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[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Roc Raida was born May 20, 1972

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Roc Raida

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roc raida in a x-men teeee, pure magic

[demondmayhew016]

#HBD ROC RAIDA

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[angerinthenation]

Is Hip Hop Dead?

A Commentary by Idris Salaam (Boscoe from The Bronx - Bigboscoe Productions)

Is Hip Hop Dead? On Life Support?

If you refer Hip Hop to only as Rapping, then, in some ways, yes it is dead. I mean, just think about it. We are in the period right now where we didn't have a song chart until, out of the blue, one did. (I still they did that because it showed the quality of music finally hit rock-bottom). A lot of entetainers of this era were saying fans were tired of the same stuff, and that's why the record sales were going down. We've had artists having to cancel shows because they can't fill arenas. There's but so much ass the "Bitches" can sell, just like there's but so much money "Niggas" can have and jewelry to flash.

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So, if you only looking at it in terms of Rapping, yes, Hip Hop is Dead.

But, are you talking about Hip Hop or are you talking about rapping? And this is where people seem to be confused.

Do they realize Hip Hop comes in many forms?

• Hip Hop is music other than just Rap: Listen to the sounds that crafted the genre. (The samples from Funk, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Soul, etc). Listen to the Instrumentals of past songs. The rhythms. Before 2000, Hip Hop had music for everyone, not just the ones who love the stereotypical "I'm a real nigga/Bad Bitch" scenario.

• Hip Hop is living a particular lifestyle. The fashion, the style. If you look at how Hip Hop is portrayed in Asia, it's almost idenitcal to Hip Hop in its purest form. In fact, pure Hip Hop strips women of the Bad Bitch persona. The men become more Masculine and protective.

• Hip Hop is art (Graffiti). There's a whole Culture of Art revolving around Hip Hop. (Phase II, Dondi, Blade, Fab5Freddy, IN, Comet, etc). There are museums across the country displaying Hip Hop art.

• Hip Hop is the DMC: Turntable battles and performances. (DJ Craze, Roc Raida, Perly, Sonic Jewel, ISP, Jazzy Jeff, etc). These competitons consists of drumming (Using a record to create an entirely different beat), body tricks, etc. Even the parties are amazing as you will hear some of your favorite songs being flipped an entirely different that even the original artists couldn't do. And yes, turntablists have music on the market. The mainstream doesn't play it for obvious reasons.

• Hip Hop is understanding the Culture: What do you know about Hip Hop? Do you know the hostroy? Listen to some of the rhythms that birthed the genre: The Jubilaries (The first rappers) James Brown, The Last Poets, Parliament-Funkadelic (The sound of the West Coast's "G-Funk" was birthed from), Electronic. Research the Culture and how it came about. The Black Spades, the Casanova Crew, The Zulu Nation. When you get to Hip Hop (it was called B-Boying), start learning about Kool Herc and his crew, the Godmother MC Sha-Rock (The Funky Four + 1 More), Grandwizard Theodore (The Fantastic Freaks), The Cold Crush Brothers. Theres plenty more.

In today's society, people refer to Hip Hop as just Rapping, when Rapping it's just one element. We have to blame this on the mainstream as they have dictated the way Hip Hop is being interpreted. And just because you're a rapper doesn't mean you represent Hip Hop. There are many songs across each genre where people are rapping. But does that make them Hip Hop?

We allowed outside forces (the same forces that tried to shut hip hop down in his early days) to dictate what hip hop is. We allowed them to call anything with a rap verse, "Hip Hop." And because we decided to "Get the bag," we also decided to go along with it.

If you're only into listening to Rap hits, then yes, Hip Hop is Dead to you. But if you want to see how Hip Hop is still living it's best life, step outside of the Rap World you live in and explore Hip Hop in a whole. Just like 80% of the ocean hasn't been mapped, the same can be said of Hip Hop.

