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Wb had to beat down FreetlyleCrazee because aside from his\nweak ass interview with Ghost and Cap, we found out he was tryin' to sell elements mag out for like two buds or something to a\ncouple of slupid kids out in Surrey who thought it wos \u00ab 'test issue of Prop$. AND he wos on some code blockin' shit tellin' this\ngirt about some shit that 1 had mistakenly let ai| regarding my extra cUricSlar activities: invokin' my a\u00abW and... shit, almost did it\nagain. Fuckin* punk..\nlys keep in mind that\nfor whatever then...\nmore man sufficiently fi\nhis views in parliculo\nwhatever.... Omekawfb? ...\nsick of every single song ami\nfi.e.-orookr\/n-Brookk\nis ugly as hell. Idon'l\ncall (604) 268-1130\nOh wed... Oh yeah '\n\u00a3 week after you're fuckin'\neked up pronounciation's.\n\u00a9 peeps think her half Filipino as*\nrt reafly Cove in?\"). For info on his shit\ni. That's not really UOod in ri his mag is late again.\n^20 Rcksfw '96, Sv^pdeed *S+h\u00ab.' and fl^KHJt picked 'Wake Up'\nBoth hale each others pick and don't know why they're on the list. They almost fought but Kemo broke it up. J's WAY bigger than\nFlip, but Flip is quick. In the end, Kemo got \"accidentally\" smoked in the brain and we had to take him to the hospital real quidc-\nbut Emergency had a huge line up and we ended up waiting there for about a month- that's the real reason the mag's late. Fo' rilla.\nFeatures\nMOT.\nJem tha Damaja\nXzibit\nMobb Deep\nRas Kass\nGhostf ace Killah\nEditors\/L&ywit\/Prodnction\nJ Swing & Flipout\nArt Direction\nAllCity Action Team\nContributen\nCheckmate\nDAT\nFreeStyle Crazee\nKemo\nLogic\nMr. Bill\nOmeka Almighty\nSunil C.\nPhotography\nJ. Stroud\/D. Gallaway\nDistribution\nVancouver - Bruno\nToronto - Big C Promotions\nCanada - Timeborab Disc.\nAdvertising\nRobert Rizk\nPublisher\nLinda Scholten\nk Hip Hop Journal, elements is a bi-monthly magazine published by the Student Radio Society of UBC.\nContent-element* will focus on ai elemenb of Hip Hop cutlure: MCs, DJ's, B boying and Graffiti \u2022 on a local, national, ond\ninternational level. The magazine features interviews, musk reviews, and lifestyle issues pertaining to the Hip Hop community.\nEditorial Policy elemenb jointly shores the CiTR programming policy (ask Linda Scholten a Mio Hoffman @ CiTR radio (604)\n822-3017 for details) and encourages submissions from all members of CiTR and the general public. Please ensure consistency\nwith the magazine's underground theme fa belter publishing consideration ('cause we don't print no dibby bullshit).\nSubmissions- Please forward all submissions (illustrations, licks, essays, reviews, opinions, etc) to: elemenb, c\/o CiTR, #233-\n6138 SUB Blvd, Vancouver, B.C., CANADA V6T 1Z1 or fax us ah (604) 822 9364.\nRegulars\nMixTape\nMetaphysics\nVinyl Konflict\n- Kool DJ Red Alert\nB-Boy Shit\n\u2022Easy-Roc pi. 2\nGraff Shit\nre:\\\n11\n12\n15\n16\n19\n20\n8\n25\n27\n\"i_\u00abr\nHI Lyricals y\nAs overexposed as Wu Tang Clan is, ihe foci remains that some of the illest rhymers of this day and\nage brandish ihe Wu Tang sword. From ihe finesse\nand flavor of Raekwon and Melh to ihe deep science of Ihe GZA, RZA, Masta Killah and Killah Priest.\nBut one killa bee thai has always been a standout\nand underrated MC would have to be U God. His\nsick delivery and military-like cadence shines bright\nand I can honestly say that he doesn't sound like\nnobody. Take a listen to his verses starting from\n\"Chessboxing\" to \"Knuckleheads\" to \"Winter Warz\"\nand his standout performance on \"Semi Automatic\nRap Full Metal Jacket\" where he flipped, \"Like the\nfist of the mantis, those who oppose get dropped\nand hit the canvas in rigormor' I hit you in the core\nand pop your legs- you're in ihe figure four.\" (I quoted\nthat shit from memory so don't trip if it's a little off).\nAny one who's feelin' me on this one check U Gods\nverse from \"Black Jesus\" off Ghostface's album. Shit's\nfresh. (If you see any mistakes then why don't you\nwrite if out and send it to me, otherwise shut the tuck\nup. It's not my fault I can't understand everything.\nI'm tryin' my hardest man... it's not fair... I ain't Super Lyric Transcriberman or nothin'.) Oh yeah,\nInspectah Dek is the tuckin' man. Beware... he's the\nnastiest... why try and test the Rebel INS...\nI hose down the place nose shots to the face\/ elite\nspecial force\/no religious style faith.\nThe melting pot boil gunshot drama soil\/ gamble\nwhen I scramble handle hot pots of oil\nManhandle pain killin' erect my hidden\/ streets make\nme potent put your 96 bidding\nVampire curse disperse on each verse\/ swim in black\nwater axe slaughter through my earth\nYou're hit by my element great wall of China\/ mountain peak hold the globe like vagina\n[Measure?] my mic stand molecule or strand\/ finger\nroll the rhythm hold the horse one hand\nGolden eye spy vs spy guilty of suspicion\/ chessboxer\nmic in dead body position\nForty ounce [swigger???] odd three verse invention\/\ndivine universal black man representin'\nSimilar to pure rhyme blowin' out the pore (poor)\/\nbattery in the back keep me charged for the raw\nI'm bred type thorough pistolero gun hero\/ renaiv\nsance rebel chatter box through your borough\nFully woven Beetoven hit you on a humble\/ hard\nenough to hurt you chastise my rap styles locked down\nfor this curfew!\n-U-God aka Goldenarmz \"Black Jesus\"\nIRONMAN 1996. \u00bbr\u00aboh\nCanl\u00ab\u00abtrtf\nMan*\nSbrtuatfcmt\nlarge frofmor\nHard\nPeUSoul\nSweet Rreaws\nMbtanmtao\nUnstoppable\nMobbPetp\nWoodsport\nFmnkewrtsbi\nAH Hand*\nTrigger ttw*a*l\u00abr\ngust\nSupawaw luva $\nKRSOtw\nWordPerfect\nlUuealzw\/Chedkiiwte^flipwrt\nClockwork\n$ravw\/AI Tariq\nCrtYToCrty\nWgNoydw\/TYNHly,Twb^Prwiay\nAH Pro\nKim Km\nSoul On Ice (diamond V remix)\nXrfttw\/thaAlkahollci\nfclrds Eye View\nSoalft faptrt\nWght lights, llg City\nZhm\nNYC\nCamp lo w\/ Wi aka fcrttrflY\nSwfetQ\nPoogfc Fresh *M0RfekyP\nthe Show\n&\npersonal expression,\nlonger have the time\nby Mr. Bill V _f\nI had a conversation with a DJ\/Producer lately about the culture in general. You know the usual who, what,\nwhere's etc. I found it amusing that I know longer have anything to say about the community. I mean I don't\npaint, I don't b-boy, I don't MC, but I love beats. I haven't bought any Hip Hop in the last six months. The last\nnew full length I listened to was either Busta Rhymes or Kool Keith's Octagon shit.\nI guess over the twelve years of listening to Hip Hop I've seen the trends go full circle and now with the advent\nof doing covers of Hip Hop classics it's now a question of new thoughts, new ideas. How can I listen to\nsomebody anymore that views the world through the eyes I can't use or that doesn't fit what's going on for me.\nDo I wish to tear the whole structure down? No. Am I interested in disrespecting what is\nArtistic creation? I could be if it's wack, but why? Isn't it about going for self? Yes. I no\nto be an authority or a purist\nI wish to see the world full spectrum. I can appreciate culture, gender, and generation differences and gaps.\nI gotta laugh at Chuck D giving those twelve year olds a part in his video, they were in diapers when he was\nthe Hard Rhymer. Am I dissing age? No. I've grown up finally; it's kinda chill.\nThere was a reason I felt self conscious reading Hip Hop magazines in public. All \"wigger\" accusations aside,\nI'm no longer 14-24 and when I looked in the mirror I still wasn't any darker. Before you read into this any\ndeeper, realize what \"MCing\" has become and realize once and for all time now that this is a vehicle for black\nexpression, black issues, black passions, and black love and pain.\nI needed to know what the issues were and now seeing this whole full circle business and cover tracks, I return\nto the beats. I know what I need, I know what I am, and the days of fronrin' with a 40 are done.\nI went to communicate in new ways and that meant getting in a new pond and meeting a new fish. I'm now\nin that pond and I cannot return to the old School. The old School has it's time and place but now is the futue.\nSomebody told me recently that they admire my ability to be able to start over from scratch with no fear, no\nhesitation. That's partly true but I saw this coming for years and I knew I'd be getting out. This is just a part of\nlarger growth.\nMusic is very, very, very personable to me. I embrace music I love like a woman. It becomes my girl and I give\nmyself to her fully and completely. My new girl has Hip Hop down tracks (and always will), but she has more\nthan one speed, she has many moods, she has many skin tones, different coloured eyes, and she doesn't need\nto talk, she just does. We understand without speaking, feel deeply, and love each for what we are and what\nwe do for each other. She has many names and iterates all the misuse of names, categorization, and exploitation. She loves me enough to tell me what's real, what's right, what's love and when to move on to find her\nin her next era.