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Dj Mr. Cee former DJ for Big Daddy Kane resigns from Hot 97 New York Radio Station

"It's almost like the Anthony Weiner thing," the DJ told Billboard of the accusations against him. "There are people out there who don't have my interest at heart."

Mister Cee, a 20-year veteran DJ of New York's Hot 97 (WQHT), has resigned from the station after a YouTube video surfaced containing audio of a sexual encounter and financial transaction allegedly involving the on-air personality. Though he denies the allegations, Mister Cee (born Calvin LeBrun) told Billboard it was in his and the station’s best interest for him to resign.

"The main reason why I resigned is because there was a video that was released today that kind of implied that I was making a transaction with a transsexual, which is not true, by the way.  If you watch the video, you don’t see my face, you don’t see that person's face. So for me, it was really about stepping down for the sake of the station," Mister Cee said. "It got to the point where my transgressions and my mistakes were affecting the station, whether it was affecting the station’s income, whether it was affecting certain clients that wanted to buy time during my hour and felt like they didn’t want to stand next to the brand because I was on the air at that time. To that point, instead of them telling me, 'We’re gonna have to let you go,' I just felt like the best thing to do was for me to step down because it's obvious that whatever mistakes and transgression I’ve made, whatever’s being put out there is being put out there for the fact that I’m on radio."

 

(to read more go to http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/5687409/hot-97-dj-mister-cee-talks-resignation-my-transgressions-were)

 

 

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“Brace yourself for the awesome and rare The real, the right dynamite is in the atmosphere”

 

Everyone knows The Roots are the foremost Hip Hop band.  A group that was formed in 1979 in Brooklyn, NYC is one of the forerunners of this concept. Stetsasonic were intially called The Stetson Brothers.  The group which included Daddy-O, Frukwan, DBC, MC Delite, Prince Paul and Wise were signed to Tommy Boy Rrecords and released their debut album On Fire in 1986 and off the singles “Go Stesta”, “Just Say Stet” and “Forever My Beat” the crew got steady airplay.

 

 

Stetasonic’s  second LP  In Full Gear was released in 1988. This would be their most popular album . With songs like “Sally” and “Float On” Stet continued to make great music. One song on that album took on the backlash of rappers using samples of older artists a lyric from “Talkin All That Jazz” summed what the group thought about those who complained about sampling :

 

“Tell the truth, James Brown was old 'Til Eric and Rakim came out with 'I Got Soul”

 

Stetsasonic  “On Fire”  1986

 

Stetsasonic “In Full Gear” 1988

 

 

The group released one more album 1991s Blood Sweat and No Tears before disbanding. Dj Prince Paul went on to producing and being very instrumental in the early career of De La Soul. as well as joining Gravediggaz with Frukwan and RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan. Daddy-O was involved with Krs One in the Stop the Violence Movement. Stetsasonic is another underrated group that many who are to young remember have never heard about. Keep It Oldskool remembers!

 

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The Keep it Oldskool Movie of the week

 

 

 

The  Cotton Club  was released in 1984 and was directed by Francis Ford Coppola . It was set in the 1930s and had fictional characters interwoven with non-fictional characters. The movie starred  Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Lonnete Mckee as well as Nicolas Cage, James Remar and Bob Hoskins.

 

 

The movie’s main fictional characters are Sandman Williams (Hines) a “hoofer” (tap dancer) with dreams of making it big even it means leaving his dance partner brother. There is Sandman’s friend from the neighborhood Dixie Dwyer (Gere) who plays a mean horn and who also wants to get out of the neighborhood. Dixie and Sandman lives  are mixed in to the story of real life gangsters Owney Madden who owns the Cotton Club and Dutch Schultz. This movie shows the outrage African Americans felt about a club that featured the greatest performers of their generation however most African Americans couldn’t even get in other then the  Bumpy Johnson inspired character Bumpy Rhodes (played by Laurence Fishburne)  We watch as Dixie and Sandman both strive to achieve their goals and the women they loved  Vera and Lila played by Lane and Mckee respectively and the toll it takes on family and friends.

 

Dixie and Vera (Richard Gere and Diane Lane)

 

Sandman Williams (Gregory Hines)

 

Dixie and Dutch Schultz  (Richard Gere and James Remar)

 

 

Owney Madden and Dixie (Bob Hoskins and Richard Gere)

 

 

The Cotton Club is not mentioned as one of the great gangster films ever made. True It is not on the same level as The Godfather, Once Upon a Time in America and Godfather part 2 but that doesn’t take away from the fact that it is a very good movie. There was great acting in even in some of the smaller parts like the one by the directors nephew Nicolas Cage as Dixie’s younger brother Vincent or James Remar as Dutch Schultz.

