Sample Wednesday 11: Freestyle Fellowship

pe-ac-mi-ju* down the avenue

Seriously...
At fifteen growing up in L.A., there was no one doing it that could even touch these dudes. Going to the Goodlife, or the Blowed, or Unity, or wherever, and seeing these dudes rap was like watching the Lakers live at the forum or something. There was a period between my senior year in high school and my first year of community college when Innercity Griots just lived in my car's cd changer; some of my friends thought it had gotten stuck or something. So... as a tribute to my youth, and one group's golden age, this week's Sample Wednesday is some of the beats (by folks like earthquake brothers, j sumbi, jmd, and others who not got the shine they well deserved) that made the first two fellowship albums (the only real fellowship LP's, in my humble opinion) so incredible. By the way, to explain the tape cover: there's a record store in L.A. called Record Surplus where I used to buy shit by the ton. I found this cassette in the dollar cassette bin. I could probably ebay it for a princely sum, or perhaps a king's ransom, I like to look at it sometimes and wonder what could have been, had Jup been able to stay out and had Daddy-O not gotten his hands on these dudes. I'm so glad we had this time together.

From "My Fantasy"
Quincy Jones "Dead End" Walking In Space

From "7th seal"
Billy Cobham/George Duke Band "Almustafa the Beloved" Live on Tour in Europe

From "Sunshine Men"
The Turtles "You Showed Me" Battle of the Bands

From "Physical Form"
The J.B.'s "You Can Have Watergate..." Doing it to Death

From "We Will Not Tolerate"
Run DMC "Hard Times" Run DMC

From "Dedications"
The Delfonics "La, La Means I Love You" La, La Means I Love You

From "Sike"
Sly & The Family Stone "In Time" Fresh

From "Legal Alien"
The O'Jays "Give The People What They Want" Survival

From "Jupiter's Journey"
Weather Report "Barbary Coast" Black Market

From "For No Reason"
Billy Joel "The Stranger" The Stranger

From "Pure Thought"
Billy Cobham "Stratus" Spectrum

From "Hot Potato"
MFSB "Cheaper to Keep Her" Music is the Message

From "Danger (Remix)"
Donny Hathaway "Valdez in the Country" Extension of a man

* peace-aceyalone-mikah-9-jupiter if you ever wondered