\nMy grandfather fell in love with her when she was introduced to him by Charlie Parker, my father met her\nagain and again through Miles Davis. I first met her through Mantronix, felt completely in love with her when\nshe was down with the Bomb Squad, Juice Crew, BDP, Ultra, Eric B <& Rakim, Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called\nQuest, Main Source, JVC Force, EPMD, Cypress Hill, Beastie Boys; man she was an exploding star between\n88-93.\nNow we are both a little older, smarter, more secure, low key, modest, confident, and know what the limits are\nand what's on the horizon. I mean we are both looking over our shoulder's at the abomination of pop culture\n\u2022 that gross, obese, juggernaut that destroys ond consumes everything in it's path. It's like death, i mean I've\nhad dreams about death in his cloak with his sickle and it's basically the same thing. It's coming to get you \u2022\nit's gonna catch you, it's gonna destroy you.\nAsk Tupac about Pop-culture - oh you can't? Ask Suge Knight if you can find him. I'm sure deep down he's\nwondering what really happened. Anyway I want to live, I want to thrive and I'm running like a motherfucker\nto get away from death.\nSee my girls music is the exact opposite of death. Death is actually her mortal enemy and she has died a\nthousand deaths, a thousand different ways through the hands of a creature with a thousand faces. She's so\nspecial, so fearless, so boring and so unselfish she gives me plenty of time to get the FUCK OUT OF DODGE,\nbefore she dies yet again. She embraces me, says goodbye, and says meet me in heaven soon.\n4 elements top 20 tracks of '96\nPMD \"Rugged-n-Raw\"\nTragedy w\/ CNN & Mobb Deep \"LA, LA\" (Marley Marl remix]\nOutkast \"Elevators\"\nMr. Voodu w\/ Natural Elements \"Shine\"\nCamp Lo \"Luchini\"\nJ-Live \"Braggin' Writes\"\nSmoothe Da Hustler w\/ Trigger \"Broken Language\"\nGhostface Killah \"Daytona 500\"\nJeru \"One Day\"\nInl \"Props\"\nKRS One \"The MC\"\nBusta Rhymes \"Woo-Hah\"\nThe Roots w\/ M.A.R.S. & Dice Raw \"Clones\"\nSaukrates \"Father Time\"\nDe La Soul \"Stakes Is High\"\nNas \"I Gave You Power\"\nInspectah Deck, U-God & Street \"Semi Automatic Rap Full Metal Jacket\"\nHeltah Skeltah \"Operation Lockdown\"\nRedman w\/ K-Solo \"That's How It Is (My Big Brother)\"\nKilla Army \"Wake Up\"\nFM Vancouver\nCiTR 101,9\n\"The Show\" Sot. 68pm with Checkmate, Flipout & J Swing\n\"Awara House\" Tue. 67pm with Shazia, Homo & Wax\n\"Hip Hop Habit\" every other Mon 7-9pm with .Otis\nCFRO 102.7fm\n\"Krispy Biscuit\" Tue. fmdnighi-2am with Ease, Blots* A KibCee\nMNo Mercy On The Groove\" Mon. 4-5pm with Ebony & Kemo\n'CJSF:8&3ftn\n? :\n\"Stroigto No Chaser\" Frt. 7-9pm with Matt & Trevor Chon\n\"Sagfterrorisfs\" Thurs. 8-)0pn> with Cassandra & Cheeba Ma.\n\u2666In The Shaddows\" every other Mon. l-3am with\nTOT 2PAC IS NOT DEAD\nDuring Chuck D's promotional tour for his new album,\nThe Autobiography of Mista Chuck, Mr. Chuck himself\ndecided to share His theory on 2Pac*s passing. It seems\nthat the Hard Rhymer wasn't oil that convinced that 2Pac\nwas gone, and to bock up this theory he stated 18 reason's why. This list come to us via some record lobej that\nsent it out with their servicing ond we thought that oil of\nyou 2Pac fanatics out there might find this a little bit intriguing. We here of elements ain't saying that 2Poc did\nin fact fake his death, however that thought hos obviously been on Chuck's mind. Peep the list.\n1. 2Pac died on Friday the 13th\n2. las Vegas is a payoff city, meaning oil sorts of folks have\nbeen known to be on the take. That meons doctors, press,\nlawyers etc.\n3. The white cadilloc containing the assailants was never\nfound. How could this be when Vegas is in ihe middle of the\ndesert?\n4. There's a small block community on the North side of\ntown. This is only about 8 blocks long. The artoclcer* were\nblack. Where did they go? Where did they hide?\n5. The white cadillac containing the gunmen passed an entourage of 2Pac's boys, many of them body guards, no one\ngives chase and there are no witness*. There were no wit*\nnesses on the street. How come? Why Not?\n6. The name of 2Poc's new olbum is Mach'tavelli. He wos\nan Italian war strategist who faked his death to fool his erv\nemies. Perhaps 2Poc is doing he same thing.\n7. The cover of his new olbum hos 2Pac looking lib jesu>\nChrist. Could he be planning a resurrection?\n8* Las Vegas is in the middle of the desert, how come there\nwas no helicopter chose? If some one was to rob a casino\nthe IVPD would've chased you down with some helicopters;\nHow come this didn't happen with 2poc's shooting?\n9. 2Pac was cremated the day after he died. Since when\ndoes some one get cremated the day after a murder. There\nwas no autopsy.\n10. There were no ballistic tests. At least we hoven't heard\nabout them.\n11. Los Vegas ts still very much a mob town. No one gets\nkilled on the strip. You have to pretty much get permission in\norder for something like this to happen. Who was calling\nthe shots on this one?\n12.2Pot's vehicle got shot 12 times an6 Suge didn't get hit\nonce. He was'grazed'by a bullet. Why did 2Pac get shot\nall those times ond Suge not get hit?\n13. Suge said he drove 2pac to the hospital and they hod a\ncoherent conversation? How bad was 2Pac hit? In addition to this there are conflicting stories claiming thatQutncy\nJones' daughter was in the back of the cor, and then she\nwasn't. What's the deal for red?\n14.2Pac has completed 2 movies and 3LPs that hove yet to\nbe released. With so many people upset at 2Pac's death\nliterally anything connected with htm is bound to net a whole\nlot of cosh.\n15. Suge Knight and 2Pac ore the only two music industry\npeople on that high a profile with enough balls to pull off a\nstunt like faking death.\n16.2Pac's video \"I Ain't Mod At Ya'\" foretold his death.\n17.2Pac always wore a bullet proof vest, for some strange\nreason he didn't wear one this time. Why not?\n18. The memorial services that were open to the public were\ncancelled in Los Angeles and Atlanta.\nwinter '96 5 What are your first Hip Hop related experiences?\nGoing to Kool Here parties up in the Bronx. I used\nto spend time going to disco parties on a Friday\nand checkin' out all the disco DJ's, but then people\nwere telling me in the high school I went to up in the\nBronx about Kool Here so I stepped in there and\nexperienced and seen a whole different sight. When\nI stepped into a spot called the Twilight Zone for the\nfirst time it was a dingy lookin' spot. I stepped all\nthe way in and I saw people and the way they were\nweorin' their clothes, their farm of expression to each\nother ond their way of dancin'. It was the Hustle\nduring the days but they had a certain way of doing\nthe Hustle, like in a hardcore type way. Then I'm\nsteppin' all the way to the back and I saw this tall\nbrother who had this system right there and the music I heard him playing was a little bit different from\neverybody. It was the disco era and he would play\ndisco records but he would mix a certain portion of\nthe record from turntable to turntable and you'd see\nguys and they was either breakdoncin' or they wos\nspendin' time hustlin' in their own style and that was\nlike a new experience for me along with what the\nHip Hop was comin' to.\nWhat did you do after you discovered all\nthat?\nWell after that I spent time going to a lot of their\nparties. I was following Kool Here from that club to\nabout two other clubs. At the same time a lot of\nother people started to branch out. You had people\nthat were comin' right after Here that wos attendin'\nthe Here parties who come up on their own. You\nhad people like Grandmaster Flash. You had Mean\nGene who was the brother of Grand Wizard\nTheodore. You had several other people who started\nbranchin' out, Kool DJ Al and then Africa Bambaataa\non the side. You had a lot of people and I started\nnoticing and watching other people and it inspired\nme more ond more. After I came out of a year and\na half of college I went and started workin' and\nsavin' up my own money to buy my own set, so I\nsaved up my own money, got my own set and started\nexperiencing how to buy certain records but I was\ndivided. I would go buy disco records and I would\nalso buy Hip Hop records so I would know the diversity of both.\nAround what time was this?\nI would say the mid seventies, yeah the mid seventies.\nWhen did you start to make a name for\nyourself?