Been slow around here lately. I’ve been dealing with computer issues, money issues, and time issues…meaning not enough money or time and all computers are out to make my life more difficult instead of easier. I have a lot on the plate that I want to cover in the future, so hopefully one of these weeks it will be a daily update thing. Until then I bring another volume of my own personal compilations, the WYDU classics….VOL 4! Hopefully this will appease the ten of you that check this site on the regular (Hi Mom! hahaha)

This month, features some hard to find joints, some probably not so hard to find. It also featues a little more west coast flavor than the last few volumes. Been in that mode a little more lately, or at least when it was time to set down and trim the fifty or so songs down, thats what I wanted to hear at that moment. Hopefully everyone is enjoying them. I’ve gotten positive feedback from those who have offered it. Not that it would matter, because as I said, I basically do these for myself, so if no one else likes them, oh fucking well…….

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Let’s jump into this month. A little warning, I’m feeling very uncreative, so not sure how this post will turn out.

1. Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rudd- Girls, I Got Em’ Locked (12″ released in 88′, also included on an LP with the same name in 88′)

Super-slept on album and single. Mixed by the legendary Paul C (who is responisble for Large Pro, Critical Beatdown, and numerous other classics), . I’ve always liked the beats on this album. Not sure why it is more hearlded among the older heads. I know I’m guilty myself not giving the album it’s just due as well.

2. Black, Rock & Ron- You Can’t Do Me None (Price Paul Remix) (single released in 90′, from the 89′ released “Stop The World”)

I remember this video being on “Yo!” (common occurance for a lot of these joints) and for the life of me I could never find an album by them. I guess they didn’t carry the album in small little northwestern town like the one I was from. I did always know which VHS tape of mine had this video though.

3.Nice N Smooth- Funky For You (self titled album released in 89′, the single dropped in 90′)

“Dizzy Gilespie plays the sax, me, myself, I love to max”, that was the shit when it kicked off, although, Gilespie wasn’t known for his sax playing, although Greg Nice claimed, dizzy, did in fact play the sax as well. This is the album version, but I remember the video version being slightly different, the chorus I believe was different.

4. Frankenstien- The Quiet Storm (appears on his 97′ “UV” album)

Yes, I’m a big fan of Frankenstein, as should be evident with him appearing before. Not alot of even so called “die hard hip hop heads” know about this T-Dot producer. His shit is sooo smoooooooth. This was on his “UV” album. It’s an older song, but honestly, I first heard it a few months ago. It was one of those songs that just “struck” me. I listened to it probably no fewer than 5 times in a row. Not much makes me do that these days.

5. Nine- Whatcha Want (single dropped in 94′, his “Nine Livez” debut album dropped a year later in 95′)

How this song wasn’t included in an earlier volume is beyond me. I meant to, but didn’t, I guess. Between the beat and his style, this is some hot shit. I’ll admit, 90% of the artists from his era that had some fucked up vocal tone/style, I find extremely wack now, but he sounds better than when he first dropped in my opinion.

6. Xzibit- Paparazzi (single dropped in 96 along with his “At The Speed of Life” LP)

Sticking with the string orchestration production theme, Paparazzi isn’t all that “obscure”, but I’ve always loved the production on it, which is by the obscure Thayod Ausar. I do have to look down at X to The Z for dropping the crew that brought him up, when he bailed from the Likwit Crew to Dre’s camp. That was some fucked up shit and goes against his message in this song.

7. Threat- PDK (on the album “Sickinnahead” that dropped in 93′)

Threat was probably the most slept on MC from that early pre G-Funk west coast era. He appeared with Cube on “Death Certificate”, was on Pac’s “Stictly….” album, rocked it with Tha Liks on their debut. This album is really good. Lots of DJ Pooh produced gems, but he never got his due really. I had problems picking which joint I wanted to include, although I’m sure they’ll be more from this album in the future.

8. Hi- C – Punk Shit (from his “Skanless” album that dropped in 91)

This album has numerous hits. It dropped in 91, my senior in High School (yeah, I’m dating myself), so it has lots of memories. I chose this song because it had a lot of lines that I loved, so it got the nod, but more to come from it as well.

