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T.R.O.Y. Presents – Sounds Like The 90′s Vol. 21

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

It’s been an awfully long time since we last dropped Sounds Like The 90′s, 586 days to be exact.

Moving forward I will be doing my best to produce this series every 6-8 weeks. It’s hard gathering select tracks because as many of you know, there just isn’t a lot of music these days that remind us of the 90s.

I make these compilations because it represents where we are today. It usually contains tracks that emphasize an era in which we all know will more than likely never be duplicated again. Some tracks on these compilations contain contemporary music that might have a slight hint of that era. Others, well it may just contain an artist that was very relevant from the 90s. Overall, these are put together to showcase today’s music as a music time capsule.

So, whether you like one track, ten tracks or all of them, enjoy these compilations for what they are. While terms like “exclusives” have become extinct due to new age technology and the blogsophere, we do our best to hand pick relatively newer material.

Enjoy 21 and sorry for the wait.

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Jus’ Jeepin’ – 1993 Compilation

Saturday, September 3rd, 2011

Thanks to Jazarino and Hqhiphop for posting this up. Looks like a janky compilation from some fly-by-night label in the 90s. Nonetheless, the track list knocks and I didn’t even know a few of these remixes existed. Still, no Jeep compilation is complete without Uncle LL. Just saying. –Philaflava

01 Main Source – Live At The Barbeque (Original Cookout Mix)
02 U.M.C.’s – Blue Cheese (U-N-I-Verse-All Mix)
03 Heavy D. & The Boyz – You Can’t See What I Can See
04 Organized Konfusion – Fudge Pudge (Bob T Mix)
05 Fu-Schnickens – True Fuschnick (Shaheed’s Fix)
06 Gang Starr – DWYCK
07 A.D.L. – Daddy
08 Little Shawn – I Made Love (4 Da Very 1st Time) (Big Bottom Remix)
09 Father MC – Lisa Baby (Hip Hop Fat Mix)
10 A Tribe Called Quest – Scenario
11 Dr. Dre introducing Snoop Doggy Dogg – Deep Cover (Soundtrack Mix)
12 Nasty Nas – Half Time (LP Version)
13 Ice Cube – Horny Lil’ Devil
14 Cypress Hill – How I Could Just Kill A Man (The Killer Mix)

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Tags:a tribe called quest, compilation, cypress hill, dr dre, gang starr, ice cube, large professor, nas, organized konfu, philaflava, remixes
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T.R.O.Y. Presents – Sounds Like The 90′s Vol. 20

Friday, August 19th, 2011

Back with a 22 shot banger. Our biggest compilation to date and hopefully you’ll agree one of the best. On 20 you’ll hear the return of Tragedy, Cella Dwellas and Showbiz & A.G. as a group. Sean Price ripping the same beat found on the “Ultimate MC Rush” he once appeared on with Saukrates. Some Preem and Alchemist beats and of course the back end of the mix takes you into a chill state with the help of Blu, Superstar Quamallah and Willie Evans Jr (formerly Asamov). Shots to both dirt_dog and Strategy for the help as always. –Philaflava

T.R.O.Y. Presents – Sounds Like The 90s Vol. 20

01 Soulbrotha – Real Mcees feat. Blaq Poet, NYG’z & Krumb Snatcha
02 Blaq Poet – Bushmaster (Remix) feat. Roc Marciano & Wais P
03 Roc Marciano – Jaws
04 Showbiz & A.G. – Suspended Animation
05 Maffew Ragazino – Short Yellow Bus Theory
06 Tragedy Khadafi – Narcotic Lines
07 Neek The Exotic – Guess Who feat. Large Professor
08 Soulbrotha – Beats By The Pounds feat. Large Professor & Nutso
09 Timeless Truth – True Grit feat. Sean Price
10 Hassan Mackey & Apollo Brown – Volume
11 Wyld Bunch – Back In The Dayz
12 Royce Da 5’9″ – Second Place (prod. DJ Premier)
13 Apathy – Stop What Ya Doin’ feat. Celph Titled (prod. DJ Premier)
14 Cella Dwellas – I Put It Down
15 DJ Doom – Flatline feat. Pace Won, Nutso, Punchline & F.T.
16 Meyhem Lauren – Steak With A Glass Of Red
17 Roc Marciano – Hoard 90 (prod. The Alchemist)
18 Blu – Doo Whop feat. Planet Asia & Killa Ben (prod. The Alchemist)
19 Superstar Quamallah – Manhattan Reflections feat. DeQawn
20 Doomstarks (MF Doom & Ghostface Killah) – Victory Laps (Madvillainz Remix)
21 Willie Evans Jr – Moon Foot
22 Myth – My Summertime Jam feat. MC Eiht

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T.R.O.Y. Presents – Sounds Like The 90s Vol. 19

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

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Tags:beastie boys, casual, compilation, dj premier, elzhi, kool g rap, large professor, nas, philaflava, roc marciano, sean price, sounds like the 90s
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Cormega, Large Pro, Craig G, Neek The Exotic: Live in NYC (Video)

Saturday, February 26th, 2011

This appears to have gone down very recently, perhaps this weekend at Tamany Hall, NYC. That’s a lot of Queens legends sharing one stage. It’s definitely nice to see Cormega, Large Professor, Craig G and Neek The Exotic having fun and ripping mics after all of these years. Enough talking, just peep the video.

