Radio 1 Rap Show 15.04.00 with Souls Of Mischief

Here's a full 3 hours of Westwood on this date 21 (!) years ago. A strange combo of guests as before Souls of Mischief pass through Prince Naseem is in the house. Shame the latter gets a bit more airtime than the Souls but we still get a freestyle from them at the end. Tracklist below

Radio 1 Rap Show 27.04.01

Some 2001 Westwood for you, on this day 19 years ago...

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Cadillac Tah - Pov City Anthem

Coo Coo Cal - In My Projects

Yukmouth - Oh Boy

Missy Elliot ft Redman & Method Man - Dogs In Heat

Black Rob - That's Crazy

NORE - Grimey

Busta Rhymes - What It Is

Ja Rule - I Cry

2Pac - Letter To My Unborn

Missy Elliot ft Nelly Furtado - Get Ur Freak On (remix)

Big Pun, Notorious BIG, 2Pac, Big L - Peter Piper blend

Sticky Fingaz - Come On

Cam'ron ft Juelz Santana - unknown

Big Pun & Cuban Link - Toe To Toe (remix)

AZ - Problems

El Gant - El Gant

Musaliny N Maze ft Capone N Noreaga - Thugmania (Rock Wit Us)

Adam F ft Capone N Noreaga - Listen Here

Memphis Bleek - Do My...

Memphis Bleek - My Mind Right

G Dep, Black Rob & P Diddy - Lets Get It

Jadakiss - Put Your Hand Up

Project Pat - Chickenhead

Jay Z, Memphis Bleek & Missy Elliot - Is That Yo Chick

Rah Digga - Break Fool

Westwood live from Notting Hill Carnival '96 with Heltah Skeltah, Lost Boyz, Blak Twang, Foxy Brown & Montell Jordan

Following on from the tape of Carnival '95 I posted a few weeks ago, here's the recording of the 1996 broadcast, which I think takes in Sunday and Monday's performances. If I recall correctly, it was broadcast on Monday evening, and the swears are edited so it's not live and direct from the Westway. Westwood and Goldfinger hold down the selection with live performances by Heltah Skeltah, Lost Boyz, Blak Twang, Foxy Brown (who had no solo records at this point but was killing every feature) and Montell Jordan.
I've posted parts of this before but it's always better to have the whole thing uninterrupted. Highlights include Foxy having to back track when the crowd starts booing after her hypeman disses 2Pac and Jeru, a ruck kicking off during Montell's set ("they too busy fightin over there") and the whistle & horn posse greeting each banger with the appropriate response. 4th Chamber goes off. A GZA b-side. Your favourite Soundcloud rapper could never.

Rodney P & Riddla freestyle (1999)

Rodney P and Riddla get on the mic on Westwood's show and buss a quick freestyle. Full tape below.

Radio 1 Rap Exchange with Funkmaster Flex (21.01.95)

This was a tape I played to death but hadn't ripped until now. I've actually already posted a different recording of the show that Diablo gave me, which had the segments with Mobb Deep, Nas, Raekwon and Lil Dap in the studio. This new rip has the interviews cut out (I think I saved the freestyles on a separate tape) and is just Flex in the mix for 90 minutes. It's been pause buttoned here and there but this is how I remember it...

Here's the rip of Diablo's tape which picks up about 30 mins in


and here's the Mobb Deep and Nas freestyle

at some point I'll edit the 2 together and get that up on the Hip Hop Radio Archive

