Classic Blast: RHKP

Redhead Kingpin (and the FBI) had a few great hits .

This was my favorite. Combining classic rap with New Jack Swing

From the 1989 album “Shade of Red”

 

Shade of Red: Redhead Kingpin: Music

Heavy D & The Boyz- Money Earnin’ Mt. Vernon

 

 

Music video by Heavy D & The Boyz  from 1989. A single from the album Living Large, released in 1987.

EPMD - "You Had Too Much to Drink (Feat. Frank B.)"

 

Staying on the EPMD tip, this the funniest video from the album with crazy guitar riff and a great beat.

 

 

EPMD – So What Cha Sayin’

1st track from 1989’s Unfinished Business is the second album from Hip Hop duo EPMD. Released in 1989, the album built upon the success of the group's previous album Strictly Business, which was released the previous year. The lead single, "So Wat Cha Sayin'," was the only charting single released from the album. In 1998 the album was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums^[1] and, in 2005, was ranked #7 on comedian Chris Rock's Top 25 Hip-Hop Albums of all time list for Rolling Stone magazine.^[2]

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on October 16, 1989. It was one of three albums that Priority/EMI Records acquired from Sleeping Bag Records when it ceased operations in 1991.

 

 

 

Samples include

• "So Amazing" by Luther Vandross
• "If It Don't Turn You On (You Outta Leave It Alone)" by B.T. Express
• "One Nation Under a Groove" by Funkadelic
• "Impeach the President" by The Honey Drippers

Crooklyn Dodgers (Special Ed, Masta Ace & Buckshot) - Crooklyn

 

A super group composed of Buckshot, Masta Ace and Special Ed Brooklyn, New York City. Their one and only record was "Crooklyn," produced by Q-Tip, and was featured in the 1994 film Crooklyn. It contains scratch samples from "Who Got Da Props?" by Black Moon and "The Place Where We Dwell" by Gang Starr. It also features samples of a radio broadcast of a Brooklyn Dodgers game. The music video featured appearances by Brooklyn-born athletes Michael Jordan and Mike Tyson

They appeared in three separate incarnations since 1994. The first two incarnations recorded for the soundtracks for Spike Lee films, Crooklyn and Clockers, respectively. The theme connecting The Crooklyn Dodgers songs, aside from the Spike Lee films which they were made for, is the topic matter, which tends to comment on the state of affairs in and around urban New York, as well as other issues affecting everyday life; as Jeru Dodgers game.

 

 

EPMD –The Big Payback

A video from the album Unfinished Business is the second album from Hip Hop duo EPMD. Released in 1989, the album built upon the success of the group's previous album Strictly Business, which was released the previous year. The lead single, "So Wat Cha Sayin'," was the only charting single released from the album. In 1998 the album was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums^[1] and, in 2005, was ranked #7 on comedian Chris Rock's Top 25 Hip-Hop Albums of all time list for Rolling Stone magazine.^[2]

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on October 16, 1989. It was one of three albums that Priority/EMI Records acquired from Sleeping Bag Records when it ceased operations in 1991.

Samples in the record include;

• "Baby, Here I Come" by James Brown
• "The Payback (Intro)" by James Brown
• "The Champ" by The Mohawks
• "Here We Go (Live at the Funhouse 1983)" by Run-DMC

 

My favorite part of this video is all the east coast stars in the video, including Ice-Cube, Easy-E. It was all love in the 80’s

Ed O.G. & Da Bulldogs - Bug-A-Boo (Video)

Bug-A-Boo is from Life of a Kid in the Ghetto, the debut album from Boston released in 1991.

Wale at the Jazz cafe 5th July 2010

Wale made his name from mixtapes. "The Mixtape about Nothing"(2008) and "Back to the Feature"(2009) [which is better than his first studio album "Attention Deficit" (2009)IMHO].



Wale's "Pretty Girls" video

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Will be a good night ....Monday night folks..:)