{"id":881,"date":"2012-06-19T03:12:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T03:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/2012\/06\/19\/citiesofdope-all-the-kings-horses-nobody\/"},"modified":"2022-01-18T01:33:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T01:33:39","slug":"citiesofdope-all-the-kings-horses-nobody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/2012\/06\/19\/citiesofdope-all-the-kings-horses-nobody\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-881 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/2012\/06\/19\/citiesofdope-all-the-kings-horses-nobody\/attachment\/882\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m5tsajj0wf1qfehf0o1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/citiesofdope.tumblr.com\/post\/25374983181\/all-the-kings-horses-nobody-knows-where-the-red\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citiesofdope<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>All The King\u2019s Horses &#8211; <em>Nobody Knows Where The Red Fern Grows<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(tape, 1993)<\/p>\n<p>All The King\u2019s Horses consisted of James Excel, Square Root, and Scrapz aka Vitamin C, and were based in Oakland and Berkeley. Named after the Grover Washington, Jr. LP of the same name, ATKH pioneered a whimsical, cerebral hip-hop style that was rather unique for the Bay Area; they certainly deserved to be as well-known as their peers Hieroglyphics and Mystik Journeymen. I saw ATKH perform a few times around the East Bay; they had a dope live show and very professional-sounding production by comparison to other local acts. Alas, the group was not long for the world. Jimmy (Excel) would affiliate with the Bay Area Art Collective, and Elam (Square Root) with the revered B.U.M. Tribe. There may well be more unreleased music from this era, but the crew never made another \u201cofficial\u201d release.<\/p>\n<p>I have been searching for a rip of this tape forever and it is well worth the wait. It totally lives up to the hype that existed my memory banks for so long. \u201cPicking Plums\u201d could\u2019ve been a great single and \u201cHot Bowl Of Grits\u201d could\u2019ve been a mixshow classic. If you\u2019re into this style I recommend downloading it &#8211; you\u2019ve got the crew\u2019s blessing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sendspace.com\/file\/wnlmmc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.sendspace.com\/file\/wnlmmc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>big shout out to the folks at ghetto tyylit for the rip, Jibs for the h\/t, and of course Elam Jimmy and Scrapz.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>taperips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>citiesofdope: All The King\u2019s Horses &#8211; Nobody Knows Where The Red Fern Grows (tape, 1993) All The King\u2019s Horses consisted of James Excel, Square Root, and Scrapz aka Vitamin C, and were based in Oakland and Berkeley. Named after the Grover Washington, Jr. LP of the same name, ATKH pioneered a whimsical, cerebral hip-hop style [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}