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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Top 3 bottled sauces


1) HP Sauce - original gangsta
2) Daddies Tomato Ketchup - better than Heinz to the condiment conniseur, plus big Shirley Crabtree used to endorse when it first broke on the scene, Rawkus Records underground-like compared to the Sony-esque Heinz Ketchup conglomorate
3) Dave's Mad Dog Inferno - a staple of my subs and sandwiches during my Tallahassee adventure last year, I look forward to reaquainting myself with this fiery demon on my (*crosses fingers*) return in July. Guaranteed to leave you with an arse like the Japanese flag the day after.

Speaking of sauces and spices allows me to link nicely into a few mp3 cuts for your perusal.

First up is Richie Spice (did you see what I did there?), brother of Pliers (he of Chaka Demus & Pliers) fame. The ultra low budget vid for 'Earth A Run Red' is currently spinning reasonably frequently on Channel U, and the mix of grainy Jamaican market shots, and Richie looking like Brother James the S1W on a beach trip, makes the vid a must-see. The song meanwhile is simply smashing. Also tacked on here is the spiffing 'I Have Got You', Richie's summery use of the Lava Ground riddim.

Shut Up And Dance will mean little to US peeps. Those in the UK with half a brain however may well remember the awful 'Raving I'm Raving' track from the early 90s. They may also remember the Ragga Twins, who dropped the seminal "Reggae Owes Me Money" on the SUAD label around the same time. Largely ignored by many because it was difficult to pigeonhole, the mixture of reggae, breaks, techno and dance music influences was a big hit with A to the L, who now presents you with a couple of the more famous album cuts. Sauce reference? Oh yeah - these are hotter than tabasco (ya little asshole).

Completing the quintet is Sugar Minott's 'Show Me That You Love Me Girl' a classic from the Channel 1 Recording studio vaults. Sauce reference, here? None actually, but I'm sure you'll be glad I included it.

Richie Spice - Earth A Run Red
Richie Spice - I Have Got You
Ragga Twins - Illegal Gunshot
Ragga Twins - Hooligan 69
Sugar Minott - Show Me That You Love Me Girl
Saturday, June 04, 2005

KRS-One is an annoying cunt


I can't pinpoint for certain when it was that Kris, to me, crossed over from being a legendary emcee to just an annoying gimp, but I do know that he used to rip the piss out of the jamaican accent and that really used to jar me off. That probably started the rot.

Strange person that I am, I prefer "Ghetto Music" to the arguably better "Criminal Minded" and "By Any Means Necessary" albums. I used to bang that shit religiously for months after it came out (no homo). One of the other things that pissed me off about this album though (besides Kris's 'toasting' skills) was the fact that the remix of 'You Must Learn' wasn't on there. The remix of this song that used the same break that Flash used for that song I can't remember the name of now, is STILL one of BDP's greatest songs. Unfortunately the album version, despite being lyrically nice, is the musically equivalent of knitting. The only people who have let me down WORSE than this with the old 'wrong mix on the album' trick, are EPMD with 'Give The People'. But anyway...

Then there was the old 'I am Hiphop', 'You are Hiphop', 'They are Hiphop' shite. Don't talk complete bollocks. I am A to the L. And I be blowing the soul out of this horn. You be Krs-One, utterer of bobbins. The end.

How about tricking us all into buying "The Sneak Attack"? That was a bitch move for sure. How about taking some of Primo's best beats, and showing amazing skills in rocking over them, thus producing one of your best ever albums... and then never working with Primo again? Smart move.

I hate when people talk about KRS-One and his speeches to the United Nations. Who gives a fuck? Geri Haliwell did that shit too, and she doesn't have a clue whether she's blew up or stuffed half the time. Equating yourself on the level of a spice girl = Hiphop.

Any Hiphop fan worth their salt will always pay tribute to the legend that WAS Krs-One, but he's increasingly turning into the equivalent of the drunken uncle at your wedding who wants you to dance and pose for photos, while he sways all over the shop with his cock sticking out of his fly. Oh no - you're an embarrassment.(©Suggs)

And although Tim is a fool. He's OUR fool. And we hate it when you, DJ Muggs, or any other dickhead comes thru and tries to fuck with Tim on the account of his Britishness, his whiteness, or his 50 Cent groupieness - those are OUR jokes, and not to be shared with you - the man who once married a blue whale.

Meanwhile his rantings on and through the Temple Of Hiphop website are kook-ish in the extreme. Waffling on about Christ instead of working on music = not Hiphop.

His latest ripper is the series of drops that KRS has produced to help promote concerts, public appearances etc. They're pure fucking cheese, and a must for any DJ who wants to put them on mixtapes for comic effect.

Krs - I salute you and your massive nose. Limmy.

Bad thing
Krs-One Drop1
Krs-One Drop 2
Krs-One Drop 3


Good thing
The infamous DJ Spinna remix of Krs-One's 'Hiphop vs Rap'

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