Radio 1 Rap Show 27.01.95 w/ Coolio & Tom Silverman

Lots going on in this show, with Coolio, his DJ Wino and the 40 Thevz in the house, alongside Tommy Boy boss Tom Silverman, doing some promo for the New Jersey Drive soundtrack.
This tape is one of Diablo's but I definitely had the big ass 20 minute freestyle back in the day, where Coolio and the Thevz go off for bloody ages over Craig Mack's Get Down and the Fuschnickens Breakdown instrumentals (side note: long freestyle sessions benefit hugely from multiple beat changes. Tell Black Thought next time he's up at Flex). Anyway, I stuck this freestyle on the end of my dub of Coolio's It Takes A Thief to fill up the space on the TDK, which was the style at the time.
I've not heard that album in forever but suspect it might still be quite good, if you can get past the whole Gangstas Paradise/Celebrity Big Brother nonsense. Seems strange to think that Coolio was not only once one of the biggest rap artists on the planet, but that he also appears on Death Certificate.
If you like freestyles you also get the Wu live in concert when they were still young, fresh and BFFs and a Masta Ace Inc freestyle. In amongst all that was 2 tracks I didn't recognise. One was Yes N Deed by Society which I was surprised to discover is on Luke Records (thanks to Stilts at DWG for the ID), and the other one in between Wu and Double XX Posse which remains a mystery. Anyone know it? 

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Radio 1 Rap Show with LL, Gang Starr, Nas & Noreaga (1997)

Hadn't heard this October '97 edition of the Rap Exchange before I found it on a Google deep dive over the weekend. In terms of guests this is up there with the best of them and whoever ripped it - shouts to you - was good enough to leave the interviews in there (most of us seem to have hit the pause button back in the day in order to fit a 2 hour show on a C90 and get maximum tunes). The playlist is decent too: alongside the big tracks of the time by DMX and Busta, there's EZD's Premo produced GunzIs4, plus Calm Down, Firm Biz remix, and the original version of Desperados. And that Nas and Noreaga freestyle I posted a few years ago. Even the songs off LL's Phenomenon LP are decent enough - is that slept on?

Tracklist is below, and it'll be on the Hip Hop Radio Archive in due course if you want the download

Radio 1 Rap Show 07.04.99 with Kenny Dope & Wu Tang

Westwood pulls a Wu Tang freestyle from 1994 out of the archives and there's a nice mix by Kenny Dope.

Radio 1 Rap Show 1st anniversary with Funk Flex, Sadat X & Akinyele (1996)

This was a bit of a big deal at the time. Previously the Rap Exchange shows had given us 2 hours a month of Flex's show in NYC but this time he'd come to the UK to (relentlessly) promote his first 60 Minutes Of Funk mixtape and play at Club UN for the 1st anniversary of Tim's Radio 1 show, which started in December 94. What we got was two 3 hour shows of Flex mixing interspersed with Akinyele and Sadat X freestyles as they'd accompanied him on the trip, having featured on the mixtape's lead single Loud Hangover. I've posted some bits of these recordings years ago but thought I'd better throw the whole 6 hours up before the blog is done.



I remember being at home with a really shitty cold listening to this live on both nights (often I'd record and listen back the next day) and I'm pretty sure this was the first time I heard California Love and Woo Hah. I also wrote down the entire tracklist at the time but can't quite bring myself to type it up yet.Suffice to say that with that much time to do his thing, Flex runs through pretty much everything. Alongside the new music there's golden era classics, breakbeats and some R&B.

Radio 1 Rap Show 03.12.99 with J Live, Unspoken Heard & Lone Catalysts

Backpack time! J Live, Unspoken Heard & Lone Catalysts are in town and visit Westwood for a big ass freestyle session.

Radio 1 Rap Show 10.03.00 with P Diddy and Tony Touch

Puff Daddy and, erm, Tori from WWE are in the studio for part one. There's a nice Tony Touch mix in part 2 and a cosy chat with Fabio about London's club scene in the 80s towards the end of the show.



This thing Westwood had for getting wrestlers on the show around 2000-2002 is a bit weird.

