#Crooklyn Dodgers

[ourladyofomega]

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You know where to find me, whenever you need me: If you know the Ave., follow the path to the land of the aftermath; But don't frolic in the midst, crazy-ass Crooklyn kids!

Crooklyn Dodgers - Crooklyn (Crooklyn/Soundtrack Version)

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# 4,321

The Young Holt Trio: “Wack, Wack” b/w “Strangers In The Night” (1966)

Chubb Rock, O.C., and Jeru The Damaja opened up their one-time-only single the same way The Young Holt Trio did on “Strangers In The Night”, and that became the bedrock of this late golden-era event. Sadly, this was their only release and many heads wished more would’ve come out of the ‘95 team. Then again, that’s what makes it all the more special.

[thesavageislander]

Crooklyn Dodgers 94.5 (A Hellee Hooper Edit).

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for September 3, 2018; #173.

D&D Allstars “1, 2 Pass It” (INS)

Funkdoobiest “The Funkiest”

Smif ‘N Wessun “Bucktown”

Grand Daddy IU “Something New”

Digital Underground “The Return Of The Crazy One”

Prime Minister Pete Nice & Daddy Rich “Outta My Way Baby”

Geto Boys “Mind Playing Tricks On Me”

Ice-T “Hustler”

Grand Puba “360* (What Goes Around)”

Digable Planets “Rebirth Of Slick”

Paris “Days Of Old”

Kurious Jorge “I’m Kurious”

Crooklyn Dodgers “Crooklyn” (INS)

Pharcyde “Otha’ Fish”

Gravediggaz “1-800 Suicide”

Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy “…Famous And Dandy Just Like Amos & Andy”

Fu-Schnickens “True Fu-Schnick”

Ice Cube & Yo-Yo “The Bonnie & Clyde Theme”

Naughty By Nature “O.P.P.”

LL Cool J “Rampage”

D-Nice “Time To Flow”

EPMD “Give The People”

Black Moon “How Many MCs”

Outkast “Git Up, Git Out”

Pete Rock & CL Smooth “Mecca & The Soul Brother”

Boogiemonsters “R.T.N.S. (Recognized Thresholds Of Negative Stress)” (INS)

Goats, The “Typical American”

Common (Sense) “I Used To Love H.E.R.”

Eric B & Rakim “Don’t Sweat The Technique”

Roots, The “Distortion To Static”

Showbiz & AG “Medicine”

Stop The Violence Movement “Self Destruction”

2Pac & Digital Underground “I Get Around”

Crooklyn Dodgers ‘95 “Return Of The Crooklyn Dodgers”

Doug E. Fresh “A’ight (Allstar)”

Sam Sneed ft. Dr. Dre “Recognize”

Onyx “Slam”

LL Cool J “Mama Said Knock You Out”

Bonus golden-era hip-hop / rap broadcast.

[lovemusic808]

Crooklyn Dodgers (Special Ed, Masta Ace & Buckshot) - Crooklyn (Official...

[southernvangard]

(Southern Vangard)

BANG! @southernvangard radio Ep404! 

Summer time is here Vangardians, at least in our neck of the woods - and what that means is this is our last show before a 4 week summer break. Meeks delivered as he always done by coming through with a Playmate cooler full of those Hamm’s brewskis - from the land of sky-blue water, of course - and neighborhood friend of the show C.O. Tha Don also showed up to kick it. We wrapped with a mind-melting Twitch Only set to start the summer right - if you’re not checking us during the live stream on Twitch you’re missing out. Last but not least - we still have a few wobble whiskey glasses available , hit SOUTHERNVANGARD.BIGCARTEL.COM to cop it. We sure do appreciate your support…THAAAAANK YAAA and YOU WAAAAALCOME!!!!! #SmithsonianGrade #WeAreTheGard // southernvangard.com // @southernvangard on all platforms #hiphop #undergroundhiphop #boombap

