(From On Da Brink album; 1997)
Another song ya host Bloggy Brackins discovered via BigSleep's Bay Area Jazz-Rap compilations. A worthy entry into the For The Love Of Money canon which began properly in 1984 with its first great use Step Off by Melle Mel & The Furious Five. This mix of Loot 'A Getcha is some charmingly naive Bay Area backpack-Rap which is aimed at the dancefloor. Granted, it's a dancefloor which is 85% male, but a dancefloor is still a dancefloor innit. If the 12" containing this song had ever made it to the U.K, it would have gone gold in Mr Bongo.
J-Live - Braggin' Writes (1996)
Missin' Linx - M.I.A (1998)
Jurassic 5 - Jayou (1997)
Mad Skillz - Ghostwriter (2000)
Non Phixion - Refuse To Lose (1998)
Mos Def - Universal Magnetic (1997)
Ugly Duckling - Fresh Mode (1999)
D.I.T.C - Day One (1997)
Dilated Peoples - Work The Angles (1998)
Bumpy Knuckles - Part Of My Life (1999)
MF DOOM ft. DJ Cucumber Slice - Rhymes Like Dimes (1999)
People Under The Stairs - The Next Step II (1998)
6 comments:
A Little Samba being featured on the latest McDonald's ad instantly reminds me of Mr. Bongo.
I haven't seen that. Ugly Duckling in a McDonald's advert is hilarious to me.
Jurassic 5's Jayou featured on a Kellogg's cornflakes commercial is another one.
Theory: most British advertising executives are ex-backpackers from the 1997 to 2003 era.
We co-signing those Mos Def, Non Phixion and PUTS records?
Yep. The only one I don't own is Work The Angles.
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