[phantomimey]

Kai - Maned Wolf - Character Playlist

Track List:

1. Sylph Fossil / Iglooghost 🔪 2. You’re So Creepy /Ghost Town 🔪 3. MAKE IT HURT / TWENTYTHREE 🔪 4. Let You Down / Three Days Grace 🔪 5. When They Come for Me / Linkin Park 🔪 6. Technique (short) - Hybrid Theory / Linkin Park 🔪 7. It’s Goin’ Down (Ft. Mike Shinoda and Mr. Hahn)-B-Side Rarities / X-Ecutioners, Mike Shinoda, Mr. Hahn🔪 8. X-Ecutioner style (Ft. Black Thought) / Linkin Park, Black Thought, Roc Raida, Sean C 🔪 9. Everything is Violence / Lorn 🔪10. Boss’s Daughter / Pop Evil 🔪11. Tear Away / Drowning Pool 🔪12. Pet / A Perfect Circle 🔪 13. Black Widow / In This Moment 🔪14. Pick Up The Phone / Falling In Reverse 🔪15. Break / Three Days Grace 🔪16. Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing (ft. William Beckett) / Set It Off 🔪17. Going To Hell / The Pretty Reckless 🔪18. Animal In Me / Solence 🔪 19. Im Not A Vampire / Falling In Reverse 🔪 20. My Medicine / The Pretty Reckless 🔪 21. Lights Out / Breaking Benjamin 🔪 22. Headstrong / Trapt 🔪 23. Bad Girlfriend / Theory of a Deadman 🔪 24. Bitch Came Back / Theory of a Deadman 🔪 25. Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drum / A Perfect Circle 🔪 26. ULTRAnumb / Blue Stahli 🔪 27. Adrenalize / In This Moment 🔪28. Closer / Nine Inch Nails 🔪 29. Mind Games / Sickick 🔪 30. Malevolent / Social Repose 🔪 31. Worldwide Torture / Jazmin Bean 🔪 32. Shitlist / L7 🔪 33. Anger /Groundbreaking 🔪 34. Touch Me I’m Sick / Mudhoney 🔪35. Kill Everyone / Hollywood Undead 🔪36. Lights Out / Mindless Self Indulgence 🔪37. Never Wanted To Dance / Mindless Self Indulgence 🔪38. Blood / In This Moment 🔪39. You’re Gonna Listen / In This Moment 🔪 40. Big Bad Wolf / In This Moment 🔪 41. Zones You Can’t See / Iglooghost 🔪 42. Beneath The Moon & Me / Blood Cultures 🔪 43. Haunt / Clams Casino 🔪 44. Rumpus Room / Xiu Xiu, Liars 🔪 45. D.F LOOKS / HEALTH, Brothel 🔪 46. Sahara - Slowed / Hensonn 🔪 47. Shut Me Up / Mindless Self Indulgence 🔪 48. Apex Predator / Otep 🔪 49. What Doesn’t Kill You Will Make You A Killer / Rabbit Junk 🔪 50. The Undertaker - (Don’t Shoot the Messenger) / Puscifer 🔪 51. Kill Kitty- Kmfdm Remix / Angelspit , KMFDM 🔪 52. Living Dead Girl / Rob Zombie 🔪 53. Coming Undone / Korn 🔪 54. Sex Metal Barbie / In This Moment 🔪 55. Hungry Like The Wolf- 2009 Remaster / Duran Duran 🔪 56. Twlight Zone / Golden Earring 🔪 57. Good L_ck (Yo_’re F_cked) / Celldweller 🔪 58. Sick Like Me / In This Moment 🔪 59. Lizard Brain / Lil Boodang 🔪 60. Thelema / Øfdream 🔪 61. FEEL NOTHING / HEALTH 🔪 62. I Hate Everything About You / Longlost 🔪 63. Scratch Boogie / Joe Satriani 🔪 64. Dangerous (ft. Joywave) - Oliver Remix / Big Data, Joywave, Oliver 🔪 65. Scary Gary / Kaito Shoma, DJ Paul, Kingpin Skinny Pimp 🔪 66. PRINCE OF DARKNESS / SHADXWBXRN , ARCHEZ, KXNVRA 🔪67. AVOID ME / KUTE 🔪 68. Disaster / KSLV Noh 🔪 69. Never Satisfied / Kick The Habit, Joe Zay 🔪 70. Killin’ On Demand / Freddie Dredd 🔪 71. GTG / Freddie Dredd 🔪 72. Stray Bullet / KMFDM 🔪 73. Spit. / WARGASM (UK) 🔪 74. Disobey / Oddko 🔪 75. Bitches Brew / ✝️✝️✝️ (Crosses) 🔪 76. Curse The Weather / Royal Tusk 🔪 77. Muthafucka / Beware Of Darkness 🔪 78. Broken Bones / CRX 🔪 79. Runnin’ With The Devil - 2015 Remaster / Van Halen 🔪 80. Baby / Royal Republic 🔪 81. Psycho / Muse 🔪 82. Welcome To The Jungle / Guns N’ Roses 🔪 83. Spoiler - Recoil / Hyper, WARGASM (UK) 🔪 84. Howl / Beware Of Darkness 🔪 85. Sick / Adelitas Way 🔪 86. Bodies / Drowning Pool 🔪 87. Oh No (“Points Of Authority” Demo) - LPU rarities/ Linkin Park 🔪 88. Anxiety / Palaye Royale 🔪 89. Vulture Culture / Fangclub🔪 90. Drop Dead Cynical / Amaranthe 🔪 91. Blind / Dance With the Dead 🔪 92. Beast / 8 Graves 🔪 93. HURT / 1 800 PAIN 🔪 94. The Nothing / SWARM 🔪 95. Another Way Out / Hollywood Undead 🔪 96. Scream / Avenged Sevenfold 🔪 97. Lake Of Fire / Nirvana 🔪 98. D.R.I.L.D.O / WARGASM (UK)

