I got this sent to my inbox and I had to share it, this is dope, great lyrics, production and something different from the norm.
The newest excitement to take hold of things for his dormant rap scene is the 20 year old, Camden, NJ emcee, Apollo The Great. After minimal time on the surface, he has already opened for Jadakiss (footage coming soon) where fans were chanting his name before he took the stage. See his video below for the lead single from H.I.M. 2,"Call It Quits" prod. by YFame and directed by Jimmy Giambrone (Sean Price, Young Chris, Cymarshall Law, Reef the Lost Cauze).
Rammellzee (or RAMMΣLLZΣΣ, pronounced "Ram: Ell: Zee", born 1960 in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York), was a graffiti writer, performance artist, rap/hip-hop musician and sculptor from New York. His death was announced on June 29, 2010.[citation needed] Rammellzee's graffiti and art work are based on his theory of Gothic Futurism, which describes the battle between letters and their symbolic warfare against any standardizations enforced by the rules of the alphabet; his treatise, "Iconic Panzerisms", details an anarchic plan by which to revise the role and deployment of language in society. Rammellzee is often identified as an artist apart of the Afrofuturism canon; Afrofuturism is identified discourse concerned with revisioning racial identity through the tropes of science fiction and fantasy narrative or aesthetics. He was also instrumental as one of the original hip hop artists from the New York area who introduced specific vocal styles which date back to the early 1980s.[citation needed] His influence can still be heard in contemporary artists such as The Beastie Boys and Cypress Hill. His song "Beat Bop" was featured in the film Style Wars. Discovered by a larger audience through the 1982 cult movie Wild Style by Charlie Ahearn, his fame in graffiti circles was established when he painted New York subway trains with Dondi, OU3, and Ink 76, and doctor Revolt. Rammellzee was also a member of the Death Comet Crew, with Stewart Albright and Michael Diekmann. In 1988, he and his band Gettovetts recorded the album "Missionaries Moving." In 2003, Rammellzee performed at the Knitting Factory in New York with the newly reformed Death Comet Crew; subsequently, Troubleman Unlimited re-released recordings made by DCC between 1982 and 1984; additionally, their single for "Exterior St." was featured on the compilation, Anti-NY, with contemporaries, Ike Yard, Sexual Harassment, and Vivian Goldmann, among others. In 2004, he released his debut album Bi-Conicals of the Rammellzee, produced by Gomma Records. Rammellzee also performed at Knitting Factory with guitarist Buckethead several times. His artistic work has been shown in art galleries throughout the US and Europe. Currently, Rammellzee's Letter Racers, and other Noise includes artistic works by individuals mostly identified with their musical contributions. In a recent interview, he stated that his name is derived from "RAM" plus "'M' for 'Magnitude', 'Sigma' (Σ) the first summation operator, first 'L' - 'longitude', second 'L' - 'latitude', 'Z' - 'z-bar', Σ, Σ - 'summation'." He now performs in self-designed masks and costumes of different characters, which, as he states, represent the "mathematical equation" that is Rammellzee. On the basis of his "Gothic Futurism" approach, he sometimes describes his current artistic work as the logical extension into a new phase which he calls "Ikonoklast Panzerism." Rammellzee makes a cameo appearance near the end of Jim Jarmusch's 1984 film Stranger Than Paradise.
01. Feel Me (Intro) 02. Daddy Fat Sax 03. Turns Me On Ft. Sleepy Brown And Joi 04. Follow Us Ft. Vonnegutt 05. Shutterbug Ft. Cutty 06. General Patton 07. Tangerine Ft. T.I. And Khujo Goodie 08. You Ain’t No DJ Ft. Yelawolf 09. Hustle Blood Ft. Jamie Foxx 10. Be Still Ft. Janelle Monae 11. Fo Yo Sorrows Ft. George Clinton, Too Short And Sam Chris 12. Night Night Ft. B.o.B. And Joi 13. Shine Blockas Ft. Gucci Mane 14. The Train Pt. 2 (Sir Lucious Left Foot Saves The Day) Ft. Sam Chris 15. Back Up Plan
Here you go good people the 19th installment of the The CRDS Fat Tape series (are you collecting the series like Airan is? :)
I am feeling generous this week, so this is the second compilation you get this week and I would like to send massive big ups to aREAL http://arealdope.blogspot.com for the dope Mellow T remix and to debonair_p for the rare and dope Big Lou joint and everyone that leaves constructive comments (especially at T.R.O.Y.), I appreciate it a lot.
turn it up loud, twist up a little something, crack open something cold and enjoy...
