Stretch & Bobbito on WKCR 03.08.95

Nuff guests on this one: Smooth Da Hustler, Das EFX and Tragedy with Capone N Noreaga are all in the house and all kick a freestyle, plus there's the unreleased Half A Mil by CNN which is very dope indeed.The recording is a bit paused buttoned in places but that just means that more of the good stuff has been captured.

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Melle Mell & Afrika Islam on the Capital Rap Show (1993)

Mell & Iz pass through the Capital Rap Show whilst in the UK for some shows and have a chat with Timothy before Melle drops a 10 minute freestyle. The OG version of It Aint Hard To Tell is on here at the top of the show too, alongside tracks from Doggystyle, which was about to drop the following week.

tracklist

Nas - It Ain't Hard To Tell (original version)

Wu Tang Clan - CREAM

Shyheim - On & On (DJ Premier remix)

Snoop Dogg - Murder Was The Case

Snoop Dogg - Serial Killa

Snoop Dogg - Pump Pump

KRS One - Hip Hop vs Rap

Leaders Of The New School - Classic Material

Melle Mell & Afrika Islam - interview

Cold Crush Brothers - Fresh Wild Fly & Bold

Melle Mell & Afrika Islam - interview & freestyle

Buju Banton - Deportees

Evil Dee - Monday Night Flava Mix on Hot 97 (1994)

Another Evil Dee tape, this time live on Hot 97 at the tail end of 94, mixing up old and new rap with some blends...

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Usher - Think Of You

Group Home - Supastar

Super Kids - The Tragedy (Don't Do It)

Jeru The Damaja - Can't Stop The Prophet (Pete Rock remix)

Stephanie Mills - (You're Puttin) A Rush On Me (blend)

Dr Dre & Ice Cube - Natural Born Killaz

unknown - Ghetto Love? (blend)

Nas - One Love

unknown - unknown

Crooklyn Dodgers - Crooklyn

Heather B - I Get Wreck

Ice Cube - What Can I Do (Eastside remix)

Gang Starr ft Nice & Smooth - DWYCK

Public Enemy - Don't Believe The Hype

Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause

Run DMC - Peter Piper

Mobb Deep - Hit It From The Back

King Sun - Humm Deez Nuts

Brand Nubian ft Busta Rhymes - Alladat

Capleton - Tour (remix)

Rude Rydims - Everybody Bounce

Scarface - I Never Seen A Man Cry

The Roots - Silent Treatment

DJ Pogo - Beat Mania Vol 2 (1999)

60 mins of breaks being cut up by one of the OGs of the UK scene, DJ Pogo.

Evil Dee - Old School R&B

On some sunday cool out steez. Evil Dee goes in some 80s vibes - Taana Gardner, Keni Burke, Tom Tom Club, Mary Jane Girls, Maze etc. All kind of obvious stuff now but I don't think there was too may tapes with this kind of thing back then (guessing this is from 95-97ish

I ripped the tape Diablo gave me but turns out Grime & Lime posted it up years back if you need the download.

Bobbito & E Kim on WKCR 28.07.94

No Stretch on this one so E Kim fills in on the decks. Apparently the numerous mentions of Stretch being in Brazil weren't actually true. Shorty Long and Cella Dwellas are in the studio and...

Nas - Ain't Hard To Tell (original & remix)

Craig Mack - Flava In Ya Ear

Shyheim - Lick A Shot

Jeru The Damaja - Da Bitchez

Kurious ft Mike G & Sadat X - Mansion And A Yacht

Mic Geronimo - Shit's Real

Notorious BIG - Unbelievable

Mobb Deep - Shook Ones pt 1

Organized Konfusion - Stress (Large Professor remix)

Crooklyn Dodgers - Crooklyn (blend)

Shorty Long - interview & freestyle

A Tribe Called Quest - Oh My God (remix)

Nas - The World Is Yours (Q Tip remix)

Red Hot Lover Tone ft Notorious BIG, MOP & Prince Po - 4 My Niggaz

Jeru The Damaja - My Mind Spray

House Of Pain ft Diamond D - Word Is Bond

OC - Times Up

Cella Dwellas - interview & freestyle

Jeru The Damaja - Speak Ya Clout (verse)

MOP - Rugged Neva Smoove

PMD - I Saw It Cummin

A Tribe Called Quest ft Extra P - Keep It Rollin

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Thanks to Diablo for this one (and pretty much everything else I'll be posting over the next few weeks)

DJ Spinbad - 1 900 Spinbad (1996)

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Tracklist here

(there's no cover on Diablo's copy unfortunately so I've had to make to do with badly scanned one I found online)

DJ Ev - Hotter This Year part 2 (1997)

Man like Diablo came through with another box of tapes out of his insane collection so guess I've got enough reasons to keep this blog active for the foreseeable future*. DJ Ev mixes are always good so this was one of the first tapes I went for...

As with every mixtape from 1997 it includes You Know My Steez which is no bad thing. I heard that LL and Busta collab on a Westwood tape recently and it's not half bad all things considered which makes me wonder if the Phenomenon LP is actually a bit slept on. I mean, it has Father on it which prevents it from any kind of classic status even if the rest is 5 mic stuff but I might give it a listen at some point.

Speaking of Westwood, the mixcloud archive is still very much on and popping (and not every tape will get posted here) so keep an eye on that and get in touch if you have any shows to share


*The 1000th post where I said I'd probably stop was the most hits and comments in ages, the posts since then were back to normal. I don't do it for the comments but that's still weird to me. You lot are weird.

Max & Dave - Kiss FM Rap Show 28.09.94

Max & Dave's Wednesday night show from September 1994. On this tape you get part of the chart (and what a selection that is) and then the second half of the show (from 8pm onwards) is a UK special with tracks selected by the listeners. Full playlist is on Mixcloud, or on the Hip Hop Radio Archive where you can also download it.

Red Alert on Kiss FM (28.12.90)

Kool DJ Red Alert on WKRS in December 1990. Another one where I'm not entirely sure of the original source as I just found it on a CDR with some other bits from 2007.

DJ Riz on WKCR (10.08.00)

Not sure where or when I originally downloaded this but I discovered it on a hard drive recently and it's great. Riz appears on Bobbito's CM Famalam show back in 2000 and goes in with an hour of unreleased/bootleg/promo only joints. All that under the counter, in the know, holy grail shit that alot of us hadn't even seen until the internet arrived.

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