“Rollin With The 100 Miles Posse…”
» Published by KAEWONDER
Here we go, y’all. This is a rare clip of Mos Def (UTD days, ack like you know) freestyling at CKLN w/ Thrust* . Check the introduction courtesy of the prestigious Johnbronski.
From Canadian hip-hop documentary “Make Some Noise” (1994)
*Peep Fatski in the background. I’m loving the 100 Miles name drop courtesy of the then relatively unknown Mos Def.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Holy jeez, I forgot about this doc. I just sent this email to Ski after seeing this. If you’ve got the whole doc, you need to upload that. Either here or Google Vid/Youtube/Dailymotion, whatever. It’s just something that need to be seen.
I remember CBC doing a piece on The Soul Controllers. That also needs to see the light of day. I wish I was running the VCR when this was all on TV.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:28 am
For everyone who wishes they were running the VCR when all the dopest shit was on TV, we got you.
just make sure your internet bill gets paid.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Classic material. Just wait to see some of the other juicy morsels of rugged rap canadiana we got in store for ya.
Remember the divide between the cats who used to rock TBG and the 100 Miles cats?
March 12th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Ha, crazy! I know this doc is available to view - but not to loan - at York U library for any students up there. Features a young Dan - E - O and Ghetto Concept too if I’m not mistaken.
March 13th, 2008 at 10:21 am
i remember those photocopied promo pics 100 Miles had of Pac wearing their gear. wasnt it from one of his videos or something?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Dan E-O,Ghetto Concept, Jeleestone,Blacklist crew, DJ X (with an SP1200 intro and mini-tutorial nonetheless), Johnbronski..The list goes on
For something so important, it feels pretty overlooked…
March 14th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Please dont forget about MVP and Farley Flex
March 18th, 2008 at 8:35 am
I’m the producer and director of Make Some Noise. I’d love to know how you got the Mos Def footage from my film.
March 18th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Oh and I can’t forget Da Grassroots interview…..
Super strong shouts to Attic, Mr. Murray & Swiff……
March 19th, 2008 at 9:02 am
props to jc and kaweezy, i linked you guys on the s.u.b. blog.
check..
s-u-b.blogspot.com
March 25th, 2008 at 8:28 am
nice. Im waiting for some more. GIMME SOME MORE!!!!
March 26th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I can’t stop laughing……
The Doc is called ” Make Some Noise”, my man Andrew Munger got at me to help him out. At the time I was working at Sony. Many of the new (hip hop) phony wise have tried to tell me that it was irrelevant. No bearing on the current situation. You can’t deny the fact that it works as a great time piece. It helps current heads understand their own origins, plus the star power. Before they were stars.
Mos Def, Farly Flex, Little x (masked graf), DXJ, Motion, Ghetto Concept just before the first of 2 juno wins. Myself, will that’s irrelevant. (lol)
It should be watch, but because it’s Toronto, people love to front.
I had given a copy to GB at Much before I moved to Europe and he lost it without even looking at. I told him it was a Toronto hip hop time capsule, but hey in Toronto that’s what you get.
March 26th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Damn Kae you gotta post this on YouTube or somewhere that lets people embed the video, I ain’t never seen Ski so cleancut. I got some classics on my blog too. Link me nah! http://www.cantslowdown.net
March 27th, 2008 at 6:15 am
this is serious! big up Kae and legends like John Bronski
March 27th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Wow…some true classic T.O. hip hop history right there. I hope to see some more footage from that time.
March 27th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Man…I want to shed a tear. Thanks Ski!
J
March 29th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
This is beautiful….not much more to say on that. You got Thrust on the mic, you got Kaleem Shabazz on the beatbox (last time I saw that cat was about 5yrs ago…said he was movin’ back to N.Y), Scam on the wheels, a clean cut Fatski in the background (LMAO!!!), and Mos Def on the the mic probably before the time he was doing the T.V show with Bill Cosby (which is also 6yrs before his first album). I feel good remembering that period of time….but even more important than that….the fact that those who may even have been born in the years that this took place have record of Hip Hop history in their own city. We gotta love our own.
April 4th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Man, i remember when this documentary came out, but never got a chance to see it. backin the pre-D age, it was either you were there for the festival or you missed it completely. thanks so much for posting this up.
while it’s exciting to see Mos Def in the T-dot at such an early point in his career (as well as ours as a music scene), it’s seeing Kaleem (or was it Khaleed?) that makes this clip so special for me.
i spent the good part of a week hanging out with his guy in New York City during the New Music Seminar (1994). (or rather, he was haunting me as well as Dalia Cohen, who introduced us.) he was such a wild character. knew his hip-hop inside and out, but was an inspired philosopher on the meaning of life. we’d be in the subway and he’d start preaching at us and loudly in a way that would be embarrassing in Toronto, but a natural part of the spectacle that is New York City. when he’d finish his discourse, strangers would walk up to him and tell him in the best of New Yawk accents, ‘you’re right on, buddy’. i saw him back in toronto again in 2002, but not since. a legend in my books, still though.
February 17th, 2011 at 12:59 pm
The whole film can be seen here: http://makesomenoisemovie.tumblr.com/
Also, make sure to check the interview with Andrew Munger, the director, here: http://ugsmag.com/2011/02/make-some-noise-a-1994-canadian-hip-hop-documentary/