The CRDS Fat Tape Volume 19
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1EG3TP2H 1-Big Lou-Justice Never Done (Produced by Pete Nice and Sam Sever) (1992) 2-Showbiz and AG-He Say, She Say (Produced by Showbiz) (1992) 3-Mellow-T-Keep It Real (Remix) (Produced by Greg Nice) (1993) 4-Special Ed-Come One Let's Move It (Remix) (Produced by Howie Tee) (1990) 5-Buddah Nation ft Downlow, Zhiggie, Figures of Speech, Ghetto Dwellers, Nadine-Buddah Nation (Produced by Milo Johnson) (1995?) 6-Boodah and Da Bandit-Brain On Drugz (Produced by Sha) (1994) 7-Scaramanga-Sugar 99 (Produced by Scaramanga) (1998) 8-DJ Krush ft Finsta Bundy-Supanova (Produced by DJ Krush) (1996) 9-Cypress Hill-Cock The Hammer (Produced by DJ Muggs) (1993) 10-Private Investigators-Who Am I? (God) (Produced by David Guppy) (1993) 11-Da Youngstas-It's Natural (Q-Ball Remix) (Produced by Q-Ball) (1993) 12-Jake One ft Kutfather-No Introduction (Produced by Jake One) (1998) 13-Maestro Fresh Wes-Bring It On (Produced by K-Cut) (1992) 14-Godfather Don-Hellofasong (Produced by Godfather Don) (1991) 15-Screwball-They Wanna Know Why (Produced by Mike Heron) (1996)
oh any requests for Volume 20?, please leave a comment if you have any, with the 20th Volume, I will post up links to all of them in case you missed some.
01. Intro 02. Any Man 03. 32 Bars 04. Funny How feat. Joell Ortiz 05. BBQ feat. Rah Digga & Rage 06. The Pass 07. To The Future 08. The Half 09. Played Out 10. To The Past 11. Mr. Bacardi 12. At Last feat. Termanology & Reef The Lost Cauze 13. Day In The Life feat. Tona & Maestro Fresh Wes 14. Catch Me 15. Goodbye
01. Buggin Out feat. D-Stroy & Bad Seed 02. The Radar (Remix) feat. Large Pro 03. The Bridge feat. Promise 04. Official feat. Red Clay 05. Bomb Shit feat. Ruste Juxx 06. Whylin Out feat. Shylow 07. Think Of You Now feat. Saga 08. Combat Drills feat. Torae 09. DJ KO - Best To Do It (Marco Polo Remix) feat. Royce Da 5'9", Elzhi & Kam Moye 10. Blockshit feat. Skyzoo 11. Who I Be (Marco Polo Remix) feat. Diamond District 12. How I Get Down (Marco Polo Remix) feat. Skoob (Das EFX) 13. So Basic feat. Surreal 14. The Veteran feat. Grand Daddy IU 15. Ambition feat. Arcee 16. Exile - Radio (Marco Polo Remix) feat. Ruste Juxx & Torae
Yo what's good faithful CRDS readers?...you know that even though I listen to mostly older school Hip Hop (and reggae and some other great music), I personally I think that 2010 has been a pretty good year so far and I made this compilation to celebrate that fact, I went through over 100 tracks and culled them down to 15, we have all types on here including tracks from 5 of my fave producers of all time Madlib, Oh No, Oddisee DJ Premier and Diamond D and also including a dope crew, Evil Mule (Raw Deal & ATS) from Wellington, New Zealand that need more exposure in my view...
I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoyed compiling it and yes there will be another one later on in the year.
