master ace - take a look around

WARNING!!!
this next story is going to sound weird but it must be told.....every friday after work I would stop at the record shop that was owned by a real cool dude who would put me up on all the new releases (it was next to a place called bill's chicken who at the time had the best ghetto fried chicken in pasadena) and I recall a particular day when he showed me a advance tape with a blue cover and blue and yellow letters by a m.c who I had only heard on marley marl's in control vol. 1 album by the name of master ace when I offered to buy the album he told me he couldn't because the album was not supposed to be released 'til next week so I read the tracklisting and gave it back to him made my purchase and went home later that night went to bed and had a dream about the tape I had seen but couldn't purchase, I recall that I heard all the songs (really)so the following week I went back to the record shop and bought the album and when I got home I played it and wouldn't you believe it.... I really already had heard the tape...because it was the very same tracks I had heard on my dream (I warned you that it would be a weird story), so to this day I regard this album as one of my favorite cold chillin' releases (and one of my personal favorites due in part to that darn dream), master ace is said to have won a talent show and the prize was a recording deal with cold chillin' records owned by marley marl & tyrone "fly ty"williams (brother of legendary dj mr. magic), this is master ace's debut album which received luke warm response although it had a bunch of dope tracks like "music man", " me and the biz" (which by the way does not feature a cameo by biz markie due to the fact that he was a no show at the recording studio that day and master ace was left to do the best biz markie impersonation that he could) "four minus three", "postin' high", "brooklyn battles" and " the other side of town", with production from the man responsable for that famous "new york sound" (and for jackin' every james brown record that he could find) non other than one of raps greatest producers of all time (I personally think he is above dr. dre as far as legendary producer status) mr. marlon williams aka. marley marl.

1 music man
2 I got ta
3 letter to the better (remix)
4 me and the biz
5 the other side of town
6 ace iz wild
7 four minus three
8 can't stop the bumrush
9 movin' on
10 brooklyn battles
11 maybe next time
12 postin' high
13 take a look around
14 together

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sound control mob - under investigation (compton compilation)

what can I say about this album?.....I love it!!!, this is one of those famous compilation albums from the late 80's (o.k not so famous) but a true west coast underground compilation classic ( just like n.w.a's the posse which is a comp. album just like this) I remember when this dropped no one knew what the hell I was playin' and that was the reason why I loved this album(even to this day I can play a track off this album and my partners don't know who I'am playin') o.k let's get to the music: on a earlier post I posted a record by a fella called "master rhyme" where he I discussed that he dissed n.w.a.....on this record there is a song by a rapper called "the real m.c master rhyme" who claims he is the real and the other guy on delicious vinyl (record label) is perpretrating and bitting the name (I kind of like the flow from the guy on delicious vinyl a little bit better) also there is a track called "u got nothin' comin'"which is a response to "comin' up short" ( by master rhyme) by a rapper by the name of chuck small (who happens to be "the real m.c master rhyme's brother), the invincible jolly joe & masta rick rok drop "jamaica funk groove" which at the begining samples the gap band's "outstanding" track and a baseline very reminiscint of public enemy's "fight the the power", another stand out track is "quicksand" by a rapper by the same name as the track and also on this album is compton's most wanted (c.m.w - m.c eiht) first record (which also appears on their first album it's a compton thing) "rhyme's too funky", this truly is a collector's item (I have it on cassette but I think it may also have dropped on c.d and vinyl and is on kru-cut records I believe) out of the 10 songs on this album I like tracks # 1,2,4,5,6,7,8 & 10.

1 off the top of my brain
2 rhymes too funky
3 vanilla don't play
4 u got nothin' comin'
5 lyrical assasin
6 jamaica funk groove
7 get busy
8 quicksand
9 what's your name
10 the mob is here
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7a3 - coolin' in cali

hailing from brooklyn new york brothers brett b & sean b (bouldin) along with larry muggerud lived in apartment 7a and thus became known as the 7a3 (really), anyways....this is the only album that they dropped before they broke up & their d.j (grandmixer muggs) went on to become a producer for the likes of mellowman ace and become famous as part of the group cypress hill (I wonder what happened to the brothers since the last time I saw them they were in a video for king sol (aka king saul from m. walk's union) back in 1989-1990?) also credited for the single why?/party time, mad, mad world on the colors soundtrack and a song on the rocky v sountrack "goes like this"(also a single) there is absolutely no production from muggs on this album but there is production from joe "the butcher" nicolo (who muggs's homie everlast dissed on house of pain's "jump around" - "this is going out to joe the butcher nicolo grab ya bozak punk") & schoolly d.