--------------- Recorded live June 10, 2024 @ Dirty Blanket Studios, Marietta, GA southernvangard.com @southernvangard on all platforms #SmithsonianGrade #WeAreTheGard twitter/IG: @southernvangard @jondoeatl @cappuccinomeeks --------------- Pre-Game Beats - Knowsum / The Grand Hova "Southern Vangard Theme" - Southern Vangard All-Stars ft. Bobby Homack Talk Break Inst. - "Ship 'Em Out" Emskee & Jake Palumbo "Ship 'Em Out" - Emskee & Jake Palumbo "Inspired By Pumpkinhead" - CyMarshallLaw & Slimline Mutha "Barmitzvah" - Fashawn, Cap Kendricks & DJ Access "Thank You" - Homeboy Sandman "Trick Cards" - Mondo Slade ft. Syd Vicious "Victorious" - Rhymestyletroop x DJ Ordane x DJ Fingaz Talk Break Inst - "Afternoon Nap" - Elaquent "Going Back" - Doza The Drum Dealer "Walk Out (MiLKCRATE Remix)" - Prodigy x DJ Premier "Freedom Wave" - Navi the North & Ayoo Bigz ft. Reef Hustle & Tone Spliff "Heard And Seen (Eu And Rope)" - Nowaah The Flood X The Architect "Psilocybin Prophecy" - Asun Eastwood & Wizdome Bunitall "Kismet's Vestibule" - Left Lane Didon & JLVSN "Where The Sidewalk Ends" - Fashawn, Cap Kendricks & DJ Access ft. Lord Apex Talk Break Inst. - "Wilderness of the North" - The Quarter Inch Kings x Che Uno "The Slap" - Doza The Drum Dealer "Rudeboy" - Estee Nack x BoneWeso "Abracadabra" - Mondo Slade "The Peddler" - Asun Eastwood & Wizdome Bunitall "Hell Backwards" - Rome Streetz & Futurewave "Sosa Fortress" - Spanish Ran ft. Madhattan & FastLife "Alchemy In The Trenches" - Ty Farris (prod. Futurewave) "If You Can" - JayKin Talk Break Inst. - "Best Life" - K-Rec & 4-IZE ** TWITCH ONLY SET ** SUMMER BREAK DJ PREMIER SEND OFF ** "In Closing" - Eddie Meeks & DJ Pocket "Come Clean" - Jeru The Damaja "Crush" - Big Shug "Tha Realness" - Group Home "Brownsville" - M.O.P. "Ten Crack Commandments" - The Notorious B.I.G. "So Ghetto" - Jay-Z "A Million And One Questions (DJ Premier Remix)" - Jay-Z "Nas Is Like" - Nas "Code Of The Streets" - Gang Starr "Dwyck" - Gang Starr "Mass Appeal" - Gang Starr "The ? Remainz" - Gang Starr "Return Of The Crooklyn Dodgers" - Crooklyn Dodgers '95 "My World" - O.C. "Unbelievable" - The Notorious BIG "Kick in the Door" - The Notorious B.I.G. "Full Clip" - Gang Starr "Rappaz R. N. Dainja" - KRS-One "Mc's Act Like They Don't Know" - KRS-One "Extra, Extra" - Paula Perry "Devil's Pie" - D'angelo "The 6th Sense" - Common "Pho No Bich" - Eddie Meeks & DJ Pocket

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[lboogie1906]

Chubb Rock (born Richard Simpson on May 28, 1968, in Kingston, Jamaica) is a New York-based rapper who released several successful hip-hop albums in the early 1990s. A former National Merit Scholar, he was a pre-med student who dropped out of Brown University to pursue his musical career.

Discovered and produced by his first cousin DJ / Producer Howie Tee, he first appeared on the national scene with his self-titled debut Chubb Rock and And the Winner is... The latter produced the minor hit “Ya Bad Chubbs” which garnered airplay on Yo! MTV Raps during that time.

His release entitled The One reached #13 on Billboard’s Top Hip-Hop/R&B chart for that year. Three singles from that release, “Treat ‘Em Right”, “Just The Two of Us” and “The Chubbster”, made it to #1 on Billboard’s Top Rap Singles chart list for the same year.

The following year saw the release of I Gotta Get Mine, Yo, a release that featured guest performances from Grand Puba Maxwell and Poke. This release helped fledgling music producers Trackmasters, on their rise to prominence, as the group handled production duties on the recording. He made an appearance on MC Serch’s song “Back to the Grill.”

He was a member of the 1995 incarnation of the Crooklyn Dodgers. His backup dancers started another group, A.T.E.E.M, which released its debut, A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But A Sandwich, in 1992 on Select Records.

