Back To 1991...(The Remix)

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It's not really it's a remix, it's just that I wanted to make these posts better...and do more thorough research...I am also going to change up the past Back To....posts as well...and now...






I am really pleased that a lot of you gave awesome comments and feedback and clearly enjoyed the Back To 1992 write up and comp and as I was doing that I was trying to convince myself that 1991 wasn't as good as year as 1992...but after going through a ton of music, magazine, website and memory banks it clicked... I was w.r.o.n.g.

I worked in a record store in 1991 and proudly got that shop it's first ever Rap and Hip Hop tape and CD section and sold a lot that year,saw DJ Mase-O (What goes on?) kill it on the two turntables with a 3 1/2 hour set when De la Soul came to town, the Weds Nite Jam was moved to a Friday and he was our very special guest DJ Mikey and Vicious of the MVC Posse, and yours truly were rocking out the airwaves with a studio and lounge area filled to the brim with Radio Active staff, DJ's and crew along with Mase's mad hilarious entourage..., we got Mase tearing shit up with Old School classics and a highly memorable Native Tongues set, he also had us beaming when he needed to do double ups on his turntables and would ask us if we had the record and we did :D...I got owned through an embarrassing phone call and had Mase and his crew asking me what colour a beetroot was, they drank maaaadddd coronas and said they had hi jacked the station and taken the radio station over...ha ha...

I got really nervous during some voice breaks (it was mainly V and Mikey) but was relaxed to rock a freestyle off the top and got applause and Mase asking me if it was off the top...that was a dope night...

Peace to LL Short V,DJ Red Kora, The GBm's, Pete, Jordy, Ebony Beats crew and Te Raina and all of the old school Wellington crew listeners of that show.

1991 was full of dope records and albums from all around the World so let's cover a little of that and then go into the dopest releases from the U.S.

All Around The World It's The Same Song...

In The UK,

Hip Hop was going very strong and there were great releases from the likes of

Caveman-Positive Reaction

Merlin-Merlin

MC Buzz B-Words Escape Me

Hi-Jack-Horns of Jericho

Cash Crew-Will It Make My Brown Eyes Blue

Katch 22-Diary Of A Blackman Living In The Land Of The Lost


also

Blade, Rebel MC,Krispy 3, First Frontal Assault, Ruthless Rap Assasins,Lady Evi, Definition of Sound, B.O.O.M, King Bee, Gunshot, Ronin Inc, Def Tex, II Tone Committee, Fresh Ski & Mo Rock,First Offense, Son of Noise, and The Korperayshun all released solid LP's EP's or 12" inches through out the year.

For more on UK Hip Hop make sure you check out these sites:

http://worldtradecentrelondon.blogspot.com
http://www.ukrapclassics.com
http://www.low-life.fsnet.co.uk/ukhiphop/story/underground_years.html

On the New Zealand front side of things,


-Wellington's Ruamoko and Noise In Effect played a lot of clubs and shows.

-Daddy G (Gavin Ross) and Mike T (Mike O’Brien) started the ‘Rhythm Method’ radio show on Dunedin’s Radio One (Fridays 7pm to 11pm).

-Worcester Bar becomes hip hop’s home in Christchurch.

-The Second DMC national DJ competition was won by Wellington's DJ Raw


Australia:



Def Wish Cast released the limited Edition Mad As A Hatter EP & The A.K.A. Brothers performed at the 1991 New Music Seminar.

France:

MC Solaar released his debut album Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

to great success in France and London and IAM had good success in France with their debut album ...De La planète Mars

Germany:

Die Fantastischen Vier released their debut album Jetzt gehts ab! to good success in their home country

DJ David from Germany won the 1991 DMC World Championships for the 2nd time...
Anything else I can think of I will add on later...
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1991 was a year of fat loops,brag rhymes, conscious rhymes, fat drums and skills with a good rep...these timeless albums/ep's still mean as much to Hip Hop as they did when they were first released 16 years ago.