Playlist Art- done by me (@localclownart - IG or @Phatomimey - Tumblr)

[thehiphopunderground]

Happy Heavenly Birthday To Grandmaster DJ Roc Raida!(R.I.P.)

Happy Heavenly Birthday To Grandmaster DJ Roc Raida!(R.I.P.)

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Remembering Anthony Williams aka DJ Roc Raida (May 17, 1972 - September 19, 2009) Turntablist and Music Producer. A member of the Legendary DJ Group The X-Cutioners

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Happy Heavenly Birthday To Grandmaster DJ Roc Raida!(R.I.P.)

Happy Heavenly Birthday To Grandmaster DJ Roc Raida!(R.I.P.)

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Roc Raida was born May 20, 1972

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Roc Raida

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General Patton, "Roc / Raida: Riot Control Agent / Combat Stress Control" #NowPlaying

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I remember going to watch Roc Raida play his first NZ show on KRd, the energy was so hectic, he was sweating so much it was dripping down his fingertips, making the vinyl so slippery that both needles cut out 15 minutes in and needed replacing

I wonder what I did with all my X-Men videos!?!

I thought I was badass in my technics hoodie haaaaa!

all the bouncers that night were Niuean so as soon as they saw my last name on my fake ID they started asking about my aunties and uncles loooolz #littleshitkid

[airadam]

Episode 165 : The Second Plug.

"Too old to rhyme? Too bad, too late."

- Dave

This month marks a huge loss for the Hip-Hop community, and the music world more widely, as Dave, aka Trugoy The Dove of De La Soul, passed away. As part of the group, he was a perfect match with Pos on the mic, and was one of those low-key people that no-one ever had anything but good to say about. De La's influence is hard to overstate; without them, we might have had no Tribe, no Pharcyde, no Souls of Mischief... They showed that you didn't have to follow the hypermasculine style of their time, and brought their own brand of humour and creativity. On top of that, they were frequent and much loved live performers, and Dave's presence as part of one of the best shows in the culture will be greatly missed. Of course, in tribute, we have several De La Soul tracks in this month's selection.