He appeared on the Red Hot Organization’s compilation album America is Dying Slowly, alongside Wu-Tang Clan, Coolio, and Fat Joe, among others. The album, meant to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic among African American men, was heralded as a masterpiece by The Source magazine. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[djch3]

Crooklyn Dodgers (Special Ed, Masta Ace & Buckshot) - Crooklyn (Official...

[ourladyofomega]

Do you remember life as it was pre-internet and pre-smartphone? Is it something you are nostalgic for? What aspects of your life still are like the pre-internet days that you anticipate to stay that way (at least for 10 more years)?

Absolutely, because I experienced it. Specifically, the last few years before grasping PCs full-time in community college. Back then, my diaries weren't written with pen and paper. I hit ‘record’ on my tape deck and have it write it all for me. I listen to those cassettes (that I still have and have been all digitized) and they instantly return me to the alternative and hip-hop / rap's golden era; back when we had Biggie and 2Pac. The feelings were different. The style, the vibe, the type of people around me. There was this constant camaraderie because everyone was around you. I always had friends and plenty of moments within reach. Meeting people outside the neighborhood was way more interesting because they were the type mine didn't have.

Each song that I'm listing right now still gives me a very specific moment and feeling experienced by me, for me, and only me. Songs like Da Youngstas' "Hip-Hop Ride" and Stone Temple Pilot’s “Vasoline” when my family and I took the ferry to Mashantucket, listening to Crooklyn Dodgers' eponymous track on my Walkman when I walked home from school, or Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" as a bargaining chip to win the favor of girls from another neighborhood. Notorious B.I.G. & Method Man “The What” and O.C.’s “Time’s Up” were the soundtrack to when I spent a week in Staten Island with my then-hood cousins. Sitting on my friend’s curb while listening to The Doors' "Light My Fire", or hearing Cutmasta D.C.’s “Brooklyn’s In The House” while I was crushing on someone I never met before. I can go on ad infinitum. The music meant so much to me that I started making seasonal mixtapes to revisit those moments anytime I want. Those feels still get to me to this day. I could also say the same for VHS. I literally have hundreds of tapes stored with me. It was a race to record every Philadelphia deathmatch and classic (Seventies and Eighties) game show because us fans feared they’d be lost forever. All of us has some Marion Stokes in us. Some more than others. I still kept hitting ‘record’ while I began record-shopping and found rare titles through backpage catalogs, bought compilations and magazines to discover new artists, and relied on word-of-mouth and mixtape trades amongst friends. This was what music-chasers had before MP3s amplified it all for everyone, including myself.

Even gaming. Going out of your way to the video store and literally borrow or buy and keep physical games - the solid state-era. Fighters were so much fun when you had everyone on the block at your house with no actual fist-fights and crucial shit broken. Or, having a literal crowd of people surrounding you during a one-on-one at Street Fighter found at every pizzeria, stationery, or laundromat. Human interaction was king back then. It was somewhat of a less toxic aura of life before smartphones, social media, or downloading took the mystique out of everything we experience now and poisoned us with repetition re-enforcement.

Now? We’re all used to it. It’s routine for everyone. The same ubiquitous being shoves all the world’s ills and hard pills to swallow down your throat while giving you an equal amount of solace, wisdom, and outreach in return. We traded in all the mystique of discovering things we once never knew of for the convenience of finding and getting what we want, when we want - with quick decisions to boot. We’ve taken it for granted. I still do everything I’ve done timelines ago, albeit differently now. I’ve always stayed in touch with the past while always moving forward and grasping the moments ahead.

Things changed when my uncle gifted my dad a Dell desktop and monitor. He loved free music. We were surprised that we could get anything we wanted instantly. We never looked back since. My music knowledge exponentially exploded through the roof thanks to the digital tide. Still does. I’ve always appreciated the classic synthpop, industrial, golden-era hip-hop / rap, alternative, hardcore, and electronic era while staying in touch with sampling, and discovering d.i.y., synthwave, noise, d-beat, indie, metalcore, long-lost African tapes, and deafening shoegaze over the last few years.

