Sunday, October 31, 2010

Y is for...

Yoda; Much to learn you still have... by Smug, Bristol UK 2010


Warfare by Brok & 2rode Paris,France 2007


WGS strikes back by the WGS crew,LA 2005

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Yoda is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe,
appearing in the three prequel trilogy films
as well as the second and third original films.
Yoda made his first on-screen appearance in
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
where he is responsible for training
Luke Skywalker in the ways of the Jedi.
His final chronological appearance is
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi,
when he dies peacefully at 900 years old.
He also appears extensively in the
two animated Clone Wars series, as well as the
Star Wars "Expanded Universe" of novels and comic books.

In the original films, he trains Luke Skywalker
to fight against the evil Galactic Empire.
In the prequel films, he serves as
a Grand Master Jedi and a leading member
of the Jedi Council and as a general in the Clone Wars.

In 2008, Yoda was selected by
Empire magazine as the
25th greatest movie character of all time.
On their list of
the 100 Greatest Fictional Characters,
Fandomania.com ranked Yoda at number 60.

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Yomo & Maulkie; "Mockingbird" (Director: Marty Thomas)


Yomo & Maulkie was a hardcore Hip Hop duo
that was associated with the members of N.W.A..,
although the duo was not a gangster rap group.
Instead, its lyrics hewed more toward
Public Enemy's political style.
Both Yomo and Maulkie came from Los Angeles,
where the duo signed with Ruthless Records,
the label owned by Eazy-E.
In 1991, Eazy-E served as executive producer
of its 1991 full-length (and only) album Are U Xperienced?
distributed by Atco/Atlantic Records.
The album's name is derived from
Jimi Hendrix's 1967 album Are You Experienced?
The group found little commercial success, however.
Maulkie later joined Ice Cube's protégé group Da Lench Mob.
The song "For the Love of Money" off of Are U Xperienced?
was later, in 1994, reused on the Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
single "Foe tha Love of $," from the album Creepin on ah Come Up.

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Young Bleed; Murderous


Glenn Clifton Jr. (born March 25, 1978),
better known as Young Bleed is an American
Hip Hop artist based out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Since his chart-topping 1998 release
My Balls & My Word, Thug Drama, a ghost producer,
introduced Young Bleed to Master P in 1997.
Young Bleed has been a mainstay of the
Southern hip hop underground,
narrating his vision of life in the urban South.

Biography

Young Bleed started rhyming at the age
of 9 at home in his native South Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
He claims to have been influenced by his mother,
who had read poetry to him from a young age,
and the rise in popularity in Hip Hop and acts like Run DMC.
By his teenage years had begun recording his rhymes,
selling Hip Hop tapes independently
to friends on the streets of his neighborhood,
and eventually signing to a local record label.
In 1995 he joined with fellow Baton Rouge-based
Hip Hop artists C-Loc, J-Von, and Max Minelli
to form the hip hop group Concentration Camp
with whom he is still affiliated present.

Career

Young Bleed’s first glimpse of national fame
was when his song with C-Loc, "How You do That",
was remixed by Master P of No Limit Records.
It was released on the 1997 soundtrack to Master P’s
film I'm Bout It which peaked at number one on
Billboard R&B/Hip Hop album charts in mid-1998.
Then with the help of Master P, he signed a deal with
Priority Records to release his major label debut album
My Balls & My Word in 1998.
The album peaked in at number ten on the Billboard 200
and number one on the Top R&B/Hip Hop album charts
and also reached gold status in the U.S.
The follow-up My Own was released independent of
No Limit on Priority and though charting on both
the Billboard 200 and Top R&B Hip Hop albums charts,
it failed to make similar waves as its predecessor.

While in the process of recording his third solo
album with Priority, Vintage, Young Bleed was
released from his contract and forced to go independent.
Young Bleed joined C-Bo's West Coast Mafia Records
and released Rise Thru da Ranks from
Earner Tugh Capo in 2005 and Once Upon a Time in America in 2007.
On September 23, 2008 Young Bleed
released his fifth album, Off tha Curb.
It is a collaborative album with
the up and coming rapper Freize (rapper).

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Yukmouth; Breathe (The Game diss) (featuring Gonzoe of The Regime)


Jerold Dwight Ellis, III,
(born October 18, 1974 in Oakland, California)
better known by his stage names Yukmouth & Yuk,
is an Grammy-nominated American rapper from East Oakland,California.
He is the founder of The Regime,
Smoke-A-Lot Records and Godzilla Entertainment.

He is a member of the platinum-selling
rap duo Luniz along with Numskull.
Luniz recorded the successful weed anthem, "I Got 5 on It".
He went on to sign a solo record deal at
J-Prince's Rap-a-Lot Records, releasing four albums.
His double album debut on the label,
entitled Thugged Out: The Albulation went gold.
Under his own label, Smoke-a-Lot Records,
he has released DVD's and compilation albums,
such as the United Ghettos of America series.

He is a member of Thug Lordz,
with C-Bo and Spice 1.
He is known in the rap industry for both
his remarkable history of
collaborations and his ruthless diss tracks.