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Playlist/Notes

De La Soul : Stakes Is High

Knowing that we were going to make several visits to the De La catalogue, I just had to open the episode with this one, the title track to their fourth album. The late J Dilla is on production, and there's a classic story of Posdnuous having to "Jedi mind trick" Q-Tip out of taking the beat for himself! To Pos' ears, the majesty of the beat perfectly fit the grand theme De La were going for with the lyrical theme, and he was bang on. The title actually came from Dave's late cousin Fudge, who told him "...you all better do something. The stakes is really high for you right now..." and his words live on through this work. De La take that title and use it to warn how high the stakes were for Hip-Hop at that time, with the jiggy and Mafioso era in full swing and raising real alarm for the direction of the culture. 

Pete Rock : Play Yo Horn

The first instrumental of the month is a 2015 release, though whether it was actually recorded anywhere near that year, I couldn't be sure! For one, Pete Rock is a master at channeling vintage flavours, and secondly, he's been known to bring stuff out of the vaults that sounds great even today. I would love to hear MCs getting busy on this dense cut from "Petestrumentals 2".

Fat Joe and Big Pun : Best Behavior (Remix)

I love the dark, late night flavour of the original version, but Show does an equally good job on this remix (one of at least three to exist) - big horns, banging drums, and an overall stripped-back, boom-bap feel. You already know Big Pun is going to give you heavy bars, and Fat Joe holds it down on the mic too. I have this on a 12" backed by "My Life's On The Edge" by A-Bless, but I hear it's also on the 2005 "Street Talk" DITC compilation. 

Big L : On The Mic

This vinyl had already been throught the wars when I got it, but I guess the surface noise lends a certain flavour! You might recognise the vocals from the track "Size 'em Up" from the posthumously-released "The Big Picture" album, but this raw Roc Raida-produced track is on the B-side of the "Flamboyant" 12" single - definitely one to pick up for the Big L fans. RIP Big L and Roc Raida.

D'Angelo : Devil's Pie

One of those happy accidents, the bassline of this track was created by DJ Premier for a track with Canibus. It didn't work out and D'Angelo happened to call the same day, and he asked to hear the unfinished product. He loved it, and they went back to the studio the next day to finish what became one of the standouts on his sophomore "Voodoo" LP!

Mad Skillz : It's Goin' Down

Arguably the first MC to really make some noise out of Virginia (hence the name of his debut LP, "From Where???"), Skillz may not have the record sales of some of the more famous MCs...but he may well have written their rhymes at some point! This track is an early J Dilla production (from when he was going by Jay Dee), and has a little of the Latin flavour that would make up a big part of one of his better known productions, "Runnin'" for The Pharcyde. Also - don't Skillz and Big L have a very similar vocal tone?

[Pete Rock] InI : Fakin' Jax (Instrumental)

You can't be mad at getting another Pete Rock instrumental! This one is vintage SP action, the  instrumental for the lead track from the originally-unreleased InI LP "Center of Attention", and it's a real "if you know, you know" number.

De La Soul : U Can Do (Life)

I decided to lead this off with part of the album intro that immediately precedes it on "Art Official Intelligence : Mosaic Thump", just so you could hear where the podcast intro comes from! The LP came four years after "Stakes Is High", an eternity in Hip-Hop, and marked a departure from their norm in one way - a relatively large number of featured artists. This track, however, is the core group coming from the heart, over a chunky beat from Supa Dave West. Dave/Trugoy both opens and closes the track, with his last line being "live your live to the fullest". He did just that. 🕊

Libretto & Buscrates : Culture

With so much music being released on a daily basis nowadays, it's too easy for a killer track like this to slip through the cracks, but I've got it here for your enjoyment! Libretto is speaking on the rawness of the streets and how that ties into the Hip-Hop culture from his perspective, while Buscrates smashes it with a beat that feels part classic sample and part bass synth workout. And of course, he has the drums thumping through. An absolute jewel from the "Eternal Ridin'" LP.

Sparkz : Overload

Manchester's own Sparkz has featured on the podcast many times with his contributions to various groups, but here he is as a soloist on his first release after moving to the UK's well-respected High Focus records. This single will test your bass response, but while heavy, the beat provides plenty of space for Sparkz' to give you a full mic workout. Keep an eye out for new material from this man.

