Bodymore Murderland

Rod Lee Vol. 5: The Official
(2005, Club Kingz) @ 320 twankles per glisten

Alright, proud to introduce the pages of this blog to the tag "bmore", a city and club-music style that apparently don't get much love in the Bay - I pulled this disc out Rasputin's B-bin for a $1.99.

Rod Lee packs just about every element we respect here @ T&G into his dense and varied mixes - region-specific individualism, penetrating repetition & funk syncopation, explicit sexuality, audio theft and appropriation and an unusually healthy balance of street attitude & social criticism from a tough but uplifting perspective. The best sampling can take a sound you hate and suspend it in a such a way that it floats free of your negative associations and I can think of no better example of this phenomena than Rod Lee's use of Lil Jon's cartoonish sloganeering. I like his early crunk bass-chants but the change in his vocal style that marks his evolution into name-brand and pornstar rubs me like Jar Jar Binks.

I wonder why television's historical best failed to feature more local club soundtracking. I heard Technics did some consulting but that was only one episode and if I remember correct there was a stilted feeling reference to "Jiggle It" or something. And I'm not directly making the claim that Lee came up the whisper but I did still want to note that the official release date for this disc predates the Ying Yang full-length by a month or so.

Buckwilden

There is meaninglessness in this. Archive passwords, premium upload accounts, external hard-drives, message-board hierarchies, expired links... rainsoaked tagless bootlegg cassette-rips of records you never would have wanted if you hadn't first seen them move in online auctions for 3 digit figures.

In a different sense, though, good record collecting always was a compulsive disorder and in the absense of some coordinated and all-encompassing online audio-archive database (currently impossible, currently illegal) there will always be some gems off-radar, whether 45 RPM or hyperlink, left to stoke the fantasies of the incurable. I recently downloaded some disturbed number of Fuck Action and Lights Off .zips leading to the sort of misguided listening that creates more aversion than either pleasure or knowledge. The best feeling I got from those files was watching my HD space double in one recycle-bin dumping.

But just when MP3's were starting to feel like some niche-porn jpegs - the intangible and illusory representations of real-live records - BOTM uploaded the fucking Womack Da Omen album. And having worked up reality-sized anticipation, I'm sitting here right now enjoying this like a true plastic tape. Whether it lives up to itself is a question not worth asking. Instead: where are the La Chat verses? And I've heard a few, but this is one of the strangest hardcore appropriations of Enya I know of, good Young & Restless tucked up too.

What's Goin Wrong

Cool-D What's Goin Wrong
(1992, Mugz) @ 320 kbps

Another one from the Mugz label (also responsible for the original pressing of recently-posted "Sista Sista").

My copy is a little worn in - some kind of watery peaking in the loud spots. Track is all lean and simple societal reflection rap. It might be too boring if not for the organ part and I do like his rapping style.

Cool logo - you probably can't make it out from this hand-held scan but our Mugz cartoon homey is posted up at this intersection. Reminded - I should work up a logo collection for the right-side images...

Claim is this 12" came out before his full-length, the Unexpected, and check the cover on that motherfucker. Great raw nola style and post-modern iconism. With that shirt on he could be back from the dead and ready to attend his own funeral. And the expression on his face both real and interpreted says almost nothing at all.

I would parrot that he later rolled with the Gotti Click, but I don't know shit about that. Take it up with Dober and while you're at it check his deep and scattered collection of covers. Got one of my deepest screen-stare headaches since the day Super Mario 3 came out when I found that.

Finish This Shit Up Right

DJ Jimi Where They At 12"
(1992, Soulin') @ 320 kbps

Sorry for the re-tread, but that's how a path through the forest is built. And re: the password - no more mention of it hereafter on my part, consider the screen-scan required for the egg-hunt as the lone remnant of those eye skills once needed for vinyl pile digging. Here I'm sharing the fruits of lengthy obsession, spend a moment soaking.

Yall ever wear latex at the record store? I've only ever done that at The Thing.

I posted the tape of this a while back so excuse my lack of freshness but I couldn't help but be charmed by the parallel structure and I've heard images are more interesting in threes. Assuming this is old hat you can at least next-level your rip and you can't much complain anyhow - Bitch's Reply has got to be at the apex of many rap bests, I'm just not going to take the time right now to sort out which ones. Clear enough rip that you can use this for your own professional sampling, I've heard it goes well with the Puppetmaster theme.

Reviewing this reminded me to remind anyone still claiming Gimme What You Got! is a rip-off of DJ Jimi's rip-off that nowhere on this plastic plate can one find the Ike's Mood keys spread clean over FM's remake.

Follow the Gangsta Train

KmSm Featuring Kidd Money
Gangster Walkin
(Avenue, 1992)
vinyl rip @ 320 kbps

Hope to soon present a Gangster Walk mix starting with Underground Mafia's version and moving through Memphis Get Buck bangers to NOLA Buck Jump jams (as well as their color gang roots). In the meantime, this isolated offering by a moniker-jumbled early incarnation of producer SMK (of golden era Indo G & Lil Blunt production fame).

Like FM's Porkchop, Gangster Walking is the strong point of an otherwise unfocused full-length, Black Enimie.

10% Talent, 90 % Business

FM (Freakmaster)
Gimme What You Got!
(Avenue, 1992)
vinyl rip @ 320 kbps

Today's post to fill-in cracks in the "Where They At" response ripples. This one's for the DJ Jimi "original" (misnomer), not TT Tucker though, and is part of an Avenue distro triple post.

If it seems strange this bounce remake hails from Memphis Tenn, just remind yourself that New Orleans and Memphis are Phil D. Triggerman's adoptive parents and this just a rap custody battle.