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Young Maylay; Roll On Em (featuring Xzibit,MC Ren & WC)


Christopher "Chris" Bellard (born 1980),
also known by his stage name, Young Maylay,
is an American West Coast rapper from Los Angeles.
He is best known for the role as
Carl "CJ" Johnson in the 2004 video game
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

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L is for...

Let the music play


"Let the Music Play"
is a Latin freestyle song recorded by Shannon in 1983.

The original version of the record was
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By the early 1980s, the backlash against disco
had driven dance music off mainstream radio stations in the US.
The rhythmic ingenuity of "Let the Music Play,"
with its drum-machine pattern
produced by a filtered Roland TR-808,
allowed it to hit #8 on the US Singles Chart
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ushering in the dance-pop era.

"Let the Music Play"
was Shannon's only US Top 40.
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Bishop Lamont; The Shawshank Redemption/Angola 3 (Free download)



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Bishop Lamont;
The Shawshank Redemption/Angola 3 (Free download)


Production from
Dr. Dre, DJ Quik, DJ Khalil, Lord Finesse,
J. Dilla, King Karnov, Focus and more!

The special guests include
Kurupt, RBX, Busta Rhymes, Talib Kweli,
and Marsha Ambrosius, among others!

Two video´s from the album;





Related links;
-Fat Cap magazine interview with Bishop Lamont
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-Bishop Lamont on MySpace
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-Official web site
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-Reformation info
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-Free mixtape/album download; Bishop Lamont discography

Friday, October 22, 2010

Weekend fun part 18; Star Wars Halloween costumes

Got your costume ready for Halloween?
Jedi-Robe got some fantastic costumes.
But if you´re on budget,
you might want to make one yourself
like these cats;





















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Related posts;
Weekend fun part 1; Real People With Star Wars -Like Names
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Weekend fun part 2; The angry conductor
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Weekend fun part 5; Jean Claude Van Damme´s scene in Breakin´
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Weekend fun part 6; Lorenzo Lamas AKA Chilly D in Body Rock (1984)
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Weekend fun part 7; This or that? (Black Sheep KIA Soul commercial)
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Weekend fun part 8; Kermit the Frog and Cookie Monster Learn How to Rap
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Weekend fun part 9; Darth Vader & Yoda recording voices for TomTom GPS devices
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Weekend fun part 10; Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog mocks Star Wars fans.
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Weekend fun part 11; Star Wars meets Gangster Rap
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Weekend fun part 12; Jabba the fucking HAT!
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Weekend fun part 13;
Classic Robot Chicken
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All of Chewbacca's Dialogue from "Star Wars" by Doug Savage

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If your teacher corrected graffiti (Reas AOK/RIS)

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Graffiti art inspired by the Star Wars universe.
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Have a nice weekend ;)

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Q&A interview with Puppet

Grid Stormtrooper by Puppet. Stockholm,Sweden 2010

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Check out the interview here


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JVC FORCE - Livin' In C.I. (1988-1993)



What do Public Enemy, EPMD and Rakim have in common?
Apart from being three of the greatest acts in Hip Hop history,
they all originate from New York's Long Island.
Also hailing from Central Islip, L.I.;
The Almighty JVC FORCE, stepped on the Hip Hop scene in the late 80's.
They quickly signed to B-Boy records on the strength of its
Boogie Down Productions affiliation,
but after Scott La Rock was murdered, JVC was left without the support system they needed.

Rappers B-Luv, AJ Rock and DJ Curt Cazal
hould be remembered today with their hometown contemporaries
as pioneers and innovators of the Golden Age of Hip Hop.
23 years later, the beats they made remain creative and fresh,
Cazal's scratches sound fresher than ever and
those slow flow brag rhymes ooze with finesse.
In short; this is my kind of Hip Hop.

It's funny how I decided to put this mix together,
It started when I randomly found the second
JVC album 'Force Field' (released through another ill-fated label; Idlers).
This same week my man Aitchski from the X-Squad
hit me off with a bunch of B-Boy records rarities.
A couple days later I noticed AJ Rock,
putting up youtube videos of old JVC radio promo's.

It had to be, even just for myself,
I wanted to hear a full remastered JVC FORCE anthology.
Feel free to grab this up and please show the fellas some love over at
JVCforce.com




>Free Download
JVC FORCE - Livin' In C.I. (1988-1993) (mixtape)



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HipHopDX interview with Sir Jinx

In part one of DX's epic convo with the O.G. track-master, Jinx reveals another Jay-Z/Dre track, and nearly signing Souls of Mischief to Ruthless.

If you think nepotism is always a bad thing, you obviously don’t know Dr. Dre’s family history in the music industry. It’s relatively common knowledge that Warren G is Andre Young’s half-brother, but lesser known is that Dre also has a classics creating cousin he helped usher into the game, Sir Jinx.

After the then teenager paid his dues by working on demos for potential Ruthless Records signees, (including a then high school student who would go on to become one of the biggest names in the history of Hip Hop), Jinx branched out on his own and as a grown man music maker crafted tracks for a litany of legendary names including Kool G. Rap, Xzibit, Too Short, Public Enemy, Kurupt, Rage Against The Machine, Sadat X, Yo-Yo, Tone-Loc, Toni Braxton, and as one-fourth of WC And The Maad Circle.

