Where I'm From - Clifford Smith

A really nice, informative little interview with Method man. Proper informal conversation vibe and interesting and insightful to boot. Check it out.

Pour Out Some Liquor

Proof (October 2, 1973 – April 11, 2006)



Little needs to be said about Eminem's mentor and best buddy. I will say, however, that somewhere in The Pirahna Tank I have some tapes of Em and Proof actually freestyling (i.e. off the top rhyming) on Westwood and Proof absolutely smashes it. I was never a big fan of D12's music, but as a solo artist Proof was pretty slept on.

RIP

The Roebuck, SE1 4YG

Afternoon in the park with my wiz, now off to see everyone's favourite gentleman, the ever enigmatic Russell Porter for his night of eclectic music and boozing. Started at 2 this arvo, on till midnight. The main act has unfortunately had to back out but is being replaced by a couple members of the Speakers Corner Quartet. Rup will be blessing the mic, as I possibly will, alongside a very special guest.

If you can make it, head down to The Roebuck, 50 Great Dover Street, SE1 4YG. The Elephant and the Castle, baby.



As an aside, Saturday night was a blinder. I had a 45 minute freestyle battle with some crazy American brer outside the cop shop in Brixton with all of his pals then hit up Speakers Corner and teamed up with the cypher bullies to murkalise everything in sight. Big ups to Jokerstarr, Verb T, Tenchoo, Stig and all the other heads spitting darts. One of the American dudes mates was dressed like Tyler The Creator. I was wearing the Jordan Cool Greys. He said I 'had swag'. Nice.

Hasta la vista, baby

PROMO...

...Its better than nothing!

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The Curse Of The Sun....

.... No detailed blog from me.

I'M OUT!!!

Deezy's Saturday Jam #12

.... With the emphasis on 'Come Down'



*Extra Bonus*

Classic. Nas singing.

Vintage Vaults Throwback : Hip Hop Connection Magazine Circa '95(?)

An incredibly influential publication in its time, I purchased and read it cover to cover from 1993 until the time it unfortunately stopped being published when the 'credit crunch' kicked in and fucked everything up. However, as is the case with these things, I found a massive stack of the fuckers tucked away in The Piranha tank (shout out Eddy P) but, not having much time to play with, only had the chance to scan these 4 pages. But what a group of pages they are.

The Wu Tang spread. Look closely and you'll see A) They've put a picture of Inspectah Deck in there saying he's the RZA (WHAAAAAAAA!?!?!?!?!?) B) Raekwon is wearing a vintage Polo Snow Beach Pullover and C) you can see the tears and bits of blue tack from where I assumedly stuck this up on my bedroom wall. I think it's from 1994/95 but can't be sure, the rest of the magazine was MIA but I'm glad I kept hold of this beauty. Plenty more where this came from though.

Incidentally, I got letter of the month twice in HHC and had a total of 5 or 6 letters printed. I very much doubt I have the balls to put those up (if I can find them) but you never know. They still owe me a bottle of champagne, come to think of it.

Obviously you can see fuck all on the jpegs, so I've upped a download link for the PDFs at the bottom, should you feel the need to look at them properly (you should).

Download the PDFs and view the magnificence HERE

http://www.zshare.net/download/88755357ddf9bdf7/




And, as an added bonus, I scanned the other side of the spread. Lucky you. However, I would like you to pay special attention to the now legendary 'Connections' page, with one specific entry being quite poignant given recent happenings in UK Hip Hop.

"YNR Productions are a Yorkshire-based collective of hip-hop acts. They are in need of local deejays available for studio work and shows. Also need contacts, and any true b-boys/girls (especially locally), whether rhymers, deejays, writers or breakers, should get in touch."

I wonder if its too late to apply, haha. Download link below.

Download the PDFs and view the magnificence HERE

http://www.zshare.net/download/88755357ddf9bdf7/




Download the PDFs and view the magnificence HERE

http://www.zshare.net/download/88755357ddf9bdf7/

HHC does live on in digital format of course, and you can D/L every one so far from http://www.hhcdigital.net/ which is one again advised. Not a patch on the old hard print, but what you gonna do?

Day Off

Back to business tomorrow (today).

JEHST IS STILL MY POSTMAN??!!??

Shortly after I wrote THIS (literally a day or so later) on the matter, I was told (and subsequently threatened with brutal retribution if I mentioned it to anyone) that all may not have been as it seemed.

I still stick by my sentiments, having not taken the original post down, but what a fucking legend. Fooled everyone, myself included.

Cop that 'The Dragon Of An Ordinary Family' LP as soon as it drops.



BOOM

Drunken Rapper In Video Shocker(s)

Who else?




Shout out to Tek and Harry May.