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

Download at the Hip Hop Radio Archive

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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DJ Step One - Reminiscence

Found myself with enough time to have a little mix earlier and this was the result.  Given the nature of this blog it's probably no surprise that nostalgic raps* and autobiographical raps are one of my favourite themes/sub genres so here's some of the better ones...

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Troubleneck Brothers - Back To The Hip Hop (remix)

Dred Scott - Back In The Days

2Pac - Old School (B.Cause remix)

Missy Elliot ft Jay Z - Back In The Day

Game ft Fat Joe, Jadakiss, Pusha T, Bun B, Young Buck & Keisha Cole - Pain (remix)

Nas - Surviving The Times

Large Professor - Dreams Don't Die

Rakim - Remember That

LL Cool J - The Truth

Dr Dre - My Life (aka Smokin Weed For Hours)

Ice Cube - Growin Up

Choong Family - Memory Lane

Kyza - Lucozade Bottles

Blak Twang - 19 Long Time

Wan Cee - Rememberance

Marco Polo ft Masta Ace - Nostalgia

Ghostface Killah ft Black Thought - In The Park

KRS ONE - My Life

Nas - Where Are They Now (90s remix)

*Just to clarify, nostalgic raps about Union Square, Latin Quarter and Dapper Dan are fine, new rappers trying to recreate the 90s and giving it the 'hey guys who remembers Illmatic?!' and wetting themselves with glee and over-rapping their hearts out when Premo tosses them one of his recent dry as fuck beats, not so much.