DJ Step One The Infinite Hip Hop Show on Kane FM

DJ Step One - Infinite Hip Hop show - Kane FM 22.01.12 (part one) by Soulfocus on Mixcloud

Here's my show from this past Sunday. The first part kicks off with new and recent releases before going into the mix with some 90s classics. The mix continues into part 2 before finishing with a random selection of new and old tracks...

DJ Step One - Infinite Hip Hop show - Kane FM 22.01.12 (part two) by Soulfocus on Mixcloud

Juice Crew Law

Flava Of The Month returns - ticket purchased with the quickness!

Just a quick thing regarding the Megaupload fiasco: Only about 10-15 posts on here had Megaupload links but I'm not entirely sure which ones. If you come across any dead links let me know and I'll re-up. I'm hoping Mediafire is safe from harm for now or this whole blog and 3 years of time and effort is pretty much fucked. I've generally stayed away from uploading things that are commercially available but it looks like that doesn't matter right now.

LL Cool J 'Rasta Imposter' (1998)

A quick refresher then: LL had already responded to 'Second Round KO' with 'The Ripper Strikes Back'. That lead to Wyclef dropping the comparatively weak 'Whats Clef Got To With It' (it had a Naomi Campbell cameo if you don't remember). LL then shot back with this; 5 minutes of A1 battle raps over the 'It's My Thing' beat...




(Both pressings of this have the same crackle throughout the track, so its the recording itself rather than the vinyl!)

MC Shan's True Stories volume 1 (2011)

and Marley responds "who gives a fuck?!"

DJ 7L - Essential Dipset mix (2010)

DJ 7L dropped this 2 hour mix on his soundcloud page a couple of weeks ago. Highly recommended if you're a Dipset fan...

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Doo Wop - Summer Jam Freestyles (1996)

I recently picked this up on a trip to London. It wasn't a good idea in retrospect with rain, tourists, shitty trains and closed bargain basements making it less than enjoyable. Anyway, on this 12" you get seven freestyles taken from Wop's 1996 mixtape, including Flipmode Squad, Fab 5, Smoothe Da Hustler & DV Alias Khrist, Ed Lover and Sadat X. The pick of the bunch (in my opinion) is Lord Finesse rhyming over 'I Shot Ya'. Enjoy...

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If you missed it first time out, my Doo Wop compilation 'Best Of Da Bouncemaster' is still up here

Black Rob 'Permanent Scars' (2004)

I love this track. I was only made aware of it last year and recently Mike Nice has been kind enough to hook me up with the full length, untagged version. I was originally put onto it by esteemed blogger The Martorialist so its only right I hand over to him on this one...

Realistically, I only have 2 claims to fame in this internet-Rap shit : originating "Hennessey/enemies" 2pac jokes and being the first person to upload Permanent Scars by Black Rob to the 'net after my friend Bradley brought me the Kay Slay mixtape it originally appeared on back from NYC in summer 2004. I've since managed to lose the CD but, for the record, it was the same 'tape that Juelz's Red Bandana freestyle debuted and the 2 songs were mixed together as a shining beacon in amongst a plethora of shitty freestyles by Papoose, Grafh and J-Hood.

Permanent Scars, the original title of Black Rob's shelved 2nd album, ended up being rebilled as Live From The Eastside when it reappeared on Kay Slay's essential The Return Of Black Rob collection in late 2004 (which included many of the tracks recorded for the B.R album like Business Never Personal; probably the only time you'll hear a Neptunes production being used as a hookless storytelling joint) and it comes with some prime Rap-nerd trivia since Heavy D resold the beat to Beanie Sigel for Feel It In The Air after the B.R song ended up in mixtape purgatory, and Feel It.. went on to become a minor hit as well as one of the greatest Emo-Rap jams of the last decade.

Beanie's take is the superior cut, but Permanent Scars/Live From The Eastside is a mixtape classic and there are enough differences between the two songs that you can enjoy them both as separate entities anyway. Thanks to Mike Nice for unearthing this untagged version, although it's pretty weird to hear it with no Kay Slay bellowing after it's been a personal favourite of mine these past near-eight years.



Thanks to Mike Nice and The Martorialist on this one.