But best known for his early-‘90s contributions to Ice Cube’s first four solo albums, Sir Jinx became a household name in the Rap game as Cube’s right-hand man. Growing up in the same South Central, Los Angeles neighborhood as Cube, the then high schoolers joined forces (along with K-Dee) to form the short-lived mid-‘80s trio, C.I.A. (Cru In Action). Dr. Dre’s befriending of Cube during the C.I.A. days subsequently led to Cube’s inclusion in N.W.A. Once Cube’s well-documented monetary disputes with Ruthless Records reached a boiling point, Jinx decided to step away from his own cousin and bounce from Ruthless with Cube to form The Lench Mob crew. Jinx then worked alongside Cube and Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad beatmakers for Cube’s solo debut, Amerikkka’s Most Wanted, before taking the reigns for 10 tracks on Cube’s controversial classic Death Certificate. But following that astounding album, (which featured Cube’s new Nation Of Islam-driven direction), scant contributions soon followed from Jinx for Cube’s third and fourth solos, The Predator and Lethal Injection, and nearly two decades followed those albums before the onetime musical partners reunited, (sort of), for Cube’s recently-released ninth full-length, I Am The West.

Speaking to HipHopDX last Wednesday, (October 6th), Sir Jinx candidly revealed where his relationship with Cube currently stands, as well as what has come of his newfound working relationship with Dr. Dre, (and if a particular Jinx production featuring Jay-Z will make its way to Detox). And finally, the 20-year vet recalled his dog days at Ruthless Records and how the Hieroglyphics crew nearly became Ruthless’ first Alt-Rap signing.

HipHopDX: So it was 17 years between “Lil’ Ass Gee” on Lethal Injection and “Life In California” on I Am The West. Why did it take so long for you and Cube to reconnect?
Sir Jinx: Well…the era had changed. And when [Ice] Cube went to the Lench Mob-type of music, [like] the “Horny [Lil’] Devil” [song on Death Certificate] and stuff like that, I didn’t really wanna do music like that. So, we kinda went our separate ways… It was a lot of things he was getting into that I really wasn’t agreeing with at the time when I was growing as a producer. So, I did other things. I went and [produced for] CeCe Peniston…Gerald Levert and stuff like that, rather than staying locked into that kind of music [Cube was doing at the time]… I assumed that The Lench Mob was gonna be more like the Ruff Ryders, not like the message kinda rhymes. I didn’t think The Lench Mob was gon’ be like that. I thought The Lench Mob was gon’ be like the N.W.A. [stuff]… I didn’t believe that Hip Hop and religion mixed together. So, I [eventually] left that environment.

DX: And so how did y’all reconnect to get that placement on I Am The West?

Sir Jinx: He’s a multi-millionaire, [and] I’m sure you hear [about] the relationships that Jay-Z has with his people and Dr. Dre has with his people and all the people that are really high up in the Rap food chain [have with their people], [so] it’s kinda hard to talk to ‘em like you would talk to any other rapper. So, how we hooked [back] up, it was me just being pursuant at wanting the world to hear more of Ice Cube and Sir Jinx. Because if it wasn’t for that, then he probably wouldn’t care.


DX: Did you consider giving Cube some retro flava and revisit that “No Vaseline” funkiness?
Sir Jinx: Well, like I said, when you get with artists that reach that high food chain it’s kinda hard to implement what you want, when they’ll base it on what have you done [to earn that right to advise]. So if you like say, “Hey, Jay-Z, I think you should let your hair grow out.” And he’ll be like, “Who told you that?” …Then it becomes, I don’t want him to come around ‘cause he has ideas that I don’t like.

DX: I was just curious if you know – Hearing that you were gonna be involved in this project I just thought maybe you guys might try to take it back to ’91…

Sir Jinx: He didn’t use any of my influence on his record…whatsoever. I kinda dealt with him through Brother Ron, [Cube’s] guy that he deals with… And Brother Ron wants that [reunion] to happen. He wanted it to happen [for I Am The West]. And actually, me and Brother Ron had our differences back in the day, and who would of thought the person you had your differences with would instantly give your conversation to the person that you used to talk to? So he ended up being the person that talked in between me and Cube. I never talked to Cube, ever.

DX: You don’t wanna go into why you guys don’t speak…?

Sir Jinx: I mean, like I said, when you see how the moguls of today, how they treat everybody, you just gotta get in line. It’s a million people that wanna give him beats. And when I wanna give him a beat maybe my beat might cost a little more… But I don’t know how he makes his music anymore. So I just sit and do what I’m supposed to do as a producer and send him beats - for the love of Hip Hop… And I just wanted to continue that, but I guess the formula that he has around him doesn’t – it’s no room for Sir Jinx… He must have something inside of him that wants to work with Jinx, but it’s just not his faith, body and mind. [Laughs]

DX: Since I asked about you and Cube working together again, it’s mandatory I ask about you and your cousin Dr. Dre working together for the first time, ever. So…how’s that going? [Laughs]

Sir Jinx: Well…I think I already [indirectly] touched on that. [Laughs] Ditto, basically [the same thing as] the Cube environment. These guys are millionaires and they do what they do, and you would have to be a psychic to understand what they go through everyday. That’s why I think inside [of me] I don’t have hate [for them] because I kinda don’t want their position… But, I talked to him, and all the songs that I heard [from Dr. Dre's Detox] was real dope. And the thing that’s funny is, the songs that got leaked were never the songs he was playing [me].

