"5866ee84-65b7-4041-944d-a85aa516db68"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "Discorder"@en . "CITR-FM (Radio station : Vancouver, B.C.)"@en . "2015-03-11"@en . "1995-05-01"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/discorder/items/1.0049858/source.json"@en . "32 pages"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " FUCK THE BULLSHIT!\nComin' at ya real from the North West.\nLook for the singles from the forthcoming albums.\nNitwits . . . \"Then There's Nada\" from the album RPM.\nManifest One . . . \"Never Ender\" from the album Bastard Funk.\nUnity. Respect. Culture.\nDistribution in Canada through FLACK.\nOffice: (604) 436-4474 Fax: (604) 436-6025 OiTR 101.9fM\nWe know Mobb Deep\nis misspelled on the cover, but the art is\ntoo ill to give a fuck. Cover art work by Dedos & Virus;\nAAGraphics! 95. All-Wrights reserved. Elements 95.\nMOBB DEEP\nJURASSICK 5\nRASCA12\nMASTAACEINC\nMoonlightin\nIt's On You\nMixTape\nthe Vinyl Konflikt\nthe Seen\nMasterpieces\nre: Views\nOverheard\nMitchell Garrison\nEditor\nRolando Espinoza\nAssistant Editors\nJ Swing\nFlipout\nLayout/Production\nfern&ryan\nArt Direction\nAACrew\nContributers\nEclipse\nCheckmate\nI Ebony\nFreeStyle Crazee\nTomika Laque\nPublisher\nLinda Scholte\nElements Hip Hop Journal has arrived ! Elements is a bi-monthly magazine published by the Student Radio Society of UBC.\nContent - Elements will focus on all elements of Hip Hop culture, including: MC's. DJ's. Breaking and Graffiti -on both a local,\nnational, and international level. The magazine features interviews, music reviews, and lifestyle issues pertaining to the Hip Hop\ncommunity.\nEditorial Policy - Elements jointly shares CiTR programming policy (ask Linda Scholten or Miko Hoffman <<\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 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 to ensure publishing consideration.\nSubmissions - Please forward all submissions (illustrations, photos, essays, reviews, opinions, etc) to: Elements, c/o CiTR,\n#233-6138 SUB Blvd. Vancouver, B.C.. V6T IZI orfaxusat: (604) 822 9364.\nCrazy Who >\nThe other night, I was at the CiTR 101.9 fm radio studios\nmeticulously tickling the keyboard's keys, inputting whatever. A young under-a-buck shorty sauntered up to see\nwhat I was writing. His oversize pants supplied the swish\nsound that I heard in the halls moments before.\nTouwritin' shit for that magazine?\"\n\"Yeah, man\", I answered thinking that he had just made a\nlong-ass bus ride just to ask such a generic question. He\npaused, lost like a nighttime deer stuck in a driver's headlights. Perhaps he was too nervous to continue his questions - more than likely, he just didn't know what to say\nnext. He shifted his weight from one $95 dollar Nike to\nthe other. $ 190 dollars, plus tax in total. Jamming his\nhands into his front pant pockets, he established his neo-\npseudo B-boy stance, mimicking the rap advertisement\nphotos he had studied earlier in the day. His pantiegs\npooled around his ankles.\n\"This is the office, right?\" he blurted with his new found\nconfidence. I thought to myself I might play with him a\nwhile. I needed a break from the work.\n\"The office?... Yeah,...Yeah you made it, man,\" I replied.\n\"What's your name ?\"\n\"Its CrossEye\", he proudly answered.\n\"CrossEye, you've come to the right place. Can you write?\"\n\"Yeah, I even wrote for my school newspaper before...\nI had to cut him off i n m id sentence.\n\"Here, look at these.\" I passed him two finished articles,\nwhich I thought were well written. At least one was for\nsure, as it was an excerpt from Paul Beatty- a professional.\nHe drawled, \"Oh yeah, I've read his stuff in VIBE, but I like\nBuckwild's style more.\" Only half of his mouth bothering\nto exercise its articulating muscle. I let him look at an article about Eazy E. (I had just finished the proof-read\nmoments before his arrival).\n\"Have you heard the joke about Eazy?\" he asked with a\nyoung devilish grin?\n\"No-\nHe continued hislongjoke, bringing it to a dull finish His\ndelivery was flat and out of pace - plus I tend not to laugh\nat drawn out homophobia.\nI was somewhat impressed that he bothered to remember the names thatwere credited in other large scale magazines. Perhaps he actually could write a sentence or two.\nI mean, how many kids even make it past the third paragraph? (You know those hyperbolic color pix are pretty\nfresh)\nI casually mentioned a future article that he might be interested in.\n\"We're working on a future story about Crazy Legs. Perhaps you'd like to have some input into it. \"\n\"Crazy, who?! Whose that?\"\nUh.oh - one of those, I thought to myself. I continued my\nconversation with him, tryingto throw in as much Hip Hop\nhistory as I could, (especially history about Rock Steady).\nHe listened cautiously, weight-shifting all the while. Our\nconversation continued, until I stopped because of the lecture-like environment. It was late and I was starting to\nget tired. The young-buck thanked me for taking down\nhis phone digits and offered his fist for a pound. He then\nrolled out the same way hesnuckin. I thought to myself,\nCrossEye was \"aw'ight\"- for surely he passed the first and\nmost importantobstaclecalled enthusiasm. I mean, UBC\nreally is a long-ass bus ride away.\n- Rolando Espinoza, m\nfcrOZ.ittfsawKSi ueew\nA\ninquiries 6045^4808\nKxispy Biskut\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Mix Show\n:_>_.\nwith DJ Kilo-Oee\nand hosts Mr. Bill &\nIncredible Ease\nTuesday nights: Midnight\non CPRO 102.7fmf Vancouver Moonlighting m eclipse\nCmony'all, let's all get down, EL-EM-ENTSisinyourtown. Yeah,\nyeah,just sitting here listening to the Extra-Premix of Common's\nnew single \"Resurrection\". As if the original wasn't enough they\nalso hit you with two Large Pro remixes. Speaking of Large, I know\nyour you're all waiting patiently for his LP The LP\" to drop... but\nyou've got to wait longer. Meanwhile check for some shit he did\nfor Madskills on the b-side of Skills' new single \"Nod Factor\"\n(which was produced by the Beatnuts) and the album track \"Extra Abstract Skills\" featuring Large and Q-Tip rhyming with\nMadskills. Oryou might\nhave been one of those\nlucky people to get a\ncassette copy of Urge's\n\"Gitoffda Bullshit\" taken\nfrom the \"Wild Pitch\nBlends\" tape distributed\nat Gavin. And oh yeah,\nbuy the album when he\ndrops it... The Rock\nSteady Crew will be\nhaving their 18th anni-\nversaryjamjuly2l,22&\n23. For more information call (718) 823-\n3777... Be on the look\nout this summer for\n\"Return Of The DJ\", an\nall scratching album by some of the nastiest DJ's around (ie. Q-\nBert, Disk, Shortkut, Mix Master Mike, Honda, Rob Swift,\nand many many more). This compilation is being put out by The\nBomb Hip Hop magazine. Some other shit coming out of the\nBay Area is \"Table Manners\", a mostly breakbeat record with a\nfew vocals put out by The Pirate DJ's