Our United States Of Unconsciousness

I had an appointment with my Hip Hoptician this week and they've prescribed nine rap tabs to be taken in 46 minute doses, twice a day, minimum.

Beats and rhymes from different times, cross-crossing the Atlantic and mixing up Queen Latifah with Antipop Consortium, The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy with Collapsed Lung, Monie Love with Cypress Hill. And a remix of Call It What You Want by Credit To The Nation that leaves the Nirvana sample intact.

Music with a message that makes you move? Yes indeed!

Prescription warning: High diss content. Keep out of reach of children.

 

1) I Know You Got Soul (Breakz Mix): Jason Nevins vs. Eric B. & Rakim (2002)

2) Come Into My House (Richie Rich Dub Vocal Mix): Queen Latifah (1990)

3) Hand On The Pump (Muggs Blunted Mix): Cypress Hill (1992)

4) It's A Shame (My Sister) (Cool As... Mix By John Waddell): Monie Love ft. True Image (1990)

5) Volcano (Lavaflow Mix): Antipop Consortium (2009)

6) Bring Forth The Guillotine (Darksidemix By Ben Chapman): Silver Bullet (1989)

7) London Tonight (Fila Brazillia Mix By Dave McSherry & Steve Cobby): Collapsed Lung (1996)

8) Television, The Drug Of The Nation (Album Version By Jack Dangers & Mark Pistel) (Cover of The Beatnigs): The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy (1992)

9) Call It What You Want (Remix By MC Fusion & Simon Commonknowledge): Credit To The Nation (1994)

 

Our United States Of Unconsciousness (45:58) (KF) (Mega)

Time's A Double-Edged Sword

Forty five minutes of hip hop and rap, featuring Beastie Boys, De La Soul and Run-D.M.C., some next gen artists with Antipop Consortium and Young Fathers, and some lyrical treats bridging Wales and Brooklyn as Green Gartside meets Mos Def, Lee Majors and A Tribe Called Quest's Ali Shaheed Muhammad. 

 

By sheer coincidence, I flip from a young mother to the Young Fathers, with Monie Love's exhortation to Build Relationships Where Education and Enlightenment Dominate followed by Edinburgh's finest who returned after a four year break in July with Geronimo.

 

The selection starts and ends in 1998, with cuts from Hello Nasty by Beastie Boys and Jurassic 5's self-titled debut, two much-loved albums in my collection. As you might expect, a parental advisory sticker is slapped over this selection due to occasional smut and cussing.

 

1) Body Movin' (Album Version): Beastie Boys (1998)

2) The Projects ('Ocean's Eleven' Album Edit): Handsome Boy Modeling School (1999)

3) Say No Go (New Kick Instrumental) (Remix By Pasemaster Mase): De La Soul (1989)

4) War: Outkast (2003)

5) Capricorn One: Antipop Consortium ft. Mr. Live (2009)

6) Born 2 B.R.E.E.D. (The Freedom Mix): Monie Love (1993)

7) Automatic (Jayou Remix): Young Fathers (2010)

8) Feel The Vibe (Album Version): Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics (1992)

9) Tinseltown To The Boogiedown (Ali Shaheed Muhammad Variation): Scritti Politti ft. Mos Def & Lee Majors (1999)

10) It's Tricky (Album Version By Rick Rubin & Russell Simmons): Run-D.M.C. (1986)

11) Bucky Done Gun (DJ Marlboro Funk Carioca Remix): M.I.A. (2005)

12) Lesson 6: The Lecture (Album Version): Jurassic 5 (1998)

Double-Edged Sword (44:56)