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If you don’t remember the show “Uptown Comedy Club” you are sleeping. I swear to god, this show had the best rap performances ever. The show only lasted a year or two, but that was more then enough time to host some classic material.
This clip is indeed some classic material. Grand Puba lighting up the stage with some “360° What Goes Around”. Yo JR, how are you feeling about his get up?
Big thanks to Doug on the footage.
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Here is a bizarre piece on the forgotten Canadian rap group Organized Rhyme. I probably should have saved this for “Milk Carton Mondays”, but here it is.
For those who don’t know, this was the former group of the prestigious Tom Green. Watch him and his crew act a fool for this little gem.
Peace to Andy on the clip.
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This clip couldn’t be more relevant. KRS One quickly speaks on the 1992 presidential election.
Thank you PBS for blowing up spots with a very “government” name drop.
Peace to House on this ultra rare footage.
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Another jewel from the House collection.
Just chillin at the amphitheater. Redman cannot keep a straight face.
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Aight yall, it’s been a hot minute since I have posted, so now its time to hit you with some hot shit.
Black Sheep up in the Much Music environment. This was right around the release of the slept on “Non-Fiction” album. For some reason they are performing “Choice Is Yours”, but its all good.
Xtendamix was always known for using crazy camera effects and angles. I cant really get with what they’re doing on this one though.
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that ain’t the shit you was playing a few minutes ago..
The last clip from the Snoop on Arsenio performance, and Snoop goes in with one of his potent verses from Doggystyle. Going at Eazy-E on national TV and doing it with so much charisma. Arsenio cussing out his band leader is basically my favourite part of this clip, though.
Below, we have a little bonus for you. A certain lil(extremely lil!) Bow Wow rocking the mic at the end of the show. Remember, the skit on Snoop’s album? I guess they were tight at this point. I actually give Bow Wow way more props than his musical career merits just off the strength of him being such a cool little kid in this clip and rocking the the fucking stage like it was no thing.
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Lets move back in time.
This interview comes fresh off the Grand Puba split around 92ish. Sadat X and Lord Jamar share the duties of dropping knowledge in this interview. To me, the most impressive knowledge dropping that goes on is Sadat at the end of the clip, he has his Canadian geography down tight. Hey Craig, do you happen to have the “Allah Is God” toque?
Another clip from the homie Andy over at Rekordz On Wheelz.
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Ok first and foremost, big up to the big brother, John Bronski. Secondly, big up to Adrian of TBG. 2 of the founding fathers of the scene and culture in our city and inspirations to me as community leaders.
Here we have an interview and some concert footage with Brand Nubian after the Grand Puba split when they came up to Toronto for a show. There must have been an instore at the OG Too Black Guys location off Bathurst St, since the interview is filmed in the store’s stockroom and the first part appears to be almost a public discussion on Brand Nubian’s ideals and beliefs. They get indepth on the science and math and elaborate in the interview.
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(Be…let my ghetto photoshop job live, ok? lol)
This post started by accident. I was over at Kaewonder’s crib prepping for our debut this weekend under our new moniker, the Air Max Thuns and wanted to get a couple vinyl rips going for him to throw up on the site. After we listened to a couple joints, Kae had the brilliant idea that we go in on some remix shit. What started as 2-3 records suddenly became 8-9 and we just decided to go all the way with this and pop this remix thing off correctly. This is Volume 1, and trust that there will be more to come.
This is our version of what a dope remix is about. Obviously, we left off your favourite, it’s impossible to please everyone with 1 post of 13 songs. Tell us in the comments what those missing joints are for you. This was us going through a few crates and picking the first things that really jumped out at us, so the selection criteria was really only “is this dope?” and then it made the cut. I wrote/picked the odd numbers, and Kaewonder has the even joints.
If you’re in Toronto, catch the 2 of us getting our fingers dusty on some serious vinyl-only dj shit at 751 as the pre-party for the annual Manifesto Festival.
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Once again, my homie Craig from Rap Lies and Videotape has blessed us with some classic material. Ima let C take it from here…
Kid N’ Play, along with the almost-forgotten Wiz maul the soul classic Float On,” while hosting the BET music video show “Video Vibrations.” Their vamped version of this song is credible proof that the duo had undeniable chemistry and that rappers should only sing when they’re joking. Christopher “Kid” Reid seems like a natural comedian in this clip, which funnier than his entire stand-up career. His former partner, Christopher “Play” Martin also hits the right comedic notes here, but it wasn’t always that way. In her new book, Pepa of Salt N’ Pepa claims she “grabbed him by his collar and dragged him down the whole length of the table, knocking everybody’s food and drink onto the floor,” after he made some jokes at her expense. Some people, you just don’t play with.