and co. The Mighty\nHardrockerCash Money is working on a new mix tape which is\nsupposed to be the shit. Other DJ's taking it to another level on\nmix tapes is Mix Master Mike and Q-Bert. The Bulletproof\nScratch Hampsters, who broughtyou the Hampster Breaks, are\ngetting ready to work on their next joint... If you've been out in\nLA. over the last couple of weeks, you probably bumped into\nThe Coup, who's making a lot of noise with their new single and\nvideo for \"Fat Cats, Bigga Fish\", while on their promo tour. They're\nabout to blow up the spot on the west coast... S.U.R.E. record\npool (one of NY's best, if not the best) celebrated their 17th\nyear in business at the Empire Roller Rink in Brooklyn. Some of\nthe performers there were Big L, D&D Project Artists, Cella\nDwellas, as well as others. Nine also held his album release party\nthat same night at Sylvia's in NY. The Impact convention came\naround again this yearin Atlantic City. There was some heads out\nthere, but not as many as the year before. Performances were\nlimited to mostly R&B\ngroups like Brownstone\nand Joya. The gambling\nwas the highlight of the\nyear for some (Jay-Bird,\nMarcGenova) andforoth-\ners such as myself, Jellow,\nMarcus Morton and Rich\n(Big Daddy) the low\npoint... Certain record industry people are making\nmoves for 95. Fuzzy\nleaves Pay Day to go to\nWarner Brothers, Chris\nThomas goes from Nervous to Select and then\nback to Nervous, Dante\nRoss (gets the gasface)\nleaves Elektratogo to RAL, maybe?, CasualTand Tim Reid pack\ntheir bags and leave Hollywood Basics for Priority (where does\nthat leave Organized?), and we also saw the closing of Tough\nBreak Records. There's a lot of new music getting ready to hit\nthe streets for summer. Among them are \"Sugar Hill\" byAZ,\n\"Crooklyn Dodgers II\" by Chubb Rock-O.C.-Jeru, \"I Like It\" by\nGrand Puba, Something Big by Pudgee-B.I.G-LordTariq, \"Dynamite Soul/Who Am I\" by the Artifacts as well as other artists\nyou should be hearing now like Dark Skinned Assassin, Down\nN' Dirty Tribe, Sons Of Man, and Raekwon... That be itfor this\nfirst edition. But before I go I have to say peace to some people\ninvolved in Hip Hop that passed away recently; Prince Messiah\n(KISS FM), Mercury (Force MCs) and Eazy E. Out.\n5 May 95 Its On You\n\"Eazy got AIDS. What's up ?\"\nI think it was back at but, urn... 88/89,\nwhen he came out with all his shit \"Straight\nOutta Compton.\" He was my favorite\nrhymer on that shit, knowhatl'm sayn'.\nAIDS is kinda serious. I advise you stay\nstrapped with the jimmy cap and all that.\nOne love to Eazy, knowhatl'm sayin'. He\ngave a contribution to Hip Hop. All the\nrough shit. People can't dis him, cause he\nbrought NWAup an' all...\n- R-Love\nRespect to Eazy cause he did a lot for the\nwestcoast. Puttin' westcoast rappers on\nthe map. Anything really can truly happen\nto anyone. Just cause you a star like Magic\nor Eazy E doesn't mean your invincible. It\nmakes me even that bit more extra careful\ndoin' what I'm doin'- for real. I wish him\nall the best. Itstoo late for anything now. I\nwish him the best.\n-Red I, Rascalz\nEazy got it... big deal. Big deal. It's not\ngonna teach the kids anything. He didn't\nteach anybody anything anyway. Ifyournot\nsmart enough to realize what's goin' on in\nyour immediate circle of people, then your\nin big trouble...\n- Mr. Bill, Krispy Biscuit\nYou gotta deal on all levels of respect, cause\nAl DS doesn t really pickand choose. It just\nhits anywhere it feels like it. He reached\nhis heights, now he's fallen backdown. Its\ngotta say something 'bout how he conducted his life. You gotta have respect and\nunderstanding to what your doin' and realize that anyone can reach their heights\nand then fall.\n-Skin\nIf he gotit then mad other people got it too\nand they don't even knowyet. I'm sure his\ncrew be runnin' trains, like Amtrakand all\nthat. Much love for everyone who don't\nknow they even got it yet. That whole\ngroupie scene- you d be stupid not to wear\na double hat \"cause that's how it runs. I\ngive him mad love cause my first joint from\nwhen I was livin' back east was \"Radio\". I\nused to pump that shit all the time..\n- G-Square, Cipher\nMy first thought was that this might be the\ndemise of Death Row. You gotta think that\nfrom back in the day- he doesn't know\nwhen he got. He could ofh ad itforsixyears\norsomething'. You never know when you\ncontract the HIV virus. You gotta wonder\nabout Dre and Ice Cube and all that. Kids\ngotta realize and I think it's gonna smacka\nwhole lotta people in the face. This ain't a\ndisease that just other people get. If you\ndon't wanna die you gotta wear that shit.\nWeartwo of them maybe. It's bad for Eazy\nE. Really bad- but its something that's\ngonna wake up a whole lot of people...\n- Sol G, Figure IV Records\nPersonally, I don't care how Eazy got AIDS\ncause I know I don't have the shit, man.\nKnock on wood, knowhatl'm sayin...\n(Unknown)\nEazyEgotAIDS? I don't lopkat him no different. It's like that...\n(Unknown)\n* Editor's note:\nThis loose survey of comments was recorded\non March 19, l995;before Eazy E's untimely\ndeath. HiscontributionstoHipHop will always\nbe remembered. R.I.P.\nMix Tape\n1171 WW^fMS\n11*1 Hum m'\u00C2\u00AB* ~t.t* %m <<>\nPynamite Soul (remix) - Artifacts\n* Lock Shit Down - Park Skined Assassin\nfeaturing Madskills\n* Your Beef Is Mine - Mobb Peep feat.\nGlaciers Of Ice - Raekwon feat. Ghost\nNas \u00C2\u00A3> Raekwon\nFace Killer \u00C2\u00A3MastaKilla\n* Peeps (remix) - Cipher\nFunky Piano -1. Bros\n* Oitoffda Bullshit - Large Professor\nNo Airplay -LI. Cool J\n* Invasion - Jeru The Pamaja\nSoul Obligation - Rascalz\n- Pope Sounds - Piamond\nFreestyle ? - Masta Ace Inc.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Unified Resolution - The Jurassick 5\nCheck The Method - lord Finesse\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Supa Nigga - King Tee\nWUX - Tha Alkaholiks feat. Loot Pack- Resurrection (Large Professor remix) -\nFat Cats, Bigga Fish - The Coup\nCommon Sense\nF.W.U.H.\nThe North Shore's Best\nKept Secret.\nWe have everything you need\nin stock for spring, including:\nX-Large and X-Girl Pervert\nFresh Jive %1 c\nHON: CUT CHEMIST\nAND NU-MARK\nMl MB IK\nS: SOUP\nAKIL\nCHARLIE TUNA\nMARK 7\nCUT CHEMIST\nHOMI-TO\nWN: LA, CALIFORNIA\n15 May 95 The Rascalz. A westcoast crew with an\nabundance of rap talent. Hip Hop in its\npurest form; no westcoast gangsta anything. No hidden marketing flows or radio bullshit. Strictly underground.\nby Rolando Espinoza\n18 Elements s\ntill, this crew of MC skills, DJ/production, Graf Artists and forthe art form allowed them to progress and eventually form\nB-boys has had their brush with the Canadian mainstream one of Vancouver's dominating Hip Hop cliques. Red I re-\nmedia. Theirfreshman video \"Really Livin\", (from their calls, \"Wewasall in dance crews. Iwasinadancecrew.writin'\nCD of the same name) ranked number one for fourweeks rhymes, dreaming of the day I'd be put on the Mic.