KMD-Mr Hood (RIP Subroc)

Cypress Hill-Cypress Hill

Pete Rock & CL Smooth-All Souled EP

Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - I Wish My Brother George Was Here

Organized Konfusion-O.K

Black Sheep - A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing

Freestyle Fellowship-To Whom It May Concern

Ed OG & Da Bulldogs-Life Of A Kid In The Ghetto

Funkytown Pros-Reachin A New Level of Assassination

Leaders of The New School-Future Without A Past

Lord Finesse-Return of The Funkyman

PHD-Without Warning

OG Style-I Know How To Play Em

WC & The Maad Circle-Aint A Damn Thang Changed

J-Rock-Streetwize

Godfather Don-Hazadous


Plus we also got solid debut albums from...



The Genius-Words From The...

Anttex &The Motherfunkin Klik-Suburban Etiquette

The UMC's-Fruits of Nature

Powerule-Volume 1

Raw Fusion-Live From The Styleetron

Two Kings in A Cipher (TKO)-From Pyramids To Projects

Greysun & Jaysun-Sweatin Me Wet

Diamond Shell-The Grand Imperial Diamond Shell

The Terrorists-Terror Strikes - Always Bizness, Never Personal

DJ Quik-Quik is The Name



The Convicts -The Convicts
MC Breed-MC Breed & DFC
Downtown Science (Sam Sever & Bosco Money)-Downtown Science
Scarface-Mr Scarface is Back
2 Pac-2 Pacalypse Now
Rappin' Is Fundamental-The Doo-Hop Legacy (Easy Mo Bee's first group)
Tim Dog-Penicillin On Wax


Lifers Group- #66064 EP(an actual Lifers Group rhyming over beats from Dr Jam and Phase 5 (Solid Productions) and with cuts from Mr Lawnge & DJ Richie Rich, a project over seen by 80's rap legend Hellrazor (No More
James) and released on the late, great David "Funken" Klein's Hollywood Basic label.
http://www.bombhiphop.com/limpin.html


As for albums of the year

This was the MVC Posse and Jaz's Top 10 for 1991, we had a list (ha ha I found an old list the other day so I am not sure if it the exact one...it doesn't matter) and a photo of us in the studio the night of the De La Soul radio show take over published in a local magazine (Scope), I wish I still had the photo...

Cypress Hill, Black Sheep,OG Style, Organized Konfusion,CMW, Lord Finesse & Del were along with the albums below on my list and the album covers are above:
Ice Cube-Death Certificate

Terminator X-Terminator X & The Valley Of The Jeep Beets

A Tribe Called Quest-The Low End Theory

De La Soul-...Is Dead

3rd Bass-Derelicts of Dialect (their last ever)

Son Of Bazerk-Bazerk,Bazerk,Bazerk

Ice-T-Original Gangsta

Dream Warriors...And Now The Legacy Begins

Naughty By Nature-N.B.N.

Chubb Rock-The One

Nice and Smooth-Aint A Damn Thing Changed

NWA-Efilrofzaggin (RIP Eazy E)



NWA smashed the pop charts and had parents in fear over their second album Efilrofzaggin

The album ended up being pulled off record stores shelves in the UK, because of it's blatant misogyny and Woman-bashing and glorified gangster stance...and speaking of being pulled off record stores shelves, this was the infamous year that changed sampling forever! Biz Markie sampled a Gilbert O Sullivan song for his "Alone Again" track off his third album I Need A Haircut and lost a court case over it ,Cold Chillin records paid out a substantial sum, here is a link to read about the case.
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/law/library/cases/case_grandwarner.html


The Magazines that were out at the time were...

Serious hip hop magazine
The Source
Rap Pages
Rap Sheet
URB
Hip Hop Connection
Boyz N The Hood and Juice were both very successful movies and soundtracks

and this year also saw some great sophomore albums from...
Comptons Most Wanted-Straight Checkin Em

Digital Underground-Sons of The P

Poor Righteous Teachers-Pure Poverty

D-Nice-To The Rescue

1991 also delivered some good and some really good albums from some of the vets...