1 coolin' in cali
2 that's how we're livin'
3 everybody get loose
4 a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do
5 freestyle '88
6 express the mind
7 hit'em again
8 drums of steel
9 goes like this
10 1/2 bouldin the other 1/2 ince
11 groovin'
12 lucifer


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dfc - things in tha hood

many will remember the dfc as the crew that the late eric breed (mc breed r.i.p) rolled with from flint michigan made up of alpha breed & big l (not to be confused with the late great big l from n.y) this album is all g-funk and includes production from mc eiht & warren g among others..I remember going into the record shop telling the man behind the counter (my homeboy mike at penny lane's in oldtown pasadena) that I thought this album sounded better than the chronic and he looked at me like I was crazy and he said "really, those are big words" but I still stand behind my words because this still sounds fresh to me to where the chronic sounds played out to me ( even after all these years).

1 a piece of my mind intro (feat. bushwick bill)
2 put your loc's on (feat. mc breed)
3 caps get peeled (feat. mc eiht)
4 mo' love (feat. mc eiht)
5 things in tha hood (feat. mc breed & nate dogg)
6 pass the hooter (feat. warren g)
7 2-2 the chest (feat. mc breed)
8 death b-4 dishonesty (feat. mc breed
9 hand's on my nine
10 roll with the clan
11 digga bigga ditch
12 you can get the dick (feat. mc breed)
13 da bomb

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mc rell & the houserockers - into the future

another highly slept on album by a master lyricist he even said so when he claimed to be the real teacher (subliminal jab at krs?), the album bumps from begining to end (o.k you might want to skip a song or two), since he never made it big I always kept a copy of this handy (for you youngsters back in the days we didn't lend out or music because fools would dub yo s--t and play it out so by people not knowing who the rapper was it ment you had some s--t that that was almost exclusive) anyways this is a underground classic, not much is known about rell (he never released anything else, his name appears on the listing for "the next school" on p.e's it takes a nation of millions album cover) on this album check for tracks 2-6-7-8.

1 into the future
2 soundwave sermon
3 common knowledge
4 my vision
5 life of an entertainer
6 hole in my pocket
7 something about it
8 brainstormin'
9 I'm slammin
10 the rell thing

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diamond & the psychotic neurotics -stunts, blunts & hip hop

a true classic album from a real old school artist (just ask jazzy jay) at a time when everybody was using breakbeats diamond dropped an album crafted around classic samples and original beats, hailing from the bronx (and d.i.t.c member) diamond had a ear for obscure samples as shown on this album.

1 intro
2 best kept secret
3 sally got a one track mind
4 step to me
5 shut the !! up
6 !! what u heard
7 I'm outta here
8 a day in the life
9 last car on the 2 train
10 red light, green light
11 I went for mine
12 comments from big l & showbiz
13 check one, two
14 what you seek
15 lunchroom chatter
16 confused
17 pass dat st
18 freestyle (yo, that's the sh..)
19 k.i.s.s (keep it simple stupid)
20 stunts, blunts & hip hop
21 wuffman stressed out
22 feel the vibe
23 a view from the underground

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kwame featuring a new begining - the boy genius

at only 16 years of age kwame released what would become a classic old school album due in part to the singles "the rhythm" and "the man we all know and love", kwame (who would rock polka dotted clothing) would go on to release 2 more albums before taking a long break and re-surfacing as a producer for acts like lloyd banks, ll cool j & mary blige.....now a days you can find kwam at the recording studio behind the boards still doin' what he loves most....hip hop.

1 boy genius
2 u gotz 2 get down
3 the rhythm
4 the man we all know and love
5 the mic is mine
6 keep on doin' (what you're doin' baby
7 push the panic button!!!
8 sweet thing

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