\" The MCs,\non MuchMusic's Rap City,\n(Canada's answer to\nMTV).Some time has passed\nand now they too follow in the\nindependent-label tradition of\ntheir American rap peers\nShowBiz & AG, E 40 & the\nClique and Wu-Tang Clan. Their\nindy label, Figure Four is realizing the Rascalz new singe, \"Blind\nIt has them on the verge of\nblowing up- again; allowing\nthem to showcase their four\nmain elements of Hip Hop\nwith intelligence and style.\nMisfit & Red I, long time relationship accents their stylistic\ndifferences; where you sometimes witness a Jekyl & Hyde\ntype of combination. Misfit allows for deep introspection, allowing his \"third wheel\" rhyme\nstyle possess his being, (mostly\nclosing his eyes when busting a\nlyrical thought). His low tone is\nDJ Kemo inspects the goods.\nWith The Science\". It has them\non the verge of blowing up-\nagain; allowing them to showcase theirfour main elements of\nHip Hop with intelligence and\nstyle.\nThe Rascalz officially started in\n1989, but before then, they\nwere justfriendsdancin' to get\ntheol'ants'outthe pants. Now\nseveral years later, all of the\nRascalzclique live within a 5 blockradius of each other in Van\n\"Kids gotta... continue\npracticing, and don't stop\npracticing- otherwise they'll\nstay at the same spot where\nthey are. Their egoswill grow,\njust making them worse.\"\nZebroc & Dedos B-boyin'.\na living metaphor. On the other\nhand, Red I s natural delivery is\nproof that you can deliver\ndeadly rhyme blows and still be\ndown with the party vibe. Trinidad born talent will always deliver a sharktooth grin.\n\" Kids gotta understand that\nthey are not what they perceive\nthey are until they practice, and\ncontinue practicing, and don't\nstop practicing- otherwise they'll stayatthe same spot where\ncouver's east side. Although the yet-to-be formed Rascalz they are. Their egos will grow, just making them worse,\"\ncrew did not have any real MCs, they had concrete feelings discloses Misfit.\nabout the energy, love and feeling of the music. This respect The affiliation of these friends does not justfeed off of dope rhyme skills; on the contrary; the mic delivery is just a comment on the Hip Hop vibe that the other branches provide.\nOne such branch is the crew's B-boys- Zebroc & Dedos.\nThese kids be dancin' strictly from the heart; for a thing\ncalled regional isolation didn't let them know that Breakin'\nwas considered played out by the mainstream. No one had\ntold them that the dance groove was over.\n\"We're tryin' to bring it back. My partner Zebroc and I have\nbeen dancin' for about five years. Unfortunately, we see\ndancin' dying out right about now. We don't see too many\nrap crews with dancers nowadays. You gotta remember Big\nDaddy Kane with Scoob& Scrap. Now all that is gone. We're\ntrying to bring that back.. The group, the MCs and the dancers-a full package\" -Dedos\nOn the live tip, the B-boys add a old/new lost dimension\nthat brings melt-down electricity back to live shows. Break\nsources say that Vancouver's local vinyl recourses can, at\ntimes be scarce- causing a Hip Hop handicap. The Labratz\nproduction crew stresses no loud high hats. Just Nel Carter-\nfat-ass bass lines.\n\"Basslines that retain the realness of 60's & 70s old soul,\"\nadded Kemo. What's next for them? \"Hopefully, next time\nwe get in the studio, we're gonna drop some live stuff. It'll\njust be experimenting so far' cause we've never done it before. I'm not really a musician... knowhatl'm sayin'.\"- J\nKemo\nThe last and possibly the most underground Rascalz element\nis its aerosol artists-the AA Crew, (AHCity Action). Armed\nwith a marker arsenal that would make even Mrs. Jiffy jealous, this crew practices nuff artistic crimes on Vancouver's\ncityscapes. Dedos, (also a Rascalz B-boy), Z Lok and Virus\nboys for the break. Trueschool, baby.\nPerhaps makin' the most noise is the Rascalz' DJ/Producer\n- Kemo (Labratz). Starting with back-in-the-day Radio\nShack-5-seconds kind shit, Kemo's first samples included\nsuch bug-out material as La Bamba and tunes from the Benny\nHill Show. That was then and this is now, cause nowadays,\nrumour sez that they have their phone ringin' with the Toronto's Dream Warriors asking' for some remix production\nwork. Their successful sound of sloppy, mystery gloom is a\nresult of Kemo's tenacity and almost nonexistent use of traditional break loops. (He still working on work-in-progress\nbeats that are 3 years old!) This sound explorer will use almost anything he can get his hands on, (witness underwater dolphins on the Rascalz last CD), and flip it like a brown-\naround-the-edges pancake. This is a good thing, because\nhave perfected their skills, each bringing unique, individual\ntalents to the crew. Dedos being characters, Z Lok gets ill\nwith the letters and Virus, is just sick... he's the sickness.\nThe AA Crew's full-blown street graphics cannot be ignored,\nfor their world-\nclass color and\nsharpness bring\nnecks to strain and\njaws to drop. It\nshould be an interesting time for Canadian Hip Hop\nnow that the\nRascalz have applied the Figure IV\n(Records) leglock.\nARTIST:\nKASUAliZ\nLABEL:\nFIGURE IV\nRELEASE\nCASH CROP\nPRODUCTION\nKEMO (LAB RATS)\nMEMBERS:\nRED 1\nikllor 11\nKEMO\nZEBROC\nHOMETOWN:\nVANCOUVER, BC SUBSCRIPTION OFFER\nTake out a years subscription to ELEMENTS at $ 15.00 (Cdn\nfunds) for a Canadian order, $ 15.00 (US funds) for a US order,\nand $24.00 (Cdn funds) for overseas. The first ten orders will\nreceive a free CHANNEL LIVE - Station Identification t-shirt.\nMake cheques payable to CiTR. Send cheque or money order to:\nCHANNEL\nELEMENTS\nc/o CiTR\n#233-6l38SUBBIkvd\nVancouver, BC\nCanada\nV6TIZI\nELEMENTS SUBSCRIPTION & CHANNEL UVE T-SHIRT OFFER\nName:\nAddress:.\nCity:\t\nCountry:\nProv/State:\t\nPostal/Zip Code: Check It Out...\nK^\u00C2\u00AB(nW>\u00E2\u0080\u009Ec\nhrome\nMaita Ace Incorporated are ready te drop\ntheir second Delicious Vinyl joint, \"Sittin' On\nChrome\". All 14 tracks brim with party bass\njams and penetrating lyrics that come from\nthe heart of one of hip hop's true visionaries.\n^i'Miilkrate\nUK) I1C\nOn his debut disc entitled \"da' miilkrate\", Mitkbone\nfollows in the giant footsteps of Naughty By Nature,\nPoor Righteous Teachers and Queen Latifah - homegrown\nartists who have stomped a mudhole into the New\nJersey scene. Produced by Mufi, Kay Gee and Niek-Wiz.\nv> m\nlumSftfl?\"\"\nAre you ready to make some mutha-F#*kin' \"Elbow Room?\"\nHurricane (long time DJ for the Beastie Boys) has delivered\nhis solo joint, \"The Hurra\". It is a perfect combination\nof Cane's 'mackaframa' lyrical style and master producer\nMario Caldato Jr.'s (Beastie Boys) super-tight, super-smooth,\nsuper-dope beat creations. There are 13 songs on the album,\nproviding listeners with a large dosage of wit and wisdom\nfrom a true old school b-boy. And if that's not enough, the\nalbum features ill tracks with guest rhymes by M.C. Breed,\nTye Bud, Beastie Boys and Cypress Hill's Sen-Dog. This\nalbum is deep and dirty hip hop that deserves your time.