9. 2nd II None- Be True To Yourself (self titled album dropped in 91, single was dropped sometime around then as well)

Some more 304 shit (Hi C, 2nd II None, AMG, DJ Quik, for yo bustas out there). I believe this was their first single as well, but can’t find any easy info on that and I don’t feel like digging for it. This is when I liked the west as much as the east for the most part. When everyo
ne started trying to imitate Dre is when the west fell off in my opinion. The whole album is pretty good. I remember my AMG/Hi C/2nd II None homemade tape I made got A LOT OF PLAY back in those days.

10. Digital Underground- Sounds Of The Underground (appeared on the TAPE only version of “Sex Packets” from 89′)

You won’t find this on the CD or the wax versions of “Sex Packets”. It was a cassette only release. Yes, I bought the tape back in the day, so when I bought the CD a few years later, I was pissed not to find 4 songs not included on the CD that were on the cassette. This song is more of a Raw Fusion song than a DU song. It’s all Money B and he mentions DJ Fuze often as well. It’s a bass heavy track with a wicked electric guitar, which I’m a sucker for if done right.

11. Derek B- Bad Young Brother (12″ released in 88′, was also on

I’ll be the first to admit, us Americans are snobby as hell when it comes to foreign hip hop, I’m guilty of it myself at times. Derek B was the first foreign hip hop I heard way back in 88′. I didn’t know, or didn’t care, but I liked this joint and the album a lot. It was among the first episodes of “Yo!” that they played this and I remember running out and finding it out a department store of all places.

12. Awesome Dre & The Hardcore Comittee- Frankly Speaking (12″ dropped in 89′ and was also on the “You Can’t Hold Me Back” LP from 89′)

Quick quiz: Who was the first hip hop artist out of Detriot to make noise in the game? No, not eminem or Jay Dee (rip), It was Awesome Dre and the Hardcore Comittee. The joint popped up on Yo! a few times back in the days and I was all over it.

13. MC Breed- Ain’t To Be Fucked With (From his “20 Below” album in 92)

This was about the time I was into a lot of bass music because I had the “boomin’ system” & the funk in the trunk with my little Jetta. This is my favorite MC Breed album, although I’m not much of a MC Breed authority by any means. Just a cool “crusin’” song.

14. Erick Sermon feat Joe Sinister- Payback II

My favorite sole E Double album, this song is sick. Funk for days. The guest, Joe Sinister, was the shit. His last verse on this song got “Quotable Of The Month” in The Source back in the day. I always hoped he would drop something, because the man was good. The only other thing I know he appeared on was on Terminator X’s second album, with the track “Under The Sun”, which is coming soon!

15 Terminator X feat Celo of The Casino Brothers- Wanna Be Dancin (Dropped as promo only 12″ in 90′ was on the full length album in 91)

Speaking of Terminator X, I always liked this album and this was one of my favorite songs from it. I was always hoping the “Casino Brothers” would drop something, but I don’t know much about them. Some more of that funk and bass from the bottom. You had to have your speakers set up just right for this stuff to sound good.

16. Gangsta Bitch- Apache (single dropped in 92, was also on his full length album)

This was a hit back in the day, then not much was heard from him. It’s some of your classic east coast sounds from back in the day, produced by none other than A Tribe Called Quest.

(Sorry, got bust through this and I have to post this now, any questions on the last three tracks, hit me up)

17. Red Hot Lover Tone- 4 My Peeps & Others

18. Show N Prove- Big Daddy Kane and Others

19 Fuck Everyone- Everlast

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What the hell? Is that Kanye West up there? What the hell is he doing on this site? What the hell is wrong with us? Is WYDU selling out? Man, WHAT THE FUCK!!??!?! Well, if you can’t beat them, join them is what I say. The Fifty post will be up tomorrow as well.

Nah, we ain’t going out like that, this post actually has some “obscure” ties to it. Kanye West is now one of the most seen hip hop artists in the mainstream, up there with 50 and whatever Southern crunk artist is hot at the moment. The man is all up in magazines, dressing up as a crucified black man on the cover of Rolling Stone, declaring that Bush “doesn’t care about Black people”, which, well, he probably doesn’t. He’s also one of the most pompous jackasses that I’ve seen in awhile. He actually thinks he is a lot better than he is. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to bash dude. I liked “The College Dropout” for the most part. Some of his production for Jay-Z was pretty tight. I didn’t care much for “Late Registration” except for a “Touch The Sky” (which ironically Just Blaze produced) and I still don’t think he’s that great of a MC, but I don’t hate dudes music just because he’s “mainstream”. I’d rather have his music on the mainstream airwaves more than 99% of the crap on the radio.

