I asked Trylemma what I should post and he said "some rare San Jose shit" to paraphrase. So here you go! A number of different versions of this exist with different B-sides. All are dope. Dave Dub really exemplifies why SJ puts out some of the most interesting hip hop in the Bay Area. Gritty, meaningful and experimental. Never boring, never easy, never expected. Enjoy Skywalking!
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Well, does it? A question for the ages and a cover for your nightmares. Figured this one was pretty rare, although I don't know what this guy's doing these days. Maybe making another Hurricane Party...? Fingers crossed.
Anyway you guys probably know Bleubird, crazy rapper from Florida who manages to blend comedy, art rap and mainstream style Dirty South and is even occasionally successful at it. Not gonna lie, when his music isn't good it's REALLY not good, but when it's good it's pretty damn good. He's got technical skill and a very weird sense of style. Not for everyone, but certainly a fossil worthy of our attention.
"Enjoy" Does Man's Short Life Span Make Any Sense (Hoople)!
I think this one qualifies as a fossil. Classic PA hip hop all day, Luke Sick's humble origins in all it's glory. Includes an improv folk song. No shit.
Enjoy Hoopleg!
Oh yeah thanks Trylemma for the last minute cover last week. Hope I wasn't missed too much.
This is an album. It has the Geti stamp of approval. It has a lot of credited artists on it. I must've downloaded this around 2010, it used to be pretty easy to find along with it's counterpart Race Trading. I like Serengeti, especially the stuff he did before the frankly, IMHO unamusing and kind of boring Kenny Dennis works. He does surrealist, poetic, beautifully moving music when he wants to, I'd much rather hear that then him grunting about non-alcoholic beer and that Workaholics dude.
That's my personal opinion I guess. Anyway this is a decent Serengeti album that showcases some of his weirdness without going too deep into the characters. If you like Geti you need this one, and if you need something you know UGF got you!
Request from Denis for this Dreadnots beat tape. Those dudes have always had a deft hand with the sampling and a tangible love for the art you can feel with every song, and this collection is no exception. Thanks a ton from "you know who you are" for sending this our way and letting us share the love.
Enjoy Holy M Blue P!
Premier and Guru. Lateef and Lyrics Born. Ceschi and Factor. Mike and Jamie. Peanut butter and jelly. Grape jelly. And Dimxsk and Trylemma. Yeah it's about to be one of those posts.
Anyway what was that? You're probably thinking I clicked here to download this dope Onry Ozzborn remix album and now I gotta read more nonsensical shit from Dimxsk. But this particular download has a history.
Flash back to 2016. I had just recently acquired the means to rip analog albums onto digital files and was loving it. Like many of you I have built quite a collection of free lathes, exclusive physical only tapes and OOP vinyl just to have it without the means to easily listen to it.
So I was stoked about my newfound ability to share rare shit, and this album was my very first rip and very first share. I went onto a C-Box somewhere and basically asked who wanted it, and one of those folks was Trylemma.
So essentially this album is what led to the collaborative effort that is UGF, with T mainly handling the acquisition side of things and myself handling the ripping. I think it's led to some very exciting media being preserved and allowed to circulate freely to those of us who were too young to appreciate it when it dropped and then vanished forever, or those of us who just want to listen to super indie rare music on an iPhone.
Seeing it up here finally is pretty cool. I've been holding it back because a) it's really cool b) and I wasn't too sure how Fake Four Inc. might feel about it being out there. If they'd prefer just let us know and we'll take it down.
But this album is pretty damn awesome. The remix of "Flee the Colony" in particular is IMO IIRC even better than the original, and the exclusive Ceschi track is one of his dream pop masterpieces.
There's tons of good stuff on here, including the original tape hiss in 320 kbps glory! Enjoy friends and thanks for continuing to follow us on this journey.
Some rare Canadian hip hop tunes on this one, thanks to Trylemma for the hook. Not sure where it comes from but Ira Lee, Moka O and Royal-T make appearances.