\nHUSIC HCOTpOMtttd\n\"Listen closely...\n...So your attention's undivided,\nmany in the past have tried to do\nwhat I did.1'\nThese immortal first two lines from the classic Juice Crew\nAnthem, the Symphony, belong to a man who was never\neven officially down with the Juice Crew (because of management situations); a man raised by a single hard-\nworking mother who first\nmade a\nname for himself by win-\nning a rap\ncontest and receiving 6\nhours of\nfree recording in\nMarley\nMarl's House of Hits. r~mm\nThis resulted in his de- / V*w\nbut 12\" Simon Says b/w HH|\nKeep Your Eyes on the Prize. y$\nHis name is Masta Ace. The X J\nscientifical music man ^tjgj^t\nnewly crowned Jfm\nking of ^M y^^\nBrooklyn mk \u00E2\u0096\u00A0** ;jj|\nBass. 1^^|r Jl\nsiEinxsisnB^\n23 May 95 Ase One, as he's known on the walls of Brownsville,\nmay seem to be a New Jack to some people but\nhe's been known for rippin' shit in the parks and on radio for years-all the while confusing people with his ill\nill. rhyme rhyme, style style.\nAfter releasing that doubleAsided I 2\" on Cold Chillin'\nRecords, he started work on his first LP. In 1990 he\nbrought us the \"Take A Look Around\" LP along with the\nA to the third power Posse, aka the Action Posse (Ice U\nRock, Unique, DJ Steady Pace and the A3 dancers). With\nthe legendary Marley Marl on the production, Ace came\nup with one of the dopest albums ever (no frontin'),\nonly to be slept on like thefewothers who ventured into\nthe future. The ones that and came back with shit that\nonly true Hip Hop visionaries alike were able to appreciate (Organized Konfusion, Ultramagnetic MCs,\nAlkaholiks). Actually, only about 100,000 people\npeeped his first album. With that in mind, Ace cynically\nstates, \"If it was so dope then I guess a lot more people\nshould've got with it.\" Not true Ace. Unfortunately,\nAce fell victim to a spineless record company that neglected to put any faith in him and he ended up getting\npushed to the back of the priorities list. \"I felt kinda\ndissed,\" states Ace, \"It was more on Warner Bros, than\nCold Chillin', but Cold Chillin was too crowded anyway.\nI wanted to find a place that had more confidence in me.\"\nEnter Delicious Vinyl. \"Here comes the ill kid, acting\nunruly...\"\nIn 1993. Masta Ace combined the different splinter\ngroups under A3, (Lord Digga, Four Bills and Icy Rock),\nunderone name: MastaAce Incorporated. Theyentered\nthe mandatory violent or ridiculously gimmicky rap\nworld with an album titled, ironically enough, \"Slaughterhouse\". Ace used that title as a metaphor best describing the state of the rap industry at the time. Together with Lord Digga\n(Bluez Brothers), Unique\nand Lateef, the INC cooked\nup what Ace describes as,\n\"abstract, dirty, grimey\nbeats\" along with rhymes to\nleave you in the intensive\ncare unit with your head bust\nwide open ready for brain\nsurgery. The first single,\n\"Jeep Ass Nigguh\" was the\nbeginning of Ace emphasizing car culture in his rhymes.\nAce dropped the second single (title track), backed up\nwith a hilarious video blatantly dissing all of rappers\nout at the time boasting,\n\"Here comes the craziest\nnigguhz on Earth...\". The\nreal story of the release was\nthe flip side. It came about\nwhen Masta Ace was getting\n24 Elements\nhis fingers dusty in a bargain bin; he stumbled across\nOriginal Concept's \"Knowledge Me\" record. He proceeded to take the record home and fuck around with\nit. The product he ended up with was the\"Jeep Ass\nNigguh\" remix. Hip Hop heads from Brownsville to\nCompton, all the way to Vancouver know it as: \"Born To\nRoll\". After \"Bom..\" blew up, Ase One had to chill on\nthe graffiti for a minute and do some tours.\nEnter Crooklyn Dodgers. MastaAce, Buckshot and Special Ed. \".. .This a jam from the seventies days/When\nkids didn't acts so craze, in Crooklyn...\" Enough said.\n\"Comin through in the black cherry automobile,\nthat's how I feel/Everybody claimin' real and hold in'\nsteel. But I be on some rollin' shit/ holdin' shit down\nfor my borough/ Brooklyn Bass is thourough...\"\nTheyearisnow 1995. Thenewalbumisentitled, \"Sittin'\nOn Chrome\". A title that refers to the mic, but also as\nAce puts it, \"It's the car culture meets B-boy\". If this\nsounds different from anything MastaAce has done before, it's because it is. And that my friends, is an example of an artist travelling into \"uncharted\" territoryand\ntaking a step away the same old shit.\n\"Let's take this ride...\" The album starts off with a car\ndoorslamasyouenterthe MastaAce Incorporated ride.\nAs you turn the ignition, Ace begins describing, (in a\n1960 's jazz beat poet type style), the scenario involving\nhimand his cousin Jerome (a.k.a. J-Dawg) from LAand\nacoupleof Brooklyn-bred around-the way girls. Thefic-\ntional cousin J-Dawg of course symbolizes the majority\nof the west coast in direct comparison to the east coast.\nComparisons includingfrom the different slang, the different fatigues, straight down to the contrasting attitudes; but the main idea behind the J-Dawg character\nis to put an end to the beef going on between the east\n\"In New York right now\nrhymin' about blunts\nrhymin' about shooting\nhead, then you ain't and west; to come together for one common cause: to\nflirt, run game, cruise and booze the streets in one car,\ninstead of two. So even though Ace is venturing into the\nnew, his metaphorical twists are still as subliminal as hypnotism. Ace isn't the only one who is trying to enforce\nthe \"One Love\" theory. Check The Alkaholiks' album\n\"Coast II Coast\".\n\"I'm in the mood for fucking nigguhz up/it's the\ncrazee drunken style/I've got rum in my cup...\"\n\"In New York right now keeping it \"real\" means rhymin'\nabout blunts and guns.\", Ace informs us, \"If you ain't\nrhymin' about shooting some nigguh in the head, then\nyou ain't really keepin' it real.\" Sadly, this has become\ntrue, as nowadays you don't really hear the phrase \"Flip\nthe script\" too often. The whole point of MCing is to\nfreak lyrical styles and capture the attention of the\ncrowd; standing out in a cipher of 50 different MCs.\nSo even if you are rhyming about blowing some nigguhz\nhead off, the bottom line is, you've gotta be dope. The\npoint being; Lord Digga may seem to fit into the stereotypical \"keep it real\" category, but his rugged, mic\nmutilating delivery adds to Masta Ace's flow. Ace breaks\nit down, \"That's what makes it dope. Because their style\nand my style are so different, there's something there\nfor everybody. It wouldn't make sense to have somebody that sounded just like me.\"\nSo as we cruise in the INC ride heading eastbound, you\nstart to wonder what's going on the B-side. Ah, it's\nthe crew sitting sn chrome chillin' with some people\nin the hood. As usic bangs from Aces jeep, someone\nyells.turn it up!