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Prince Po “Right To Know” prod. Large Pro

Saturday, January 15th, 2011

Prince Po sounds rejuvenated, posing the deep questions as has been his tendency, riding the beat ferociously. Large Pro’s track is the not mind-blowing but it is sufficiently rugged and funky and has that added ingredient that lets you know its an Extra P production. I can’t say this is a full return to golden era greatness but it’s a dope little song, and hopefully a sign of things to come. And if you’re gonna front on news like that, maybe you should retreat to New Jack Swing or something. — Thun

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Large Professor Waxes Particular: “Through Good and Bad”

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Download: Funk League ft. Large Professor “Through Good and Bad” (45 Remix)

Jeff Weiss recently turned my attention to a track by French production team The Funk League¹ called “Through Good and Bad”²Â which features Large Professor. Weiss praises the song as a “tasteful” and generative recreation of ’90s boom-bap that rises above the flood of self-proclaimed throwback artists that feebly mimic the old greats. It is the musical details such as the booming drums and the decision to feature an iconic rapper/producer that grant this song its rightful place among contemporary, more progressive efforts. I agree, but I feel that the song’s most arresting characteristic is the particularity of Large Professor’s raps. His narrative of an intensely passionate, probably co-dependent, unpredictable, but ultimately memorable and worthwhile relationship³ Â is infused with strange minute details and represents a genuine progression in his writing style. (more…)

More information can be found at their MySpace page. [↩]
Read here; I like Weiss’ characterization of The Funk League as time-traveling flaneurs observing, decoding, and recreating the sounds of a 90s Brooklyn block party. [↩]
If this is in fact yet another song that personifies rap music as a woman, it is done with taste and subtlety. [↩]

Tags:analysis, funk league, large professor, lyrics, thun
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Percee P – Talks about Stretch & Bobbito

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Percee P Australian Tour – PART 1 from Luc Hansen on Vimeo.

Here is an interview of Percee P done during his Australian Tour in 2009. Percee P drops some history on his early career. At 4:10, Percee P starts talking about Stetch & Bobbito. He says that he brought a lot of people to them for the first time. He brought Ultramagnetic MC’s, DMX, A.G, … First time that Percee was on Stretch and Bobbito was with Large Professor. Extra P did his Live At The Barbecue verse live on the show while Percee P did the Yes You May verse which earned him hip-hop quotable two years later. He talks about being on the phone with Akinyele on Stretch & Bobbito, showing Nas his Puttin Heads To Bed 12″.. Peace to the Legendary Rhyme Inspector Percee P

– Thomas V

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Yo! MTV Raps: Last Episode Freestyle Session

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Well I can speak for myself and millions of others that Yo! MTV Raps is one of the greatest shows of all time for us hip-hop heads. It did great things for hip-hop as far as getting people all over the world a glimpse of the new phenomenon called rap music. The average person thought that rap music was just a fad that seemed cool for the time being but wouldnâ€™t last long. I guess the jokeâ€™s on them.

Yo! MTV Raps started in 1988 as a 30-minute show to let viewers in on the hottest hip-hop tours goin on at time featuring Run-DMC, DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince, LL Cool J, Biz Markie, EPMD, Big Daddy Kane and etc. Whoâ€™s idea was it? The late great Ted Demme. He asked MTV, lets do a special and travel with the hottest hip-hop acts at that time for interviews and play some of the latest hip-hop videos as well. Now like I said before, originally it was only supposed to be that 1 show and thatâ€™s it. But MTV told Ted Demme a couple of weeks later that, that 1 show was the highest rated show on MTV of all-time and that they wanted a series of shows that they can show on their network in 2 weeks!! Thatâ€™s a crazy deadline right? So Ted Demme immediately seeked out Fab 5 Freddy who was already on the inside of the hip-hop scene at that time. And in the showâ€™s infancy stage it was only him doing the shows. But later on Fab 5 suggested to Ted, hey we need to broaden this show out more cause he knew he couldnâ€™t hold it down all by himself. So Ted went ahead and added Ed Lover & Dr. Dre, who at the time had the premier radio show on NYC. They gave Ed Lover & Dr. Dre their own spot during the week on Monday -Friday and let Fab 5 hold it down on Saturdays. And the rest is history!

By 1995 Yo! MTV Raps saw its amazing run come to an end. Around this time they had some competition that was kinda stealing away some of their viewers. Such shows as BET Rap City & Video Music Box was starting to bubble. And I guess MTV went ahead and pulled the plug on Fab 5, Ed Lover & Dr. Dre hosting duties on the show. Til this day Ed Lover is still heated that the show could nt go on for 1 more year cause that would have been 10 and he woulda been happy with that. The show would still be on for 2 more years but the crew wasnâ€™t hosting anymore, instead they had the hottest hip-hop acts at that time doin it. But we all know, it just wasnâ€™t the same.

On this last show MTV decided to go out in a bang by inviting anybody who is everybody on to the show for the last taping. It was a great show that I remember cause a whole lot of people came thru and showed love. I was kinda sad in the fact that I wish I coulda seen more episodes of the show in years past. But during those days I was in elementary & middle school and I was on the move outside playing sports or hangin with the fellas. A brotha wasnâ€™t hanging out in the house like most cats do today. So I missed a majority of the shows, which is why im steadily on the hunt now for them. But back to this show, the event that stole it is the legendary 2-part freestyle at the end of the show. The freestyle featured KRS-One, Rakim, MC Serch, Chubb Rock, Erick Sermon, Special Ed, Redman, Method Man, Large Professor & Craig Mack. With DJ Scribble holding down the DJ duties, everything fell in place for one of the most memorable nights in hip-hop history! The link is below for your listening pleasure!

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