That the rest of Freakmaster's Mac of the round Table is weak by comparison suggests he buckled under the timeless industry pressure to make less good music some time between the release of this 12" and his full-length. Or, maybe it's Freak's style to cop styles - elsewhere he lays out the Making Easy Money Pimpin Hoez In Style acronym over Bill Withers' Use Me Up (a la UGK) and there's a track that sounds something like a weaker version of an early Ball & G joint.

U Already Nodo

I've been hearing D-Lo's "No Hoe" a lot on KMEL recently. I posted that track in the Blapp Blapp mix from back in June. Its nuts already but the clean edit comes out truly fucked up. His myspace begs viewers to call and request that shit. Consider it, 800.955.KMEL.

I've heard a few other D-Lo solo joints and a couple of HBR (Hyfee Block Records) click jams (note: D-lo is no longer HBR affiliated) and now I'm fiending equally to hear new shit and to score hard wax copies of those tracks already heard. A forthcoming remix with Keak and others suggests a vinyl release of "No Hoe" soon. Great bayed out, relaxed Ying-Yang style and you can find an additional mini-interview here. I think he's been locked up and is about to bust out - there's a myspace flyer for a Welcome Home D-Lo Function (10/20). I hope that means blunt nights at the studio and some tangible releases in the near future.

Music

Debbie Deb When I Hear Music
(Jampacked, 1983) @ 320 kbps

Freestyle classic sampled in many Magic Mike songs, other Bass & Rollerskate cuts and more recently Pitbull's "Fuego". The best song you're likely to hear coming out the radio while getting your teeth cleaned (2nd place: Jacksons' Shake Your Body).

Up Elsewhere

DJ Godfather feat. Players Only
Player Haters in dis House - Remixes
(Databass, 1998)

If I remember correctly, this is the first Detroit based post on these pages and thanks to Coon Daddy's raps its a good record for those rap fanatics still scared off by the house rhythms and repetitions of Ghettotech, Ghetto House and Club musics of Detroit, Chicago & Baltimore.

The remix turned me off at first but over years its really grown on me and what I said about the Silky Acapella probably stands even more true for this slab.

Check out the classic floppy logo, too. Still, its outdone by their future digital tit and ass geodesics.

Emergence

Parlez Make It, Shake It, Do It Good!
(Superdome, 1983) @ 320 kbps

I first discovered this record on a mislabeled ebay auction that offered a audio snippet actually taken from an early 90s Kalifornia Noise 12 inch. It was a pretty lo-fi 4track effort that didn't immediately signal some anachronism (though, admittedly, an anatopistic 415 reference) and for the earliest rap out of New Orleans sounded mindblowingly ahead of its time. It was based around the same Ike's Mood piano sample that was superglued to Mannie Fresh's scratching fingers during Cash Money's coming up period and it suggested the kind of hidden & impossibly linear regional development that made my paypal nerve centers itch with temptation.

Needless to say, this is not that record - but it is the oldest rap record out of N.O. to land on this blog, and as far as I can tell, the searchable internet. 16 minutes of the kind of extended party boogie I would have expected given the known context of this LP - if not led elsewhere by a divshare misclick. And I like the fucking piano that pours through in the final minutes.

The Sister Sister

Silky Slim Sister Sister 12"
(Profile, 1992) @ 320 kbps

From its inception T&G has suffered the financial setbacks of relocation, unemployment and other bullshit, but now we're climbing out this hole on a rope ladder made of hospital OT and lined with spare change from the back-on-the-wagon piggy bank. New M44-7 in pocket, hi-fi vinyl rips should be spilling on the T&G dinner table like Bass Tapes were back in March before I discovered how (almost disturbingly) prolific Drop Da Bass had become. I imagine that blog as some pac-man like digital monster that survives on files with "bass" in the title.

Starting off: Silky Slim's (not to be confused with the male rapper of the same name) "Where They At?" response record - context provided by TT Tucker. I'm not sure how many of you are DJs or track-makers, but I can imagine this Acapella put to good use by the right hands.

If anyone can remind me where the circus toy sounding slide melody comes from...

Addendum

The real deal for all yall geek smokers:

I like the exaggerated triplet drum fills - it makes up for the weird feel of any rap song that swings and the video's colorized format is an apt translation of what much good rap feels like - limited colorful patches pasted into hard-edged landscapes.

Marrero

A classic NO youtube post (because its easy) - pile of ripped vinyl coming soon (including the oldest NOLA rap 12" to grace this blog as of yet). Stay tuned and let's cross our respective fingers in hopes that youtube poster 1825TulaneAve will keep up the bounce audio vids - the sound quality is pretty good for streaming video and they might just post something I haven't heard before.

Feat. Above:
MC Thick "What the Fellas They Be Yellin"
DJ Duck & MC Shorty "Where My Old Lady At"
PNC & Jubilee "NO Block Party"

Sissy Roots (cont.)

Here are the relevant audio links from the previous homo posting. We're just 4 months shy of having a black president, so I'd like to think we aren't too far off from you bloggees being able to accept a rapping fag. Fairly extensive / researched Sissy article here as well - I was glad to learn that Gotty Boi Chris came up as one of Big Freedia's back-up singers and she has a great quote too: "My mama's heard me say 'dickeater' so much she doesn't even care". Surprised to see a rap artist with a song called "Poo Shooter" nervous about gay-rap's affect on his children, though.

Don't have a copy of Y2Katey or the Battle of the Sissys disc - an upload or active eBay auction link from any holder or seller would be greatly appreciated.

Katey Red "Local New Orleans"
Katey Red Melpomene Block Party EP
Chev "Fuck Katey" (skit)
Chev "Fuck Katey"
Vockah Redu f/ Chev "Avealations"
Big Freedia "A'han, Oh Yeah"

UPDATE: via poster NOLA
Katey Red Y2Katey: The Millennium Sissy