\nWell what it was at the time was one hand washes\nanother. As I started to develop myself my cousin\nused to come down and watch me play and he got\ninterested in it. At the time he got into it the family\nmoved up into the Bronx and when they moved to\nthe Bronx he had got his first set. A guy by the\nname of - godbless the dead \u2022 Disco King Mario, he\nwas another pioneers back in time, he was havin'\nhis own name and buildin' up his own set but he\ndidn't have his own tables so he osked my cousin to\nDJ. At the same time he was borrowing his set, he\nwas in a sense jerkin' him. So Bam noticed what\nMario was doing, and he noticed that he come from\nthe same area he come from, Bronx River. So he\nsaid no, no, no leave Mario alone, start comin' down\nwith us. So as Bam brought him in that's when he\nstarted tellin' Bam about me. My cousin go by the\nname of Jazzy Jay and that's when he started tellin'\nBam about me. Pretty soon he was bringin' both of\nus in under him, Bambaataa.\nHow long were you with him for?\nWell I been with Bam ever since '79 on.\nWhen did you first get on radio?\nWell the first time I really got involved was early '83\nwhen I used to be on 105.9 with Africa Islam. We\nhad a show called Zulu Beats where I wasn't really\nspinnin', but if was an experience for me to come\ndown and know what it's like talkin' on the radio\nand hearing music played on the radio and I was\nknown for bringing down all my tapes. I'm known\nas one of the people in the post to hove all the party\ntapes - Hip Hop classics. I would bring them down\nand play them on the radio. During the era that we\nwas at the Roxy later on in '83, the people at KISS\nFM came to Bam and said we're interested in having some of your DJ's come and do some mixin'.\nFirst they went after Africa Islam but he missed a\ncouple of appointments. So the next person they\ncame to was my cousin Jazzy, he did it for a couple\nof months but he say they wasn't payin' so he just\nstopped. So they came to me and they put me on a\n3 month trial from October to the end of the year\nand at the top of '84 they put me on the payroll.\nWhat other shows were around then?\nThe show out before that wos Mister Magic. Mister\nMagic used to be on 105.9. Then from there in '82\nhe went on WBLS, where he brought a guy by the\nname of Marly Marl to do the mixing.\nHow was your show different from theirs\nand the rest of radio?\nEverybody thought my show was a straight up and\nby J Swing\ndown hip hip show but when I first started the people on radio were trying ta show me how they\nwanted me to play R&B, club, dance and rap music\nwith a hip hop sound. I learned how to combine all\nthat in one. I used to go to them disco parties on a\nFriday and then the Hip Hop ones on a Saturday so\nI hod a good idea of what they wanted me to do.\nWhat was your involvement with BDP?\nMe and godbless my man Scott LaRock, we knew\neach other for a long period of time and we got\ndown chottin' and I knew he had a couple of down\nfalls with different labels until he formulated with this\ncompany and they made Boogie Down Productions.\nI was surprised when the first record came out, I\ndidn't know they had made a record going after\nMC Shan and mentioning me in part of the record.\nAt the same time there was a little feud thing with\nMister Magic and his Juice Crew was on at the station, so they (BDP) wanted to back me up. So when\nthey came to me and wanted me to be on the second record, \"The Bridge Is Over\", they were really\nin a sense incorporating me to be a part of them.\nSo you were at the center of that whole\nthing.\nWell that was a little rivalry that was going on a\nlong time. Mister Magic was always known for\nmouthin' off and dissin' people over at KISS FM.\nEven before I got there he was mouthin' off and\ndissin' awful on Jazzy Jay because he saw that KISS\nFM was gettin' more and more involved in rap and\nhavin' a mix show at the same time he had a show.\nHe was tryin' to shoot us down, from there on they\nwould always mouth me off mostly cause I was there\nthe longest. So that went on and then after that it\nwas the \"Roxanne Roxanne\" era with U.T.F.O. You\nhad Shante going after them and the girl Sparky-D\nwas going after Shante. Sparky-D came across me\nand asked me to DJ for her. So that went on and\nthen after the \"Roxanne Roxanne\" thing died out\nthen here come the BDP versus the Juice Crew. So I\nseen that whole scenario but it's a little surprisin'\nhow today, this year, you see KRS and MC Shan\ncome together and make a Sprite commercial. Nobody would have ever expected what all that led to.\nLookin' back, how has Hip Hop changed\nthe most from when you first started playin'\nrecords?\nDefinitely with the people in the music, yaknow things\ndoes change, rap had been diversifies in so many\ndifferent tones from seeing Run DMC utilizing rock n\nroll, you see Jungle utilizing house music, or you see\na Pete Rock & CL Smooth and Tribe utilizing Jazz.\nHere it is with different forms of fashionable rap. At\none point you had dissin' rap like the U.T.F.O.\n\"Roxanne\" era, then you had gimmick rap with the\n\"Peewee Herman\", or certain people with the lingo\nlike Slick Rick and Dana Done. Or the different\nstyle of rap where you had Das EFX. Then after\nNWA everybody got involved with gangsta rap ond\nthen there was also social conscious rap with BDP\n' and Public Enemy. There has been so many different types of rap that it's still elevating to more and\nmore things happening today. So I have seen a lot\nof things change.\nWhat about on the industry side?\n6 elements That's something that I had to learn about but not be\ninvolved in. At one point I had my production management company but the reason I let that go is\nbecause I didn't want to be on both sides of the\nfence. I was on both the recording side and the\nbroadcasting side and that is a conflict of interest.\nSo I passed it on to my man and let him run the\nshow and I just continued to show love how I like to\ndo and not try and get into the ugly political side\nbecause I don't care for it. I mean you always have\npeople that will try and \"wine and dine\" you and\ntry and set you up to do what it takes to play a\nrecord. I myself, I don't get involved in that. Everybody knows my reputation for years is this - If the\nrecord sounds good I'm playin' it. I don't care if\nyour well established or not. If it don't sound right\nI'ma just pass it up. I feel like this, I understand you\nhave to play for the people but then again I feel like\nI'm the pied piper. If I play my tunes right my crowd\nwill follow me. If I don't feel I'm playing the right\ntunes I'm not going to play them at all.\nNo doubt. Where do you think Hip Hop is\nheading?\nThat's a good question. That's upon the creators\nand the audience itself, cause it's the creators that\nmake it and it's the audience that will believe it and\ncarry it. So that go both.\nLet's talk about the CD for a minute, this is\nyour fifth one now.\nYeah, my fifth one all together but my forth one on\nPlateau. Still doing the basic thing like I did on the\nrest of them, make it sound like my radio show. The\nreason I did it like that is because anytime that I\ntravel around people always wanted a tape of my\nshow. So I figured why not market it like it's my\nshow.\nWho chose the tracks?\nI had chose em.\nBased on what?\nWell there were a lot that I chose, but these were the\nones I was able to get the rights too. I wonted to get\nNonchalant \"5 o'clock\", I wanted to get \"No One\nElse\", another Biggie... there were several joints.\nBut these were my favorite joints from the past year.\nIs there anything you'd like to speak on\nbefore we end this?\nJust how the public that may not understand Hip\nHop will look at it in the wrong way cause there's a\nlot of down falls and destruction in it. But that goes\nfor anything that your involved with as far as sports,\nentertainment or industrial you have your ups and\nyou have your downs but believe me, they didn't\nthink it was going to last this long. So for all y'all\nthat don't know it, don't speak on it. If you know it,\nthen please speak on it in an uplifting way. Because if you individually know what problems there\nis with what your involved in your not going to talk\nabout them, you going to say something to uplift it.\nThat's the same way people should talk about Hip\nHop.\nWord.