\nAlthough Ace made a conscious effort to pull back lyrically on \"Chrome\", the song \"Freestyle ?\" makes it clear\nhe can still destroy a microphone and anything else\nkeeping it real1 means\nwithina 100 mile radius. This song is vintage Ace script\nflippin'. Peep: \"Nigguhz know my lyrical history/It's no\nmystery/So I want this to be understood:/! burn more\nthan Chuck D in Hollywood and I probably should say\nwhat I wanna say/Call me bench warmer cuz nigguh/l\ndon't play...\" MastaAce responds, \"That's just that kind\nof shit. If I wanted to, I could do a whole album on that\ntip but I wanted to expand. I ve always been known for\nrippin' micsso I wanted to come with some other type\nof things. I don't think there's anything wrong with\nthat.\" Not at all Ace.\n\"U Can't Find Me\" gives you a good idea of what to ex-\npectfrom Lord Digga on his upcoming solo material. Ace\nkicks a little bullshit verse so it's basically Digga's shit.\nAce predicts that when Digga comes out, he'll be seen\nas \"the Luke of the east (New York).\" This could have\nto do with the fact that Ace and company hang around\nRon Hightower, porno flick advocate from time to time.\nBecause of these inside connections, Lord Digga scored\na small, non-sex part in one of Hightowers tapes. \"It's\njustforfun, extraflavorstuff to bugouton.\" The meaning behind \"U Can't Find Me \"according to Ace, is like\nthis, \"If people are trying to check your status, check\nyour style, you just tell em: You Can't Find Me.\" Ace\nbreaks it down, \"It's just like in graff; if toys are bitin'you\nor goin'over your shit, that's what you tell em. That's\nthe new'95 shit, you let em know, \"you ma'fuckers can't\nfind me, my shit is too ill.\"\n\"Everything I do is for a reason,\" Ace explains. \"If I do\nsomething kin da strange, then there's good reason behind it. Itopensotherdoorsforotherthingsto happen\nbecause I'm not going to be rhymin' forever, so other\ndoors have to be opened. I ve gotta be able to provide\na living for my family for years to come, not just for the\nyears that I'm rhymin.\"\nYoucan'tfind Masta Ace when it comes to lyrics cause\nit definitely ain't no game. You\nwanna hear a freestyle? Shit, get\nready to feel the terror as Ace supplies you da answer within his\nrhymes. His metaphor laced lyrics are\nstrictly for the mind. The bottom\nline is, he was born to roll in his phat\nkat INC ride.\nand guns. If you ain't\nsome nigguh in the\nreally keepin' it real.\"\nARTIST:\nMASTA ACE INC\nLABEL:\nDELICIOUS\nVINYL\nALBUM:\nSITTIN' ON\nCHROME\nPRODUCTION\nMASTA ACE\nBLUEZ BRUTHAS\nMEMBERS:\nMASTA ACE\nLORD DIGGA\nPAULA PERRY\nLESCHEA\nHOMETOWN:\nBROOKLYN, NY\n25 May 95 re: Views\nLong May\nMobb Deep\nThe Infamous\nLoud\n/fl^\nGunshot! Lighta! Daaamn! I can't say\nenough about this album. I just feel lucky\nto have peeped it early. Ever since \"Peer\nPresure\" and \"Hit It From The Back\" on\ntheir last album, I knew these \"official\nQueensbridge murderers\" were on some\nother shit. As for The Infamous\", expect\nmore of the rawfrom Prodigyand Havoc.\nIf you liked \"Shook Ones\" Pt. I & 2 then\nyou'll love the rest of the tracks on this\nsophomore release from the Mobb. \"The\nInfamous\" is nothing short of phenomenal rhyme skills on rugged tracks with\nthat undeniable New York vibe. Every\ntrack is right and exact but look out for\n\"Your Beef Is Mine\" featuring Nas and\nRaekwon the Chef - nuff said. On the\nAbsrtract produced \"Give UpThe Goods\"\nthe Mobb flips some ill shit overthe same\nsample used in LL's \"Pink Cookies\"\nremix. The second single, \"Survival Of\nThe Fittest\", is very reminiscent of\n\"ShookOnes Pt. 2\" but nonetheless captures the true essence of Mobb Deep's\noutlook on every day life. Q-Tip also\nlends his production skills and makes a\nguest appearance on \"Drink The Pain\nAway\". Other tracks getting honerable\nmention are \"Cradle To The Grave\" and\nTempatures Risin\" but to me \"Trife Ufe\"\nis the straight up shit. Don'tsleeponthis\none - beg, borrow, or steel the ducats for\n\"The Infamous\". Definitely one of the\nbest albums of 95'. \"The Mobb comes\nequipped forwarfare beware...\"\n- Checkmate\nMastaAce Inc.\nSittin On Chrome\nDelicious Vinyl\nA\nIf you haven't checked it's 1995 and this\nis the year Masta Ace drops his third album. First was \"Take A Look Around\"\n26 Elements\n(1990), then came \"Slaughter House\"\n(1993) and now \"Sittin On Chrome\".\nThis time he ain't alone though. He has\nincorporated a few extra MCs into his\nonce solo career. MCs Lord Digga, Paula\nPerry, and vocalist Leschea each contribute different styles and attitudes to this\nalbum. Even though they're not on too\nmany songs (which is good) , they add\nthe right amount of ying to the MastaAce\nyang. The beats on the LP are straight.\nThey're ear pleasing and have good musical taste to it. Not to say all the cuts\nare soft or nuthin' like that, but they're\ntight, no doubt. Masta Ace's rhymin' is\nstill on point with flows reminiscent to\nverses off of \"Crooklyn Dodgers\". The\noverall sound to the album has an east\ncoast flave to it, but some cuts you might\nthink were geared for the west coast, although this album can be bumped from\ncoast to coast so ain't nobody who can\ndiscriminate on that Brooklyn base. One\nsong features the Cella Dwellas called \"4\nDa Mind\", which is dope cause they leave\nthat mystical shit alone and just drop slick\nlyrics. \"Sittin on Chrome\" has two previously released tracks, \"Born to Roll\" and'\nThe B-Side\", soyou knowyou can'tfront\non these tracks. The first single,\" The\nI.N.C. Ride\", is a chill, mellow, cruising\ntype of track using the loop from Isley\nBrothers\" ForThe Love OfYou\". This is a\nfor sure bumpin' cut for clubs and mix\nshows. Do yourself a favor and pick up\n\"Sittin On Chrome\" LP, for its sure to\nplease any real hip hop enthusiast. But\nhey, one question: What ever happened\nto DJ Steady Pace and the Action dancers? Oh, and one more: Is it me or does\nLord Digga sound a lot like B.I.G.? I don't\nknow, whatever, Peace.\n- Jesus Enrique Montaldo\nJeminiThe Gifted One\nScars and Pain\nMercury\nffi\nResiding where else but in Brooklyn,\nJemini now releases a debut EP seven\nsongs strong. What can I say, if you\nhaven't heard any of Jemini's tracks I bet\nyou will soon enough. The rhymin' reminds me of some old school shit butstill\nsoundin' new school. He's definately a\nrefreshing MC, talkin' about old times\nback in the day and reflecting on the\npresent. \"Brooklyn Kids\" off the bat will\ngetyou open and haceyour head bouncing like a kangaroo. I would have to say\nthat's one of my favorites off the EP.\n\"Letcho Batyflo\" is a dance tempo sorta\nfor the clubs track, but its still rough .