TheMeaningOfDope

Smif N Wessun, 1994, it gets no better. Some more Jack The Rapper heatery. Bucktown (LIVE).

In case you didn’t already know… Rosie Perez IS hiphop.

In 1993 she had the chance to host her own HBO special, it was called “Rosie Perez Presents Society’s Ride”. She took this as a chance to showcase all the biggest names in rap music at the time Heavy D, Run DMC, Redman, Onyx and the list goes on. With the theme song done by none other than LONS, this show was certified DOPE.

The west coast was definitely in the house for this clip. Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg performing:

Fuck wit Dre Day
Nuthin’ but a “G” Thang
Deep Cover (Remix) *one of the baddest remix’s EVER.

Much more to come from this event…

Hey remember Rowdy Records? Dallas Austin before the yae-yo incident?

Well if you don’t, he was somewhat of a risk-taking visionary his whole career and he gave upstart skateboarding, weed-smoking, vans-rocking, shit-talking Y’all So Stupid a deal through Arista since he had industry juice at the time.  He also put out Illegal and Da King and I.  Some serious classics on that roster.

Their debut(and sadly, only) album Van Full Of Pakistans was the shit. I bumped The Plant and the title track like crazy only to find out that The Plant was somehow missing from the LP that I copped in some random spot near Times Square on my first trip to NYC.

This video is of their Debut Single, 85 South. It’s hysterical. Dude skitching the car with his deck on the highway? Easy.

H20 from this group later was part of a late 90’s underground group called Mass Influence. They had a couple bangers. Evidently he is still doing his thing, so big up and thanks for penning some seriously dope tracks. Dirt Road White Girl anyone?

Here’s audio of the aforementioned title track “Van Full Of Pakistans”. If H20 pops up on here and tells us wtf that actually referred to, it would be appreciated. I’ll try and get the 2 other mixes off the 12′ up here soon with download links for all.

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Thats right yall, Mr. White Rapper himself and his ex-partner Prime Minister Pete Nice.

Watch them break it down on the subject of being white in hip hop, and in case you didn’t know, Pete Nice enjoys drinking snapple.

Peace to Ace on the footage.

Here’s some audio from Evil Dee’s “Monday Nite Flava Mix” on Hot 97. I’m guessing this is from around ‘95-96(?).

There’s some insane tracks on this(including a slightly different version of “Give Up The Goods (Just Step)”(live? 12″ version?), as well as some pretty good on-air banter between Evil Dee and Big Dennis (big up KFC “chicken” potpies).

Anyways, this tape is butter. Primo’s on the other side of the tape, too. As Kool DJ Red Alert would say:” STFM” (Stay Tuned For More)…

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“I hate your f*ckin guts, and I hope that you die”. How else would Sticky set off his verse on this track?

Another absurd performance from Onyx.

Onyx - Throw Ya Gunz (LIVE)

I have to be brutally honest here. I was never a huge L.O.T.U.G. fan. Psycho? Meh. Funky Child? The horns got old real quick. Chief Rocka I got into for a few just because the video was so good and featured Redman looking grimey as a mufucka.

In retrospect, I watch this interview and performance and these dudes seemed pretty grounded and on top of their music industry game considering what year this was and how many people were getting taught Industry Rule #4080 the hard way. They had a couple joints that really crushed the mixshows, so let’s give them their propers.

To all non-Canadians..the guy with the dreads and lingo is Tony Young aka Master T. The only really credible and motivated dude to ever grace our music channel. He got sick of the bs and went out on a huge note bringing up Lauryn Hill out of nowhere for an unplugged show live on TV. He also had a store called T’s Cribb that sold Cross Colours, Triple 5 Soul and other OG “rap” clothing lines. Big up Master T and his talking keyboard, Roxy.

…Kool G Rap is his name. This footage was originally aired on Video Music Box for their anniversary show.

Even though most of the people were more concerned with getting on camera rather than taking in the show, this goes down as a pretty dope performance. Performing one of my personal favorites “It’s A Demo”!!

Props go out to the group of 5 ladies that showed up.

Back in ‘94, I was a 13 year old shorty splitting TTC bus tickets in half and taping them to dimes so they wouldn’t flip when I dropped them in the pay slot to get on the train. Living in the west end you never really saw a lot of dope writers. The Source was your source for what was poppin’ in the graffiti world unless you were spending most of your time downtown, in which case you started to get familiar with who was nice with it and who was just around for a few months bombing here and there.

There was a spot on Queen Street back in the day, just west of Aritzia and east of the Black Bull called, Number 6. The shop, run by Matt Robinson and Lena Kim was later relocated and renamed, “Delphic”, but even back then had some dope shit, including the first version of Style Wars on video that I had ever seen. This issue of Xylene magazine is something that I cherished growing up, as it gave some promise that there were dudes on the west coast of Canada just as hype about this Hip-Hop shit as I was, (big up Figure IV and the Rascalz crew, once again).

There was probably a whole shit load of hot shit in that spot that I was too young to even fathom, and for all I can remember this was the only thing I could probably afford. But I’m telling ya’ll, that Sunglass Hut that replaces that old shop ain’t got shit on what it used to be.

The inside cover was tagged a year later by Toronto Legend, Duro The Third.

Is that a bowl of sliced apples? A stuffed panda? A high heel phone? A portrait of himself?

Big Daddy Kane’s swag in this video>every Bad Boy video ever

This is another 2 part clip from Slammin’ The Rap Video Magazine hosted by my boy and your boy, Alex Winters who in some strange twist of fate missed this interview as well. How ironic and comical!

Basically, they turned the camera off and Kane’s “secretary” gave him dome and a pedicure. That’s how he was livin’. Pimpin’ ain’t easy indeed.