The Real Frequency

My email inbox is usually full of joints people are promoting, porn/financial spam (my dick is big enough, and the stock tips are costing me dough so stop!), and sclusies from Vatkeezy. Once in a while something dope will come through. I had to share this with y’all, for all my old school heads, Hip Hop historians and Hip Hop nerds check this email and the link it holds. Apparently there were some lost joints from some of the biggest Hip Hop artists of ‘88 out of Top Shelf studios (tracklist below) read the email below it’s got all the background. Thanks to my man Tim for passing this along. Enjoy!

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man every once in a while i get so hyped on hearing or seeing some shit,
that i gotta hit up family and make sure they peep…..

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GET THIS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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heres the background…….

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17 years ago a small recording studio, TOP SHELF, located in the basement of
a brownstone in the East Village section of New York, was looted during the
Thompkins Square riots of 1988, displacing the recordings of many soon-to-be
Hip Hop stars. The studio had been the meeting place for many rappers,
neighborhood kids, and producers that would later be responsible for the
greatest period of the Hip Hop age, “The Golden Era.” A search commenced
soon after the recordings were lost, but nothing was ever found. So sought
after were the tapes, they soon acheived Holy Grail status amongst Hip Hop
circles. Despite years of searching, and dozens of hopeless crusades, the
tapes remained lost. No one was quite sure who took them or where they
were… until now.

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After an extensive investigation and search that lasted two years, the
recordings have finally been recovered by Fab 5 Freddy and myself (Benjy
Grinberg). They were found dozenss of miles from the site of TOP SHELF in an
abandoned strage faciilty in North Jersey. …We sought after the lost
recordings of TOP SHELF because they were rumored to be among the hottest
songs from that era, and we thought it was a tragedy that the world never
got to hear them. It turns out that these two-inch tapes are truly a
treasure chest–a time capsule of the energy and excitement of 1988 Hip
Hop.”

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so amazing gotta peep it…..so much classic shit from 88 that never came
out on here…..maaaaaaan dont know where to start

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1. Fab 5 Freddy - Intro
2. Black Sheep - I’m The One <<<<<<
3. Big Daddy Kane - Like That, Y’all
4. Biz Markie - My Name Is…
5. MC Lyte - Listen Up <<<<<<<<<<<< on pos k’s night shift beat before pos
k…
6. Grand Puba - Let’s Go <<<<<<<<<
7. Smooth B Of Nice & Smooth - I Want My Money Back<<<<<<<<<
8. Craig G - Catch A Lyrical Beatdown<<<<<<<<<
9. Chubb Rock - Chubb Rocks The Party<<<<<<<<
10. Special Ed - This Mic<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
11. Doug E Fesh - It Ain’t Nothin
12. Jungle Brothers - Back In The Jungle<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
13. Just Ice - I Run The Streets
14. Melle Mel & Grandmaster Caz - The Battle Is On
15. Master Ace - Revolution’s ‘Bout To Start<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
this song!!

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all unreleased jams from 1988 and a few years earlier……

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man get it

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http://rapidshare.com/files/50376038/VA-Top_Shelf_8-8-88-2007-JRP.rar.html

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After all of that I stumbled across this New York Times article that raises doubt about the authenticity of this album. Apparently it is a hoax, and it’s being scrutinized and dissected all over the internet, the article even quotes Dres from Blacksheep admitting it’s not real, which would make sense because off all the artists listed Blacksheep wasn’t really an ‘88 group. Anyway it something fun to speculate on, what do you think?

This week’s lucky honoree is Midas Touch Productions, an up-and-coming producer who has a few dope remixes on his YouTube page. Give this cat extra credit, as not only does he remix the joints, but blends them seamlessly with the original video. My personal faves are the The Clipse “Mr. Me Too” and Nas “Thief’s Theme” remixes. The “Classic” remix is also very dope, but hard to top since the Primo version is one of the best joints this year.

Once in a while some of our listeners send us email. Why? I don’t know, not like we read them or anything, (I kid, I kid). Actually we love hearing and reading listener comments about our show, so please feel free, really please, please! (lol). Anyway I felt it necessary to post this email from one of our regular podcast listeners regarding a show we did a few weeks back about the show Oprah had basically about Hip Hop’s affect on society, where she seemed to be trying to blame Hip Hop for being a bad influence due to the language, video images that are portayed etc, some of her guests included Russel Simmons and Common among others. By the way me and P Plus don’t watch Oprah, it was Arcee who enlightened us, since he’s a regular Oprah watcher, anyway, here’s one of our listener’s thoughts:

Freqs,

I’d like to start this off by saying I’m not a racist…not a sexist, I am however racially aware and sexually aware…just like everyone really is, but are generally too afraid to mention it for fear of being branded a bigot.

I have written you guys a couple times in the past. I don’t know if you remember, but I’m the United States Army Ranger that listens to you guys while I’m marching all over God’s green earth.

Sorry that this is about two weeks after your show in which you mentioned Don Imus etc…I was doing advanced mountain training in the Appalachian Mountains so I just got the podcast the other day and was listening to it this morning on another oh so pleasant ruck march around Ft. Benning, Georgia.

Anyway, who’s fault is it? Russell said it was society’s fault, O said it was hip-hops fault…but you guys really hit the nail on the head. Parenting.

If a woman was raised properly if someone asked her to appear in a music video half naked degrading herself, she would say “no”. On the same side if the men were raised properly, he would never ask a woman to degrade herself like that. Where this whole system falls apart is good old money.

Producers know that sex sells and since it does, they use it to push millions of music videos. Parents are using TV as a babysitter and so children grow up thinking that what they are seeing is normal so the cycle continues. As long as we pay for these actions, they will continue. I’m a violator just like everyone else…I watch music video’s and like dreaming of the money and fame that these artists appear to have. Should we censor hip-hop? No…I am against all censorship, if you don’t like it, turn the channel. When we start censoring material we don’t get what’s real…we get a watered down version…a version that will sell records. One of my favorite artists, Immortal Technique, is a VERY raw artist - as I’m sure you know. He is uncensored and because of that…he’ll never be main stream. That is the double edge sword. Being censored & conforming to “what sells” gets you on the radio, being true to the hip-hop nature gets you street credit & respect, but you’ll never be driving those Aston Martins.

I don’t think that hip-hop is to BLAME, but it obviously capitalizes on the short comings of society.

One of you made another good comment, the words “ho”, “nigger”, “cracker” & other racially peppered words were around long before hip-hop and will be around long after hip-hop. Hip-hop didn’t create these words so why shouldn’t artists use them? They are words in the English language and shouldn’t be removed from an artists arsenal. If you don’t like a word for one reason or another…don’t use it.

Anyway guys, sorry for the long rant, but censorship is something I’ll carry a torch for.

Keep up the good work! I’m looking forward to the next installment!

-P

Thanks for your email Andrew, we couldn’t agree with you more! Personally (this is Inzane talking) we have to stop pointing fingers and start looking at ourselves, what are we doing to make this better? Start there first, teach your kids, explain what these images and words are so they know the difference of right from wrong (whoa feel like a preacher or something, enough of that). All is not good out here there’s good and bad, we need both for balance. We just need to learn how to keep the balance.

Feel free to hit us up with your comments, or you can email us at therealfrequency@flow935.com.