But before the pompous, collar-up, self-proclaiming greatest ever, mainstream artist grabbed America’s attention or even Roc-A-Fellas attention for that matter, Kanye was just another producer trying to get a rep in the game. We all know most of the story. He’s from Chi-town, but not many know his original works.

Kanye first appeared on an album back in 96′, a full three years before the first Roc-A-Fella and Mase projects in 99′. His first beat to appear on wax as far as I know, and from what I have read, came in the form of “City To City” by Chi-town MC, Grav that also featured Lil Ray (?) and Al-Tariq. “City To City” was a b-side to Grav’s “Sex” single that dropped in 96′ on Correct records. He later produced two more tracks for Grav’s only LP “Down To Earth”, an LP that was, I think, predominately produced by No I.D. and Dug Infinite, both whom are famous for producing a lot of Common’s earlier work and also is brought up as somewhat of Kanye’s earlier mentor.

So I have for you today, those three Kanye produced tracks from Grav’s “Down To Earth” release from 1996, a good ten years ago. There is also some earlier work of his that he produced for Mikkey, an early friend, who is popping up in interviews as trying to comeback. I don’t know much about him though.

City To City- Grav feat Al-Tariq & Lil Ray
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The beat is pretty good, nice bass line with a sprinkling of keys over it. I like it better than 90% of the stuff on heard on his latest release, but I’m an old fucker.

One Puff- Grav
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Another pretty dope beat. Again, strong bass line and some nice keys. I’m
a sucker for piano keys anyway. It’s even a better beat than “City To City”
beat.

Down To Earth- Grav
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Strings, horns, and of course another killer bass line.

I never heard this album when it dropped back in 96′, I was too busy starting to get pissed off at hip hop at that time, but if I had, I would have been looking for more of Kanye’s work for sure. I have a feeling we’ve (meaning the cats that look at more than a songs chart position) have seen the best of Kanye. Hopefully not, he’s pretty dope when he is concentrating on that real hip hop.

As far as the album goes itself. Its a pretty good mid 90′s album. Track 14 “Battle” is the dopest track by far on the album, but every thing is up to par and worth more than one listen.
Grav- Down To Earth Nice $10.00 used one there, which I would grab myself if I wasn’t piss ass broke. Better than the $25 plus ones I’ve seen around. He sounds alot like Busta on a few tracks.

Travis

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Back again up in that muthafunkin’ ass! Today I’m FINALLY dropping Vol. 3 of our new “classics” series for the month of March. As I said before, these will be a monthly thing. Strictly classics in my own mind. Some might be “classics” in the hip-hop mind state, some might suck ass to everyone other than me. But you know what? I don’t give a figgidy fuck. And no, the Hilton sisters have nothing to do with hip-hop, and I don’t even like them, but going with the “bad daughter” theme, they worked the best, and I couldn’t find a decent picture of the Bush daughters.
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So let’s jump into it, shall we. Since I have some time and we are caught up, I’m going to do what I orginally planned on doing, which is talk about each track juuuuust a little.

1. Three Times Dope- The Greatest Man Alive (Single Released in 1988; Appeared on the Orginal Stylin’ LP in 88′ as well)

I love this joint, definetly one of the best songs to come from the 80′s, if not ever. The video was played quite often on “Yo! MTV Raps” back in the day, which is where I think I ran into it. I’m not sure if I ever actually owned the tape back then. One of my friends had it and I’m pretty sure all I had was a dub of that. If you can find this LP, grab it by all means.