DX: Just out of curiosity…was the stuff you heard the "Ghetto Techno" that we been sort of led to believe the sound is gonna be for the album?

Sir Jinx: Nah… I remember [in] one interview I said it kinda sound like a sinister Kanye West. Some of the songs sounded like that. They don’t sound like Above The Law – [Dre] did Above The Law, and that album, [Livin’ Like Hustlers], was amazing! He also did The Firm’s album, but it don’t sound like that.

DX: I thought after “Under Pressure” that he was going in the sorta Kraftwerk direction?

Sir Jinx: That was none of the stuff that I heard. Technically, if you wanna feel what the Detox record was – the direction I feel it was going in – was that song that was [in] the Dr. Pepper commercial. Now I heard that one a bunch of times…with the rap on it, with Slim Da Mobster on it, with it being produced better, without T.I. on it – I think that’s the [leak, the Dr. Pepper commercial song, that T.I. is on… So I never even heard the “Under Pressure” song. [I would have remembered if I had] because I have a song with [Dr. Dre for Detox] and it involves Jay-Z as well. So when I heard [about a Dr. Dre song featuring Jay-Z] I said, “Oh shit, my song got leaked.” It was not my song. [But], the song that I did with Dre, Jay-Z had something to do with [that one] as well… The song that I got with Dre, it’s amazing. It’s a dope, dope, dope song.

DX: Are you confident [that song is] gonna make it to the finish line [for Detox]?

Sir Jinx: Um…I’m…I mean, it’s just like what Dre want. He wants something that’s original, he wants something that’s brand new, and that’s definitely our relationship in this time and day.

DX: Can you reveal…any more about the sound of the song?

Sir Jinx: I would hate for me to kill myself.

DX: [Laughs]

Sir Jinx: I’ll just say that I’m glad that [my song] had a little bit to do with Jay-Z, but it wasn’t the [“Under Pressure” record]. It wasn’t that song.

DX: …You guys just did this one song together last year and that was it? Have you guys recorded at all together since?

Sir Jinx: Well, Dre has a process [with] the way he does his music. If you submit a song, it’s not like you gonna give him a track and it’s gonna end up that way. He’s gonna turn it into a Dr. Dre track. So that [process] took some time… Through last year, [for] maybe four or five months - he [wound] up getting different people to help out with the songs. Then he [came] to me and [was] like, “Guess who might be on it? …R. Kelly might be on it. Beyonce might…” – all these different people… [So] I dunno [what he does after I submit a track]. He just takes it. And…I don’t even want a copy of it. I don’t even wanna be the leak - somebody steal my computer and instantly gets a full Dr. Dre album. [So] I don’t want it. I just sit and enjoy it from [a] bird’s eye view.

DX: But you guys haven’t been like in [contact] with each other recently doing any more music…?

Sir Jinx: Well actually, we did like four [tracks]. We did a few songs… I can do as much [music] as I can, but it’s also [other producers already] there in line that’s trying to get on the Eminem thing, trying to get on all the projects that Dr. Dre has. And excluding our relationship as cousins, I still have to produce hot tracks. So it’s no favoritism whatsoever when it comes to getting songs placed over there.

DX: …I’m still a little unclear as to why it took 20 years for you and Dr. Dre to make music together?

Sir Jinx: Well, I’m my own Saddam, man… I got a chip on my shoulder too. I’m racing the game [too]. Just like he racing after Quincy Jones, I’m chasing after Dr. Dre. So sometimes when you don’t want that crutch, you won’t go there. I don’t need that… And now when I go over there, you gotta get in line. There’s no personal nothing about it. It’s all business, not personal. So I can’t go over there and assume that I’m gonna throw my favorite tracks [into] an Aftermath [Entertainment] environment – get ‘em sewed up, I can’t slang ‘em to nobody ‘cause then I’m going behind Aftermath back…it’s hard. If you make a track for Aftermath, it’s designated for Aftermath. You can’t go shop that. That becomes very expensive. So to try to deal with the Dr. Dre environment and make a whole bunch of tracks - I can’t go take them tracks and give ‘em to somebody else, ‘cause then what if Dre call me from Detroit like, “Yo, where that track at?” [And] I’m like, “Oh, I gave it to Snippy D that gave me $1,500 for it.” So, you gotta [deal with that], and I been doing my own thing [all these years]. I had really no reason to go to the Dre environment because I was working with Xzibit [before he worked with Dre]. We did [seven tracks together for] the 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz [album]. We did a lot of stuff. I work with artists that need to prepare themselves for Dr. Dre. Everybody that I worked with always ended up working with Dr. Dre. I even worked with Snoop Dogg before Dre did.

DX: Yeah, I was shocked to learn that from reading your Producer’s Corner feature that you did Snoop Dogg’s demo when he was 15, 16-years-old. How did y’all link up?