Discoveries of the last calendar decade are part of my current experiences. I can hear Crystal Castle’s “Pap Smear” in my head every time I drive to the radio station in cold Winter nights. The sounds of Suicide’s “Cheree” marked the time I re-connected with a former potential. L.I.E.S. Music For Shut-Ins, Dum Dum Girls’ “Bhang Bhang”, and Tantor’s “Niedernwöhren” stamped my time in Lindenhurst, Hauppage, and Ronkonkoma respectively. Bereket Mengistaab’s “Lebay”, Antwon’s “Helicopter”, and Gong Gong Gong’s “Siren” defined all the walks to the neighborhood veteran’s park. Black Marble’s “A Great Design” forever reminds me of that sunny June day in Greenpoint waiting in line to see Cold Cave. Both pandemic shut-ins and a day out with a mutual / potential would meet at Jade Imagine’s “Remote Control” and Eddie Russ’ “Zaius”. Yard Act’s “Dark Days” for the pinball arcade revival and the drive out to Williamsburg’s Rough Trade. And how can I forget Blonde Redhead’s “Melody Experiment” to mark a triple crown September weekend of family reunions in Staten Island, Cold Waves XI, and a drop-dead birthday gift from one of my all-time favorites?

I still spend hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars carefree on vinyl, cassettes, and discs while acquiring and salvaging everything digitally. No more magazines, replaced with tons of music sites and outlets. (Again, downloading and the endless-open of accessing sounds made it too easy.). You used to buy blind at the record store and be totally walloped at something you never imagined before. Now, you’ll find it everywhere online with no effort. Have all the free cards, spins, and rolls you want. I remember making my first online order ages ago, and smelled the production those fresh packages of vinyl records and discs in the mail. I’ll still purchase rare musicks online that I won’t find in stores.

Backseat rides with Walkmans were replaced with iPods and now iPhones on train lines to New York City; allowing me to carry flat, faceless MP3s rather than physical art, liner notes, thank-yous, and that sugary smell of plastic, booklets, and J-cards. It all still produces new memories and visions to this day. The mixtapes were replaced by CD-R’s for a few years before creating simple personal playlists I still make to this day.

Former childhood memories of opening / closing credits and themes, station i.d.’s, production credits, commercials, and chyrons are re-captured again with a quick rip. Most of the essential shows of my wasted youth becamse a few keywords away. Emulation leaves the door open to an era when it was simpler, more charming, and fun. Not today with the endless parade of stoic first-person shooters devoid of personality and micro-transactions nickel-and-dime you while providing misogyny / misandry, endless shit-talking, swatting, and fault-finding in everyone - all enjoyed by your lonesome online.

So many people assumed that vinyl records, cassettes, and video / pinball arcades fell into the wayside because of “better” technology. They surged back because we still appreciate and want the real thing. We’ve done a great job carrying everything over digitally and still kept it all.

Oh, I almost forgot. About people:

We’ve been facing technology as a double-edge sword bringing out the best and worst out of all of us, pushing out everything for the whole world to see. Remember what I mentioned earlier about one hand poisoning you while the other cures?  

It’s amplified world ills that always existed but made more apparent: rigged elections, the media selling war and dictatorships, disinformation, online gambling, political division, trauma and desensitization of violence and sex, losing privacy - all in an accelerated rate. We worried more about it now, now more than ever.

We never stressed over constant triggers, reminders, fear of missing out, or seeing your life in stasis as friends, families, rivals, and enemies move on (as a form of unintentional competition) like we do now. We shelve daylight and beautiful days for the hypnotism of constant mind-numbing updates, communication, and lethargy. Or, how young girls are constantly told they’re not good enough, learn about the double-standard, be gaslighted, or put themselves out there all-or-nothing to be noticed.

Dating was way easier back then because we didn’t have the bad ideas we have now. Dating sites created a power to pick and choose easily who our next potential or interest is; for winners to treat people like a commodity, dispose of, and ghost them. A comedy of errors for the losers starring broken-down self-esteem and self-confidence, paranoia, blatant intentions, loneliness, and game-playing more apparent. All the hands played are face up and for all to see. Draw, play, and discard at will.

It used to be that you wouldn’t know or believe what former classmates, co-workers, significants, or associates were up to through hearsay. Now it’s all within reach. Imagine being floored when you see your exes- have families, kids, or criminal records. Feel the sting when former #1’s smile with their new partners, or be totally surprised when others lives didn’t turn out as expected. Careers, money, marriage, relationships, adventures, accomplishments, births, deaths, suicides. Some have made you feel vindicated, at level with your peers, heartbroken, or missing out while everyone moves forward.