2. Stezo – It’s My Turn (Released as the b-side on the “To The Max” single in 89′ and then popped up on the “Crazy Noise” LP in 89′)


Stezo has alot of history behind him. Being from Conneticutt for one, being EPMD’s dancer and being one of the first to use the “Skull Snap” sample (also used by Gang Starr on “Take It Personal” along with many others). The way he came up with that sample is some shady business he pulled on his own cousin Chris Lowe and Dooley-O that is covered good on “The Low End Theory” blog

3. Milk- Get Off My Log Feat Big V (From the Def American Release “Never Dated” in 94′)

Milk Dee was part of one of my personal favorite groups, Audio Two. This might be one of those joints that people think I’m crazy for including, but I loved this shit. The noisy bomb-squad like production, Milks nasal/whiney flow and bragadacio lyrics….good shit. Not sure what happened with Milk after this, but now would be a good time to come back

4. Black Sheep- Without A Doubt (12″ released in 94′, on the Non-Fiction album also dropped in 94)
From the highly slept on sophomore release Non- Fiction, this track is a smooth, mello, jazzy song that I’m not sure why it isn’t an universal classic. Also has a Salaam Remi remix that popped up on the 12″, if anyone has that , I’d love to hear that again.

5. A.D.O.R – Let It All Hang Out (Pete Rock Remix, droppped as 12″ in 92)

From money earnin Mt. Vernon himself, ADOR is one of the more slept on white cats making music. This track is a classic sounding Pete Rock remix, with the horns and all. I’ve honestly never heard the orginal version. I do have his “Shock Frequency” album that isn’t too bad and he dropped an album last year (?) that I heard a track off of that was really good, but good luck finding it.

6. E-Rule- Listen Up (dropped on a 12″ in 94′)

I know very little about E-Rule honestly. This single had a video on “Yo!” and thats where I first ran into it. I want to say it was in The Source’s “Sure Shot’s” that used to appear toward the end of the magazine, but my memory could be faulty on that. I just found out recently that there is an actual album from E-Rule called “Cold Currentz” that I still haven’t gotten a hold of yet. Great song though that was produced King Born Allah, who I know even less about

7. The Nonce- Mixtapes (dropped as a 12″ in 93′, was included on the LP “World Ultimate” that dropped in 95′)

Another “Yo” introduced single. This west coast crew was highly slept on as well. They produced this track themselves that dropped on an independent label in 93′ orginally. Memeber Yousef Afloat passed away in an auto accident if I remember right (RIP). I bought the album strictly off the strength of the song.

8. Souls Of Mischief- Cabfare (Was included as a b-side on the “That’s When You Lost” white label I believe around 94ish I think)

This song was never “offically” released due to sample clearance issues. It lifts the theme for the T.V. show “Taxi”, which you youngin’s probably wouldn’t remember. Nice little catchy tune that has the crew bitching about cab’s. Very fresh for then and especially now.

9. Cru- Blunts and Bakakeemis feat Antoinette, Tracey Lee, and Jim Hydro (found on the 97′ released “Da Dirty 30″)

Cru was one of those fly ass groups that dropped one album then disappeared. Yogi, the producer went on to join Puffy’s “Hitmen”, but thats about all I’ve heard of them. This track was a great jump off track on the album. And yes, that is THAT Antoinette from MC Lyte fame. And, what the fuck is a Bakakeemis???

10. Das EFX- Real Hip-Hop (Pete Rock Remix) (Released as remix to the 12″ version in 95′ )

It’s hard to choose between this version and the Primo version. I mean, thats like choosing between two hot chicks, it’s not easily done. This is kind of “spacey” for a Pete Rock beat, but I always liked it

11. Poor Righteous Teachers- Rock Dis Funky Joint (Dropped in 90′ as their debut single and also appeared on their “Holy Intellect” LP)

A funky Tony D produced track, this was a “Yo!” favorite from back in the day as well. I remember this was a pretty cool video as well. They don’t make video’s like they used to.

12. Intelligent Hoodlum (Tragedy Khadafi) – Arrest The President (dropped in 90′ on his self-titled debut album)

Marley Marl at his best. This song is still relevent today, thats for sure. It gets you fired up with it’s political agenda and siren like production. Same president, different Bushes….fucker.

13. Just-Ice- Going Way Back (dropped as a single in 87′ and also showed up on the “Kool & Deadly” album from that same year.)

