Funky Blue Velvet - Bow Wow/Mr. Policeman single review
Funky Blue Velvet single called Bow Wow/Mr. Policeman was from 1993 on Parental Advisory Records. Funky Blue Velvet is a rock band from Sacramento, CA. The B side of the vinyl is Mr. Policeman by Sicx and Brotha Lynch Hung. The A side is rock and the B side is Hip Hop/Rap.
Both songs by Funky Blue Velvet were good songs. All their songs have the heavy garage rock roots and sounds. They had minor appearances at concerts. On the A side, Funky Blue Velvet did a cover song of Mr. Policeman by Sicx and Brotha Lynch Hung. Mr. Policeman was a song about police brutality and at the end of the song the police officer ends up dying after being shot at. That was great on how they did that!
Mr. Policeman was a song done by Sicx and Brotha Lynch Hung in 1993 about police brutality and at the end of the song the police officer ends up dying after being shot at. This song is on the B side.
5/5*****!
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New Def'niton album review
The New Def'niton self-titled album from 1992 was released on Kelvin"D'Mo" Moore's On Time Productions label from San Antonio, Texas. This was released on cassette only as lot of On Time Productions music was.
New Def'nition was a one time thing in the early 90s along with a lot of other acts from the On Time Productions label. New Def'nition was Latin freestyle group of 5-9 people. (Think Latin freestyle with electronic, hip hop, and rap.) Members were OG Rey Love (DJ Rey Perez), Junior Boy of P.K.O. from San Antonio, Sharon Lincoln, Johnny, Gino D, DJ Devastator, and more!
I Got Your Back is a posse cut and the lead song for this album. It gave shout outs to a lot of artists and other people from the San Antonio area. Talking about who's got your back and who doesn't. It's all about that trust, unity, peace, and building relationships. Rey Love goes off hard on this track.
Nose Grow Flow is just a fun 90s track. The Go Off is a fast paced freestyle track. On My Way To Heaven is Johnny's solo track. I Need You is a slow love track with smooth beats.
Cutie With The Booty is a song dedicated to all the cuties with the booty out there and to all the freaks with a booty. You know who you are. We know who you are. As well as all the barrio babes out there! Barrio Baby is dedicated to all the barrio babes out there. It has some smooth African beats. The songs on this album are good.
5/5*****!
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Syvävessi - Yössä album review
This Syvävessi - Yössä album was done in 2003. This album was released on cassette only. There is no CD version for this album.
Syvävessi is an electronic artist out of Helsinki, Finland. Syvävessi sounds a lot like DJ Krush, Magyar Posse, Deadmau5, OHN, LD, Moby, and epipe.
The heavy bass lines are produced over smooth soothing electronic keyboards. Angelic chorus melts into the synths. Words of the unknown can be heard in the background. The electro organs are used on some of the songs for this album. Songs from this album are perfect songs to use in sky falling scenes for movies.
Syvävessi and Helsinki seem to have an underground electronic music scene together. Out of the European underground electronic music scene, Syvävessi and Helsinki stood out to me the most because mostly heavy thrash metal and classical folk music comes out of the Nordic countries. (Think 69 Eyes and Björk!)
It's mostly London, Liverpool, Manchester, Dublin, Paris, Bordeaux, The Hague, Amsterdam, and Madrid when it comes to the European underground electronic music scene.
5/5*****
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Malik-Bo - SuthernKali4YaMan album review
SuthernKali4YaMan by Malik-Bo was released in 1998 on Die Hard Records (Die Hard Rekordz) from San Diego, California. Malik-Bo, Junebug Spade, and King Kas produced this album. Think of this album as gangsta Rap meets politically conscience lyrical Hip Hop with some Dallas trunk bass!
SuthernKali4YaMan is the first track. D. Greene makes an appearance. SuthernKali4YaMan is Malik-Bo's insight of what everyday life is in Southern California. The hard heavy hitting bass note is a single line staccato note. It's all coming up in Southern California. D. Greene has a good singing voice. He should consider a solo career.
Wanna Get 2 Know U Girl is a 2 step dance track that will make you want to boogie on the dance floor. Wanna Get 2 Know U Girl is about Malik-Bo wanting to get to know a girl and spend time with her. The funky guitar is funkadelic! The live instrumentation of the drums and beats are on point!
Watch Out has the best sick ass bass line ever heard!! It is the best song on the album along with Quazola and Brokest In Southeast!! Watch out for the haters, snitches, and po-po's! It's basically a lyrical attack track aimed towards all his enemies telling them that Malik-Bo is spitting flames in these here verses that he is rapping about.