We throw rocks at people or hurt feelings from a distance, run, and get away with it. We pick and choose who lives and careers we can ruin in an instant, who to ridicule, or define someone with a ten-second meme for the rest of their lives. Or the many new ways people in general can be nasty towards each other. There’s so much bitterness, one-upsmanship, snarkiness, and manufactured drama because we allowed (social) media to run our minds for us. No middle-ground. Pick a side and vilify anyone who disagrees with you because we’re always right, even when we’re wrong. Demonize those who do the same things you do as well. It’s made us into miserable troublesome animals.

But…

Life for me has been so different since the divide that I’ve experienced quite a few events I normally wouldn’t. I started using this hellsite years ago to create an online journalism portfolio - which later on became a place for design, writing, and photography. It’s allowed me to document my time in radio (WUSB) and also show everyone how diverse, original, and open I am about myself and music. I love the gratification when someone reaches out to me about a favorite artist or record, and I love sharing some rare or obscure things only I know about that no one else does. It’s made what I do a unique experience.

I’ve met mutuals that I’d never even thought I’d ever meet (including two from my neighborhood!). There’s specific mutuals who untapped my potential, who I’d do wonderful things for that I wouldn’t for anyone else. These are the same people who I learned to trust and allowed me to be open with, minus the hair-trigger persecution, judgment, and ridicule from the rest. I keep my lines open for my closest ones trapped in destructive addiction, anxiety, bi-polarity, and isolation.

I’ve taken social and world events more seriously. It’s made me to give support who are worse off than me, to have compassion for people, to see opposite side of things, and recognize the real from fake. I have no patience for sensationalist tabloid garbage or the new reverse of ‘fake news’, and go right to what really matters to me: police brutality, the ongoing Palestine / Israel war, LGBTA rights, women’s rights, and other issues at hand.

I returned to my childhood I once abandoned since YouTube was very young. I constantly find everything jazz, sample, and crate-digging from that era to stay in touch with who I am.

Not even ten years ago, I couldn’t even fathom the concept of working at home. I left a decade of physical retail to do remote sales, and still stayed with the company to keep my health insurance, savings, and my time-off. I don’t deal with people’s attitudes, awkward interactions, or be forced into uneasy situations anymore. A literal live-saver.

Conversely, the post-internet era had introduced some hardcore pain in my life. I had one instance when a local mutual I wanted to meet tore my heart right out. Real bad. She’s why my journey into anxiety, depression, and mental health advocacy all started. No thanks to her. Another potential I met entered into my life thanks to social media (pre-Hellsite). She was someone who later on became an addict and I dated her for three months. She dumped me and burned her bridges when her boyfriend overdosed and died. I’ve also reached out to interests and potentials whom I made plans with; only for them to cancel at the very last minute. Their actions left me a “what-if” moment that’ll stay with me forever. It’s an all-or-nothing game we’re faced to play if we want to win. I look back and ended up accepting things I used to be dismissive of, and learned some things about myself I never expected to.

Yeah. Crazy to think that we experienced a change in our lifetimes - a Pandora’s Box - that we can never close. What used to be a novelty is now the norm, and what we used to take for granted is now a novelty in itself (the Othello effect). I know all these major constants will continue on, through whatever form or favor they become. Lord only knows what it will be. Place your bets now. **********

You’re more than free to ask me the same question again in 25 years. By then, you might ask me if I remember life as it was pre-dictatorship, what I’m nostalgic for, and what aspects of my life have stayed the same since. Count your lucky stars we don’t end up there.

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Crooklyn Dodgers (Special Ed, Masta Ace & Buckshot) - Crooklyn (Official...

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Crooklyn Dodgers (Special Ed, Masta Ace & Buckshot) - Crooklyn (Official...

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[firebarzzz]

Crooklyn Dodgers (@SpecialEd, @MastaAce & @Buckshot) "Crooklyn " (1994)|#hiphop|

🎙️ARTIST: The Crooklyn Dodgers📣TITLE: Crooklyn💿ALBUM: Crooklyn Volume 1 & 2 (Music From The Motion Picture) 12″, 33 1/3 RPM,Promo.📆RELEASED: (1994) La note Firebarzzz Ce classique de 1994 présente des couplets solides de trois représentants de Brooklyn, dont Special Ed . Ce titre a été réalisé pour le film Crooklyn de Spike Lee . Produit par Q-Tip. En fait, j’ai fait le beat over des ‘Crooklyn…