A history lesson of sorts, Ice drops all sorts of names. Amazing this song is almost 20 years, I feel old as fuck. First saw this on “Yo!”, it was one of the few artists from those early days that I didn’t pick up for some reason, although I always liked the song. Produced by the Blastmaster

14. Akinyele & R.A. The Rugged Man- What The Fuck (appeared as a 12″ b/w “Stanley Kubrick”, not really sure when this dropped…guessing late 90′s)

First time I heard this was 2002-2003, somewhere in there (I think) but I think it’s been around for awhile, at least since the late 90′s. I think this version came off a mixtape, cause it’s cut up, but it’s the only thing I’ve been able to find. It’s a crazy song, but what do expect from these two’s. I mean having kids singing the chorus “whaaaaat the fuuuuuck is going oooon”.

15. Smoothe Da Hustler feat Trigga Tha Gambler- Broken Language (dropped as a 12″ in 95′ and appeared on Smoothe’s “Once Upon A Time In America” that dropped in 96′)

Some NY grimey shit. This was on some next shit when it dropped. I remember my boy and I sat in my GMC Jimmy that had a nice system in it when I got this and just listened to the CD over and over again. Classic NY grime shit.

16. Money Boss Players- What U Sayin (appeared on the infamous “Ghetto Chronicle Daily” EP in 94)

The one-time holy grail on everyone’s list, this EP was a bitch to find for the longest time. I personally heard of them after hearing group memeber Minnesota’s production on Grand Puba’s “2000″. At that time I’d never heard of him or MBP’s. Then I think I remember them appearing in “The Source” in one of their little blips they did on groups back then, but I can’t be positive on that. Then they appeared on Sadat X’s “Wild Cowboy’s” album. Finding anything else from them was nearly impossible until the explosion of music trading on the internet. I have most of that EP, sans the instrumental tracks included on it. This is my favorite of the bunch, the production is freaking incredible and they have that rough grimey NY sound down from that time. There will be more from the MBP’s in future WYDU volumes.

17. Mobstyle- Mobstyle (appeared on “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly LP” from 90′)

This group is almost as hard if not more so to find info about than MBP’s. This just might be some of the realest shit ever wrote. For the DL about this group, check out Streets On Beats drop about them (which is the most I’ve ever read about this group). This is some HARD shit. The beats aren’t the prettiest, but coming from 90′, what do you expect.

18. The Flavor Unit MC’s (Extended Version)- Roll Wit Da Flava (From The Flavor Unit’s “Roll Wit Tha Flava” LP that was released in 93′)

One of my all-time favorite posse-cuts. Every verse, including Latifah’s and Chip Fu, is dope as fuck. It includes Treach, Chip-Fu, Freddie F-o-x-x-x, Queen Latifah, Heavy D, D-Nice (who supringly produces the track, the drums are NUTS!), and Dres from Black Sheep. I’d have to give the best verse to Bumpy Knucks, who drops an angry verse that rivals his “Militia” verse w/ Gang Starr

19. King Tee feat Ice Cube & M.C. Breeze- Played Like A Piano (From the “At Your Own Risk” LP.

King Tee is possibly my favorite left coast MC. He just doesn’t get his due. This DJ Pooh produced track (another slept on producer) is some classic West Coast shit. And the fact you got the pissed off Jherri Curled Ice Cube instead of the Disney movie starring Cube is a good thing. Why this track is brought up more often is beyond me. This won’t be the last King Tee joint you see on these.

So there you have it, another volume in the books. Hope everyone enjoys!

Travis

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Taking a break from the WYDU classics. Mainly because I forgot my Vol 3 CD. So we are going cover something that I had with me, one of the more slept on albums out there. Al’ Tariq’s “God Connections”.

For those of you unfamilar with Al’ Tariq, he was once 1/3 of another slept on crew, The Beatnuts. He was Fashion on the first Beatnuts EP. He caught a drug charge and was upstate for the group’s first full length release the self-titled album (I’ve also seen it called Street Level). After three years on the DL, he popped up in 96′ as a Muslim and dropped the Correct Records “God Connections”. It’s definetely got that Beatnuts flavor production wise, since they produced eight of the tracks, leaving V.I.C. (a Beatnuts afflilate) doing four tracks, No I.D. of Common fame doing two and a couple other producers dropping single tracks. Lyrical wise, I always kind of thought Tariq was the better one on the mic out of the three. While the muslim backgroud tones the subject matter a little from the Beatnut days, they are still some of the favorite topics that the ‘Nuts are known for, sex, guns and chicks.

