Grab the mic and just Sway this way

So coming up I had alot of nicknames, and alot stemmed from hip-hop Johnny Blaze, John Blaze, John john the Phenomenon, San Diego John and sporadically in the late 90’s and early 00’s, John Forte was a standard too. Until that fateful afternoon in 2001 when the Refugee Allstar himself was just too “Hot” for even his own good. Forte was about to release his follow up to the 1997 debut album Poly Sci, but before the Forte could even get back to The Camp, in Orange, NJ he was stopped and detained at the Newark International Airport. Forte was set to serve fourteen years for possession with intent to distribute about thirty-one pounds of liquid cocaine, worth $1.5 million.

7 years later, and maybe just to prove Kanye wrong, Bush pardoned Forte and reduced his sentence from 14 to 7 years. Forte is set to drop back onto the street on December 22, 2008 just in time for Christmas with the fam. So to get you back up on John before he hits the street I’m back to hit you with a taste of Poly Sci.

But if you forget how Hot Forte was before he fell off, Neglectedsounds has a little post you may wanna check out too.

A’ight its back to the basement to kick it with Santa and Rah, I’m not gunna make ya’ll wait that long again though. So keep checkin’ back for a throwback and the new Freshness in ‘09.

Peace,

NWK

Gettin alittle warm up in here…

So as most of you can read once again Rah has taken the opportunity on here to give you a small peak behind the OSH curtain, and here is another1 Rah loves to light fire up under peoples asses, but yo it works.

So to that note, I DO NOT vow to only bring unsigned hype, because like Saigon some will stay unsigned forever and the album we hype u on will never drop, (side note: Jay Electronica where is the 2nd part of Eternal Sunshine? I know your big now but don’t make this your Detox Album…. Please..). But I do vowe only the freshest and most worthy artists will be posted on here.

So since we’re droppin’ cd’s today and I KNOW only like 7 people beside me grabbed this CD by some bay area pioneers, you know those dudes who’s techs Pac use to carry… That band from from that Chevy Chase movie … The guy with the big nose.[growin up with a huge Italian Nose I loved this guy..

in fact

he put the satin on your panties and plays piano all at the same time.

Digital Underground is no more… Breaking up almost immediately after recording their last album at a live show up in the Bay… here is that album. Shock G you are still the Piano Man and Money -B comes with some familiar and some new stuff. Remeber its not a greatest hits but they’re right Cuz’ A D.U. Party Don’t Stop

Download after the jump

Peace

NWK

2-days Worth

People of the Blogosphere… What is up?

So incase you were wondering Yes, I had a case of the Mondays. That can happen though when you enjoy the weekends as much as I do. Also I want to take a minute to congratulate my cousin Kenny and his new wife Else Summers who got married over this weekend on a huge rock right on the Pacific down here in So Cal. I had a great time friday at the wedding, the reception and the after party, best of luck to you both.

Normaly I wouldn’t mention a wedding, but this one was amazing [quick, great location, natural, casual] and it was the first wedding I’ve been to where noone mentioned money or gas prices bc it was outside on an annexed spot on a local beach.

Ok now back to the OSH business at hand,

Usually I won’t sleep on Monday’s, I’m sorry, but the good news is that just like when we work together Rah had my back and gave you the new -ish to start your week.

So since he held me down yesterday, I’ve decided today to build off his first post, by giving you some of the best hip-hop/ animation crossovers.

This First video is sorta cheatin’ because the song was actually never released as a single, but the priceless costumes and fact that it was on the Simpsons makes this hard to find Ludacris spot one of my alltime favorites

And this is 50.. so I’ll hold my tongue… yeah right with all this money 50 you prolly should have spend some on lighting or maybe textures. [I went to school for this man, don't brag about money then underpay]

Murs holds it down here with a mix of Old School NES and some live action

and who could hate any of Busta’s early vids [even if it is just fisheye lens and some sweat costumes]

or

But before all of them De La was puttin’ hippie rap on by utilizing a little known technology back then [the green screen]

and even Snoop’s tryin to get alittle more animated before taking [his] “Medicine” and finishing his bluegrass project

and finally one of the dopest videos ever. hands down. Nuff said.

Peace

-NWK

If your lookin’ for some more hot videos check out clips from addictive TV, I caught them mixing music and video live at SxSW and they were the second best dj’s there, next to Prince Paul.

Ready for a Bizzare Ride again?

Yeah neither am I, but Fuc* it.

So though we try to rep everything Urban and Hip hop in the Lower Left Coast, I have a confession, both Rah and I completely slept on last weeks Rock The Bells show. Now I’m not sayin we didn’t talk about it, about goin up north for it, about getting to see Tribe, Meth, red, Jay Electronica, Nas, and the newly reunited Pharcyde, but we SLEPT on it [ok I slept on it it was MK's bithday so Rah had an excuse]. But it has been haunting me all week.

Now I’ve seen alot of shows, but this Hip Hop megafest from what I heard RIPPED it, like Kool Moe Dee on Death Blow. and one of the main reasons was the Pharcyde. Now its no small feat to get Tribe on the same stage again, especially after the disappointing departure of the band after the Love Movement, so to commemorate and educate I would liike to take some time today and show you just how influential a few of this years bands have really been.

I guess since I started with Tribe I should continue with them, Q-Tip, Phife, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad
[oh and sometimes Jarobe] have laid the foundation and beats down for some of Hip Hop’s Finest.

Let me bring up a Senarios where two groups, Tribe and LONS [Leaders Of the New School] teamed up to produce one of the biggest songs ever. If you look close you may even notice the “dungeon dragon.”

or check the unreleased version here

and even though Scenario is the jump off most recently you may have heard tribe beats here with Lil’ Wayne

The tribe aren’t the only band reuniting though that has laid foundation, the Pharcyde deserves some love . The West Coast version of the Tribe and another early Hip Hop group, the Pharcyde brought fun and teenage angst to a main stream, and if you don’t believe me, F Ya Mamma.

but if you don’t believe that they made an impact check this

hmm sound familiar

Think about it, and remember to respect the past.

I got sh!t to do though. so

Peace

-NWK

This Day Sucks…

Tuesdays always suck..but I’m not talking the day, I’m talking about the movie. I came across a snippet of this about year ago, and I was dying for the full version. It’s like a ghetto black anime hood cartoon. A mixture of animation, photography, rap, all kinds of S**t. Also the website is hot…it’s on some crazy medication stuff. Whatever it is you know we bring you the Freshes.

Yo check out the site at http://www.thisdaysucks.com/

Peace,

_Rah_