#company flow

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Company Flow - Bad Touch Example

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Today in Hip Hop History:

Company Flow released their debut album Funcrusher Plus July 22, 1997

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Spring 2001 Mixtape.

All City: “Move On You” (RMX)

Roots Of Orchis: “Building Peaks”

Einsturzende Neubauten: “Was Ist Ist”

Nobodys, The: “Fuck You Too”

Pharcyde: “Oh, Shit!”

Isaac Hayes: “Buns O’ Plenty”

Sonic Youth & Yamatsuka Eye: No

AxCx: “Morbid Flowers”

Devola: “Pigeon Fight”

Chicks On Speed: “Mind Your Own Business”

Starflyer 59: “Wherever You Go”

Fidel Villeneuve: “I Wish I Was Dead”

April March: “Chick Habit”

Mr. Oizo: “Flat Beat”

Boards Of Canada: “Petina”

Ahmad Jamal: “I Say A Simple Little Prayer”

Sea And Cake, The: “Afternoon Speaker”

Company Flow: “Linda Tripp”

Heat, The: “Play The Drums”

Alter Ego: “Nude Restaurant” (Exploding Plastic Strings RMX)

Staple Singers, The: “Let’s Do It Again”

DJ Scud: “Mash The Place Up”

Smiths, The: “Panic”

Tristeza: Dream Signals In Full Circles

Chris Connelly: “Destestimony III”

Jean-Jacques Perrey: “E.V.A.”

Isaac Hayes: “A Few More Kisses To Go”

April March & The Makers: “Sometimes, Sometimes”

Einsturnzende Neubauten: “Fiat Lux / Maifestspiele / Hirnlego”

Camera Obscura: “Theory Of Sex As An Art Form”

Download: Effector

Unsane: “Vandal-X”

Elastica: “Mad Dog”

Autechre: “Flutter”

Gil-Scott Heron: “We Almost Lost Detroit”

Yoshinura Sunahara: “The New World Break”

Dorothy Ashby: “The Windmills On Your Mind”

Cutthroats 9: “Dirty”

Marvin Gaye: “After The Dance”

Chicks On Speed: “Stop Records Advert”

Donny Hathaway: “Singing This Song To You”

David Axelrod: “The Warning”

Company Flow: “Funcrusher Plus”

Wu-Tang Clan: “Cutting Heads”

Isaac Hayes: “Hung Up On My Baby”

Vision Of Disorder: “Pretty Hate”

Einsturzende Neubauten: “Styropor”

Geoff Farina: “The Rights”

Devola: “Well-Oiled Machine”

Peaches: “Fuck The Pain Away”

Johnny Rebel: “We Is Non-Violent…”

Death Cab For Cutie: “Company Calls Epilogue” (ALT)

Slits, The: “Typical Girls”

Ida: “Shrug”

Pharoah Sanders: “The Creator Has A Master Plan”

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Artist: Company Flow

Record: Funcrusher Plus

Year: 1997

Label: Rawkus

Genre: Hip Hop

Rating: 90

Recorded in 1994, this was certainly ahead of its time - mostly bangers, this entire album just... works. I'm a big fan of this style of hiphop.

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company flow -- juvenile technique

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Company Flow – End To End Burners / Krazy Kings Too 12"

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At night I cover my ears in tears

Last Good Sleep, Company Flow

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Company Flow - Blind

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Today in Hip Hop History:

Definitive Jux released the album Def Jux Presents… March 20, 2001

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Autumn 2006 Mixtape.

Public Image Ltd.: "Public Image"

Stereolab: "Ping Pong"

Alexander Kowalski: "Dark Soul Pt. 1"

Leonard Cohen: Death Of A Ladies' Man

Manual: "Baja Nights"

Boards Of Canada: "5/9/78"

Scissor Sisters: "Tits On The Radio"

Boyd Rice / NON: The Black Album

Buzzcocks: "Orgasm Addict"

MC Paul Barman: "Anarchist Book Store"

Company Flow: "Shadows Drown"

Sister Sledge: "Happy Feeling"

Chicks On Speed & Peaches: "Guitar Anthem"

Alexander Kowalski: "The Path To Zero"

Manual & Jess Kahr: "Dawn Changes Everything"

Pink Floyd: "Us vs. Them"

Busta Rhymes: "In The Ghetto (f. Rick James)"

Boards Of Canada: "Head From Telegraph Lines"