Enjoy, and I'm out!
I can't believe we've never posted this one before but it looks like we haven't. The Change is Kublakai, a NW cat who in my opinion distinguished himself with a fairly solid songwriting ability and singing chops on his work the The Let Go rapping over some familiar beats. At least one is VERY familiar.
Enjoy!
Gotta do a quick one this week, I got myself some kittens recently and they want attention and they're funnier and more adorable than my computer so I'm gonna give it to them.
But for now, here's an offering from Royal-T and Nevamind. They did another album for Hand'Solo Records a while back, which wasn't bad (this also includes a better background on the group than I would ever write). This one is, however, in my opinion better with more variety in sound and better production.
Royal-T was a fantastic rapper and I have it on good authority he was a good dude too. For those of you who weren't aware he passed away in 2016 leaving behind a crew full of folks who loved him and the rare but devoted fans who did as well. This album was released before that when he was at the peak of his creativity and clearly enjoying making music with the homies.
I hadn't posted this up until now because it was available on the Deepcave blog, but it looks like it got taken down and replaced with a bit of a devotional page to T and his talents and interests. Worth a look so here.
Enjoy No!
Wow, feels like it's been a while since I've sat down to do one of these. Crazy busy. Sessed lay vye. Wait that's not how it's pronounced...?
So as usual when I'm just trying to push one of these out there (he he didn't mean that at all) I just post something from an artist I've covered more exhaustively earlier on and add a tag to that post. So here's something from PSeudo, one of my favorite JKC members who makes introspective conscious rap that has some flaws common to twenty year old indie but who cares it's good stuff.
Enjoy Be Here Now!
By the way, Breaking Ground is not broken up, it's just a rumor.
Canadian's answer to CVE Fourth World Occupants released one full length official album on CD I know of and that's Powerhouse. If you're a fan of that early 2000's hardcore hip hop flavor with chill grooves, clever lyrics and descriptions of good times with the homies then this one's for you. Brought to you by Emotionz, Deps Pneumonik, Big Rowd, and Lace with production from House One.
This one is starting to look it's age but for those of us who still remember a time when rappers had more face than tat it sure ain't bad. And who knows maybe some under 20s will find they like it. Probably not though lol.
I'm back! Wish I could say I had a restful few weeks off, but I'm a shitty liar lol. Anyway thanks to Trylemma for taking up the slack and the kind wishes from everyone, it really did mean a lot and helped me keep my head up.
That said I'm keeping today's post short and easy. In celebration of getting one of my most frustrating holy grails from not one but TWO folks (the rest of you I'm just waiting for explicit permission and then it's going out to the ether) I'm going to throw this one out there I've been saving for a special occasion. Another little Buck 65 mixtape from the late aughts created so's to eat on tour I believe. It's pretty good, albeit this is his "I'm a rapper who doesn't like rap" phase I think, a la "Roadhouse Blues".
Enjoy Heck!
Well it's a new year and a new beginning for UGF. Trylemma is back in effect and as you read last week we now have a biweekly(ish) segment we're calling Breaking Ground where we introduce each other to music we're not familiar with and record the results for posterity. I promise you that it will not only be as (hopefully) interesting to read as our old, obsolete New Album posts (with a cooler on brand name) but I think it's safe to say that if one of two heads with collections going back to the turn of the century hasn't heard something chances are many of you haven't as well, meaning most of us are probably going to discover some classics we've been sleeping on for years.
That said... ground isn't getting broken this week. Soon my friends.
Anyway, as much fun as I sometimes have writing this blog I have to admit that I also do it for some selfish reasons. For one thing I got good people like DJ Kaohtix sending me music from my public wantlist and in the process giving me new shit I wasn't aware of. Some of you who've been viewing UGF since the beginning (2019, before the world moved on...) remember I made a promise to share that stuff with ya'll, and I'm seriously doing it one week at a time. So here's a great one from our neighbor to the North, Dead Indians on Indian Affairs.