Finding this CD is a great task now a days. I haven’t seen the ebay prices for it, but Amazon has it for $98.98 for a new one and $54.00 for a used copy. I kick myself in the ass for not buying this when I had the chance. I saw it in a Sam Goody or some shit back in 96′ in Salt Lake City of all places. I kept telling myself I was going to buy it, but since I never heard much about it in “The Source” or from anyone else, I kept putting it off until it finally disappeared. Such a dumb ass. I got a vinly copy version from man Polarity and it’s a great album. Marks about the time Hip-Hop started to take a downward spiral, but this is the real shit.

He is also in the group Missin’ Linx, who dropped a six track EP in 2000, titled “Exhibit A”. The group consisted of Problemz, and Black Attack as well. I have my eye on a used CD here in Denver, so I better grab it before it’s gone.

Tracks

All Over The Track feat Pyscho Les
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Do Yo Thang
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Peace Akki feat The Beatnuts
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Nikki (Vinyl Only release)
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Travis

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Here’s the second installment of my own personal favorites. Enjoy! (Sorry, for the short post, but have to dertmine the factors in forecasting icing on aircraft….joy) Any questions, answers, or general comments, feel free to leave them

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Vol 2 (Feb 06)
1. Son Of Bazerk- Change The Style
2. Das EFX- Hard Like A Criminal
3. Shadz Of Lingo feat Erick Sermon- Mad Flavaz
4. MC Pooh- Funky As I Wanna Be
5. Penthouse Players Clique feat Eazy E & DJ Quik- P.S. Phuck U 2
6. DJ Quik feat KK- Can’t F— Wit A N—a
7. The Afro’s- Feelin It
8. YZ- Thinking Of A Master Plan
9. Nat The Cat- While You’ve Been Waiting
10. Royal Flush- Worldwide
11. C.P.O. feat MC Ren- Ballad Of A Menace
12. Sir Mix-A-Lot feat E Dawg- Can’t Slip
13. Special Ed- Neva Go Back
14. Trendz Of Culture- F&#% What Ya Heard
15. Top Quality- Tales From Uptown
16. Groove B Chill- Hip Hop Music
17. Greyson & Jasun feat Slick Rick- Get Bizzy
18. Freshco & DJ Miz- We Don’t Play
19. Dismasters- Small Time Husters
20. L.A. Dream Team- Dream Team’s In The House

Travis

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WYDU Presents: WYDU Classics Vol 1 (Jan 06′)

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Back again after a small hiatis. Today I’m going to do something I won’t usually do. I’m going to post up an “album” of sorts. I will stay away from posting full albums just for the simple fact there are other places to find whole albums and I still believe in supporting good music when you have the oprutunity. Anyhow, this isn’t a real “album” anyway. It’s a compilation of sorts.

From my early days of getting into music, I’ve always made “mixtapes” of sorts for my own listening pleasure. Not really mixed together in the traditional sorts, but I’d try to combine stuff with the ol’ pause button mix. You older cats know where I’m coming from. I was always the one around the way to make tapes for friends because I was the one usually that had all the rare stuff, the remixes, the b-sides ect and most any major album that came out. And I enjoyed making tapes for friends. I’d always have a mix of known stuff then some stuff that th e peson I was making the tape for wasn’t aware, introduce them to something new. I still have boxes full of tapes I made. Greatest Hits tapes, monthly tapes, best of certain years…all kinds of tapes.

When the computer and CD burner came into the picture, that was even better, in a sense. I couldn’t record over CD’s but it was quicker to make a compilation. I usually make monthly CD’s of newer tracks and stuff for myself to listen to. Well in the past couple months I’ve been inspired by some of the stuff popping up on the Cocaine Blunts boards. People have been putting up their own made compilations. These include obscure tracks, remixes, b-sides, all the good stuff that peaks my interest. Stuff like the Lost and Found compilations, Run Da Jewelz series by my man Jaz and the Jason Gloss Chronicles from philaflava.com. Lot’s of good stuff on these.

