Vinyl Love 11-20

Here's some more of my favourites from my collection

Love all of the Slave album covers too the disco era artwork was always interesting!



"Got a freaky, freaky, freaky, freaky flow control the mic like Fidel Castro"



more vinyl love and more Motown



Grace Jones albums are also always amazing think I have nearly everything she did on wax one of my favourite artists and visually spellbinding to this day



A Tribe Called Quest with arguably the greatest rap album of all time-and an iconic cover!



An always interesting artist with a crazy assed cover!



One of the best DJ's ever to visit Jam was Jazzy Jeff, a good guy too this was some record from back in the day



"It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from goin under"



Public Enemy delivered one of great albums of all time back in 88, which they signed for me nearly 20 years later



Warmed up for this legend a few times and had him over at Jam where he signed this, a great album too

Rise and shine soul-De La Soul

Rise and Shine soul! Minnie Riperton part 5

"Extremity in rhythm, yeah that's what you heard.
So just clean out
your ears and just check the word"

Rise and Shine soul! Minnie Riperton part 3

Another classic (and of course one of the best ever hip-hop samples bang in the middle by Tribe and co)



some uses

Talking all that Jazz! Hip-hop jazz at it's finest parts 1, 2, 3

"Then cool out to the music cuz it makes ya feel serene"



Best ever use of "Expansions" and they had lyrics to go!
"this jazz contains a new format".......This is one of the best ever defenses of hip-hop for me, "think rap is a fad you must be mad..rap brings back old r&b and if ...we did not people would have forgot..we stand up for the music we live and play"

100% DOPE



A Touch of Jazz

One for the late night crew! A Tribe Called Quest

"My man Ron Carter is on the bass, yeah my man Ron Carter yes he on the bass!"

It's 20 years since i wrote down on a bit of paper for my old lade who was heading to London, a brand new album was out

"A T...ribe Called Quest-Peoples Instinctive Travels and the Paths of rhythm"

She got it too!

The rest is history

This, from the second album, was on heavy rotation in my late teens! My love of jazz grew during this era

My man Ron Carter was on the fucking bass as the greatest hip-hop crew of them all took it deeper than ever-also check for Vinja Mojica on backing vocals!

One for the late night crew-Freddie Hubbard

One of my all time favourites and sampled by many. Find it on my collections mix free download here Loads of great versions including

Al Jarreau version





A Tribe called Quest with Dilla on the boards



and of course Pepe Bradock

Rap lyric of the day! A Tribe Called Quest

the whole track is dope really but...

"My rhymes styles be blendin like a Ron G tape
My man where ya goin? You can't escape
When the Tribe is in the house, that means nobody is safe
How can a reverend preach, when a rev can't define
The music of our youth from 1979
We rap about what we see, meaning reality
From people bustin caps and like Mandela bein free
Not every MC be with the negativity
We have a slew of rappers pushin positivity
Hip hop will never die yo, it's all about the rap
So Marion Barry smokin crack, let's preach about that
The trash you talk won't matter, that old bogus chatter
The more that you condemn us, it only makes us phatter
When I talk, I know I'm talkin for hip-hoppers all around
You know you love the sound, we gets down"

Tune of the day (and Jam Classic part 14)

Happy Birthday us!



and the original



Hypnotic give love

One for the late night crew! Minnie Riperton

One of my favourite singers and and a gem from an under-rated album that A Tribe Called Quest rinsed out more than once ("Inside My Love" formed the crucial sample on "Lyrics to Go"). An amazing voice (one of the greatest vocal ranges) and indeed an amazing career, sadly cut short by breast cancer, at the age of only 31. Minnie became a spokesperson for Breast Cancer and helped educate many on the illness before her death. Stevie Wonder, for whom she sang backing vocals with on "Ordinary Pain", was one of the last people to visit her and she was listening to a recording he made her her as she died. The story of the iconic album cover is impressive too (find it on youtube), but the really impressive legacy of Minnie Riperton is her amazing music.




Tribe

Tune of the day! The Commodores

sampled by A Tribe Called Quest this is one of the great under-rated summer tracks

Rap lyric of the day-ATCQ

Rap lyric of the day! Dedicated to J Dilla (RIP) and A Tribe Called Quest

"We livin this cuz it's deep in our bones
A Tribe Called Quest with this hip hop jones
So sit and analyze the lyrical spray
Cuz all it really is is word play"


http://djstevieg.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-02-04T14_54_17-08_00

One for the late night crew! Ronnie Foster

More Tribe action from a great album too-even Diplo has got in on the act with Brew Barrymore but of course it is "Electric Relaxation" which is the one here (been hammering non stop since 1993!) The original is amazing I'm sure all the heads will know it.



Tribe (posted before)



Diplo



Loads of other great versions too

Tune of the day! Weldon Irvine

Forgot to do one earlier--the backbone of "Award Tour" but more importantly a killer in it's own right



and of course