Sir Jinx: Warren G is Dre’s stepbrother, [and] me and Warren G is the same age. So [when we were teenagers] we were kinda both getting shunned on in the Audio Achievements [Studios] – [during] the [recordings for] Dr. Dre, Michel’le, N.W.A., Eazy-E, J.J. Fad, all that stuff that was going on then. Me and Warren G were kinda like the scrubs. And it was a place that was uncomfortable. It wasn’t even cool to be a [Ruthless Records] entourage [member] then. [Laughs] They would dump [on you] and do tricks [to you] and do all kinda stuff to you if you [didn’t] have no work over there... I got shunned so much [it motivated] me to [bounce from Ruthless with Ice Cube and] do Amerikkka’s Most [Wanted]... That came from the intensity of what pressure you had [on you] to be accepted over there.

DX: Going back to that demo that you did for Snoop when he was still in high school, did you do that with Warren G?

Sir Jinx: Yeah. I lived in South Central, and of course they lived in Long Beach, and they would catch the bus to my house – ditch [school] and come catch the bus and get to my house [at] maybe three [o'clock in the afternoon], and then we would work on my little four-track… [And] me and Warren [would] go back and forth [talking about our problems with Ruthless], because being in the scrub role over there, that’s like the union at a job, [so] me and him complained to only each other. [Laughs] So, [at] that point we kinda had a connection. And he wanted to see it happen. I wanted to see it happen. Obviously, Snoop Dogg was supposed to happen. And then it was funny, ‘cause back then [Snoop] was shorter than all of us. So it was like a summer or two [and] like he went to jail, [or] he went to camp or some shit, and this nigga come out [and] he’s six [feet] and some change. He was [called] Snoop because of being short. The name Snoop in the gangster world usually comes from short dogs. [Snoopy from Peanuts] is not a tall dog. [Laughs] Now he like Marmaduke.

DX: Did you and Warren try to take Snoop’s demo at that point, like in the late ‘80s, to Dre?

Sir Jinx: Nah, it wasn’t even that [kind of thing]. It was just striking matches, just gettin’ it in, thinking that, “Okay, we can do a good song” – So maybe it was to be presented to Ruthless. Maybe it was, because back then I was even doing demos with Tajai and Adam [A-Plus]. I was trying to get them signed over at Ruthless. And [they’re now known as part of] Souls Of Mischief. They were my group [originally].

DX: Oh wow, you were fuckin’ with them before Del [The Funky Homosapien]?

Sir Jinx: Actually, Del [The Funky Homosapien] and them [came] together. They came as a crew. And Del’s [emcee] name was [his initials], T.D.K., back then… And they [group] name was Rhythm. And they used to come out [to Los Angeles]. Dre used to give me money for them to catch the train from Oakland out here to do demos to get signed to Ruthless. That’s how hot Del was… [But] nobody [else at Ruthless] would fuck with that shit. I was trying my hardest to make ‘em fuck with that shit.

Stay tuned to HipHopDX for the even more revealing conclusion to our conversation with Sir Jinx, in which he takes a further stroll down memory lane and shares more of his Hip Hop stories, including the tale of 2Pac, Kool G. Rap and Jinx driving around during the 1992 L.A. Riots (while ‘Pac busted his gun in between stops to sign autographs for fans). Jinx also explains why you’ve never had a friend like “Uncle Suge,” reveals the historic film project The D.O.C. is currently working on, and much, much more.


Part 2;

In part two of DX's epic convo with the OG track-master, Jinx details his experience rioting with 'Pac, his friendship with Suge, and The D.O.C.'s documentary.

In part one of Sir Jinx’s revealing conversation with HipHopDX the veteran beatmaker revealed that his 17-year delayed reunion with Ice Cube did not come to fruition as it was originally intended for I Am The West, (explaining why the once musical partners no longer speak to one another). Dr. Dre’s cousin also revealed his recent work with the good doctor for Detox, (work that included the assistance of Jay-Z). Additionally, the onetime Ruthless Records “scrub” further revealed his work in the late ‘80s with a then-teenage Snoop Dogg, as well as the work he put in a little over 20 years ago attempting to get the Hieroglyphics crew signed to Ruthless.

Now, in the conclusion to DX’s discussion with Sir Jinx, the man born Anthony Wheaton shares one more story from his historic past, this time recalling his hilarious experience rioting with 2Pac in Los Angeles during the 1992 rebellion. Jinx also reveals if he can ever release the long lost original recordings he made with fellow rioter Kool G. Rap. The producer/emcee additionally explains why “Suge is my friend,” why he is rechristening himself “Tony Villa,” and finally, what his involvement is in the upcoming documentary on the tragically cut-short career of The D.O.C.

HipHopDX: I want to go back to your Producer’s Corner feature for one more bit of information, something you said that grabbed my eye. You’ve got to be the only person in this industry who’s ever been quoted as saying, “Suge is my man…” [Laughs]

Sir Jinx: I don’t know how you grew up…but everybody got either a uncle in they family they don’t like, or a big cousin, or a big brother – you don’t like ‘em until the shit go bad. At all the picnics they fucking up…cursing people out, but soon as that dude run into your car in the supermarket and five dudes jump out, you not calling Auntie Shay Shay, you calling Suge [Knight].

DX: [Laughs] Uncle Suge.

