Sorry I’m late.
It was a hard decision which tape to choose next and I couldn’t make up my mind for a long time if this one would be appropriate.
I finally decided to take it because it is a really legendary cassette. Not only for its own sake, but also because it stands for my first trip to the Splash!-festival, my first bigger journey alone, and also for the first summer I was at home while my parents were in Hungary. Garden-parties, barbecue, drunken people of unknown name and even origin all around the house. My first car, a Mazda 121 from ’89 in black, totally overloaded with four people and luggage, during our trip to the Splash!2002. A Bavarian Autobahn with us driving downhill with the wind in our back and running possibly 180 kilometers per hour – possibly because the speedometer quit at 160. With the carbody so low down that it hit the backwheel every five minutes with screeching sounds that made one think of disaste while my worshipped built-in tapedeck kept spreading this unique NY-flavour into our packed interior.
That much as a prequel, let’s get to the facts. The tape itself came out in the mid-nineties, maybe even in 96, the year that set so many milestones in Hip Hop. It features five of then most famous DJs and adapts the concept from one of those trashy but still highly acclaimed Eastern-movies:
One Dj represents one master of the martial-art:
P.F. Cuttin aka The Lizard, Mister Cee aka The Toad, Tony Touch aka The Snake, Dj Premier aka The Scorpion, Evil Dee aka The Centipede and together they are
The Five Deadly Venoms of Brooklyn
Each of them has his own unique set but all of them come with a couple of those WuTang-flavoured movie-samples, resulting in a very atmospheric outcome. The mix ain’t that good if you ask me – a lot of backspins and juggles, sometimes rough or no transfers at all – whereas the selection of tracks justifies the tapes legendary reputation.
Tracklist as following:
PF Cuttin:
5 Deadly Venoms Of Brooklyn – Intro
Verbal Hoodz – I’ll Be Damned
Dr Dre & B-Real – Puppet Master
Breeze Evahflowin – Forsaken
Busta Rhymes & Q-Tip – Wild Hot
Camp Lo – Say Word
The Dutchmin – Surrounded
Powerule – Bright Lights Big City
Mister Cee:
Zhane – Request Line (Mister Cee Blend)
KRS One – Raptures Delight
Yvette Michelle – Not Feelin You (Mister Cee Blend)
The Veterans (Brucie Bee, Luvbug Starski & DJ Hollywood) – The Medicine
The Notorious B.I.G. – Hypnotize
Frankie Cutlass, Kool G. Rap, Mobb Deep & M.O.P. – Know The Game
Mobb Deep – Young Luv
Tony Touch:
Tony Touch – Deadly Freestyle
Steele Kat One & Lil Noc – Freestyle
Freddie Foxxx – Freestyle
Sunz Of Man & Makeeba – Freestyl
Guru – Freestyle
Channel Live & Benny Boom – Freestyle
Jeru The Damaja & Lil Dap – Freestyle
Dj Premier:
Grand wizard Theodore & Kenny-Kev Rockwell – Military Cut(1982)
Busy Bee vs Kool Moe Dee – Live at The Harlem World (1981)
Double Trouble – Live At The Amphitheater L.E.S. (1982)
Cold Crush – It’s Us (Live 1982)
T La Rock – It’s Yours (1984)
LL Cool J – I Need A Beat (Jazzy Mix 1984)
Malcolm McLaren & World Famous Supreme Team – Buffalo Gals(1983)
MC Lyte – I Cram To Understand (1986)
Divine Force Crew – Holy War (1987)
DJ Premier – Ending Interlude
Evil Dee:
Black Skavengers – Poison Pill
Jeru Tha Damaja – Me Or The Papes
M.O.P. – Downtown Swinga
Krumb Snatcha – Gettin Closer To God
Shamus & FLU – Tight Team
AK Skills – East To West
Shades Of Brooklyn – Calm Under Pressure
Download link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1PFRTZWM
Props to “Crooklyn’s Classics” for the upload.
so ill man… to be honest, that makes me want to watch that movie more than listen to the tape!
word on the download link, i’m gonna check it out.
big up, mr.tapeking.
yea i’m gonna check it to.. just downloading!
TAPEKING! are you gonna be in zurich on saturday????
Would be good to see you!
peace
Hehe, yeah Sativo. Same thing with me, I already started to watch it on youtube. They have the entire movie uploaded in parts ..
Yo Fade, I am working on being in Zurich tomorrow. I will give you or Green a call if we can make it .. cold beers, Guestlist and shit, haha.
man these posts about ill tapes just make me sad… is there anyway i can get a hold of any of these tapes Tapeking?
Yo Nearski, you mean an actual copy ? A cassette ?
Besides ebay, where I found a lot of tapes in the past time, I can only advise you to check the shop-links I included if still available on the market. Especially the Manuva- and the Eyedea-tape are worth the troubles of ordering from abroad.
If you are looking for this tape right here, then I can probably help you. As a matter of fact I bought an autographed copy of it on ebay last week for 1 EUR, sounds like a good movie, I know, and I can offer you my other one.
Write me a mail with your address, and promise me that you will also let Green listen to it, for I thought of giving it to him, too, and it will make its journey across the Channel in the next days !
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just wat i was lookin 4!