1-Smiley The Ghetto Child-Hip Hop (Produced by DJ Premier) 2-Away Team-Interior (Produced by Khrysis) 3-J-Live-The Way That I Rhyme (Produced by J-Live) 4-Collective Efforts-I Get Down (Produced by Diamond D) 5-M E D-Sureshot (Produced by Oh No) 6-Oddisee ft Stik Figa-Riiight (Produced by Oddisee) 7-The Roots ft Joanna Newsome & STS-Right On (Produced by The Roots) 8-Epsilon Project-Inspiration (Produced by Kev Brown) 9-Raekwon, Method Man & U-God-Clap 2010 (Produced by DJ Mathematics) 10-Apollo Brown ft The Left-Real Detroit (Produced by Apollo Brown) 11-Hezekiah ft Talib Kewli & Bahamadia-Fired Up (Produced byHezekiah) 12-Madvillian-Papermill (Produced by Madlib) 13-Tha Grim Teachaz ft Son Doobie-I Getz (Produced by Tha Grim Teachaz) 14-Evil Mule-Take It All (Produced by Raw Deal) 15-Chuck D-Tear Down This Wall (Produced by DSE ft DJ Pain 1)
I'd like to send some special shout outs to Martha S, Kay One, Kurst1 and AL and all of the crew from Welli Deep, Tom from Home Brew, Te Hinewai & Airan and family,Lua, Aki and family,Lista, Rochelle W, aREAL and my awesome buey Lukas, Jason Guy-Clement and family, Prodigal and family Jay and Dart, Lachlan and the LCA crew, Don Luchito,Kelly, Geordie,Mezzy,Sticky Fingers, Tim Ward, Marek, The Mighty Snaxor, Justin T, Kim A Kazi, Suez, Ray Smith, Super DJ Mark G, Rhys, Foul Mouth, Kate C, Cha T and family, Carlito, Hope, Pete, Grant N, Zach C, Felix Five, Max, Mikki-D, Tha Feelstyle, Dom C, G Tahu, Mr Jones, Mr Lawson, Mr Cleminson, Mr Breslin,Taki and my crew and all of the members in B-Boy Classics and Timeless Joints at Facebookand to my family and to all the good people at Philaflava.com
Kas Futialo aka Tha Feelstyle is a New Zealand/Samoan Hip Hop veteran in New Zealand, having been the first ever winner of the first MC battle in New Zealand, way back in 1987 it is not surprising that he has been involved with the culture since the early 80's and that he has been in more than a few groups ranging from early Wellington Hip Hop outfit Noise In Effect to Wellington's own Rough Opinion (with Kos from The Footsouljahs and DJ Rockit V) to The Overstayers from kua (with King Kapisi and DJ Raw (The Footsouljahs) and the Mt Vaea Band. In eager anticipation of his upcoming new album, Firepower For The Peoples, the follow up album to the outstanding album, Break It To Pieces his first solo album released in 2004, which won 3 awards at the inaugural Pacific Music Awards in 2005,
• Best Hip Hop album • Best Male Artist • Best Song
* The music video for Tha Feelystyle's award winning single "Suamalie/Ain't Mad at You" was filmed in Samoa and directed by well know New Zealand video and filmmaker Chris Graham.
I picked Tha Feelstyle's brain on a few topics and this is the end result, I hope you enjoy all of the interesting information here and make sure to purchase his new album when it gets released and pick up Break It To Pieces as well.
Kas also released a Samoan language album only titled Lokokasi in 2008, on Samoan Hip Hop Sounds.
Talofa Kas, please give some background on yourself for some of the overseas readers that might not know about your past, where were you born?, when did you come to New Zealand and was is it a struggle for you and your and Family?
I was born in Samoa in the out backs of Sataoa where the hospital was like 5 hours away , so the old ladies of the village delivered me into this world and so the journey begins. I grew up mainly in the city, Apia in a neighborhood called Lalovae'a , so i had a great balance between the overseas influence of music , tv and movies to the Kerosene lamps of the out back village where i was born. In the 80's i was sent over to NZ for a better education as a child. But i really didnt want to come over , it took me a little while to get use to the idea of coming over and lived with my relatives.I was a street smart kid from the get go, i remember getting off the plane and waiting at the airport for 5hours for my uncle to pick me up. I sat there and asked myself do something about it or face defeat , lucky my bags had an address written on it if was lost they can send it there. I sat there practicing what ever English i could summon up , walked out to the taxi stand , scan for an island looking driver and asked him to take me to the address on my luggage. to make the story short , i got there , my uncle came out of the house and said ' I thought you were coming next week ' lol i was only 8years old at that time?
How well was Break It To Pieces received overseas, did you get good distribution for that album, would you say that the Break It To Pieces album is the one you are most proud of your new upcoming one?
The Break it to Pieces album ' received amazing feed back from overseas DJ and made their top 10 albums of the year etc. I don't think it got a distribution push that i believe it should have deserve. But i am proud of it and it did what it set out to archive and contribute to the growth of Aotearoa Hip Hop.
Who are some of the guests and producers on the new album, why has it been so long between releases?
The new album is completely different in weight compares to the last one.Im working with Juse from MTC on some songs , Victor Keil a talented Samoan Producer and another uso name Andrew . But I'm more active on shaping this album like a director, i co-produce everything.
Some of the guest artists on this album IVA LUMKUM , LADI6 and TEMPLE JONES , RIDDLEZ , ADEAZE ,ADONIS , KELLE FINAU . .Between the first Break it to Pieces ' album i worked on 6 other island albums counting my Samoan album called LOKOKASI its my way of keeping Samoan Hip Hop music alive .