Ol Dirty Bastard on the Radio 1 Rap Show (1995)

Yes it's another R1RS post. Big woop, wanna fightaboudit? Not got time for much else at the moment and despite the plethora of fantastic topics and ideas for posts that come to me during the day, I never actually get round to writing them up. I did manage to post up a list of my favourite dis tracks on Twitter (spoiler: Ether and Takeover aren't included) that sparked a healthy reaction, but also replies like: "no 2nd Round KO?".  It was very much off the top of the head but apart from missing out Real Muthafuckin Gz' it's mostly accurate. Anyway, on a related note I have recently noticed that my blog posts have been getting less hits (too much Westwood perhaps ?), and the engagement seems to centre more around the Mixcloud pages and Twitter. I'll continue to use this as the hub for now, but once I get to the 1000 post/10 year mark in March next year I may well call it a day on this here blogspot. I'm about to go and pick up a bunch of tapes that look severely classic, plus I still have the collection of Westwood tapes from 99-02 to work through (happy to a break from those to be honest - despite the gems I've come across, the shows overall weren't quite as exciting by the turn of the century) so material isn't an issue, but the aforementioned Mixcloud pages alongside the Hip Hop Radio Archive might be the way to go. If they ever get shutdown I'm throwing everything out of the window. Feedback and financial incentives to keep going on here are always welcome.

Big-ish Statement over with, the show above is from Spring '95 (I'm guessing June - anyone got a date?) with ODB counting down the Top 10 at 10 with Buddha Monk alongside him. Entertaining stuff plus they start freestyling over the ends of tracks on a few occasions.

Junior Mafia - Player's Anthem

Kaotic Stylin - Get In Where You Fit In

Crooklyn Dodgers - The Return Of The Crooklyn Dodgers

Keith Murray - This That Hit

AZ - Sugarhill

KRS One - MCs Act like They Don't Know

ODB & Buddha Monk - freestyle

Doug E Fresh - Where's The Party At

Raekwon & Ghostface - Criminology

ODB - freestyle

Method Man & Redman - How High

ODB & Buddha Monk freestyle

GZA - Labels

ODB - freestyle

That Doug E Fresh track seems to be on every Top 10 throughout mid 1995. God knows what that chart was based on.

oh, I also up'd this Marley Marl show from '98 which I posted way way back in the early days but it's now in one big stream-friendly file.

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Stretch & Bobbito on WKCR (1991)

DJ Diablo - Friday Night Mixtape

The Grime & Lime forum is proving very handy for rare and unreleased late 90s - early 00s mixtape only tracks

Hip Hop Radio Archive is still popping off with new additions like this Radio 1 Rap Show 14.08.99 with Pharoahe Monch & Blak Twang

These episodes of the Reflections Of A DJ podcast are well worth a listen:

DJ Mighty Mi

Jon Shecter

Cipha Sounds

Radio 1 Rap Show 08.02.03 with Rah Digga & Phi Life Cipher

This one starts off with In Da Club and the first of many remixes that would follow. I still love the Budden/Paul Cain/Fab version that's played here (and would appreciate a CDQ if anyone can hook that up) but Bubba Sparxxx 'In The Mud' wasn't bad either I guess. This show must also be one of the first times Dipset Anthem gets a spin so that's a Big Moment for The Culture right here.
Rah Digga is the studio followed by Phi Life Cipher right at the end and Tim goes in the archives and airs the legendary Wu Tang appearance from '97 where Meth, ODB and RZA take over the phones, which you've probably heard before but is some straight radio gold every time.

Radio 1 Rap Show 26.02.00 with Cipha Sounds & Tony Touch

Cipha Sounds in the mix for 3 hours. Tony Touch is in the studio promoting The Piecemaker and Xzibit and Beanie Sigel are on the phone. And there's obviously lots of Tunnel Bangers getting played.

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Radio 1 Rap Show 06.01.96

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I posted the Top 10 at 10 part of this years ago but it was only at 128kbps so here's the full 90 mins of that tape in better quality. Mobb Deep were in between albums and Prodigy still managed to be on 3 songs in the Top 10. Salaam Remi was on fire around that time too, with production on the Greg Nice and Fugees tracks (one an obscure indie 12", the other the lead single for The Score) and his dope remix of Fast Life for G Rap and Nas. Liking that Clark Kent remix of The Natural too...