\nwinter '96 7 interview by Flipout & Zebrok\nThe original dance form of Hip Hop, b boying is olive and\nthriving all over the world in this here decode. Although b\nboying is almost non existent on television shows nowadays\n(I'm talking about RAP shows) it is widely celebrated and par-\nlia'pated by b boys around the world. While gangsterism ond\nother trendy trends bombard you poor kids, the underground\nscene is full of the illest b boys, tumtablists and even MCs that\nyou'll never see on the lellinliestoyourvision (TV). One such b\nboy from the Rock Steady Crew west coast chapter, Easy Roc\nhos established himself as one dope b boy, by not only displaying true b boy finesse and flavor but by giving back to the\ncommunity and doin' his part to keep this shit moving. By\norganizing events like the B Boy Summit, together with his partner Asia (the two make up Eternal Two Creations) and J Love,\nEasy Roc has taken the time to make sure that the genuine love\nand creativity tor Hip Hop has a place to grow and breathe,\nrather than be suffocated to death underneath the rap industry.\nThe result is a dope jam that you might have attended 'back in\nthe day\" with live DJ's doin' their thing while the b boys break\nand the MCs commentate. In addition, true school heads like\nKool Here, Whipper Whip, Crazy Leggs be edumacatin' the\nyoungn's 'bout the foundations ol Hip Hop. That's all. No\nfronrin'. No beef. But remember... punks jump up to get beat\ndown ot any party. I don't know why I nod to say that but\nanyway, now that you heard that, let's hear what Easy Roc's\ngotta say about beats, b boyin' and life... what else is there?\nAlright. Lefstdk about Ihe I ioy Summit the next\none is at Ihe end of February 1997 In San Diego.\nHow did it all get started?\nAsia's the one who came up with the idea. Asia came out from\nDenver ond she had a Hip Hop shop, so she's been involved\nfor some time. She came out here to San Diego and we met\nher at a dolhing trade show. Vve started hanging out, whatever we all started dancing when her and J Love approached\nus to do some youth shows for free ond just do it for the kids.\nSo we storied linking up here and there and we started going\nto dubs and seeing how bod we got treated at dubs. We\nwould be like, \"Yo, we're Rock Steady Crew\" and they'd be\nlike, \"Oh so what?\" No one cared that we were trying to\nbreak, people were dissing us and making fun and then Asia's\nlike, \"You know what? This sucks man. This wouldn't happen\nin Denver. This is wack.\" So her and J Love talked a little bit\nond came up with this idea of having a summit where b boys\nond b girls could break and tell the rest of the Hip Hop community that you know, we wont ta be respected. She told me that\nidea and we also thought that it would be cool ta have a dance\nafterwards and make it free, just hold it otfside. So, the first\nsummit went off ond it wos kinda easy because we did it with\nthe clothing trade show and that helped us get the locations. It\nwas really small, maybe 500 kids and we got enough money\ntogether and brought Crazy Leggs out ond it wos kinda cool\ncause we all sat on some choirs and passed the microphone\naround then had a little break off afterwards. There was no\nafterparty or anything but we were hype and people there\nwere like, \"Yo, this has potential you guys should do this bigger\nnext year.\" Then people started colling us all the time, \"Hey\nwhen's the next one, when's the next one?\" The next one was\nonly six months after.\nHow are the B Boy Summits financed?\nWe do it all br free, all with sponsorship money.\nWhat about Ihe video tapes. Some people bug\ncause they think the tapes look shitty or something,\nlike they're expecting a huge production or some-\nVve're not really into that \"Hollywood\" glamorous scene, that's\nwhy the footage is real raw. It's belter that way, I mean for the\npeople who are really into Hip Hop, they enjoy it. The whole\nvideo thing in Hip Hop these days is spoiling people. Then\npeople get mad at us cause we don't allow cameras. That's\nour revenge man. We do that for a number of reasons. The\nmain reason is to make the tope and sell it in order to make\nmoney for next years summit, that's the main reason. But there's\nother reason's too that I won't get into but kids get mad at us\nand hold a grudge against us and I'm like, who ore you anyway? You should be thanking us for the chance to come ana\nenjoy yourself and meet people from all over the world... and\nit's freel What are you going to complain for? You know,\npeople get altitudes, they don't realize the work that goes into\nthat event.\nWord. So b there going to be a B Boy SummitIV?\nYeah, we're going to do another one next year, maybe late\nto accommodate everybody in Hip Hop but it's a tribute to b\nboys. And the DMC's, that's a tribute to DJ's.\nThe Summit videos are really dope though. But\nuntil I went down there, I never realized how much\ndoper it actually is cause you're part of it, you know.\nAnd then actually gettin' on the tape is just... ex*\nhHarating. (laughter)\nWell, on the back of the video it says, \"The purpose of this\nvideo is not to over shadow event itself but to give you a glimpse\nof what goes on and encourage your participation in the next\nyears summit.\" Vve're trying to say, you gotta come to this shit,\nyou gotta come and meet people and bring your piece book,\nbring your camera and have a good time because you can't\nexperience this shit from the video. I mean, I haven't seen kids\njust breakin' on street comers for years. During the summit I\nwas just staring out the window in downtown San Diego and\nI'm just seeing kids breaking against each other and hanging\nout on the street ond writers on the other side signing each\nothers books. It was incredible but the only thing you gotta\nremember is that the whole thing only lasts for a weekend, after\nthat you'll go to San Diego ond be like, \"Hey where's the Hip\nHop that I remember seeing here?\" That's the thing you gotta\nremember, that's how small the Hip Hop is right now, as far as\nthe culture, that's the only time you're going to see it, when you\ngo to these events. It doesn't exist there outside the event.\nYeah but even though it only last for a weekend, it\ngets you so hype that you try to keep that hypeness\nas long as you can. Cause we got bade, we were\ngoin' off boy, they thought we got injected with\nsome sort of drug or some shit down there.\nYeah, I mean, that's how we were in New York (for the Rock\nSteady anniversary). We got all pumped up and we did all\nkinds of business and even as br as oana'ng, I mean when I\nwos doin' moves... it's just being there gives you a rush. That's\nwhat people need ta experience. I mean, these dudes from\nSwitzerland were like, \"Yah, I huv to come out at least wonce a\nyear to get umf rush nstein.\"\nYeah I'm Undo disappointed cause I didn't make It\nout to New York for that shit...\nHave you been to New York yet?\nNope, I never even been to new Tone\nYou gotta go to New York, espedalfy on a b boy tip. Just to go\nFebruary '97. Ws-'re tryin' to make it bigger every time but the\nmain focus of it is mainly br the b boys cause a lot of people\nwere gettin' confused. Some people come out and got mod\ncause they couldn't get on open mic session... and we're trying\nthere and talk to some people, you'll really get a belter understanding. That's why some kids get on my nerves when I'm\ntalking to them and they don't GET W. I just tell 'em man, go to\nNew York and get a feeling for it and maybe you'll understand\n8 elements a little bit of what I'm talking about. You go there br experience because then you can better understand where the b boy\nmentality came from. If you don't already know...\nWord up. It was cool when you came up to Vancouver a couple months ago and broke with us at\nEl Famoso and shit.\nYeah, I definitely wanna come back soon even if there's a club\nor something just let us know about it. I definitely want to take\nanother trip back there. Unfortunately I didn't get to practice\nwith onybody or anything or dance so when we got to that\nother dub, the Red Lounge, there was only like fifteen minutes\nleft ond it was like, \"Ah shitl\"\nShit went off though. We got it on videotape too.\nCool.\nI was talking to you one time about Ken Swift and\nyou were saying how he has literal files... like written down files of aN of his moves.\nThat's what he told me.\nWhat land of shit is that?l\nI believe it. That kid... you can't underestimate him...\nI mean he looked better than ever at the summit\n(III)... I don't know If it's just from seeing him dance\nin person for the first lime but he was poppin'shit\noffl Nice and dean and he had lots of new shit too,\nI mean nothin' I've seen on any videotape up to\nthis point... I'm talkin' about when we were at the\nafrerparty, not the outdoor shit.\nAt the afterjam, hell yeah he loved it. When I was in New York\nhe was tellin' me that that was like, one of the best times he's\ndanced in a long time. Cause he doesn't like dancing outdoors and a lot of people don't. I mean I don't like dancing on\nlinoleum and a lot of b boys don't like dandng on that either\ncause it kinda sucks the energy out you. I don't know, I just\ndon't like dancing on it.