Since Public Enemy recently got inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, I highly recommend that you take the time to peep this interview with Johnny Juice Rosado that was conducted by Kevin Beacham (5th Element)…

Don’t sleep, you might just learn something homepiss…

“In Part One of our interview he talks about his early days of Hip Hop from growing up in the Bronx and moving to Long Island at a young age. We discuss his start as a B Boy and how that transformed into him being intrigued with the turntables. He speaks in great detail about his early mentors from Long Island, DJ Will and DJ Hig. We find out how he first connected with Spectrum City, right around the time they were becoming Public Enemy and recording “Yo! Bumrush The Show.” He also gives a lot of history and his involvement in the early years of members of Leaders Of The New School; KB MC a.k.a Charlie Brown and Kid Craze a.k.a Busta Rhymes. He speaks about early work with UBC members: E Ski Spectacular and D-Nasty. He also gives a detailed glimpse of how he ended up doing cuts on Public Enemy albums and some details on his scratch credits”.

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“Classic Gangster” features vocals from the hardest working man in Hip Hop Sadat X, General Steele, and Louie Skaggs……

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Rob Swift recently rocked a in-depth interview with Tony Prince (DMC) that is worthy of your attention.

“DJ Rob Swift: What you said about mega mixes is so true. When you think about it, a 6 minute DMC set is exactly that, a mega mix performed by a DJ in real time. So who were some of the other DJs that competed in the New Music Seminar battles whom you think were also pushing the boundaries of what DJs did back in the early years of organized competitions?

Tony Prince: Whiz Kid, Afrika Islam, Jazzy Joyce, Mixmaster Ice, Barry B, Cut Creator are some of the great hip-hop DJs running with the first pack at the Marriot Marquee Battle for World Supremacy.

DJ Rob Swift: All legends for sure. We’re there elimination rounds in the DMC pre – DJ Cheese era like now or were the competitors invited?

Tony Prince: There was only one championship through DMC before the 1986 Cheese year and it was only UK DJs (Roger Johnson won this). There was no scratching, just mixing in beat and in tune. A lot of DJs were tone-deaf and tried to mix music in two conflicting keys, it used to drive me crazy”.

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I can’t recall if I posted this up when it first dropped. Regardless, the good people at DOPE FOLKS dropped this mix that showcases 16 cuts from their ever expanding catalogue…

DONT SLEEP JACK!

TRACKLIST-

Paint It Black: We Got Pull (“KILLED BY DEF VOL. 1″)

Rock La Flow: Freestyle Fanatic (“The Ultimate”)

Danger Zone Mobb Sqwad: Flip’n Keeloz (“Danger Zone Mobb Sqwad” EP)

Courageous Chief: Warpath (“Warpath EP” *** SOLD OUT)

MC Capone: Smooth Style (“Payroll Records Rare Tracks 88-91″)

Mixmasta D: Strate Phrum Da Krate (“Turntable Scientist EP +3″ *** SOLD OUT)

Stranj Child: Split Personality (“Stranj Child EP”)

Ruthless Rod & MC Dollar: In the Groove (“Loud as a Banshee”)

Prophets of The Ghetto: West Phil (“Wreckless Writers ’96-’99″ ***SOLD OUT)

Rock La Flow: Wreckamic (“Flowgram Pt. 1″)

Legion of DUME: Knights of the Roundtable (“’94 DUME EP” **** SOLD OUT)

ILL Distracxion: I Heard Ya Don’t Know (“Psychotic Nasty EP” **** SOLD OUT)

Hitman (Earplay Entertainment)- Die 4 my Iggaz (Earplay Entertainment ’96 Brooklyn EP)

The Wizard of Rap: Escape From East New York (Remix) (“Escape From East New YorK”)

The Bizzie Boyz: Turntable Terrorizer (“Rare & Unreleased ’87-’89″)

Supreme Nyborn: Versatility (Versatile Extension) (“Payroll Records Rare Track ’88-’91″)

Rock La Flow: It Ain’t All Good/Outro… (“Flowgram Pt. 2″)

That “MAGNA CARTA” album by Melanin 9 had some rockers on it…..I’m quite sure cats are going to say his flow is reminiscent of an early 90’s Nasir Jones…Sure you can hear traces of his influences with his rhyme patterns, but if you listen closely you will hear original wordplay that was obviously fueled by hitting the books heavily……..