Tracklist

Supernatural & KRS One - WKCR freestyle

Mic Geronimo - The Natural (Clark Kent's Ghetto mix)

Special Ed - Freaky Flow (DJ Premier remix)

Greg Nice - Set It Off

GZA ft Inspectah Deck - Cold World

LL Cool J ft Keith Murray, Prodigy, Fat Joe & Foxy Brown - I Shot Ya (remix)

Goodie Mob - Cell Therapy

Big Noyd ft Prodigy - Recognize And Realize

Jamal - Fades Em All (Pete Rock remix)

Kool G Rap ft Nas - Fast Life (Norfside remix)

Das EFX & Mobb Deep - Microphone Master (remix)

Busta Rhymes - Everything Remains Raw

Fugees - Fugee La

Akinyele & Sadat X - Loud Hangover

Mona Lisa - Can't Be Wasting My Time

Lost Boyz - Renee (remix)

Lord Finesse - Game Plan

R Kelly ft Notorious BIG - (You To Be) Be Happy

OC - What I Represent

Fat Joe - Dedication

MC Shan - The Bridge

BDP - South Bronx

Schoolly D - PSK What Does It Mean

Don't have time for much more than ripping the rest of these Westwood tapes at the moment but I'll see what else I can dig up.

Radio 1 Rap Show 11.05.02 New York Live with Kay Slay & Nature

Radio 1 Rap Show 12.03.99 with DJ Craze

tracklist below (any help with missing tracks appreciated)

Radio 1 Rap Show (Summer 1995)

The tracklist for this isn't entirely dissimilar to this one that I posted last month so it's fair to say it's from the week before or after. Decided to post it up anyway because Tim goes into the Capital Rap Show archives not once but twice and pulls out an old Cash Money & Marvellous session and a freestyle by Chill Rob G, Queen Latifah and the Jungle Brothers, both of which I assume are from the late 80s or possibly 1990 in the case of the latter (which I posted on it's own years ago). There's also a few exclusives like the Rakim track and Mobb Deep's 'We About To Get Hectic' which didn't see the light of day until 2014. Another gem that never made it to the shelves is the track by Passion, which apparently was intended for a Def Squad project that got shelved, which is pretty nice if you like that mid 90s G-Funk vibe. Oh, and you get the lesser spotted friday night intro (before the ODB 'Its friday...yes its friday' became the standard).

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Intro

Raekwon - Ice Cream

Rakim - I Get Visual

Mobb Deep - We About To Get Hectic

'Is New York In The House' party break

A Tribe Called Quest - Glamour & Glitz

Kool G Rap - Check Da Bitch

LL Cool J - Papa Luv It

Rap Sheet Report with Daryl James

Chill Rob G, Queen Latifah & Jungle Brothers freestyle (Capital Rap Show)

Raekwon - Striving For Perfection

Raekwon - Knuckleheadz

Redman & Method Man - How High

Doug E Fresh - Where's The Party At

Hodge - Head Nod

Luniz - I Got 5 On It

South Central Cartel ft Jayo Felony, MC Eiht, Spice 1 & Treach - So What Cha Sayin

Passion ft Jamal - Rollin Through The Hood (?)

Jamal - Fades Em All

Cash Money & Marvellous in session (Capital Rap Show)

>>Battle Of The Beats:

Nightbreed - For Real

Poets Corner - Hang Em High

Radio 1 Rap Show 10.09.99 with Phife & Lootpack

The world premier of Still DRE kicks things off here, and if you heard it at the time you'll probably remember it well as it's played 3 times back to back in it's entirety (and again in the last hour).

Phife Dawg and Lootpack are in the studio for part 2. Westwood posted up the freestyle from this already if you want it straight from the DAT.



and for the last part of the show there's a 2Pac tribute set for the 3rd anniversary of his death

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