What Am I Supposed To Do? will remind you of the song Hypnotized by The Notorious BIG. (especially the heavy ass loud bassline!) The sample used on this track is Raw Deal by Lady of Rage with BGOTI as the female background vocals. It's all about making tough choices and decisions. What Am I Supposed To Do? has the best sick ass bass line ever heard also!!
Fuck The Radio! is a diss song to radio stations out there that don't want to play Malik-Bo's music even if radio stations music isn't for the people. Malik-Bo's music is made for the people by the people. Malik-Bo has been through the hustle and the struggle. Malik-Bo is tired of the same old bullshit played on all the radio stations. Radio stations be on that "fuck local" tip when Malik-Bo is on the local tip. There is no unity in radio stations when it comes to San Diego.
Brokest In Southeast is about why and how Malik-Bo is the brokest motherfucker in Southeast San Diego & how all the hoodrats in "the set" want his cheese even though they can't get a simple cent from Malik. So Malik can't get a grip. There's a huge difference of when you livin' for them streets and them streets livin' for you. His niggaz do drink brew and smoke a split or two. Like Dat Nigga Wuan (?) for example. Malik-Bo also discusses how his car got hauled off and repossessed. In the middle of this song, Malik-Bo finds himself on a mission to the East Side of San Diego to LP (Lincoln Park) to obtain an ounce and a spliff. Malik-Bo now leaves off leanin' in his '84 Cutlass. People intrusively bother Malik-Bo. Malik-Bo does need his own way to make money. Nobody understands him.
Quazola is a lyrical freestyle track by Malik-Bo and Junebug Spade. Quazola is a track that deals with the sour relationships that Malik-Bo has developed with his homies about how they are not really all that loyal to him, the unemployment issues that loom in his community, and his stress. The homies become intrusively irritating. Other than that, Quazola is about selling marijuana.
Poor niggaz are fucking Malik-Bo up over for more than 12,000 grand. Malik-Bo is in the field of stock exchange while riding around San Diego (SESD) on Vogue rims. He drinks Old Crow with hoes. Malik-Bo has homies that won't support him financially and that won't think twice about snitching on him when they are the ones doing criminal activity with him. But despite all that, Malik-Bo is still cool with the homies. Malik-Bo keeps a tight grip! Some niggaz call him Malik. Some niggaz call him Talid. Malik-Bo gets denied chances of employment because of his dress code and lifestyle. They employer gives Malik a handshake with a fake grin telling Malik that they are hiring when in reality the company is not at all hiring no one. So why are these businesses bothering to hire at all?
Malik-Bo deals with unemployment in his raps about the unemployment issues that loom in his SESD community. Malik-Bo wonders does anyone feel his stress about unemployment issues. Do anybody really feel his stress?
Junebug Spade's measurement meter keeps buzzing off through the night. Pours out ounces of white crack. References to cocaine are made by him. It's whole value pack of cocaine getting ready to break. Junebug Spade is the one doing the most hustling.
Back to Malik-Bo. Malik-Bo is from South East San Diego. It's an awful jungle. No jokes on this track. He keeps his hustle on bubble. Malik-Bo keeps his hustle bubblin'. With his nigga Peebo from Cidro. He needs to stay plugged meaning that Malik-Bo needs the latest news information about the recent drug deals and drug busts. Malik-Bo stays posted up at his Mama's house. Niggaz be beefin' but Malik-Bo is stackin' and jackin' on 20s! 20 inch Vogue rims to be exact.
Back to Junebug Spade. Junebug Spade has grown homegirls you had never seen before on the East Side of San Diego. Plenty bitches come in packs and flock to buy and obtain bags of crack cocaine. They'll be out the door very quickly. Stay on point!
Quazola is a lyrical freestyle track by Malik-Bo and Junebug Spade. Quazola is a track that deals with the sour relationships that Malik-Bo has developed with his homies about how they are not really all that loyal to him, the unemployment issues that loom in his community, and his stress. The homies become intrusively irritating. Other than that, Quazola is about selling marijuana and cocaine. Quazola is mainly about cocaine however.
Malik-Bo and Junebug Spade spit a pound of game on quazola.
Breakdown is a funk rock track. Think old school classic rock. Don't know what the sample is or the original artist that Malik-Bo had sampled for Breakdown. It's basically break-beats and classic garage rock samples on a Yahama keyboard or whatever instrument(s) Malik-Bo used for this particular song.
