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September 28, 2012: Put the Needle on the 1989/1990 Bay Area Rap Record
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Format | Comments | Approx. start time |
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Call-In Rappers | call-in raps on the air live over Too $hort's "The Ghetto" | on my old KALX radio show (Hip Hop Slam) with my co-host G-Spot | no label | 1990 | |||
Too $hort | The Ghetto | Jive Records | 1990 | 12" | 0:02:16 (Pop-up) | ||
Mac Mill | Straight Dangla (Radio) | No Question | 1990 | 12" | 0:07:44 (Pop-up) | ||
Filthy Phil | Consequences | Concerned Records | 1990 | 12" | 0:12:41 (Pop-up) | ||
Mic Bay B & Fresh Master Gee | Suckas In The City | 8ay B Records | 1989 | 12" | 0:17:08 (Pop-up) | ||
Digital Underground | Humpty Dance | TNT/Tommy Boy | 1989 | 12" | 0:21:35 (Pop-up) | ||
Dangerous Dame | Oaktown | J"umpin | James Edwards Sr. Enterprise | 1989 | Cassette | Dangerous Dame's "Oaktown" from 1989 was on his J"umpin (cassette-only) release put out by his dad James Edwards Sr. Enterprise 1989). The oakland rapper - a year later would get signed (and soonafter dropped) by Atlantic | 0:26:03 (Pop-up) |
Call-In Rappers | call in raps acapella | on my old KALX radio show (Hip Hop Slam) with my co-host G-Spot | no label | 1990 | 0:29:52 (Pop-up) | ||
Paris | Scarface Groove | Scarface Recrords | 1989 | 12" | 0:31:25 (Pop-up) | ||
L.T.B. | Yo Start The Show | First Time Recordz! | 1989 | 12" | This is one rare record. I sold copies of it on Ebay for $400 to collectors who had been looking for it for years - The production and samples are indicative of what was happening nationally in hip-hop....but yet it had a Bay flavor too - 1989 was also the period before gangsta began to really take over in a large way | 0:34:44 (Pop-up) | |
Ligit | Let's Get Busy | 8-Ball Records | 1989 | 12" | outta Richmond CA this is Ligit who not only came on the KALX show during this period but used to call in and rap on the air too | 0:38:50 (Pop-up) | |
Keisha Boom | Let's Dance | Tandem | 1989 | 12" | talented young rapper Keisha Boom was only 16 when she recorded this dance floor burner that came out on Tandem Records - great label | 0:42:56 (Pop-up) | |
MJ Freeze | MJ Freeze (He's Super Hard) | 1989 | 12" | 0:45:41 (Pop-up) | |||
Call-In Rappers | call in raps over D Nice beat | on my old KALX radio show (Hip Hop Slam) with my co-host G-Spot | 1990 | 0:50:04 (Pop-up) | |||
APG Crew | Action Packed Gangsas | On The Rise | Metro | 1989 | LP | 0:51:29 (Pop-up) | |
Kool Rock Jay & DJ Slice | it's A Black Thing | Jive Records | 1989 | 12" | 0:54:09 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: over "It's A Black Thing" instrumental |
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