\nNow, I don't wanna get down on some Idds but\nmost young kids, when they hear rap musk or see\nthe videos or whatever, they can't seem to link b\nboyin' to ft. I mean, it's not really their fault but it's\na shame. They just don't know. I mean, I didn't\ngot into breakin' from seein' it on TV, I happen to\nsee that old summit video. After that me and my\ncrew was like, whatever! Let's do this shitl That\nthat ain't the only shit you can do in this here Hip\nHap.\nIt's cause of music videos man. Straight up. That's all they see.\nThese kids are attached to their TV sets, they're walchin' MTV\na b boy if you're so colled \"down\" with Hip Hop. You aint\nreally down for Hip Hop unless you do something for it ond\ntake the time to learn one of the skills.\nThey're just consumers. Doin' what they're told.\nlike 24 hours a day. I see no end to that until it just gets ployed\nout until it's just so boring from everybody acting the same\nway.\nI think that as long as you're young man, do something! You can do that \"groovin\"' shit when you\ncan't break no more. Kids is missin'out man... It's\nlike when our aew is at a jam or especially ebbs\nand we hit the floor they see 8\nthey maybe never even knew existed man. Especially the young kids, like under 19.\nYeah, I see that. Kids are fronting just standing fronting on\neach other but nowadays it's expected, it's easy to front. It's\nnot like in the days, you'd get dissed. If you were fronrin' like\nwas the rawest shit I've ever seen. Rappln's dope\nright. But to me, that physical shit u just dope! It's\njust a fuckin' shame that kids cant see b boyin' on\nMTV or Much Musk... all they see is rapping and\nyou were bod someone would be like, \"Yo do you write?\",\n\"Nah.\" \"What do you do, do you b boy?\", \"Nah.\" \"MC?*,\n\"Nah,\" Then what the fuck do you do? You're just a Hip Hop\nbn. And what sucks is they call themselves b boys. So you're\nThey contribute to the record companies bank that\npimp your favorite artist but then don't care to contribute something to Ihe cukure behind it.\nYeah I Contribute to the fuckin' culture man or else get out of\nthe way. Step bock, get out of my circle. Get your big dumb\nbet out of my circle man and give me some room if you ain't\ngonna dance or at least give some moral support. I mean, lost\nnight we were at an open mic and we were just dancing while\nthe MCs were goin' off and they had no problem with it. That\nwas cool because one thing that MCs have a problem with\nnow is having any kind of competition, whether it be b boys or\nwhatever, take the focus away from THEIR show. That's dumb\ncause if you think about it, the best praise that an MC con have\nis to have some kid b boyin' while he's out there rhyming but\nthey don't see it that way. And the best thing for us is to have a\ngood MC to get us hype cause ifs not just the beats. A good\nMC can get you hyped. But they see it as a dis cause you're\nnot watching them walk back and forth on stage waving your\n\"W\" in the oir or whatever.\nAnd how did MCin' start out... the MC would stand\nta Ihe side and then b boys would go off in the\ncentre while the MC busted like a h\/rical commentary.\nI wrote this arfde and I was talking about that when nobody\nreally knew about rap, they knew about breakdandng and\nthey would tell 'em, \"Put on tome of that breokdance music*\nBut It was rap. But now most all MCs don't core.\nEverybody's talkin' how the good ol' days were\nbetter bulk's like, for me, I wasn't even In kinder-\ngarten In those good oY days, but I recognize that\nvfce being mora genuine and creative than Ihe\nfrontin' nowadayi. Put it this way, If I was 14 now\nin 1996, the age when I got into Hip Hop, I probably would think the shit is dumb. Thar UK I only\nknew what I see on TV. So I guess what I'm tryin'\nto say is just because you don't see brealdn' and\nDJ's In rap videos anymore or even on TV at all\ndoesn't mean for a second that that shit is played\nout. If you like the underground shit men peep the\nreal meaning of underground,\nwinter '96 9 Although both growing up in\nBrownsville, Brooklyn, neither Billy\nDanzenie or LiT Fame are able to\nrecall how they came together as\nthe Mash Out Posse. \"It's been so\nlong, can't even remember,\" says\nBilly Danzenie at his management's\noffices. \"We just had an interview\nand we was talkin', tryin' to figure\nout, how did we meet. But we grew\nup together since kids, since lil'\nkids. On the same block, that's\nright.\" M.O.P.'s first single \"How\nAbout Some Hardcore\" set the\nstage for what the group had to\noffer. The energetic delivery of their\nrhymes is an element that is transferred to their live performances.\n\"M.O.P. is just straight to just how\nyou hear it on the record. Mad\nlive and amped. We try to drown\ninto the people. With our lyrics or\nwhatever, or with our performances\non stage. We love performing.\"\nTheir first album for Select, To The\nDeath gained M.O.P. a large hardcore following particularly in New\nYork. Singles such as DJ Premier's\nremix of \"Rugged Neva Smooth\"\nand the b-side \"Downtown Swinga\"\nstrengthened this fan base, but the\ngroup was still denied the success\nthey felt they could have achieved,\nas expressed on the title track of\ntheir sophomore LP Firing Squad.\nIn 93, you barely heard us in the\ncrowd\/ So we left our former label\nand now our shit is bumpin' loud.\"\n\"Nah, we ain't dig it, we ain't dig\nit at all. Like the street credibility\nwas there, but the promotion wasn't\nthere with it. And the sales wasn't\nthere with it, y'know? The respect\nwas there though.\" Now with a\nnew deal on Relativity, who Lil'\nFame says \"was ready to support\nus.\", M.O.P.'s Firing Squad (produced primarily by\nPremier) should see the group receive further recognition.\nAlthough best known for their hardcore stance,\nthe first commercial single off Firing Squad,\n\"Dead & Gone\" pays tribute to both\nmembers mothers who passed away.\nOver looking the personal sentiments of the track, some may\nview the song as just another\ntailor made radio joint. \"Nah,\nif people know MOP they\nshould be able to relate to it. It\nain't nothin' knew, we always\nbeen makin' music like that. This\ntime, it's just visual where you can\nsee it. It's emotional. It deals with\nyour soul. It's a concept song, it's about\nsomething. It's not just straight ra-ra hip hop.\nThat song is about something to listen to, not to\ndance to.\" How does the group feel about artist\nwilling to make tracks strictly for financial gain?\n\"Everybody gotta do what they gotta do and some\nby Sunil C.\npeople think it's all about money\nor whatever,\" says Billy \"We\nkeep it real. Keep it real to us is\nbeing real to yourself, and being real to whatyou do. We from\nthe streets, so when we bring you\nlyrics, we bring you lyrics from\nthe streets. So we not gonna try\nand camouflage it with nothin'.\nFor nothin'. No money or anything. If they dope and they on\nthe radio, then hey, you dope,\nyou can't take nothin' from them.\nThat's how they gettin' they ched-\ndar, That's how they gettin' their\nmoney, yaknowhati'msayin?\nCan it be seen as detrimental to\nhip hop in the future, if artists are\nquick to compromise their music?\n\"Well, it's not gonna damage hip\nhop. What would it do? It might\ndamage them.\" explains Billy.\nLil' Fame continues, adding\n\"Ain't nothin' wrong with being\nin it for the money, but you still\ngotta love it, y'know? You gotta\nlove it first. You can't just do it\nfor the money. If you can love it\nand still make money off it then\nthat's even doper.\"\nRapping with Kool G. Rap on\n\"Stick To Ya Gunz\" is indicative\nof the new album's overall vibe.\n\"Well coming up, we always\nloved G. Rap,\" explains Billy,\n\"we know that G. Rap is one of\nthe most underrated hip hop artists in the world,\nknowhati'msayin'? And he\ndope, and ain't too many people that can touch him, lyrically.\nIt's like come on, we love what-\never's dope, and G. Rap is real,\nso let's defiantly do a song with\nhim.\"\nOn the subject of the heavy gun imagery in their\nmusic, and \"Stick To Ya Gunz\" more specifically,\nBilly states \"That song just ain't about guns though.\nThat song is just straight up about, like you\nare a reporter or whatever, whatever you\ndo, if you stick to it and make sure you\nget better at it. Long as your shit\nimproves, you stickin' to your guns,\nyou doing one thing you stick to\none thing. You stickin' to your\nguns. The reason my verse is\nthe way it is, and Fame's verse\nthe way it is, is because we\ngrew up in that environment\nwhere if you didn't have a gun,\nyou felt real unsafe when you went\noutside. So who ever says that 'they\ntalk about guns, they ain't never did\nnothin' like that', you ask around Brownsville,\nthey know us. Wherever we went, we always represented in any kinds way. We not no trouble makers or whatever, but if shit hit the fan, it hit the fan\nand we got it on.