on shows on the state-run New Jersey Network, I guess it's library music but it's so gentle on the ears and soothing to the soul (the way many people feel music should be). I'd also cut out "Nature of the Beast" and "Me, That's Who" because, while they are good beats to rap over, they don't stand out as much on their own merits... they need Q over them (and that's a compliment to an MC because he really made those beats come alive with his presence and skills on the mic). I'd also leave out "Fashion Victims" for the same reason but the second half of that beat is sinister, very good stuff.

I may be getting a bit long winded in my review but I should also note that "Canarsie Artie's Revenge," and "The Ugly Place" are also very dope tracks.

If anyone needs something dope to spit over for a mixtape or use on their radio show please check this album out. I didn't realize how well-produced it was until I listened to it without the vocals.

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