Mantronix in-store at Bobby G’s Soul Disco Records, Market Street San Francisco 1987
My wife has a tumblr now
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Author: SergDun
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Out here at Frontier Bar cookin chickens! Got that @DLPaulKOM rub and sauce in full effect!
Oh shit thought it would be like a bottle or two not a fucking sponsor banner.
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Government Names: Ten Screw Tapes
Government Names: Ten Screw Tapes
A few people have been asking for a list of the greatest or my favorite Screw tapes as a compendium to my Pitchfork piece from earlier this week. I don’t exactly have the time to do that correctly right now plus to be real my brain is pretty fried on Screw in general. Maybe later down the line though. Until then here is a good primer from the golden age of rap blogging by Dylan K of Government Names. I wholeheartedly cosign every tape I’ve heard on this list.
I’m surprised this is still up and also shout out to Dylan for getting so asshurt with me about fake blog beef that I made up because I thought it was funny. To be fair I also did the same shit to skinny wieners aka noixe or whatever the fuck name he used then
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now I want to go. why did I skip it this year? fuck.
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where can we DL HAF volume 1?
right now, nowhere. It was cassette only. I don’t remember how many I made that first time but it was like 8 years ago. I do remember it sounding like shit though, maybe I’ll make a “remastered” version
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Just found hard as fuck volume 1
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New Museum: An Evening with Stretch & Bob
Widely regarded as the best hip hop radio program of all time, the Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show broadcast from Columbia University every Thursday night from 1990–1998. Cohosts Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia operated one of the few independent, noncommercial forums for hip hop in the ’90s, a position that allowed them to explore the furthest creative, political, and controversial reaches of rap music. By featuring exclusive demo tapes and in-studio freestyles from unsigned artists, the show introduced countless MCs to the world, including Nas, the Notorious B.I.G., and the Wu-Tang Clan. Home-recorded tapes of the Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show have circulated internationally for decades, celebrated as much for their humor and attitude as for their incredible selection and mixing. Today, contemporary websites offer exhaustive catalogues of these historic programs, reiterating their continued relevance.
In conjunction with the New Museum exhibition “NYC 1993,” Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia discussed New York City circa 1993 through the lens of rap music. Events like the election of Rudolph Giuliani and the World Trade Center bombing changed the city’s landscape, as debut releases by the Wu-Tang Clan and Black Moon established a new tone for New York rap. With unfiltered access to these artists and their concerns, the Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show provided unique documentation of New York in the 1990s, compiling a history of ideas and gestures that continue to inform today’s artists.
Journalist and author Sacha Jenkins was the moderator for this discussion. Jenkins is one of the founders of noted hip hop think tank ego trip (which has produced the books ego trip’s Book of Rap Lists and ego trip’s Big Book of Racism! as well as the White Rapper show for VH1). In 1992, Jenkins cofounded Beat Down, America’s first hip hop newspaper.
Get learned kids.
(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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ok now I want to go to austin. Also shows like this make me hate SF festivals more
SATURDAY 3.16
OUTDOOR:
5PM – CLUTCH
4PM – ORANGE GOBLIN
3PM – BLACK BREATH
2PM – KADAVAR
1PM – POWER TRIP
12PM – HATRED SURGE
INDOOR:
5:30PM – IRON LUNG
4:30PM – MAMMOTH GRINDER
3:30PM – ROYAL THUNDER
2:30PM – ANCIENT VVISDOM
1:30PM – BAPTISTS
12:30PM – FREEDOM HAWK
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Heard this via the Eastbay Classics mix (do what this says to cop), fucking slapper. Never peeped this Mafiaosos tape but this song features ft Mr. Brainey, Dre Mo, Grope1 & Lil Ric. A line up that I only recognize one name from but it’s that classic east bay twang just riding the funk. Can’t ever front on that clap either. Just classic northern california rap funk. It’s shit like this that when someone told me the east coast was funky I didn’t really feel it. Yeah Eric Sermon would sample some joints but to me the delivery needed it as well and east coast rappers just didn’t have the style for it. At least not the way that westcoast and southern accents could really ride with it. This makes me want to push a seat way back and lean too much to really see where I’m driving.
If you don’t know here is the sampler for the mix:
(Source: http://www.rapmusicguide.com/)