This one is fire. Political hip hop from the Indigenous perspective. Homemade sound and mastering quality but the lyrics are dope and the passion is real. Definitely an important piece of Winnipeg rap, and try as I might I couldn't get any decent background info on this. They all sound so young it's hard to be sure who is who, and I don't know anyone from that areas real names which is all the album art drops on us.
DJ Moves does a halfway decent mini-interview over at Living Underwater here. I'll just end with that so enjoy!
In celebration of the release of the tangentially related and stylistically similar new (?) Papervehicle album I am happy to present this humble garage product. The Twilight Idols were a New Cocoon affiliated creation, I believe between Slew and someone named Oger, as well as someone else with some contributions by Edison (which is why I thought of this when I saw the new PV album). I was educated on the history of New Cocoon by a founding member and they mentioned this group and the chemistry they demonstrate on this album.
Basically if you like the music I usually do (experimental hip hop with melodic production) you will love this one. Enjoy!
Here's another Household Nameless release from the aforementioned mother lode I was given access to last month. Simantic is one third of Scotch Tape Portraits, the interstate collective that gave us Babel Fishh and E9ine on the beats. Simantic is an extraordinary wordsmith with beatmaking talent as well. Writes songs addressing poverty, politics and mainstream culture with a sense of humor and humility. Great stuff!
Oh and check out here for some of his newer material under the moniker Toeach Therón!
The one and only Trylemma returns!
Anyway, had a late meeting with my boss Thursday night and didn't have time to get a post ready for today. I want to upload something but truly don't have time for a proper write-up. Basically this is some Prairie rap gold from fast rapping Vizion, completely I believe produced by Factor. Enjoy!
Happy Thanksgiving or whatever your equivalent is outside of the states. For you, today, I got this. A freebie I was given by a Discogs seller a lot of you probably know when I picked up Orphan Symphony.
BrokenKlutch is a one man New England Wu-Tang Clan (and yeah I am aware New York is New England. You know what I mean). This dudes got the mind melting spiritual raps, produces the dramatic and hypnotic beats and draws, paints with the best of them.
You know already. This promo has some cuts I'm not sure I have on any other albums. There's no track listing or anything so I can't be sure. But it's got some dope beats and rhymes, and it's incredibly difficult to get to listen to this these days. So here you go!
Sorta disappointed to find out this week that I'm not immune to Covid. I went years without catching it and here we go. And it SUCKS.
So I'm just gonna throw this one out there. You know and love Onry Ozzborn. Dark Time Sunshine made one of the best art rap albums ever in Vessel and I guess this party mix was in celebration of that or something. Not sure where I got this or if it's even legit. It is certainly Oldominion dudes rapping over beats that don't sound like OD. Courtesy of DJ Pratt I assume.
Anyway take a listen, I'm gonna lie down now.
Well I felt bad so here's something. I already have done a few writeups on Riverside rapper Poetic Death aka Von Poe VII so you can search the tag if you're curious about this particular artist. He's dope and has lots of great albums that are ridiculously hard to find. Goldmine for a blog like this, unless he decides he doesn't want these out there which I will of course respect.
First off, thanks for bearing with us and respecting the new Code of Chatbox. You guys are cool. Enough of that though.
Here's the album that turned me on to how amazing Backburner could really be. Over dope beats Timbuktu and Chokeules are flawless on Get the Benjamins. Not sure what prompted the release of this album as their group with Selfhelp and Psybo known as Toolshed was really taking off at this point. But in a way this LP had to happen, it sort of gives you a more straight up boom bap offering than the usual nerd / hardcore weirdness that was pre-2005 Toolshed, and it's truly impressive what these guys can put out when they focus on pure skills over concepts.
Anyway I'm tired so I'll leave it at that. Unfortunately this rip is only 192 kbps. I actually own this album and will rerip and repost it asap, but for now I wanted to share it with the imminent Swamp Thing coming soon. It's fun to do a little now vs. then type deal with these long time indie rappers.
Enjoy!