\"\nwinter '96 11 JeViA ffa <&mfc\nJeru tha Damaja. Who can\nfuck with him? You can say\nhe's wack but can you fuck\nwith him? While you chew\non that shit for a while try\nto remember 1993 when\nyou first heard \"Come\nClean.\" That undoubtedly\nwas a pivotal time for Hip\nHop, as this relatively unknown MC dropped this\nbomb on the industry, consumers, fans, heads, whatever they may be, Jeru\ndropped some shit. Some\nwere ready, some were not.\nWhen The Sun Rises In The\nEast was released, no one\nwas prepared for the lyrical and musical onslaught delivered courtesy of Jeru and Premier.\nJeru's mental stamina along with Premier's sonic cinematics fused together creating an indestructible force that sent Hip Hop into a state\nof shock. All redundancy had run it's course, it was time to kill all the\nbullshit and point Hip Hop back in the right direction- the next level.\nThat was 1993 and how does that saying go? History repeats itself.\nCould that be because most do not bother to learn from the mistakes\nof the past or could it be that they know no better. Like Method Man\nonce stated, \"Nigguhz crossin' over but they don't know no better.\"\nNow, in 1996 Hip Hop\nis in a worse state than it\nwas three years ago.\nHow is Hip Hop so bad\nnow? Every song is the\nsame as the next. There\nis no balance, it is lop\nsided and -dare I say without sounding redundant-\nredundant. Jeru is back.\nThe prophet returns.\nWrath Of The Math Is a\nwake up call. \"Everything is mathematics\"\nsays Jeru, \"and now is the\ntime when mathematics is\ncoming forcefully. One\nplus one equals two,\"\npausing, \"but if you add\nanother two - it changes.\" Jeru's new project is more than just an\nalbum, it's a catalyst for thought, a study of deep concentration into\nthe power of music. \"The main purpose was just to make a dope\nrecord,\" explains Jeru. \"But the purpose of the music that's on this\nrecord is to provoke thought. That's all my music is here to do: provoke thought. By provoking thought, I switch and change the order of\nthings.\" So as you read the following interview keep in mind that Jeru\nain't your average nigguh and there's more to it than what he says.\nThe key in this interview is what he doesn't say. Peep:\nJ^^tfur^a Utf&afueNb\n12 elements Okay, to start off, your video is dopel\nYou like that?\nYeah.\nI did il just for you!\n(Laughing) Me and my friends were just talkin\nabout it and \"Ya Playin' Yasetf\" is one of the best\nvideos we seen. Not to be propin1 you up too\nmuch or anything but the shit is dope. Where\nwas it filmed?\nHong Kong. The whole thing.\nWho are the stars of the video?\nMe and Afu.\nWho's the third man there?\nAh Wey, this Chinese du'.\nSo you're practicing kung fu then.\nI ain't practicing nothing. I don't know nothing. I'm just\ndope. I can do whatever, you just show me and I can just\ndo it-\nWord? Ah... right... I mean uh...\nYou open now right?\nYeah.\nThat shit wos too fly for you right? You don't understand\nhow we con do that ond not know nothing right?\nYou know nothing? You don't practice kung fu?\nNope.\nDamn. Well... what goes on with the second\naibum, what did you do this time that you might\nnot have last time?\nNah, it was just more iller. It's just more iller now,\nyaknowhatimean. It's for brothers.\nYou say the album was made to save Hip Hop\nright?\nRight.\nTo save it from what?\nFrom being destroyed. Not from what, just from being\nextinct knowhatimean? Everytime something is saved it's\nnot from somebody. You couid save something from itself.\nHow's it killin' itself?\n(pause) You don't know?\nYeah but I want to hear what you have to say,\nright?\nAnyway you could think of. I just see it dyin' yaknow.\nAlright. As far as the song \"Black Cowboys\"\nhas anyone wanted to battle you on that?\nCan't nobody battle me boy!\nBut has anybody WANTED to?\nNah they don't wont to battle. They don't want to battle!\nOr I'd have to do my styles on them, (sounding all cool\nond confidnent like o kung fu actor)\nThen what do they want to do?\nNothing (in the same voice). Just talk shit.\nHow about Puff, have you ever spoken to Puff\nbefore this or after or anything like that?\nNah, he's cool. If he want to battle, all he got to do is\nmoke a record and come out and bottle. Knowhati'msayin'?\nIt ain't hard.\nBut you never talked to him before or after you\nmade the record?\nYeah I have. What you want to know? You wanna know\nis there beef? Come on man, what you want to know?\nYou talk about someone on the record and you\nsay shit...\n(raising his voice) But that's me! That's me! If you talk\nabout somebody on a record what's going to happen to\nyou ?\nThey're gonna wanna talk to me probably.\nThat's you. And whot else? They probobly gonna want to\nbeat you up too, right? That's what you're gettin'at. This\nis me g. My name is Jeru. It doesn't come to that level.\nI'm not disrespectin' nobody, I'm just saying what IS!\nSo everyone understands that?\nOf course everyone understands that.\nYou talked about someone infiltrating your camp\nand stealing your style...\nThat's in general. That's a lot of motherfuckers. It oin't no\nspecific one person.\nCause personally, I dont see anybody thaf s stole\nyour style.\nStyle is not just rhyming. When I'm talkin' about my records\nI'm talkin' about life. So that could just be one incident in\nmy life that somebody stole a style, infiltrated the camp.\nAnd I know there's people in other peoples life who infiltrated they camp and steal they style. So that's whot i\nmake my records for. So that's why to all y'all crews-\nwhatever. Knawmean?\nAlright. Who's all in the Perverted Monks? Who\nrhymes? Who does what?\nThat's it. Perverted Monks is my whole crew, 100,000.\nDamn, everybody rhyme?\nNo. Everybody's just the Perverted Monks.\nWhere are they all residing?\nSecret places.\nOkay... (mildly frustrated) So have you been\nphysically training because you had that joint\n\"Mental Stamina\" and you have \"Physical\nStamina.\" How much metaphorically speaking\nare you?\nI don't do nothing, (laughing)\nYou don't do shit?\nUh uh. No training. I just am. I think therefore I am.\nThat's it.\n(laughing)\nYou like that right?\nI guess. I was looking for a little more but... whatever!\nIf I did study some styles do think I'd tell you?\nWell... why not?\nWhy not? If I had a gun should I tell you, \"I'm carrying a\ngun, yo. I'mma shoot you if you mess with me.\"\nNo. But I was just asking about physical fitness. I mean cause you first talked about\nstamina on the mental tip which is cool but then\nyou flipped it to physical this time around.\nCause that's oil one though, mental and physical. Mind\nbody and soul. I'm just living g. I think therefore I am!\nAlright, alright. Are you ever gonna right a book\nor something?\nMaybe.\nYeah? What would it be about?\nMichael Jackson.\n(Laughter)\nI don't know. If I know then I'd be writing about it. Whatever strikes me enough to write a book about.\nIn your opinion will Hip Hop ever be crazee popular and super dope at the same time? It seems\nthat when it's really popular, it's the wackest\nshit.\nBecause motherfuckers just want to commercialize and\ncapaitlize on it.\nPeru's attention is diverted suddenly to a background conversation about John Woo movies)\nJohn Woo movie? Who's gonna be in it? You? Oh they\nshould put me in that shit. John Woo... I kill that nigguh...\n(back to me) Go ahead.\nSo can you see it being dope at the same time\nmad popular?\nYeah it's about to happen right nowl\nBesides yourself, who will be some of the dopest\npeople?\nCan't soy. I don't speak for no one but Jeru.\nThaf s cool. Do you view yourself as an entertainer or how do you view yourself towards the\npeople?\nMe? I'm Jeru. More than an entertainer- (urgently interrupting himself) Hold on hold on!\n(He goes bock to the John Woo topic in the room as he\ndoes some sort of action hero type of movement in the\nbackground ond the room starts laughing as you hear an\n\"aiight?I\" from Jeru, as if to prove o point about whatever\nhe did. He comes bock for a second...)\nPeace.\nYeah.\n(Again very urgently) Hold on hold on! (To the people in\nthe room) H- h- h- here it go man! (Sounding overly excited) Here it go man! Here go some John Woo shit!\nLook, here go some John Woo shit. Check it out. Come at\nme, man. Like come at me with a knife or some shit. Look,\n(fighting sound effects) whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo!!