Vibin' is a Reggae track. Malik-Bo should do more Reggae songs. In fact Malik-Bo and Black Mikey should do some Reggae songs.
AUZE has that NYC East Coast grimey rap sound. When I'm Gone is a longer song. Goin' 2 Much has Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles old school arcade sound to it. Don't Like Loosin' features Junebug Spade and Sativa. Don't Like Loosin' is quite different from this whole album. Ghetto Star is an okay song.
I Can't Run Back! is all about making tough choices and decisions. I Can't Run Back! has the best sick ass bass line I have ever heard!! Don't hate the playa! Hate the game! Chipz & Change is a song with the same theme but a lot more lyrical.
This overlooked San Diego classic went under the radar. It's a shame this album did though. Malik-Bo is underrated! This whole album is on fire! It's still relevant today! Especially the Quazola song. That track was tight! This whole album has that East Coast grimey rap sound. Either way, Malik-Bo is tight!
5/5*****!
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Poets & Gangstas - Various Artists album review
Poets & Gangstas was a compilation album of artists from San Antonio, Dallas, and Fort Worth released on Youngsta Records in 1995. Youngsta Records was in San Antonio, Texas. This compilation album is filled with gangsta rap themes.
The first song is the title track with Nino, Kottonmouth, and Pops. This song has that San Antonio Doo-Dooism sound with heavy bass and heavy guitars. That's what San Antonio rap and hip-hop sounded like in the mid 90s. Pops is Como, TX. Kottonmouth is Dallas. Great song! Think Creepin' On Ah Come Up.
Murda Afta Murda is not the remix that is on Kottonmouth's 1995 debut album on Youngsta Records. This is the original version. It is one heavy ass G-Funk bass track! The Snake Pit himself produced this song.
Nino tells how he talk the talk and walk the walk on Walk On Walk. Walk On Walk is pretty much self-explanatory.
Million Me's is song by Mad Wisdom with a Kenyatta Banks sample. I love the drums and bass used on this track used on this track Mad Wisdom is from Fort Wort, Texas. Mad Wisdom was on Youngsta Records and Midwest Records from 1995 to 1998. Just a dope ass freestyle song.
What I Luv Most is a song by dat infamous playa K-Sam. This is a different version of the original that appeared on the Infamous Playa EP by K-Sam in 1994. This is one playalistic remix! K-Sam tells us why he loves being a drug deala. He stays strapped at all times. He ain't gettin' caught slippin' by no motherfuckin' BG. K-Sam got that fresh candy on his hoopty.
Gangsta Mental is an instrumental drums and bass track done by the one and only legendary DJ Snake from Dallas. DJ Snake was going back and forth from Dallas to San Antonio at that time in the mid 90s. DJ Snake needs to make a comeback with Ron C again like he did in 2004.
No Luv is a song by Chilly D. He is an OG from the Westside of San Antonio. He had his own label from 1997 to 2000 called Hunt Dawg Records. No Luv would later appear on his 1997 debut Too Thuggish 4 U. He had a group called SAOGz also! Chilly D should have signed to Youngsta/Big Ballin' or BLVD Records outta SA. Definitely Youngsta!
It would have been more dope if C-Stud Vill, Lil Sin, C-Ordell, Sweet-P, Denise James, K-Ski, Staci Russell, Mr. Joshay, Ricé, Finesse 1, Dirty Red, Jr. Boy, and Sharon Lincoln had made features on this dope ass compilation. But for whatever reason they didn't. Which is too bad. Youngsta Records could have stayed open and became Youngsta/Big Ballin'.
If you mix Ruthless, Bad Boy, Rap-A-Lot, Black Market Records, AWOL, Grapetree, Motown, New West, and Luke Records, you'll get Youngsta Records! Think about it that way. Be sure to buy this dope ass compilation if you because it is long out of print!!! You won't regret it!!
5/5*****!
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Banshee Bones - Birds of Prey album review
Dark Depths is a fast paced rock song. This song reminds me of Skid Row. Dead People is a really dark track fit perfectly for Halloween. Banshee Bones totally killed this song at the very end. But the song Hunting Grounds hits even harder! It's rare that you can hear rock music like this. Hello Dear slows down the mood of this album. Hello Dear mellows out the album. Most of the songs on the Banshee Bones - Birds of Prey album are really in-depth in retrospect.
The songs are a lot longer and greater on this album than the previous album. Either way, this album is album is great!! You will not regret buying this album!
5/5*****!
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