Slick Rick-The Rulers Back (recorded while he was in jail)

Craig G- Now That's More Like It (who dissed MC Shan dozens of times on the LP)

Schoolly D-How A Blackman Feels

Heavy D & The Boyz-Peaceful Journey

Geto Boys-We Can't Be Stopped

Tony D-Droppin' Funky Verses

Stetsasonic-Blood, Sweat & No Tears

Public Enemy-Apocalypse '91 (and we can't forget about the classic Pete Rock remix for Shut Em Down)

and

Tuff Crew-Still Dangerous

Scarface- Mr Scarface Is Back

1991 also had his fair share of okay or just alright albums and this included albums from... Big Daddy Kane (Get off that pimp smooth shit Kane), 415,Sylk Smoov,MC Lyte (too many syrupy radio tracks amongst the good ones),YBT,Hi-C, Yo Yo,Steady B, Rapping is Fundamental (R.I.F.) 2nd II None, Larry Lar and Queen Latifah and a few others.

As far as the top singles that got the most requests on the Weds Nite Jam in 1991...

• EPMD ft LL Cool J-Rampage (Pete Rock remix)/It's Going Down
  

• Run DMC ft Ice Cube & Chuck D-Back From Hell (JMJ remix)

• Son of Bazerk-Change The Style/J Dubs Theme

• Brand Nubian-One For All (Tramp remix)

• Pete Rock & CL Smooth-The Good Life

• Terminator X-Homey Don't Play That

• Naughty By Nature-O.P.P

• Tim Dog-Fuck Compton

• Cypress Hill-Stoned is The Way of the Walk

• Black Sheep-Flavor of The Month

• Del-Mistadobolina

• Chubb Rock-Treat Em Right

• Fu-Schnickens-Ring The Alarm

• Big Daddy Kane-Who's Gonna Take The Weight

• Gangstarr-Check The Technique (Remix)/Credit Is Due

• Tung Twista-Mr Tung Twista

• NWA-Appetite For Destruction

• PRT-Easy Star

• Slick Rick-Moses

• De La Soul-Peas Porridge

• Main Source ft Nas, Joe Fatal & Akinyele-Live At The BBQ

• Ed OG & Da Bulldogs-I Got To Have It

• Ice Cube- Horny Lil' Devil

Anything else I can think of I will add on later...

now for the music...here it is enjoy it

Jaz Presents Back To 1991 Vol-1...

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JSMYZBSE

1. biz markie - let go my eggo-(prod biz markie)
2. chubb rock - the one (prod howie tee)
3. black sheep - try counting sheep (prod black sheep)
4. de la soul - oodles of o's (prod de la soul & prince paul)
5-slick rick-bond (prod vance wright)
6. craig g - take the bait (prod marley marl)
7. nice & smooth- pump it up (prod nice & smooth)
8. umcs-never never land (prod hass g & rns)
9. godfather don- losers (prod godfather don)
10. funkytown pros-brutally wild (prod devastatin')
11. cmw - straight checkn 'em (prod dj slip)
12. ed og & da bulldogs-stop (think...) (prod awesome 2 & joe mansfield)
13. anttex & the suburban clik-talk that talk (prod anttex)
14. diamond shell-captain speakin' (prod biz markie)
15. stetsasonic-don't let your mouth write a...(prod daddy-o)
16. schoolly d - sometimes it's got to be that way (prod schoolly d)
17. andreas 13- the blues (prod terminator x)
18. raw fusion-hip hip stylee expression (prod money-b & dj fuse)
19. poor righteous teachers - methods of droppin' mental (prod tony d)
20. marley marl feat. intelligent hoodlum & chuck d - america eats the young
21. first frontal assault-bloodfire assault (prod simon harris)
22. freestyle fellowship - for no reason (prod mathmattiks)
23. caveman - victory (remix) (prod the principle)
24.atcq- check the rhime (mr muhammad's mix)
25.yz-when the road is covered with snow (prod tony-d)



until the next one, thanks a lot for reading and the awesome feedback

peace

Jaz

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