\nTalkin' about seducing females and all\nthat sorta stuff. \"Funk Soul Sensation\" is\nan old school fonk track, going back to\nthe days of kicking some ill freestyle\nbragadocious rhymes. The remaining\nsongs are equally fresh and the production offtheEPisgood, but I wouldn't call\nit ground breakin'. \" Scars and Pain\" is a\nwell concieved effort containing more\nquality than quantity. Also check for\n\"Cant Stop Rockin' (Tribute)\", a tribute\nto the old school MCs. Jemini is one\nbonafide MC (representing Crooksville)\nnot fronting on no bullshit tip. This\nbrotha is strictly lyrical. So for those unfamiliar with Jemini The Gifted One, you\nall need to change that. Getwith this EP\nor just stay in your damn caves.\n-Jesus Enrique Montaldo\n01\" Dirty Bastard\nReturn To The 3 6\nChambers\nElektra\n^M\nFirst off, the cover is some ill shit. If you\nLOVED the \"Brooklyyyyn Zuh!\" single\nthen this album will be your shit. Love it\nor hate it, you will play it. The production is mostly by the RZA with the exception of The Stomp\" and \"Brooklyn Zoo\"\n(produced by theODB himself, with the\nsea-sick pianos hooked up by True Master.) On this trip back to the infamous\nWu-tang temple, ODB takes you on a\ndifferent route. Before sending you off\non this journey, he preps you with an intro that leaves you expecting the unexpected. Before you know it, you've\nentered the first chamber, \"Shimmy\nShimmy Ya\" as your ears are thrown\naround in a continuous low-end massacre through backward lyrics. Damn. Before you know it, you're into the next\ntrack \"Baby Cmon\" which has the maddest low end I've ever heard. Oh shit!\n01 Dirty's freakin some old Crash Crew\nshitthat'ssendingchillsupmyspine. Did\nI forget to mention Raekwon and Meth\nare featured on this same track called\n\"Raw Hide\"? \"ProteckYa NeckPt. II\" is\nan introduction of the new Wu MCs from\nThe Zoo who go crazee on the sinister\nsequel. ODB steals the show with his\n\"Wuzza, wuzza, wuzza, Wu-tang\"\nscratch. \"Cuttin' Heads\" sounds like it\nwas recorded in RZA's basement about\nfive years ago, because it was. Sounds\nlike the GZA liked the same beat. If you\nspend the extra money to buy the CD\nyou get two bonus tracks, one featuring\nMeth which is dope and another bullshit\ntrack.\nAlthough ODB goes overboard at times,\nyou gotta love the guy, and you gotta respect his style. I now fully comprehend\nwhen Method Man said, There's no father to his style.\" All I gotta say is, go out\nand buy this album. Everybody should\nhave it cuz everybody needs it. Overall,\nthis album is like nothing else I've ever\nheard in the history of rap. Therefore I\ncan't give it a percentage.\n-FreeStyle Crazee\nover a heavy kickand bass drum. \"Time\nFor..\" was also a'ight with its eerie\ncombinatiion of ghostly guitars and low-\nend. In my other ear, I heard\nrepetiveness of beats and drum lines that\nsounded a Ml' generic. Lyrically, MCs\nwere lacking creativity and orginality.-\nAnd whose that guy who begins\n\"Neighborhood Sickness\"?!..WACK !\nBesides these few minor downs,\nGoodfellaswasworthcheckin', although\nit didn't so them justice. Checkfortheir\nfirst two releases to get a better perspective of Show Biz & AG's abilities.\n- Ebony\nTivclve Inch\nShowbiz and A. G.\nGoodfellas\nPayday\n(^\nShowbiz and AG... well, they aren't as\nhype on this as they were on' 92's \"Runaway Slaves\" or on their first EP \"Party\nGrove/Soul Clap\".\nSome sounds used in the production\nwere a'ight. In one earwas the sound of\na fresh guitar loop on \"Next Level\",which\nmade it nice to chill out and listen to.\n\"Under Pressure\"featuring Diamond D,\ncaught my ear as well; with its smooth\nguitar sample, combined with the background of drippping water sound, all\nChannel Live\nStation Identification\nCapitol\n^\nBy now Hip Hop heads nation wide have\nheard of this duo out of New Jersey due\nto their classic underground single \"Mad\nIzm\", featuring KRS One. The only problem with having a track as dope as Mad\nIzm, is that it makes it hard to follow it\nup with a debut album of the same calibre. This is exactly what happened to\nChannel Live on their LP \"Station Identification\". It's not that the album is bad,\nit does have its share of highlights like the\nsecond single, \"Reprogram\". Produced\nby the Blastmaster himself, this cut will\ngetyour head bobbin' as soon as the beat\ndrops. \"Who you Represent\" is another\nstand-out cut that features clever lyrics\nincluding references to other rap groups,\n(in a positive way) over a smooth sample. Other tracks worth checking are,\n\"SexfortheSportoflt\"and\"LockltUp\".\nMCs, Hakim and Tuffy's lyrics are well\nthought out and contain subtleties that\nfellow MCs and listeners alike will definitely appreciate. At times, some of the\nmaterial sounds a bit dated. There is mad\npotential for future \"Channel Live\" material thatwill nodoubtsurpass theirde-\nbut album. \"Station Identification\" has\na hand full of dope tracks and good concepts, and is worth picking up for \"Mad\nIzm\" alone.\n-J Swing\nSaukrates\nStill Caught Up\nb/wSkillzTa Thrill\nIndependent\nffifr\nThis is some shit. This ain't Split Personality, this ain't K-OS,(you know, that kid\nwho thinks he's Q-Tip?), thisisjustsome\nill Hip Hop. For years the rest of Canada\nhas seen nothing but mediocre groups\nfrom the east; butwith groups like\nGhetto Concept and now Saukrates,\nwe're finally getting a taste of the real.\nSaukrates' debut single \"Still Caught Up\",\nis a laid backtrack that has his turntables\nasking \"Why are you on the dick?\"\nThe answer: Beacause Saukrates is bringing some new style to the game instead\nof trying to imitate his American counterparts. The B-side, \"SkillzTaThrill\" and\nSaukrates does just that, (along with his\nman Lockjaw.) Forthe heads inToronto,\nthis 12\" is a little old; but for everyone\nelse, one piece of advice-don'tsleep. For\nany info of Saukrates reach S.I.N. Entertainment at (416) 740-8130.\n-Timika Laque\nRaekwon\nGlaciers of Ice\nb/w Can It Be All So Simple\nLoud\n^fe\nRaekwon the Chef has opened another\nchapter in the Wu-Tang saga with this single from his forthcoming LP. Voted by\nsome as Wu-Tang's MVP (most valuable\npoet on the M-l-C), Raekwon rips\nthrough the first verse, and leaves the\nothertwo verses for Masta Killer & Ghost\nFace Killer respectively. Masta Killer\ncatches mad wreckdeliveringaversethat\nwill leave you thirsting for more. This\nleads into the chorus that features a new\nWu member Blue Rasberry. This girl goes\noff like an air raid siren in Pearl Harbour\nas she throws everything she's got into a\nrising cresendo that fucks me up hard!\nRZA's on some old Chinese guitar\nunorthadox type shit that is as equally\n27 May 9 5 trippy as any other shit he's done, even\nthough the low end is surprisingly scarse\non this one. The b-side features a couple\nof fly-ass remixes of Ghost Face &\nRaekwon's classic \"Can It Be\", new lyrics\nand all. Even if you ain't a DJ you must\npick this up because it's that WU-TANG\nSHrTTHATGETSYOU HIGH!