\n(back to me, sounding out of breath] Go ahead mon, I'm\nsorry.\nYou doin' an audition? (laughing)\nNah noh. We talkin'about some John Woo shit. I wos\nshowin' 'em some John Woo shit.\nYou need to be killing fifty people in one scene\nfor a John Woo flick.\nYaknawmean? You see how we fucked all them cats up in\nthat video right? That was some other shit right? You\nnever sow no Hip Hop shit like that!\nWord. That towel shit was the bomb though.\nMy man was tellin' me about this one movie or\nsomething and this dude had a towel-\nOnce Upon A Time In China. Hard like a stick. He wet it\nin some water ond shit.\nYeah.\nSee I already know g.\nAnd he's battin1 some people, it was like a fuckin'\nstick.\nHe was fighting Jet Lee with it. He was like a sergant in an\normy or some shit. I saw that shit kid. I know about all\nthem shits.\nYou seen \"Fearless Hyena?\"\nThat's Jackie Chang. That's \"rubber legs.\" WangChing.\nWere any of the people in your video from kung\nfu flicks?\nYup. They was in some shit called, \"Iron Monkey\" Shit\nlike THAT! I had the assistant director from, \"Rumble in the\nBronx\" Motherfuckers from all types- one of the dudes we\nwas fuckin' up the most, he's in some Jackie Chan shit.\nSee how we jumped off thot high ass roof right?\nYeah.\nIt's the butters, we did that shit for real. Word up.\nWord.\nSo listen baby bro, I gotta make like a motherfuckin' balloon and burst.\nThank's for comin' through on the interview.\nIt ain't nuttin'.\nPeacel\nAiight. John Wayne.\n'7^ <\u00a3ee \/lrW we -\u00a3iA,c\u00a3ec( 2vff th&<% ctf& \\A( l*v {fapVuteff X~lghP. -XfatrWB&-\n&m& ether &t\\LPx~ighP. 1&K teVec &M nP-hfy -^ HkPfige tfafl\"\nwinter'96 13 flo liema (te Eff? Sxq? fibao eo o cDasBa? -d? ^5fe a_\u00a9 (fe,\n@q jjqpdteecp Qto ^Rd Bb_$ (fe G&ft aS Era Hxdoohb q mECG_ij2_fe\nQ \u00a3Xg Gff flQ&b fonrTTR flO (5b flftfi odb OCflGGQQ (fa? __J3GCfil30\no_3 flo 0Da__QO(_ Eg Gr__3ea_3_- ras(_Tri_GD 0__o_g Eg&> Qba qD&ob\nfep Following his guest spots on the albums of King Tee and the Alkaholiks, Xzibit is the\nnext MC to emerge from the Likwit crew. The California-based rapper is now focused on establishing himself as an artist in his own right, not just from his crew\naffiliation. Displaying tight rhyming skills on his debut album At The Speed Of Life,\nXzibit is also in the process of putting a group together with Ras Kass and Saafir,\ntentatively titled the Golden State Warriors (formerly Usual Suspects) As both Ras\nand Xzibit have indicated, the group is likely to sign with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment. Ras Kass foresees the project to be \"Some ill shit, some dope ass beats!\n(laughs) It's gonna be some creative shit and just doing songs as a group is gonna\nbring out different shit in all of us.\"\nWhen did you first start rhyming?\nI got down, when I wos thirteen or fourteen, I started getting down. Then eventually\nI came out to the west, met up with the Alkaholiks and King Tee, and we just brought\nit live from there. I was born and raised in Detroit 'til I was like nine. Then I came out\nwest so, y'know, it don't really count. I had to be in the house when the lights were\non, so it don't really count! Yaknowhati'msayin'? I'm more influenced over this way\nmore that anything.\nWould you say you've found differences in the way people react to\nyour musk in different places?\nDefiantly. It's like I didn't really get the chance to see what was going on in the\nDetroit hip hop scene, 'cos I left so early. But hip hop is universal, it's the same all\nover. It may be different forms, and different artists, but it's still basically the same\nthing.\nHow has the response been?\nIt's dope, people are giving me love across the map. It's dope. I just came off the\nEast Coast last night. Fools giving me love once again.\nHow easy was it for you to get your record deal with Loud\/RCA?\nI never shopped a demo. I got down on the King Tee and Alkaholik albums and then\ngot a solo deal from Loud, and that's basically how that came about to getting on\nLoud. It's just like I didn't want to go through the headache of going through all that\nshit anyway so I took off. We didn't get the first shit off 'til we made sure it was\ncorrect.\nWhat was your inspiration for the hook of \"Paparazzi\"\nI'm just sayin' man, a lot of the stuff that's comin' out right now ain't really got no\nbackbone in it. Yaknowhati'msayin', talking about the same thing, people scared to\nbreak new ground. Basically they just in it to collect a check. Ain't nobody trying to\nenhance hip hop, make some shit fresh. What ever happened to making some fresh\nshit, yaknowhati'msayin? It's all about money, cars, and bitches right now, but I'm\njust trying to bring something to the table.\nHow do you think it got to the state it is now?\nBecause we see people cashing in millions of dollars, and y'know, everybody brings\nit to what people are trying to do. You see the next man cashing and you wanna\nmake records like that so you can gain the same outcome, but it don't work like that.\nIt becomes redundant and everbody starts coming out with the same kinda sound,\ntalking about the same shit and we stuck in the mud, so to speak. Nobody's making\nnothing fresh. So instead of following the path and coming with G funk from the\nwest, come with straight hip hop from the west and it's fucking people up. (laughs)\nDo you think the attitude is ultimately detrimental to hip hop?\nExactly. That's what the whole essence of \"Paparazzi\" was all about. So I'm dealing\nwith a broader aspect, not just the literal - talking about the people paparazzi. I'm\ntalking about that whole effect with those people that are trying to achieve, and the\nway they make their records.\nWhat's your approach to freestyling?\nMan, it's cool. It has it's place and everything, but I don't think you can define an\nMC on what comes off his head. I know cats that can write songs and blow niggas\nup. Some people that can say these little rhymes off the head, but I don't know\nanybody that made records and sold copies over motherfuckin' freestylin' and shit.\nYou can't do a whole record freestyling. You gotta eventually sit your ass down, and\nwrite a motherfuckin' song.\nTell me about the Golden State Warriors project?\nYeah, we working on that right now. We in production, we gonna have that done\nover the Christmas holiday. We can't use that name, yaknowhati'msayin? We can't\nuse it, so we gotta come with a different name. We don't know right now. We\ngonna fuck with Aftermath. We tryin' to fuck with it, but it ain't definite. Everybody\ngot their own individual style which is gonna make it fat.\nWhat aspirations do you have as an MC?\nTo bring something new to the table, and make sure I leave something more than I\ncame into with. Miake sure my mark is something a motherfucka can just put up when\nthey think of the dopest MCs that ever walked in these shoes and shit.\n--&*\"'&>\u00a3\u00ab.<\u2022\n** ,:> SAN PESO, CAL. USA \\\nThats right ya' II it's back! 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A Hip Hop compilation consisting of Canadian artists exclusively has been successfully completed and launched. That means any and everybody can go get it. And I strongly suggest anyone\nwho digs this magazine should pick this olbum up.\nRap Essentials Volume I is the first Hip Hop compilation consisting of Canadian artists ranging from Vancouver to Toronto to Montreal. All groups deserve\nto be on the roster and all deserve mention so here\nit goes... First off (in order of appearance) the\nRascalz, from Vancouver should be familiar to everyone. They've had a couple of videos and an album released in the past and the track \"Fit N Redi\"\nis a foreshadow of their long awaited debut on Figure IV\/BMG, Cash Crop scheduled for release in\nearly '97. Concrete Mob from the Toronto Esplanade, dropped this single \"Boiling Point\" earlier in\nthe year and made mad underground noise with the\nSCAM produced track. Down to Erf have been\naround in the Toronto scene for a good six years\ndoin' remixes for groups like Dream Warriors and\nSaukrates among others. The song \"Learn to Earn\"\nfeatures rhymer Mathematiks expressing in his words,\n\"the life of Hip Hop.\" The following track is the\nlatest Figures Of Speech (Saukrates, Marvel and\nothers) member to offishally debut his material.\nKardinall Offishall's west Indie flavored \"Naughty\nDread\" is just a taste of shit to come from the F.O.S.