Sir Jinx: Uncle Suge. And if you don’t want it done right, don’t call Suge. So, that’s the cold thing when people say that Suge whatever, whatever - I mean, he did what he did. If everybody was in his shoes, then they could say what kind of person he is. Everybody say [Suge had something to do with] the situation with [2Pac] and all that, but nobody don’t know. I know Suge, and [the conspiracy theory that Suge Knight had 2Pac killed] don’t add up to me like that. And I ain’t in it – don’t put [me in it] – but I see the nigga eye-to-eye and it’s hard [to see him in that way]… I been knowing Suge since he was a limousine driver. And he never swung [at] or hit me or jumped me. [But] then, I never put myself in that position anyway. ‘Cause I always had my other shit going [on]. And he was always happy for me because I didn’t have to follow behind [Dr.] Dre… He was like, “You know I always respected you, man. You went and did your own thing, man. Most of these niggas sideline Dre, kiss Dre ass…” And I’d be like, “Yeah, but he’s still my cousin.” I feel like he can be the king and I can be the prince. I don’t want his world. I don’t want them pressures that he has to deal with…


DX: One more thing I learned from your Producer’s Corner feature is that you produced Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo’s Live and Let Die in its entirety before it was remixed by the Trackmasters and others [due to sample clearance issues]. So would you ever consider reaching out to G. Rap to release those originals?

Sir Jinx: Um…they still got sample infringements in [the tracks]. Because see…we finished that album, [but] they [didn’t release it until] a year later [in 1992]. The Trackmasters…when they went back in and took the samples out, [after] I gave them the masters…I don’t know. They released a whole different [album] than I gave Cold Chillin’ [Records]… I gave Cold Chillin’ something else, and they went back in and remixed a lot of them songs. [But] with [Kool] G. Rap, that’s my nig right there. I would love to work with G. Rap [again], but he gotta wanna do it.

DX: Speaking of G. Rap, when I spoke with him back in ’08 for his DX feature he recounted for me the story of you, he and Tupac “…riding around, poppin’ they burner off out the window” during the ’92 L.A. riots. [Laughs] Just to keep it a hunnid though, was ‘Pac really riding around, shooting out the car window?

Sir Jinx: Put it like this, we saw a dude in a security guard outfit and ‘Pac pointed the gun at him and laughed. That’s the intensity of the street [on] that day. It was a dude standing at the bus [stop] – ‘Cause we driving down Wilshire [Boulevard], I’m driving my car [and] he letting it loose through the sunroof: boom, boom. I mean, it’s shells in my car. I actually took ‘Pac to my neighborhood over there off of Western [Avenue] & 106th [Street] and that’s where he got more bullets from – ‘cause he emptied his gun in my car. [Laughs] And for some reason it wasn’t wrong. [Laughs] …That was the day I was supposed to work with 2Pac. That was the only day, because after that he got into some shit and then we never went back into the studio… The day before [the Rodney King trial verdict came down] he was working with some other guys in the same studio. [And] so the next day he was off from them, and I was off from working on G. Rap’s shit. [But] that’s why G. Rap was there [in the studio too]. You know how you work with artists [and they’ll] be like, “Let me take a day off [from recording] to write.” So he took a day off, and that day on [for me in the studio] was supposed to be [me working] with 2Pac, but as soon as we [started] going through the beats my homeboys come through the door with like five hats on they head like the Mad Hatter, with arms full of liquor, talking about “L.A. is on fire.” And I’m like, “What are you talking about?” I don’t know nothing. We in the studio…[but] I don’t watch T.V. in the studio. So I turned the T.V. on, [and] L.A.’s on fire. We said, “Okay, we’re gonna come back tomorrow.” [Laughs] So we went down to L.A. to see what the fuck was going on. And then while we was going down there, while we riding down Wilshire, boom, boom, boom, boom, he dumping out the sunroof. So then we go all the way down, we hit L.A., we hit Crenshaw, we in the middle of Crenshaw. I parked my car in the middle of the street, because everybody has just parked sideways like the world coming to an end. We go into Tempo Records – Tempo Records is on fire! In the back, we get in, [and] Tupac [starts] signing autographs…signing his records. I’m like, “C’mon! Let’s go! Let’s go!” …[Then] it’s like…some muthafuckin’ A-Team shit, we jump back in the car, [and then] we go to the bottoms. We go some place that I ain’t never been – ‘cause I grew up on like the Crip side, so I ain’t have no reason to be over there. [Laughs] And they would spot me out by just being from where I lived. So we go over there, the swap meet is up to your shin in water because the sprinkler system came on, because some part of the building is on fire. So we slushing through the water, getting stuff, doing stuff – this nigga [‘Pac is] outside taking pictures. [So finally] we jump in the car and then that was our day of [rioting]. That was my nigga. ‘Pac was my friend…just like Suge is my friend. [Laughs] I know some of the craftiest people on the planet, but…it’s better to have ‘em on your team than against you… [Some people don’t understand] what it takes to do business with people like Suge. And some people didn’t like 2Pac [either]. But at the end of the day, when something go wrong, who you gon’ call?

DX: I appreciate this walk down memory lane, it’s been enjoyable, [Laughs], but I need to go ahead and wrap things up. But before I let you go, I wanna get a rundown of any new projects you got in the works?