De La Soul & J Dilla : No More No Less

What a track - a reworking of "The Magic Number" concept, over an officially unreleased beat from J Dilla (which you might find online, entitled "Watching Smurfs On Shrooms"). We take this one from an EP that was originally a free release, and hopefully still findable now - "Smell The DA.I.S.Y" (Da Inner Soul of Yancey) - with even the title being a remix, a revisiting of the "D.A.I.S.Y. Age" idea from the beginnings of De La. The whole EP is made up along similar lines, with De La revisiting old themes over unreleased Dilla beats. The relationship between De La and Dilla was real, and there are few other crews with as much claim to put out a project like this.

Blackalicious : My Pen and Pad

That pen and pad were working overtime for this excellent lyrical display from the late Gift of Gab. Flow is as dope as you'd expect, and Chief Xcel holds down the beat as usual on a low-key funk vibe that changes up occasionally in the background without ever stealing the focus. You can find this on Blackalicious' third LP, "The Craft" - perfectly titled for such a dedicated crew.

Evil Needle & Misha : Cloud Zone

This new release is the kind of thing that will slip under most radars, but is the kind of quality I've been finding since plugging into the whole Chillhop Music movement. It's beautiful beatmaking, warm and bumping, and the vocoded quasi-background vocal additions take it over the top. The opener on the "chillhop beat tapes: Evil Needle x Misha" six-tracker, this beat is a perfect example of coming out of the gate strong when you're ordering tracks on a release.

Brelstaff ft. Fashawn : Cursive

This brand-new release is quite the trans-Atlantic combination, with Edinburgh's Brelstaff cooking up a laidback instrumental for Fashawn, representing Fresno in California. Only a very short one, but sometimes, as GZA once said, it makes for a stronger track to cut it off early.

Beanie Sigel : Look At Me Now

"Moms? Tryna lock me out. Cops? Tryna lock me in." Wow, that is some heavy business in the first verse of this quality come-up album cut, that ends happily, with Beanie looking out for the youngsters who struggle as he once did. You can find this tucked away towards the end of the 2005 LP "The B. Coming", with Buckwild providing the lush, string-laden production.

Joell Ortiz : In My Feelings

No hook, no filler, just raw - feelings, indeed. Joell speaks on the ups and downs of his career without interruption on an ill Heatmakerz beat, opening up the 2021 "Autograph" album on an intensely personal note. 

Ozay Moore, Vursatyl, and Chip-Fu : Slingshot

Seattle stand up! Ozay Moore brings friends through on this selection from the "Taking L's" album. It's nice to hear Chip-Fu of the Fu-Schnickens again, and with the tempo being relatively low, you can hear every word in his signature flow as he slows it to match. 14K is on production, and the kick is kicking like the police want to come through the door, but sometime in the next couple of hours or so :) The beat is heavy, but the timing of the composition is nicely relaxed!

J-Zone : The Commandments (Instrumental)

Labelled as "The Commandments" on the "J-Zone Instrumental Box Set: The Headband Years (1999-2006)" collection, this is the instrumental of the cut styled as "The Commandment$" from the 2003 "Sick Of Bein' Rich" album. Can't believe it's been twenty years already! He may have fully moved from Hip-Hop production and MCing into drumming, but you can't front on his great catalogue of previous work.

De La Soul ft. MF DOOM : Rock Co. Cane Flow

I was shocked to find out that I hadn't played this monster from "The Grind Date" on the podcast before, though maybe that was because the (manually-done!) speed changes make it awkward to mix with. As a closer though? Perfection. Jake One's beat just smashes through like Godzilla, building to the kind of grandness and drama that would fit the climactic action sequence of a Marvel film, and all the MCs are on form for it. The late MF DOOM fits right in alongside Pos and Dave as a devastating three-mic unit, and fittingly, Dave closes the track, and this epidose, out. RIP.

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