\ncrew. Next up, comes Black I with the joint, \"No\nLaws\" on a military tip, complete with a marching\ndrum roll as Black I rhymes about killin' nigguhz\nand loading up the gats and shit like that. Basically,\nwhatever reality presents to him, Black I lays down\non record. From the dark comes \"Sunlight\" the next\ntrack provided by ex-MVP member Wio K. The\nsong's got a video to go along with it that has been\ngetting good play on Much Music so nuff said. Also\nwith a video on rotation right now is the duo, RedLife.\nTheir contribution, \"Who's Talkin' Weight\" is a Revelation of their Experiences in Dealing with Life In\nElevation. Another SCAM produced track, \"Dear\nHip Hop\" features Torontonian, Dan-E-0 writing a\nletter Common Sense style to his girlfriend Hip Hop,\nwho he's hopelessly in love with. Then from Montreal comes the crew Scales Empire. \"Bright Lights,\nBig City\" is a journey with Kandu and T Wyze\nthrough any big city as they relay things you can\nsee and hear, over a soundscape provided by DJ\nLuv. The next joint, \"21 Years\" is an autobiographical account by veteran Toronto rhymer Choclair. This\nsong was originally released on Knee Deep Records\nas a double A side 12\" with Saukrates on the flip\nside. Check for Choclair's video and upcoming releases. Following \"21 Years\" comes \"Structure, Foundation\" by Citizen Cane. Some may remember their\ntrack from the Zulu Nation It's All Good compilation, \"Soul Survivor.\" If not, then check this track\nand keep a look out for their upcoming releases,\n\"Livin'\" and \"Black Rain.\" And anchoring this monumental compilation is the two time Juno award winning crew Ghetto Concept. Their newest work, \"U.L.\"\nshowcases MCs Kwajo, Lowell and Dale rhymin'\nover a RZA-esque beat, bringing out the best in each\nof them. Overall this is a much needed and very\nwell compiled album. HOWEVER. Some (not most)\ngroups on the compilation are WAY too New York\ninfluenced. Some more than others and a couple\ntracks are really wack on the strength of lack of originality. THEREFORE the STANDOUT cuts are \"Bright\nLights, Big City\" and \"Fit N Redi.\" Much much props\nto the whole staff at Beat Factory for finally actually\ndoin' something for Canadian Hip Hop music as\nopposed to all talk and no action by too many other\npeople in the past or half ass lop sided projects that\nno one ever heard about. Buy it. Do not front.\n-Flipout\nJeru tha Damaja\nWrath of the Math\nPay Day\nTwo years after his acclaimed debut, The sun Rises\nin the East, Jeru tha Damaja is back with more knowledge for heads to feed on with his second LP, Wrath\nof the Math. Jeru's latest masterwork, once again\nproduced soley by Hip Hop's finest- DJ Premier- consists of fifteen sticks of finely whipped grade AA\nbutter... in other words Wrath of the Math is the\nbomb! The average LP has, at best, six or seven\ntracks worth hearing, the rest being either merely\ndecent or wack. On this olbum, every cut is dope,\nsaying something worth listening to; no fast forwarding is necessary when listening to this gem. One of\nthe reasons that this LP is so hot is that there is a\ndriving purpose behind the album; Jeru is on a mission to save Hip Hop, dropping his best material\nwinter '96 27 yet. Lyrically, Jeru is not to be fucked with, as he\nbrings the ruckus to Pros and Wyclef (\"Black Cowboys\"), \"Puffy\" Combs and Foxy Brown (\"One Day\")\nand other in a style reminiscent of the 'dis' records\nof the mid eighties. These four, in particular, are\ndeservedly chastised for their sins committed against\nHip Hop but this album's greatness goes much further than dissing. Jeru's lyrics are more focused this\ntime around, whether speaking about fraudulent\nMCs, continuing previous tales (\"Physical Stamina,\"\n\"Revenge of the Prophet (Part 5),\" \"Me Or the\nPopes\") or demanding reform in Hip Hop. Jeru,\nrespected for his vivid vocabulary, is also more coherent on his sophomore effort. On the first album it\nseemed at times that he was forcing himself to use\nlofty words, but his use of language here seem much\nmore natural. Still, his rhymes are so potent that\nthey take a few listens to digest, so be patient! Few\nMCs in Hip Hop rhyme as intelligently as Jeru does\non this album. Some tracks take longer to get into\nthan others, but stick with it because they all shine.\nAnd if you don't want to go so deep into his lyrics,\nthat's cool too because his deep voice is mesmerizing by itself. Jeru's lessons, vocabulary and clarify\nof delivery make him a stand out MC, but if is Premier's production that makes your head bob. Straight\nup: the production on the olbum is ridiculously dope!\nPremier continues to build his resume of classics with\nthis album. Whether he is restructuring famous samples (\"Ya Playin' Yaself\" ond \"Whatever\") or creating some space-age next shit with his signature bass\nthump, Premier always comes up with the butter\njoints. The combination of the captivating production and the razor sharp rhymes makes this album a\nwinner. Wrath of the Math is a must purchase for\nany true Hip Hop head. If you don't like this album\nfor some unknown reason, bring your beef my direction and I'll give you a lesson in Hip Hop 101.\n-J Grand\nSnoop Doggy Dogg\nTha Doggfother\nDeath Row\nThey called his first album the most anticipated rap\nalbum ever. Then it came out and sold four million\ncopies. Why? I don't know. It wasn't even all that\nif you ask me. Now it's time for Snoop's sophomore\nrelease and I ain't heard shit about it. Perhaps it's\nbeen over shadowed by the drama of label mate,\nTupac's death. Whatever the reason, the proof is in\nthe pudding. So what's the Doggfamer got to offer?\nIn one word- Hello! Word. I was pleasantly surprised when I heard the Doggfamer. It's kinda what\nI expected from Snoop the first time around, more\nHip Hop and less gangsta glorification. I knew\nSnoop was down with that old school shit form the\nget go. So now, with all the bullshit aside, we get to\npeep the raw skills! The one thing no one's ever\nbeen able to front on is this nigguhz lyrical ability-\nshit... I mean the west coast vocab, the silky smoove\nflows and the hypnotic pimp voice- the recipe for\nbutta raps and word is bond, this nigguh can freestyle (for real) ridiculous. Check track number five,\n\"Freestyle Conversation.\" So the raps ain't changed\nbut the production has. Exit Dr. Dre- he been there,\ndone that. Enter DJ Pooh, Soopafly, Daz and a couple others. That's the real difference on this project.\nPooh's somewhat of an OG on the west coast scene\nso you know his shit is tight. He freaks some older\nshit that needed to be brought back- yaknow, the\ngangsta bounce with the funky beat. This ain't no\n\"G Funk\" which is probably why mafuckers don't\nknow how to take it. Don't get me wrong, it's still\ngangsta shit and it's still west coast but it's Hip Hop\nfirst. And mind you, Daz ain't no slouch himself.\nHe's gettin' better and his tracks sound more along\nthe lines of what everyone expected from Snoop.\nBut regardless, the album is tight. Guest appearances include: DPG; Too Short; and others. Mostly,\nhowever, it's Snoop himself flexin' the lyrical. Personal favorites include, \"Doggfather\", \"Up Jump The\nBoogie\", \"You Thought\" and \"Downtown Assassins\"\nbut all 21 tracks are worthy my cash in the store\nand the album is refreshing enough for a Checkmate Rate\u2122 of 88%.\n-Checkmate\nXzibit 0^\nAt The Speed of Life f 7%%)\nLoud V^__>\/\nRepresentin' Crystal-ifornia, the most recent member of the Likwit crew has finally gotten his turn to\nspeak his mind in his gruff voice. After doin' a few\nguest appearances here and there (Freestyle Ghetto-\nKing T, Daaamn!-Tha Liks, No Hand Outs-Alki's), X\nto the Z finally lays it down on this long awaited\ndebut LP. Travellin' at the Speed of Life (not light\ncause like Xzibit says we all move at different speeds)\nhe takes you through eleven tracks of frustrations,\na '\n\u00bb s i ife llflHr\ntti Shores Now","@language":"en"}],"Genre":[{"@value":"Periodicals","@language":"en"}],"Identifier":[{"@value":"Elements_1996_12","@language":"en"}],"IsShownAt":[{"@value":"10.14288\/1.0049861","@language":"en"}],"Language":[{"@value":"English","@language":"en"}],"Provider":[{"@value":"Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library","@language":"en"}],"Publisher":[{"@value":"Vancouver : Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia","@language":"en"}],"Rights":[{"@value":"Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these recordings must be obtained from CiTR-FM: http:\/\/www.citr.ca","@language":"en"}],"SortDate":[{"@value":"1996-12-01 AD","@language":"en"},{"@value":"1996-12-01 AD","@language":"en"}],"Source":[{"@value":"Original Format: Student Radio Society of University of British Columbia","@language":"en"}],"Title":[{"@value":"Elements","@language":"en"}],"Type":[{"@value":"Text","@language":"en"}],"Translation":[{"@value":"","@language":"en"}],"@id":"doi:10.14288\/1.0049861"}