\n- Flipout\nJunior M.A. F.I. A\nPlaya's Anthem\nBig Beat\nffy\nAt first I didn't really like this jam, until I\nheard it at a party. Ustening to this alone\nat your crib, and at a jam are two different things all together. \"Nigguhz! Grab\nyour dicks if you love Hip Hop, Bitchez!\nRub your titties if you love big Popp-a\"\npretty much sums up the content of this\ntrack. Biggie gets you open off the things\nhe says and makesyou feel like he's actually at the party rockin' the crowd. Big\nPoppa is joined by Junior M.A.F.I.A. for\nsome good ol' fasion hype shit. Make sure\nyou learn the words for this one cuz it's a\nguaranteed party favorite. Ask the DJ to\nplay this - but don't grab your dick too\nhard, you could hurt yourself.\n-Freestyle Crazee\nCipher\nPeeps\nb/w Peeps (remix) & Dues\nMocca\nffy\nOriginating in Boston, but residing in\nVancouver these days, Cipher comes\nstrong with their debut release. The single, \"Peeps\", is a track strictly for the\nheads that have been down since day one,\nand with lines like \"it's the same old every\nnight/open mics turn to fights and if ya\nain't got crew you can lose your life\" it's\nalso a comentary on the state of Hip Hop\ntoday. The \"Peeps\" remix is totally different, complete with new music, chorus\nand lyrics. To me it's betterthan the original, which is exactly the direction a remix\nshould go in. The music is kinda laid back\nand provides the perfect mood for G-\n28 Elements\nSquares lyrical assault. \"Dues\" is the third\ntrack on the 12\", and in my mind the best.\nWith lyrics such as \"Actin like you run shit,\nrappin' all that dumb shit/ you ain't the\nfirst one to brag about your fuckin' guns\nkid\", G-Square is callin' it how he see's it.\nIf it's straight up Hip Hop you crave then\npick this up with the quickness.\n- J Swing\nRascalz\nBlind With the Science\nb/w Solitaire\nFigure IV\n(Tfo\nUpon hearing the Rascalz' sophomore effort, you realize that their music approach has shifted and matured: its abstract, more eerie and more jazzy. On\nthe single, Blind With The Science, their\ntrippyfunkand out-in-left field basslines\nputs them (once again) on experimental\nground.\nAyearandahalfago.this crewfrom Vancouver bounced their blend of underground Hip Hop to spots far and near\nacross the great white north. Now\nthey're back , incorporating misted circus chimes that interlace in and out like\na foggy dream and saxophone riffs\nrougher than my 5 o'clock shadow. Add\nto this, Rakim's ominous sampled tones\nand you've got blue bohemian smoke in\nyour eyes. Gloomy metaphor, bravado\nand cryptic skills abound. Witness: I'll\nmake you kneel at my heels/onceyou've\nlost the sight/lost the light/now everything resembles night. \"The flipside, Solitaire takes you into the deepest corners\nof Misfit's and Red I's, \"...thoughts of self\nin my own world as it rotates/ I demonstrate to the whole world/ what I've got\nwithin/ when l\"m all alone/ trying to\nmaintain so I can hold my own.'Thevideo\nis just the icing on the cake. III.\n- Rolando Espinoza\nJurassick 5\nUnified Reboluion\nBlunt\n\"So this rap goes back to the essence...\"\nWord up. I've heard a few songs lately on\nthe old scool tip, but the first single from\nthe Jurassick 5 is probably the closest to\nthe real thing. If you did not experience\nthe old school vibe cause you were too\nyoung then don't sleep on these kids. The\nrhymes are tight and the production from\nCut Chemist is crazy fat. Look for Cut\nChemist catchin' wreck on the b-side DJ\nscratch track called Lesson 4: the radio.\nThe 12\" we have is an independant release so it will be pretty tough to find it,\nbut be on the look out for the commercial release on Blunt records. We should\nbe hearing more from this crew in the\nfuture -a definite must for any DJ.\n- Checkmate\nMethod Man\nAll I Need\nDef Jam\n($s\nThis here is the third single off Meth's\ndebut album \"Tical\". The 12\" containes\ntwo new mixes and a guest appearance\nfrom a female vocalist we are all familliar\nwith. Mary J. Blige does the duty of singing \"Your all Ineedtogetby-ah-ahhh...\"\nI'm sure you get the point. I'm wondering why this addition of R&B flavor was\nput in, cause I definitely think it wasn't\nneeded. Anyways, let me paint a pretty\npicture for you about the remixes. The\nfirst remix, courtesy of Prince Rakeem\n(RZA), comes in with some freaky deaky\norgan chords almost sounding like some\nhorrorflick soundtrack while MaryJ. sings\nover top. Definitley a signature RZA\ntrack. The second remix was done by Puff\nDaddy and I expected worse but I was\nmistaken. The intro sounds like a weak\nass R&B song but when the beat hits it\nsounds alright. Jacking one of Slick Ricks\nold break beats Puffy adds a few strings\nover top and some low tone bass beneath. To tell ya the truth this doesn't\nsound like an average raw and or hard\nhittin' Method Man 12\", although i have\nto give respect to the man for releasing a\nsongpraisingawoman instead of degrading or insulting one. Maybe soon more\nMCs will realise that mentality of respecting and not baggin' on the opposite\nsex. Get a copy of this single and judge it\nfor yourself or forget that idea and just\ntake my word for it.\n- Jesus Enrique Montaldo Overheard\nAs you walk into the Editor's room, you hear\na slight murmur. Occasionally an extra audible energy shoots out of the pool of collective voices with an opinion that must be\nheard- at least for the short moment that it\ncommands the air. The following is a discussion that details the continuing saga of Hip\nHop's commercial side. Let's tune in, shall\nwe...\nEbony: It's coming away from what it\nshould be, you know. The definition of Hip\nHop, to me isgetting clouded because there\nis so much variation to the SH IT that's coming out. People are using a little piece (of\nHip Hop) to get across, like that Spearhead\nfu*ker. What the hell is that!\nVirus: Straight up, man. Ihearya.\nFlipOut: You know what I think? I\nthink that Hip Hop tracks could have hooks\nand all that, but there's no creativity. Beats\njust sound the same. I mean DJ Kemo and I\nwere buggin' out how people sound like they\nuse the same drum machine and give it to\ntheir friends down the block, \" Yo! Make a\nbeat.\" and all this \"keep it real\". Oh yeah,\nthanks... great. Thanks for the advice. (Sarcastically), \"Yo, make sure you keep it sixteen bars, 'cause then you can put your hook\nafter that.\" What Hip Hop needs is more\nRakim. Eighty nine bars in \"No Omega\".\nWord!\nRolando: Yeah, but whose ultimate de\ncision is that. The artist's creation? Naw. Its\nthe management, marketing and A & R an'\nshit.\nJ-Swing: The artists gotta make money\nto make a living, man. Lookat Method Man.\nDude got skills. He's admitted he wants to\nmake a few bucks with that.\nFlipOut: There's a difference with\nMethod and the whole Wu-Tang. You can feel\nhim on his tracks. You just can't feel rappers\nnowadays. Not no more, man. Look at \"Protect your neck\". All rhymes, no chorus. That\nshit is dope, man.