Some of the played-out drum breaks he rocked over got on my nerves (a personal pet peeve)….He made up for it somewhat with a barrage of slick underworld narratives…

LONDON STAND THE FUCK UP !!!!!!

HIP HOP BATTLEFIELD TOP PICKS….

“Magna Carta”

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“Red Snow”

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“White Russian” featuring Roc Marciano…

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Earlier today I watched the “Red Bull BC One” B-Boy battles in utter amazement….I’m proud to see the next generation take this B-Boy shit to astronomical levels…

Remember when they told us that it was just another fad that would fade away in a couple years ?

HAHAHAHAHA……..

Anyway, Mane One keeps the momentum pumping on this Freestyle Session mix from a couple months back…Soul power, heavy drum breaks, wild arrangements, doubles, and all that other fly shit cuzzo….

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JS-1 filled in for Eclipse last month on the “Rap Is Out Of Control” radio show…..Brand new flavors on deck…

TRACKLIST-

01-ICE CUBE – EVERYTHANG’S CORRUPT
02-APOLLO BROWN & GUILTY SIMPSON – HOW WILL I GO
03-YOUNG ZEE & MR. GREEN – THROW YOUR HANDS UP
04-TRUTH feat O.C – GENUINE ARTICLE (prod by PF Cuttin’)
05-THE BLACK OPERA – TORTURE CHAMBER
06-APOLLO BROWN & GUILTY SIMPSON – INK BLOTCHES
07-RAMPAGE feat KING TEE – IT AINT EAZY
08-RP – NEVER BACK DOWN
09-CRAIG G – ORIGINALITY – (prod by Lmno)
10-APOLLO BROWN & GUILTY SIMPSON – ONE MAN
11-KRS-ONE – DISASTER KIT
12-NATURE – AMERICAN DREAM
13-XZIBIT feat KING TEE & THA ALKAHOLIKS – LOUIS XIII
14-9th WONDER & MURS – WHATUPTHO
15-BROWN BAG ALLSTARS – BRWN (J57 Remix)
16-KURIOUS – SNAKE CHARMER (prod by MF Doom)
17-ROC MARCIANO – THREAD COUNT (prod by Q-Tip)
18-JOEY BADAS$$ – WAVES
19-BURNTMD feat KEITH MURRAY – BUILDING BLOCKS
20-REKS feat J NICE – BANG BANG (Audible Doctor Remix)
21-KRAZY DRAZY feat SMIFF N WESSON – RUDE BOY
22-SHOW & AG feat FRANK V – EVERYTIME i TOUGH THE MIC
23-THEO3 – TRUST (prod by Tone Mason / cuts by Dj Eclipse)
24-SHOW & AG – TRAPPED
25-LIL FAME & TERMANOLOGY feat STYLES P & BUSTA RHYMES – PLAY DIRTY
(prod by DJ Premier)
26-RAMPAGE feat R.A. THE RUGGED MAN – ZIG ZAG ZIG
27-CHINO XL – 90 BARS OF INTERVENTION (prod by Focus)
28-BROWN BAG ALLSTARS – RHETT COMMITTED MURDER (prod by Rhett)
29-CRAIG G – CALL THAT HIP HOP
30-WES STUDII – RIGHT HERE (prod by Don Producci / cuts by JS-1)
31-MAZA – SERENITY
32-LORDROC & DJ YOUNG C – GLOW LIKE THE SUN (prod by Young C)
33-ONYX – BELLY OF THE BEAST (prod by Audible Doctor)
34-GRAND PAPA TRA feat NUTSO, PUNCHLINE, DEBONAIR – HIP HOP IS BACK
35-9th WONDER & MURS – ASIAN GIRL INSTRUMENTAL
36-SADAT X feat PHARAOHE MONCH & PHIL G – THIS IS OUR THING
37-PUBLIC ENEMY feat CORMEGA – CATCH THE THROWN (prod by Large Pro)

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Scratch overlords Q-Bert & D-Styles, demonstrate why they are regarded as some of the illest DJ’s in the world on this live set from the Voodoo Music Experience 2012….

If this doesn’t inspire you to get your scratch patterns up, nothing will….

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Large Pro & MF GRIMM set it off lovely over raw SP-1200 production by DJ Crucial on, “United”…..I was lucky enough to find this hot piece of wax in Chicago last week.. (it’s already sold out)…

Scratch sentences + buttery chops + veteran bars = WIN…..

