Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The Beef that simmered but never cooked.
Keep it Oldskool Presents:
The Battle that never was
Over the years it has been mentioned and speculated on. People even speculate on who would have won. Keep It Oldskool decided to try to decode the back story and recreate a beef that was subliminal and sometimes verbal,but was never full blown.
It has been said that the origin of the beef started after Marley advised Eric B and Rakim that he would not being producing their album as he wanted to start working with with his "Juice Crew" MCs. That it did not sit well with the duo. So while Rakim is in Marley Marl studio recording his verses for "My Melody" Shan,Kane, G-Rap and Biz Markie all happen by the studio. Rakim ever the perfectionist had written,scrapped and re-written his verses several times while the Juice Crew waited and watched. Some say (although Kane has NEVER confirmed that he said it) BDK blurted out "I could have done 2 albums in the time this dude taking to make one song". What followed after that were several songs the 2 icons subtlety dissed each other. The first of which was recorded while Kane watched was "My Melody" when Rakim spoke of Kane having to wait for him to finish "So stand back, you wanna rap? All of that can wait" and Kane's fast rap style " Puttin blurs and slurs and words that don't fit in a rhyme" .
Kane took the words as disses and set about to respond Rakim in his song "Set It Off" off his debut album "Rap soloist you don't want none of this"
As the war of worlds escalated cooler heads prevailed. Ant Live (Eric B's brother) who was cool with Kane as well brokered a phone summit where the 2 lyrical giants squashed the beef. These 2 although have never colloborated on song together have been on friendly terms since.
KEEP IT OLDSKOOL
The Battle that never was
Over the years it has been mentioned and speculated on. People even speculate on who would have won. Keep It Oldskool decided to try to decode the back story and recreate a beef that was subliminal and sometimes verbal,but was never full blown.
It has been said that the origin of the beef started after Marley advised Eric B and Rakim that he would not being producing their album as he wanted to start working with with his "Juice Crew" MCs. That it did not sit well with the duo. So while Rakim is in Marley Marl studio recording his verses for "My Melody" Shan,Kane, G-Rap and Biz Markie all happen by the studio. Rakim ever the perfectionist had written,scrapped and re-written his verses several times while the Juice Crew waited and watched. Some say (although Kane has NEVER confirmed that he said it) BDK blurted out "I could have done 2 albums in the time this dude taking to make one song". What followed after that were several songs the 2 icons subtlety dissed each other. The first of which was recorded while Kane watched was "My Melody" when Rakim spoke of Kane having to wait for him to finish "So stand back, you wanna rap? All of that can wait" and Kane's fast rap style " Puttin blurs and slurs and words that don't fit in a rhyme" .
Kane took the words as disses and set about to respond Rakim in his song "Set It Off" off his debut album "Rap soloist you don't want none of this"
Rakim after hearing on an advanced copy of himself being sampled on Kane's "Smooth Operator"responded on"Microphone Fiend "with "E-F-F-E-C-T a SMOOTH OPERATOR operating correctly"
KEEP IT OLDSKOOL
Monday, March 31, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
They were there too
ORIGINAL SISTERS OF HIP HOP
SHA ROCK (Funky 4+1)
Sha Rock an original member of the Funky 4 with Keith Keith, KK Rockwell and Raheim. After leaving the group and then rejoining with new members Lil Rodney C and Jazzy Jeff (the MC not the DJ) she became the + 1 more. The group is mostly know for the the song released by SugarHill Records "Its the Joint" in 1980 The group was the first Hip Hop Group to perform on Saturday Night Live
Lady B
Lady B is a Philadelphia and Hip Hop icon. in addition to her work with WHAT,Power 99 to currently working at Oldskool 100.3 Lady B has distinction of being the first female to record a record 1979's "To the Beat Yall" and helping launch the careers of some of Hip Hops most famous icons.
Sylvia Robinson
Sylvia Robinson was already a successful artists and writer with many hits but as it relates to Hip Hop,Sylvia Robinson is mostly known as founder and CEO of Sugar Hill Records. Sugar Hill Records was the first Hip Hop mega label and was recording home for Sequence,Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5,Funky Four Plus One and Treacherous Three
The Sequence
The Sequence was made up of Cheryl Cook,Gwendolyn Chisolm and Angie Stone. The group has the distinction of have the first Hip Hop record recorded by a group with 1979s "Funk You Up" The group was active until 1985 (with Angie Stone leaving in 1982 to become a solo artist)
KEEP IT OLDSKOOL remembers the original sisters in Hip Hop
SHA ROCK (Funky 4+1)
Sha Rock an original member of the Funky 4 with Keith Keith, KK Rockwell and Raheim. After leaving the group and then rejoining with new members Lil Rodney C and Jazzy Jeff (the MC not the DJ) she became the + 1 more. The group is mostly know for the the song released by SugarHill Records "Its the Joint" in 1980 The group was the first Hip Hop Group to perform on Saturday Night Live
Lady B
Lady B is a Philadelphia and Hip Hop icon. in addition to her work with WHAT,Power 99 to currently working at Oldskool 100.3 Lady B has distinction of being the first female to record a record 1979's "To the Beat Yall" and helping launch the careers of some of Hip Hops most famous icons.
Sylvia Robinson
Sylvia Robinson was already a successful artists and writer with many hits but as it relates to Hip Hop,Sylvia Robinson is mostly known as founder and CEO of Sugar Hill Records. Sugar Hill Records was the first Hip Hop mega label and was recording home for Sequence,Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5,Funky Four Plus One and Treacherous Three
The Sequence
The Sequence was made up of Cheryl Cook,Gwendolyn Chisolm and Angie Stone. The group has the distinction of have the first Hip Hop record recorded by a group with 1979s "Funk You Up" The group was active until 1985 (with Angie Stone leaving in 1982 to become a solo artist)
KEEP IT OLDSKOOL remembers the original sisters in Hip Hop
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
THE WORST
KEEP IT OLDSKOOL PRESENTS
The worst Hip Hop Movie of all time
Rappin was released in 1985 Starring Mario Van Peebles, Eric Lasalle, Kadeem Hardison and Rutanya Alda. The movie had a cameos for Singing mcs The Force M.Ds and Ice T. This movie directed by Joel Silberg and written by Adam Friedman and Robert Litz (exactly) was about and ex-convict who is back from jail where somehow he was was able to get hair care products takes on the big bad developers and neighborhood "gangsters". Once you get past the cheesy cliched story, you have to try to stomach the just AWFUL rapping of Mario Van Peebles as "Rappin John Hood" During the early 80s young people like myself couldn't wait to see any movie that had "breakin" or "Hip Hop" in it. But even back then we knew this movie was a waist of 90 minutes. After watching the movie we had to immediately listen to RunDmc or someone who could actually rap to get the sour taste out of ears. I see that the movie actually made more than a million dollars. I am guessing that there were a lot of "Timmy's and "Betsy's" with maybe one or two"Jamal's" in the theater. Keep it Oldskool remembers (but doesn't want to) Rappin
The worst Hip Hop Movie of all time
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