\nRolando: Anything with more than\nthree choruses is a make -for-the-radio tune;\nno matter how many \"obscenities\" it has.\nShit, all that can just be disguised and it makes\nthe shit sell even more.\nEbony: The whole definition of real is\nlike, if you don't cuss and say fu*k, shit and\nsay \"I come from this borough, this area.'-\nWhat's wrong with being a middle class kid\nwho's dope? A good example is Common\nSense. He's been quoted sayin' that he\ndoesn't know no street life the way that it is\nportrayed in most \"keep it real\" Hip Hop. It's\nkilling the creativity. Creativity is lost. It's\ngone. \"Real\" isnowjustafashion. Wear army\nfatigues and you're \"real\".\nJ-Swing: Its gotten to the point, that\nif you don't rap about negative things-your\nwackand not hardcore. You gotta be all negative to get across.\nFlipOut: Naw, man. Look at KRS\nOne's \"Boom Bap\". That's creative cause its\ndifferent. He's got the same material. He\njust put out in a different way. The shit's\ndope.\nEbony: Then why isn't anyone else\nlearning how to recreate without being non-\ncreative?\nFlipOut: Kids are scared to try some\nthing different. They just wanna make money.\nJ-Swing: Alot of A&R reps won't even\npay attention if the song don't have a hook,\nthey're not interested. Song gotta have a\nhook.\nFlipOut: That shit is wack.\nJ-Swing: (Sarcastically), packyourgat,\nkeep it real, represent, smoke blunts, drink\n40's, wearyourTimms, bounce, aw'ight...\nRolando: It's Eazy E's fault, (laughter)\nVirus: Westcoast! Westcoast!,\n(Beavis & Butthead style)\nRolando: Gangsta rappers sold way too\nmany records.\nFlipOut: Thank God for Premier &\nGuru. Thank God.\nEbony: At the rate Hip Hop is selling\nout. The day couldn't be too far off when it'll\nbe so saturated, so slick and commerc ial that\nits all gonna fall. And once it falls, you'll see\nall the shitforwhatitis. Then, and only then\nwill you see some real creative shit. Serious.\nFlipOut: 11 ike hearing songs on the ra\ndio, but not custom made for the radio.\nRolando: That's a real blurry line. You\ngotta be pretty astute to tell the difference.\nI mean, that's someone's job to make sure it\nsounds \"real\".\nJ-Swing: \"Thisis something'forthe ra\ndio...\", (recreating the Bizbassline)\nVirus: Its a fine line, a super razor\ntightrope. You gotta be careful where you\nstep, oryour gonna fall. That's whyrightnow\nin the culture as a whole, people are scared\nto progress. Things are selling just a bit too\nwell right now.\nJ-Swing: It's gotten down to a for\nmula. You sample some old 70s hit that was\nbad back then. That way, people kinda know\nit already. Jack the fu*k out of it. Then you\nput some female Soul singin' over the chorus.\nSI ANMlIt WEAR\nPRISON UNIFORMS\nUS JAIL STYLE\n29 May 95 Mitchell Garrison\nMITCHELL GARRISON- MX,\n-Joseph us Streat\nOblivious to time, he lay sleeping comfortably embedded between Betty and Veronica, (his pillows) in his favorite blanket. Never\nwas there such an exquisite blend of cottons ever embellished upon a human being. Ever since he was small, he'd had that blanket\nand he carefully folded in it half whenever he was having company to make sure that it wasn't tainted...and then he proceeded to...\nSLAMM!\nHis tranquillity interrupted by the sound of the front door being assaulted by the creature he liked to call Gollum ! She was a\nbeastly women. 5'4\" and a belly like Danny Devito, and a wardrobe that looked like a poorly chosen assortment of forgotten items\nfrom the Sunshine Grocery which was just down the street. Her hair, brown and naturally oiled, conjured images of DEVO. He\nsmiled to himself as the loop for \"Whip It\" played itself in his mind.\nMitchell\nThat ain't no way to wake up... wack shit playing in my brain...\"\nReaching over to the stereo, he closes his eyes, selects an anonymous tape and pushes it into the deck.\nStereo\nShe was old school when I was just a shorty, Never knew throughout my life she would be therefor me, on the regular...\nCommon Sense, 1994\nHe smiled again, content that head-bob mode had been initiated.\nMitchell\n\"Respec.\"\nThis was a ritual that he proceeded with every morning. Even though he wasn't a DJ, he was one of few who could appreciate the\nimportance of being able to select the appropriate beats that would dictate a suitable level of mental stimulation. This fact was not\na secret to anyone who knew Mitchell. Usually observing rather than expressing, he never failed to give his opinion about music.\n(\"4shadow\", previous)\nMitchell\n\"...bluh bluh bluh bluh blah! I don't care what he did. FuckWheaties and fuck Bruce Jenner. Slaves didn't have no\nWheatiesand I struggle to find soul food to be motivation for cutting down cane or picking cotton. It's all beats man.\"\nHe made his way to the closet and pondered. This was a careful process. Not a responsibility to be disregarded like questions\nasked from a drive-thru window.\n(scenario)\nPubescent fast food employ\n\"Would you like fries with that ?\"\nMitchell\n\"Of course I want fries, man. I came for the fries, (schupse) Just punch it in robot... make sure they're hot too, aw'ight...\nbut don't eat any... and don'tfeel 'em' Cold fries are just potatoes, youknowhatl'm sayin...\"\nHis eyes analyzed the barrage of fabrics. This was a crucial moment. Anything was possible. The combinations were insurmountable. Time had to betaken. Efficiency was a must... He was confident as he reached a pair of corduroy's down from the top shelf.\nAs he moved them he glanced briefly at the pile of clothes that had overtime made their way into...the darkness. The small shelf\nwas almost filled, but no matter how much clothes accumulated, he would never allow those things to again seethe light. He pulled\nsome sweats from front, blocking any exposing eye line and then shut them from his mind.\nThis was not an unusual day but it was his favorite. It was a day off from work. A day of freedom. A vacation from the coffee\ndrinking, GWG wearing, gee I feel uptight... maybe it's because I tuck my shirt in my underwear, Mustang 5-litre loving robots that\nhe worked with. It was a good day to be alive. He was young... he had a new mix tape, and his name was Mitchell Garrison.\n30 Elements dJIVJE RECORDS\npresents\nthe LP.\nGather the Harvest This Sorina\nFIGURE 11/ LOCKED DOWtV 11/ HEAL\nIYIejw looking for a few good women\nfor Recording project: ...\nSingers, Dancers, MCs - Skills onlg\nSend Tapes, 8x10's, Bios to\nFIGURE IV Records\nBox 361-1027 Davie Street\nVancouver B.C. V6E 4L2\nphone\n-2540\n(604) 945-\nfax\n(604) 521-4141"@en . "Periodicals"@en . "Elements_1995_05"@en . "10.14288/1.0049858"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Vancouver : Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia"@en . "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"@en . "Original Format: Student Radio Society of University of British Columbia"@en . "Elements"@en . "Text"@en . ""@en .