This all got me thinking. As good as these are, I wanted something for myself. Stuff that that was my shit back in the day. So I threw together a disk of tracks that got me going back in the day. For the past year or so, I’ve been more into the past than the present when it comes to Hip-Hop, so might as well have some stuff for me to listen to on the regular. Well that was in January of this year. Then I made one for Febuary. I just made another for March last night. I have 40 songs together for April already. Needless to say, I got off on this type of thing. I figured I might as well share with the 10 or so readers of this blog.

As I said, these aren’t “mixed” in any sense. I’d like to be able to mix them together right, either using a real DJ or some fancy mixing program for the computer, but I don’t have access to either at this point in time. They’re also were made with me basically in mind. It’s stuff that I liked back in the day. Thanks to the net and most noteably, Cocaine Blunts, I’ve been re-acquiring alot of stuff that I loved back in the day, but lost. So most of these are kind more of the obscure type things (although not neccesarily rare or hard to find in an internet hip hop geek sort of way that I’ve found myself becoming). I have heard “Rebel Without A Pause” so many times in my life, I see no need to include it on these compilations. Instead, I’ve included stuff that isn’t as popular by the masses, but made some sort of impact on me.

So for the next three days I’ll up the first three volumes of WYDU Classics (generic name, but I haven’t thought of anything better yet). Hopefully people will check them out and find some use for them. They might help some of the younger cats out there, which is kind of why I’m posting them. Sorry for the megaupload links, but I wanted something semi-permenant. They are too big for Zshare, sendspace has been a pain in the ass lately, and I refuse to upload anything on rapidshare while they have that stupid ass time limit, so you get megaupload.

WYDU Presents The First Volume (Jan 06′) of WYDU Classics

Track Listing ( I had orginally spent time dropping some knowledge on each track on covers….but since my worthless piece of shit comptuer decided to crash when I hit “Publish Post”, I’m not going to spend another two hours doing that so you get just the plain and simple track list. Have any questions, feel free to ask.

1. 6 Million Ways To Die- Funk Master Flex feat 9 Double M (Nine) and Tragedy: released in 93′ on a 12″

2. Nuttin’ But Flavor- Funkmaster Flex w/ The Ghetto Celebs (Charlie Brown, Old Dirty Bastard & Biz Markie): released in 95′ on a 12″

3. Droppin’ It- Bizzie Boys: released as 12″ in 90 and also apperead on the mystery album that I can’t find much info on

4. Can I Get Open- Orginal Flavor feat Jay-Z: Released in 93′ and also appeared on the “Beyond Flavor” LP

5. L.A. Posse- Breeze: Released in 89′ and was on the “The Young Son Of No One” LP

6. She’s Got A Big Posse- Arabian Prince: Released in 89′ and was on the “Brother Arab” LP

7. Drums Of Steel- 7A3: Released in 88′ and was on the “Coolin’ In Cali” LP

8. Southern Comfort- Down South: dropped in 94′ and was on the “Lost In Brooklyn” LP

9. Feel The Flava- Mad Flava: dropped in 93′ and on the LP “From Tha Ground Unda” (anyone has the Eric Sadler remixes, hit me up!!!!!)

10. The May 4th Movement- Digable Planets: From the LP “Blowout Comb” released in 94′

11. The Rain Is Gone- Frankenstien: Dropped in 96′ on a 12″

12. Up In The Mountains- 2 Black 2 Strong MMG: dropped in 91′ on the album “Doin’ Hard Time On Planet Earth”

13. Raida’s Theme (remix)- The X-ecutioners feat Wayne-O from E-Bros: 12″ single dropped in 98′

14. Unsolved Mysterme- Mysterme & DJ 20/20: dropped in 92′ and was on the “Let Me Explain” LP

15. Toss It Up- Zhigge: Released in 91 or 92 and was on their self titled album

16. Oh What A Night- Diamond Shell feat Biz Markie: From the 91′ album “The Grand Imperial”

17. Glamorous Life- Cool C: dropped in 89′ on the “I Gotta Habit” album

Travis

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I posted part three of the demo series, but since I started it last thursday and was interupted and didn’t finish it until today, it still came up as a thursday posting. So scroll down…….

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