Sir Jinx: Well right now I got a couple of things that’s coming out. I done changed my [performing] name… So I got some music that I got coming out [under that name]. And the name is Tony Villa. And that’s just like my alter-ego… I got a bunch of cats that I work with, and now I’m just gon’ come out with some good music [featuring them]. Now you got the Internet, [so] I don’t have to slave myself to a record company… So a lot of the music that I’m working on with the Tony Villa project is just basically using the [new technology of] the time. Like, I would use the [technology of the] time in ’89 [and] use the SP1200 or…the Oberheim to make my world come alive. Now I got Reason…Pro Tools. So it’s just a breath of fresh air. It’s just like my album [back in the mid-‘90s], Chastisement, when I put that record out [with features from] Gerald Levert and Isaac Hayes, I didn’t make music to compete with people. I make music to listen to [and enjoy]. So I got the new project, the Tony Villa project… [The] album [is] called RSVP. That’s gonna be coming out [soon]. It got a lot of cats on it. It got Kurupt on it, Jayo Felony, it got Ya Boy on it, it got Medusa on it, it got…King Tee is on it, Domino’s on it… I’m trying to take that little hand that I got, that [Dr.] Dre gave me, and put together some good hot shit with the artists that might not get no deal. But you still wanna hear Rodney O, you still wanna hear what’s going on with Paperboy, you still wanna hear what’s going on with these other emcees – Candyman – that’s still hot. These dudes is lyricists but maybe the time has changed. But if they get up to date with what’s going on, then they gon’ be on some records.

DX: [And] you’re gonna be rappin’ on this…?

Sir Jinx: Yes, [as] a performer, Tony Villa. And I been holding it back so long because the west coast will make you feel stagnated [creatively], until you go out to Atlanta, until you got out to Detroit, until you go out to places and see what [the] west coast did for the [whole] United States. Then that’s when I [started] figuring out, “Okay, well then there is another world for Sir Jinx.” …Just reinventing yourself is another idea in Hip Hop that you get to do. Now if you wanna ride that [old west] wave of “What’s happenin’ homie?” then that’s good [for you], but I like to deal with the new shit… When the technology caught up [to where it is now], then I was able to be able to produce myself as well as do music closer to the concept that I believe… The song that I gave to [Ice] Cube, [“Life In California”], was a song that was on my album [originally]. I just took my vocals off and gave him the instrumental… So I shot him the [beat] with the hook, and with Jayo Felony [already] on it. And that’s how he got the song. [But] what he did to it after that, that was on him. So that’s why I [explained that] I never talked to him – it was just through the engineer or through Brother Ron.

DX: We all have our personal relationships that aren’t where we want ‘em to be, [but] it’s just kinda disappointing to hear that you guys aren’t like [back] in one room [working] together.

Sir Jinx: I don’t even know how to put it. I guess with…the new people that he have [working with him], he might get a better vibe, a more comfortable vibe. But we actually scheduled time for us to be in one room together, and he didn’t make it. But I don’t want it to [sound] bad. It’s just how life goes… You know [the Atlanta Falcons] got rid of Mike Vick, [but] I’m sure they feel it now.

[Conversation goes off the record before resuming] That’s with me and [The] D.O.C. I been dealing with D.O.C., and D.O.C.’s recreating that day – that day when he came to California [from Texas].

DX: He’s recreating – Like, he’s making a movie or something?

Sir Jinx: He’s making a documentary on him. So he’s getting all the cats together [that were around him in the late ‘80s]. And I’m the only person – See let me tell you something, if Cube never left [Ruthless Records], I probably woulda been D.O.C.’s deejay. Because if you look at the old, funny N.W.A. tapes with them making fun of Cube, I’m actually the deejay. We all in it. It wasn’t meant to be a disrespect. It was [just] that everybody had a video camera and they was making tapes about each other. 


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Rap-a-Lot Records is a Houston hip hop record label.
Rap-a-Lot was created in 1986.
The label was founded by James Smith (A.K.A. J Prince)
in the mid-1980s and,
with its most famous act the Geto Boys,
put the South on the Hip Hop map.
Since then, it has maintained its success
and focus on gangster and southern rap.
It was distributed through the 1990s
by the EMI labels Priority Records (1991–1994)
and Virgin Records (1994–2000).
During the 2000s,
it was distributed by WEA's Asylum Records.


Discography

1988
Raheem - The Vigilante
Geto Boys - Making Trouble
Royal Flush - Uh Oh!
Def IV - Nice and Hard

1989
Ghetto Boys - Grip It! On That Other Level
Willie D - Controversy

1990
Choice - The Big Payback
Geto Boys - The Geto Boys

1991
O.G. Style - I Know How to Play 'Em
Convicts - Convicts
Geto Boys - We Can't Be Stopped
Scarface - Mr. Scarface Is Back

1992
The Terrorists - Terror Strikes; Always Bizness, Never Personal
Too Much Trouble - Bringing Hell on Earth
Ganksta N-I-P -The South Park Psycho
Choice - Stick-N-Moove
Big Mello - Bone Hard Zaggin'
Prince Johnny C - It's Been a Long Rhyme Coming
Raheem - The Invincible
Rap-a-Lot's Underground Masters - Rap-A-Lot's Underground Masters
Bushwick Bill - Little Big Man
Willie D - I'm Goin' Out Lika Soldier
Geto Boys - Uncut Dope
Seagram - The Dark Roads