Stereolab: "Free Witch & No Bra Queen"

Rainer Maria: "Already Lost"

Public Image Ltd.: "Rise"

Manual: "Tomorrow"

Boards Of Canada: "Into The Rainbow Vein"

Alexander Kowalski: "Speaker Attack"

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Run The Jewels Live Show Review: 9/28, The Salt Shed, Chicago

Run The Jewels (El-P & Killer Mike)

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Over the past several years, Run The Jewels albums have seemed primed for the time they came out. Run The Jewels 3 was released digitally in between the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and Donald Trump's subsequent inauguration, El-P and Killer Mike's penchant for grand political statements and even cheeky conspiracy theories nestled alongside their statements of self-triumph. RTJ4 was released in 2020, two days earlier than planned in response to the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests of police brutality and institutional racism all over the world. Songs like "Just", featuring the unforgettable line, "Look at all these slavemasters posin' on yo' dollar," were both timely and ever-relevant. Reflecting, though, it's always been Run The Jewels 2 that's the duo's crowning achievement, where it felt like the potential of the collaboration reached its full potential. In 2012, El-P lent his dystopian production to Mike's southern fried R.A.P. Music, Mike a verse to Cancer 4 Cure standout "Tougher Colder Killer". 2013 saw the two realize the group for the first time with a self-titled album, which at the time was a welcome surprise and perhaps a victory lap. Turns out, it was just a warm-up.

Run The Jewels (Killer Mike & El-P)

That is, Run the Jewels 2 showcased everything you love about hip hop: MCs with distinct, but complementary flows and styles, unique production, and social awareness combined with a firecracker sense of humor, the potential to burn it all down, and unmistakably horny braggadocio. It was my obvious choice when deciding which of four nights to see RTJ perform an album in full, also knowing they'd cherry pick highlights from their back catalog in a second set. On stage at The Salt Shed last Thursday, Mike and El sounded as clear as ever without losing their bruising momentum, shouting words to a crowd who replied back every single one. (The two joked that playing this album in full was a bad idea, considering the amount of mushrooms they consumed when making it, fearing they wouldn't be able to remember their lines.) Trackstar the DJ rattled the stereo-busting bass of "Oh My Darling Don't Cry" and "Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)" as the crowd jumped up and down and moshed. Mike likened himself to William "Refrigerator" Perry during "Blockbuster Night Part 1", successfully pandering to those members of the crowd who were fans of the Chicago Bears, aka didn't travel from all over the Midwest to see the show.

Killer Mike

Though the first four RTJ2 songs are all-timers, it was the back half that shone brightest. Before RTJ performed nihilist anthem "Lie, Cheat, Steal", El-P remarked, based on the younger age of the crowd, that they'd have "a front row seat to the apocalypse," which put into perspective for a lot of us why we gravitated towards their magnum opus in the first place. When it came out 9 years ago, it foreshadowed the shit that would truly hit the fan a couple years later, providing a worthwhile soundtrack to said gradually looming apocalypse, all without being self-serious. The magic of the record is that a song like "Early", which Mike introduced by dedicating it to anybody who has been terrorized by the police and declaring that "the state should fear the people" as opposed to the other way around, is immediately followed by, in the duo's words, "two of the most ignorant songs we've ever written." By "ignorant," they really meant sexually charged tunes that provide necessary moments of levity. Specifically, when performing "Love Again (Akinyele Back)", the duo let the raunchy verse from the late, great Gangsta Boo, play uninterrupted, cementing her as the most important spirit in the room at that moment.

Mr. Len

It's no secret that Run the Jewels in general have a diverse fanbase. Folks I spoke with in the crowd ranged from hardcore kids to hip-hop heads, as expected from the type of group that has Pharrell Williams rub elbows with Zach De La Rocha. For the old school fans, an unexpected gift was in store: an opening DJ set from Mr. Len of Company Flow, the hip hop trio where El-P cut his teeth before going solo. (According to El, Bigg Jus was also in the house, though he never came out on stage.) Mr. Len treated us to tracks from Company Flow, El-P produced tunes from Cannibal Ox, and classics from Goodie Mob, Gang Starr, and A Tribe Called Quest. Though it was a callback to a bygone era, I couldn't help but think how Run the Jewels--along with the Backwoodz Studioz and Griselda crew--are this generation's possible forebears to whatever comes next, whether that's 20 years of RTJ or something else.