So its a natural progression that i am excited to release the follow up FEELSTYLE album , after all i am the best of both worlds lol
Who are your some of your greatest influences back in the days and of artists out today who do you admire and respect?
Back than music influence me any type of music , i was fixed.Especially when you come from the islands you only hear the songs on the radio we never used to see who sang them lol so music videos was like god.And i just love rap thats what it was , all sorts 7A3 , KING TEE , SCHOOLLY D , KRS ONE , JUST ICE ,GHETTO BOYS , POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHERS , LOW PROFILE , PUBLIC ENEMY , AUDIO TWO etc And today's artist i like MOS DEF, TALIB , LIL'WAYNE , KANYE, JAY Z only the complete artist
Did your old group The Mau aka Rough Opinion with Kos (Footsouljahs) ever record enough material for an album?, also please let us know what other groups you have been involved with over the years.
With Rough Opinion , we wrote a hell of a lot of songs , but manage to record one song for a Safe Sex program called LIPS lol the song was called 'DAM DEM FUNKY HORMONES ' The first group i put together was The Island Rappers or Ti Rappers. Than Righteous Indigenous Quest and i had the same Dj as Noise in Effect...that was Vini. So i join Noise in Effect , soon it evolved into the Mau / Rough Opinion. As Gifted and Brown started i was like the extra member of the group but because Gerald made music i liked we started a group called Conscious Navigator and we did play for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers when they played at the SHOW BUILDING in Newtown.
The Overstayers from Kua was a concept group invented while at Danny Ds house with King Kaps at the time. So it became me Dj Raw and King Kapisi.
Haha yes I remember that "Dam Dem Funky Hormones", I was in the video and was wearing a T-Shirt that had "Wednesday Night Jam" scrawled on it lol...okay, In your opinion Kas, what do you like and what do you dislike about New Zealand Hip Hop, are you happy with the current state of it?
I like the potential about NZ Hip Hop , im not really a hype type of person , meaning don't talk about how good you are show me how good you are. A lot I see is that we lack creativity , our scene is like a poor duplication of what already exist overseas , but by saying that , if you want to be the next Drake or Mos Def make sure your better than them .
The new album title is great, what is the meaning behind "Firepower For The Peoples"?
Firepower for the Peoples ' is basically like a audio food an electric current to motivate you to own the moment that your in.
How would older fans go about getting your older tracks like "Walls of Steel (with Erhmen)" and "Hibiscus Milk" and "The Anthem"?
I apologize to those people that are in search of those tracks .I myself don't have a copy but consider those very important to where I'm standing at right now.
Anything you would like coldrockdaspot readers to know about you and your music?
If i can make or inspire someone to make a difference in there life than its all worth making music. Its not about the fame or money , that shit is easy to gain. A good album is a good album.
This has been great and really helpful so thanks a lot Kas and best of luck for the new album and your career.
I understand that this dope Reggae/Hip Hop album is not very easy to find these days and I feel lucky to still have it on vinyl, I had a couple of requests for it at T.R.O.Y
so I thought I should share it here, along with some remixes, hope you enjoy it all.
1. Born again black man 2. Dry head shakira pt.1 3. Good body runs in yah family 4. No condom, no fun 5. Girl's vineyard 6. I'm gonna take you home 7. Ghetto gospel 8. Pressure dem 9. Golden axe 10. Dry head shakira pt. 2 11. Dem a murderer 12. Hey! mr. rude boy 13. Dancehall scenario 14. Ya can't test me again DJ Premier
01 Intro The Agent 02 Talk My Shit 03 Say Wassup Ft. Phonte 04 How High Ft. Little Brother and Darien Brockington 05 Chocolates 06 One Hand Push Up 07 Prosperity 08 Truth On You Ft. Twone Gabz 09 Intermission Juan Carlos 10 Chicago 11 Agony Ft. Glenn Lewis 12 Last Night 13 Give It To Me Ft Saigon and Adad 14 Intermission No Help 15 City Is Falling Ft. Slique 16 Celebration
01. Intro 02. OPG Theme feat. Burke The Jurke & Vinnie Paz 03. I'm a G 04. Trigger Talk feat. Bloodsport 05. Bosses feat. Akir & K-Beta 06. Chops Speak (Interlude) 07. Get Me Outta Here 08. Suicide Slang feat. King Magnetic & Slaine 09. Lazy Sunday 10. Three Greats feat. Kool G Rap & R.A. The Rugged Man 11. Cut U Up 12. What We Rep feat. Big Noyd 13. Sun
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