1993
Geto Boys - Till Death Do Us Part
5th Ward Boyz - Ghetto Dope
Ganksta N-I-P - Psychic Thoughts
Too Much Trouble - Player's Choice
Scarface - The World Is Yours
DMG - Rigormortiz

1994
2Low - Funky Lil Brotha
5th Ward Boyz - Gangsta Funk
Odd Squad - Fadanuf Fa Erybody!! (Devin The Dude´s first album)
Trinity Garden Cartel - Don't Blame It on da Music
Tim Smooth - Straight Up Drivin' Em
Blac Monks - Secrets of the Hidden Temple
Seagram - Reality Check
Big Mello - Wegonefunkwichamind
Big Mike - Somethin' Serious
Scarface - The Diary

1995
CJ Mac - True Game
5th Ward Juvenilez - Deadly Groundz
Bushwick Bill - Phantom of the Rapra
Poppa LQ - Your Entertainment, My Reality
Menace Clan - Da Hood
5th Ward Boyz - Rated G

1996
3-2 - Wicked Buddah Baby
The Almighty RSO - Doomsday: Forever RSO
Geto Boys - The Resurrection
Do or Die - Picture This
Facemob - The Other Side of the Law
Ganksta N-I-P - Psychotic Genius
Various artists - 10th Anniversary

1997
Scarface - The Untouchable
Big Mike - Still Serious
Ghetto Twiinz - In That Water
Seagram - Souls on Ice
Too Much Trouble - Too Much Weight
5th Ward Boyz - Usual Suspects


1998
Scarface - My Homies
Devin the Dude - The Dude
Do or Die - Headz or Tailz
Geto Boys - Da Good Da Bad & Da Ugly
Ghetto Twiinz - No Pain No Gain
Blac Monks - No Mercy
A-G-2-A-Ke - Mil Ticket
Tela - Now or Never
Johnny P - The Next
Ganksta N-I-P - Interview with a Killa

1999
Yukmouth - Thugged Out: The Albulation
Big Mike - Hard to Hit
5th Ward Boyz - Keep It Poppin'
J Prince Presents - R.N.D.S.

2000
Scarface - The Last of a Dying Breed
Do or Die - Victory
Tela - The World Ain't Enuff
Willie D - Loved by Few, Hated by Many

2001
Dorasel - Unleash the Beast
Yukmouth - Thug Lord: The New Testament
Ghetto Twiinz - Got It on My Mind
Snypaz - Livin' in the Scope

2002
Devin the Dude - Just Tryin' ta Live
Scarface - The Fix
Outlawz - Neva Surrenda
Hussein Fatal - Fatal
Luniz - Silver & Black
Big Syke - Big Syke
Do or Die - Back 2 the Game
Tela - Double Dose
Scarface - Greatest Hits
Yukmouth - United Ghettos of America
Geto Boys - Greatest Hits
Project Playaz - The Return
Facemob - Silence
Snypaz - Snypaz

2003
Scarface - Balls & My Word
Yukmouth - Godzilla
Slim Thug & Lil Keke - The Big Unit
DMG - Black Roulette
Do or Die - Pimpin' Ain't Dead
Dirty - Love Us or Hate Us
Criminal Manne - Neighborhood Dope Manne
Do or Die - Greatest Hits

2004
Devin the Dude - To Tha X-Treme
Thug Lordz - In Thugz We Trust
Z-Ro - The Life of Joseph W. McVey
Hi-C - The Hi-Life Hustle
Various artists - The Day After Hell Broke Loose
UTP - The Beginning of the End
5th Ward Boyz - Greatest Hits
Yukmouth - United Ghettos of America Vol. 2
UTP - Nolia Clap

2005
Lil Flip & Z-Ro - Kings of the South
Geto Boys - The Foundation
Z-Ro - Let the Truth Be Told
Pimp C - Sweet James Jones Stories
Bun B - Trill
Dirty - Hood Stories

2006
Do or Die - Get That Paper
Z-Ro - I'm Still Livin'
Pimp C - Pimpalation
Scarface - My Homies Part 2
Trae - Restless
Partners-N-Crime - Club Bangaz
Trilltown Mafia - It Goes Without Sayin

2007
Trae - Life Goes On
Devin the Dude - Waitin' to Inhale
Z-Ro - Power
Scarface - Made
Dirty - The Art of Storytelling
UTP - Back Like We Left Something

2008
Yukmouth - Million Dollar Mouthpiece
Scarface - The Best of Scarface
Devin the Dude - Greatest Hits
Yukmouth - Greatest Hits
Bun B - II Trill
Pimp C - Greatest Hits
Geto Boys - Best of the Geto Boys
ABN - It Is What It Is
Z-Ro - Crack
Devin the Dude - Hi Life
Trae - The Beginning
Scarface - Emeritus

2009
Z-Ro - Greatest Hits
Scarface - Greatest Features
Damm D - Never Forget Loyalty (N.F.L.)
Z-Ro - Cocaine

2010
Z-Ro - Heroin
Bun B - Trill O.G.
Pimp C - The Naked Soul Of Sweet Jones
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