BSITWT #49

Us3 -Cantaloop




Sampling Herbie Hancock's 'Cantaloupe Island', this gem from 1993 is funk personified.

The Diary - Rap Megamix

A long time in the making and much talked about, "The Diary" (World's Greatest Rap Megamix) is finally here; a chronological mix of the genre's landmark recordings by order of release from 1979-2007. 801 records in the mix!

Direct download: Here
Tracklist download(PDF): Here

Endless hours of listening pleasure

http://www.itstherub.com/radio.htm#history

Here is as comprehensive a list as one could ever dream to find. The Rub, which has been hailed as "the best party in Brooklyn to dance sweatily to smart music", has basically given us access to every important hip-hop track ever released. With a mixed MP3 giving a "best-of" for every year from 1979-1999, there is going to be a serious drop-off in productivity levels around here for the next month or two.

Public Enemy

Good news for P.E. fans, this is nicked from Jim Carroll:

Possibly THE most politicized hip-hop act of all time, Public Enemy return to Ireland in May to perform their classic album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. People may moan that they are just another band back on tour to earn a few quid, and that may well be the case (hard to fully reject that idea when one thinks of the embarrassing appearances of Flava Flav on reality TV). But regardless of that possibility, I will certainly be going along to pay homage to a really important act in the history of hip-hop, and in black culture generally (despite the fact that I am not black). Check out the video, Fight the Power, which contains one of my favourite lyrics ever: "Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me".

Hip-Hop was once great