Thursday, 26 November 2020

Late pass! Michigan & Smiley's culture

And there was my uncultured arse thinkin' that the ultimate remake of Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner is the Shock G remix of Dopefiend's Diner by 2Pac...

WRONG!

This Dancehall refreak by Michigan & Smiley of Nice Up The Dance fame takes the crown. Jah's greasy spoon uptown ranking which almost certainly woulda been banned from the jukebox in Tom's IRL diner if Kramer's racist arse was in the building.

Michigan & Smiley - Tom's Diner
(From Tom's Diner single/Gunman Riddim; 1990)



9 comments:

Jmil843 said...

Shock G is so underrated. One of my fav Shock G remixes https://youtu.be/1vw9GqiAOv8

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Johnny - wow, never knew Mall got his inspiration from Mad Professor.

Jmil, damn, that's good. Never heard that before.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Definitely unexpected hah.

step one said...

yeah I liked this one. And the typo on Youtube that has it as Tom's Dinner :)

Other re-licks include this UKG version from '99 which was pretty big (although I was never too into it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBm9dZL7m1g

and of course, the Ratpack's Searchin For My Rizla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dpvLjtT7jI (2:15)

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

😂 @ Tom's Dinner.

Anonymous said...

my favourite version is bounce squad's uneek on the intro of doo wop New Testament tape
https://www.mixcloud.com/daileymaddawg76/doo-wop-the-new-testament-1996/

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Nice.

turdbutt said...

holy shit thank you for the my opinion knowledge, I grew up on both sounds so this is wild

also speaking of late, did I get this from here? I don't remember, best bootleg Pac verse since Homies & Thugs. offtopic just came to post it somewhere

Cal Wayne - Animosity
https://youtu.be/0GgxUO9dWdM

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Not me because I've never heard that before.