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For some strange reason after the “Pre-Emptive Strike” mixtape hit the 2000 download mark, the main link mysteriously got killed….I was extremely puzzled because it’s a motherfucking mixtape (big up to the cats that took it upon themselves to create new links, I SEE YOU) …

It wasn’t for sale, it wasn’t on I-Tunes or anything so I have absolutely no clue why someone would try to stifle progress….

Here is another re-up link for the die-hard troopers that missed it the first time around….

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And while your at it- I highly suggest that you pre-order the new album GRIMM & I put together “Good Morning Vietnam”…..If your on the hunt for hardcore Hip Hop morale, you just found it..

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* GRIMM always has fly album covers doesn’t he ?

Not to sound like your typical “THROWBACK BROTHER”, but I miss the days when cats would actually listen to an album from front to back….

In this “short circuit era” that we are currently living in, it’s seems as if the masses merely skim through a listening experience, instead of taking the time to truly absorb a full length release…

On that note – I recently went back and gave MF GRIMM’S “Digital Tears” a thorough listen…..Here are my top picks..

“All Ya’ll”…..”I seen million dollar niggas murdered over cheese / niggas pop shit, repercussions cop pleas”……

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“Dr. Death”…

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“Dancin”…

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GRIMM & I both share a deep affinity for Reggae music……Being that half of my family is from the Cayman Islands (by way of Africa of course) it was commonplace to hear Caribbean flavors blasting out of the speakers in my household growing up……

In my opinion Hip Hop and reggae are one in the same…

Anyway, SUPERCAT is one of GRIMM’S favorite reggae artist…..He even unveiled to me that he spit rhymes for the DON in a impromptu street cipher session in the mid nineties….

HAHAHA.

The good people over at STEREO STEPPERS recently put together a SUPERCAT tribute mix that should hold your attention…

TRACKLIST-

1. Intro
2. Boops
3. Big & Ready
4. Experienced Lover 

5. Deejay Daddy
6. How Cat Go America 

7. Dance Inna New York

8. Mandela Land

9. Dolly My Baby (ft. Trevor Sparks)
10. Oh It´s You
11. Terminator
12. Cabbin Stabbin (ft. Nicodemus, Jr Demus & Jr Cat)
13. How Yuh Pretty So

14. Sit Down Pon It
15. Too Greedy

16. Jah Run Tings
17. Love Got A Hold
18. Move Up
19. Pops
20. Come Down
21. Sweets For My Sweets
22. Think Me Come Fi Play
23. Under Pressure

24. Crazy Love
25. Jamaica Jamaica
26. Walkathon

27. Coke Don
28. Them No Care
29. Permit Fi Gun

30. Hell A Go Come
31. Cry Fi Di Youths
32. Trash And Ready
33. Don Dada

34. Tun It Over

35. Fight Fi Power
36. Bubble & Wine
37. Abc

38. Girlstown
39. Scalp Dem
40. Must Be Bright
41. Ghetto Red Hot
42. Nuff Man A Dead
43. Dem No Worry We (ft. Heavy D)
44. Sandokan
45. Chalice A Lick
46. Mud Up

47. Vineyard Style
48. Word, Sound & Power
49. Ride & Shut Off

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The Hip Hop nation has had to deal with tremendous loss in recent years..We are still reeling from the passing of iconic figures such as Jam Master Jay, Big L, Guru, Frosty Freeze, MCA, Heavy D, Stay High 149, Kase, Iz The Wiz, Tony D, Big Pun, Professor X, Old Dirty Bastard, Roc Raida and many others..

Speaking of the late great Roc Raida, he was the DJ for MF Grimm in the group, GRAVEDIGGAZ (this was years before the other “Diary Of A Madmen” crew assembled, RIP Poetic)..

Grimm created a heartfelt ode to his comrade earlier this year entitled, “Frequency” produced by Doc Singe with cuts by Rob Swift…….Turn the volume up and catch a zone..

RIP GRANDMASTA ROC RAIDA….

Back in June 12th of 2010 Grimm was the special guest on Conspiracy Radio (along with Stoupe, John Robinson, Son Of Bazerk,etc)…

This was around the time when he had just dropped, “You Only Live Twice”…He talks about comics, his Hip Hop pedigree, ghostwriting, and all types of other shit..

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” Travel through the years of jealousy / it became a cancer to the family. Quest for money divided us / feels like they forgot you died for us “…………”10 Years Later” produced by MF Doom….(2004)

DAMN….

It’s songs like this that convince me to keep GRIMM material on steady rotation in the system…..

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