 

 

 

 

 

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From Backpacks to Jiggy Part 2

 

This era in hip hop is not something that we at Keep It Oldskool are really enthused about. There was a seismic shift in hip that began in the late 90s that became a “zombie virus” that now has rappers in this current state. Keep It Oldskool wants to so see if we can pinpoint at what point there was the change.

 

 

“King of New York and Hit em up” 95-99

 

 

 

We last left off with releases from Notorious B.I.G and Nasty Nas in 1994. This era the backpack was in full swing and in the town of Philadelphia there was The Roots. Their 2^nd album came out in 1995 Do You Want More was like the Hip Hop of old dope rhymes over LIVE instruments. Led by Black Thought and Quest Love this group shattered conventional wisdom that it was all drum machines making the music in Hip Hop.1995 was very eclectic in terms of  releases that year. There was 2PAC Me Against The World that was a great record with songs like “So Many Tears” and “Dear Mama” Tupac  showed a softer side. The enigmatic artist that in 1 more year (1996) would drastically alter the musical landscape and give rise to one of the most ones sided rap beefs in history.

 

 

 

 

 Everyone knows that Biggie and Pac were friends and that for some strange reason Pac who knew who shot him and paid no heed to Biggie’s warnings about the people he was hanging with decided that he would diss Biggie first in interviews then in the song “Hit Em Up” Over the years it has been stated that Biggie responded with “Who Shot Ya” That is incorrect. Biggie recorded that song BEFORE “Hit em Up” came out. Biggie never lyrically responded to Hit em Up and in a span of 2 years both would be dead from unsolved shootings. While the non-existent  East Coast vs. West Coast beef was getting a lot of print in newspapers and magazines there were still some “Backpackish “ releases that were coming out there was Redman’s Muddy Waters and The Fugees The Score both released in 1996. However the music was starting to go “Jiggy” Jay Z a former protégé of Jaz O and toured with Big Daddy Kane released Reasonable Doubt and vaulted himself into the discussion as one of the next up and comers. Gone were the Carhartt vests and jackets and out came the Coogi and Moschino then…in came in the SHINNY WEAR Much has been made about Puff Daddy and the shiny suits. It was not just him, The Lox and Mase wore that shiny stuff also. If you search hard you will see a lot of  rappers went “Jiggy”. There were even songs like the one by the aforementioned Lox actually had a song called “If You think Im Jiggy”

 

 

 

After 97 with no more Biggie and Tupac and Nas on a self imposed “non illmatic” period the mantle was there for Jay Z to take over.With releases in 1997 and 98 In my Lifetime and Vol. 2 Hard Knock Life respectivley he cemented himself as the coined phrase “King Of New York”. (Biggie had used the moniker Frank White from the movie King of New York and once he passed everyone was looking for the “next one” ) During the same time period down south there was a new movement that was independent of east and west influence and disntictive in its own right. One of the biggest rap stars in the world would come from this movement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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KEEP IT OLDSKOOL MOVIE OF THE WEEK

 

 

Cult classic comedy D.C Cab was released in 1983. The filmed starred an in his celebrity prime Mr. T, Max Gail, Gary Busey, Adam Baldwin, a pre “Real Time” Bill Maher and the immortal Charlie Barnett. The movie set in Washington D.C didn’t win any awards and wasn’t a huge money maker (only made a small profit) but with the advent of cable TV gave it a cult following .

 

 

 

 

 

 

The movie story centers around Albert Hockenberry  (Baldwin) who for some strange reason feels the road to success starts with owning his own cab company. He goes to D.C and gets a job in his dad’s army buddy Harold’s (Gail) D.C cab. He meets the rag tag bunch of cab drivers and instantly wants to hang out with the “roller in hair wearing” Tyrone (Barnett) Sure there is a back story of a kidnapping, a love interest for Albert and Samson( Mr. T)  wanting to get the kids away from shady characters what 80s movie didn’t include such contrived stories? You see the capital city in a different light and before a lot of the beautification that swept a lot of the northern cities in the late 80s and 90s.

 

 

 

D.C Cab is a movie that you can watch and just laugh at the antics. This movie isn’t preaching about anything other the you can’t get rich owning a cab company. In the 100 minutes running time you will see the late comedian Charlie Barnett steal every scene that he is in. You will also  see Mr. T step out of a ridicules looking cab meant to give the impression that the neighborhood kids will now leave the bad guys and drugs alone because they too can drive a cab with a gold plated grill! That alone makes the movie worth a look.

 

 

 

 

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