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[ninetydeuce]

Big L & Jay-Z freestyle on Stretch & Bobbito

[findthosedetonators]

Stretch and Bobbito 1994

[warhead]

[thamacaveli]

The Big 3 Of 90s Hip Hop Radio

[juhnkit]

Motivational Music in the Morning … Colossal, My Thoughts Are Extraordinary (Official Audio Track) … from the Album: The Stretch Armstrong Show featuring Bobbito the Barber (Bobbito Garcia), WKCR Demo (Baltimore, Maryland) (1996) #MMitM1

[stretchandbobbito]

BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY SCREENS RADIO THAT CHANGED LIVES SAT. 6/17

Info here! 

[gregyro]

[firebarzzz]

Stretch Armstrong - Lesson 1 (1997) NYC, NY sides A&B - MixTapes -

Stretch Armstrong - Lesson 1 (1997) NYC, NY sides A&B

Tracklist 1 Company Flow– 8 Steps To Perfection2 Krumb Snatcha– Gettin’ Closer To God3 Brainwash 2000– Break It Down4 Godfather Don– Properties Of Steel5 Hillfiguz– Not Enuff Time6 The Korp– The Champion7 L. The Head Toucha– Too Complex8 Natural Elements– Bust Mine9 Black Attack & Problemz– Freestyle10 R.A. The Rugged Man– Freestyle11 F.T.– Freestyle12 Dogface– Freestyle13 Lace Da Booms–…

[ausetkmt]

Rakim Allah - Music Videos

PAID IN FULL

I Ain’t No Joke

Move The Crowd

Paid In Full (Cold Cut Remix)

FOLLOW THE LEADER

Follow The Leader

Microphone Fiend

LET THE RYTHM HIT ‘EM

Let The Rythm Hit ‘Em

In The Ghetto

DON’T SWEAT THE TECHNIQUE

Casualties Of War

Juice (Know The Ledge)

Don’t Sweat The Technique

THE 18TH LETTER

Guess Who’s Back

THE MASTER

When I B On The Mic

THE SEVENTH SEAL

Walk These Streets (Feat. Maino)

Interviews

VIDEO

Rakim | Toure Show

Rakim | Red Bull Music Academy Lecture [New York 2013]

Rakim | Classic Interview (Intro Narrated by Chuck D)

AUDIO

Rakim | NPR: What's Good With Stretch & Bobbito [8/29/18]

EDITORIAL

Rakim | Billboard 7/17/2017 by Carl Lamarre

Misc.

VIDEO

Eric B. Is President (Live on Yo MTV Raps)

In The Ghetto (Live on Showtime At The Apollo)

Classic (Better Than I‘ve Ever Been) [DJ Premier Remix] Feat. Rakim, Nas, KRS One, & Kanye West)

[aguycalledkwest]

Mad Skillz & Q Tip Stretch And Bobbito Freestyle (April 14th, 1994)

[findthosedetonators]

JAROBI, KURIOUS, BUSTA RHYMES @ WKCR on Stretch Armstrong Show

[warhead]

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

Mikrofoncheck 2 2000 Hip Hop

No, Phife, you got it exactly right! This is Mikrofoncheck 2, a turn-of-the-millennium double-disc that highlights a bunch of good German rap tunes that were pretty clearly inspired by the US' own underground rap landscape at the time. And maybe I'm not the most equipped person to post about German rap, because I barely know any German words myself, but hear me out: the great thing about listening to rap in any language that you personally don't understand is that you don't have to involuntarily use any brainpower in order to interpret lyrics; and when you're not busying yourself with that aspect, you can then dedicate your focus to other parts of an MC's craft, like timing, flow, delivery, mic presence, etc. I feel like when dope US acts get little to no love in their home city, but then go on tour overseas and sell out venues in places where the people know barely any English at all, it means that there's a certain universality to rap skills. Like, you don't have to get what's being said in order for it to resonate. You dig?

So, speaking of underappreciated US acts, New York's Arsonists are on this release's very first track, with a remix of German rap pioneer Torch's "Die Welt brennt" that features a verse from one of The Arsonists' own members, Freestyle. If you know your 90s-2000s New York underground rap stuff, then you know that The Arsonists make S-tier music. They never broke big, of course, but they were one of the top groups to be featured on the Stretch & Bobbito Show, a legendary program that aired during the ungodly hours of 1-5 a.m. on Thursday nights/Friday mornings on Columbia University's radio station, 89.9 FM WKCR. But despite that absurd time slot, Stretch & Bob were still able to bring in a long, long who's who of unsigned and underground talent into the studio that would later go on to smash on a commercial level, including Nas, Jay-Z, Notorious B.I.G., Big L, DMX, Busta Rhymes, and a whole lot of others. I actually caught the premiere of a Stretch & Bob documentary back in the mid-2010s in Central Park, and right before that showing was a concert that featured a bunch of the acts who ended up making that whole show what it was. And you already know that The Arsonists were on that stage, man!

Here's a little introduction to Stretch & Bob if you're not familiar:

Anyway, while that Arsonists remix is great, and is probably the tune that would get most people to cop this release in the first place, I don't think that it's this album's best song, overall; because that honor goes to Nico Suave's "Barkeeper." Nico has a super lame stage name, *BUT,* when you're talking about a full package of beats and rhymes, nothing else on this album tops that one. Astonishingly, the full-length, nearly five-minute version of this tune only has 344 views on YouTube, but this really feels like one of those bits of early 2000s gold that you'd randomly stumble across on Limewire back in the day. And I'm probably only saying that because the beat is on some smooth and soul-piercingly jazzy Nujabes type of tip. And if you knew Nujabes before YouTube, Samurai Champloo, and 'Chill lo-fi beats to study to,' it was probably because either you or one of your friends discovered him via file sharing.

And I know what some of you may be inevitably thinking: 'German rap? That actually sounds corny as hell.' But you're wrong. The German language may be sharp and clunky and it really may not seem all that compatible with rap on its face, but the beauty of it is that there's a deep uniqueness to the German language that has people rapping in ways that non-German speakers are fully incapable of doing themselves. Within every language are vast amounts of intricacies, with each one possessing its own capabilities and possibilities; and German rap really seems to unlock something that no other type of rap can, because there's no other language in this world that's really quite like German.

And on top of all that, a bunch of these beats simply slap too 😋.

Highlights:

CD1:

Torch feat. Freestyle - "Die Welt brennt (Arsonists remix)" Chosen Few - "Raw Beauty" Tim X-Treme - "Weird Shit" Lyn - "Blenda" Plattenpapzt feat. Tefla & Jaleel - "Wenn Zonis reisen" ABS - "Mathematik" Deichkind - "Was der Anlass" Nico Suave - "Barkeeper" Marburg Asozial - "Rap-Attack-Uppa-Cut"

CD2 (DJ mix by DJ Swift, which mostly consists of the same tracks from CD1):

Square One feat. Johnny Dolo - "Until Then..." Torch feat. Freestyle - "Die Welt brennt (Arsonists remix)" Deichkind - Was Der Anlass" Lyn - "Blenda" Nico Suave - "Barkeeper" Marburg Asozial - "Rap-Attack-Uppa-Cut" ABS - "Mathematik" Plattenpapzt feat. Tefla & Jaleel - "Wenn Zonis Reisen" Stieber Twins - "Malaria"

[yourboijod]

Jeru, Stretch, Bobbito, Premier and Angie Martinez.

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