i was just revisiting the battle sounds jammie and q-bert mentioned his crew used to be called Audio Visual and MMM's crew was Creative Images or some shit like that.then i saw that unidentified mixtape with Select Personnel Prod. and got to thinking of initial names of groups and old school posses. Organized being called the Simply Too Positive mc's is one the worst i've heard. i know yall got some more...share some hilarity.
early crew names
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The Alkaholiks = E.S.P.
Kid N Play = Fresh Force.
The Fat Boys = Disco 3.
Mass Influence = Ya'll So Stupid.
Naughty by Nature = The New Style
Public Enemy = Spectrum City
Ego Trip book probably has this section...
This was actually 2 crews. Kid was in a group called the Turnout Brothers
Oohh. But no recorded material? Well done..
My first hip hop crew was Tactical Response. We were big "Britcore" fans.
We changed our name to Noble Savages & only managed to release an 8 track EP on cassette in the early 90s
Q-Bert's old crew was Live Style Productions, out SF/Daly City. Mike's was High Tech Sounds, out of Sacramento. DJ Apollo's was Unlimited Sounds, out of Daly City. DJ Shortkut's was Just 2 Hype, out of Daly City.
Here's three pages of old Bay Area mobile crew names, all out of SF/DC for the most part.
http://legionsofboom.com/2005/12/san-franciscodaly-city-business-cards.html
ah, the rapping years....
let's see in '82 my crew was Devastating Two: we recorded one session rapping over "magic's wand", "rocking it" and Nice & Nasty 3's "holiday rap". I still rock that on semi reg in the whip...
then in '85 I started the 3D Crew (a.k.a 3RD Dimension): rocking shows, winning talents shows, much jheri curls and spiked belts/wristbands! Oh yeah, and Tom Macahn's (?) "wildstyle" shoes (quote: "we're a co' crush crew and you can't defeat us, wear wildstyle got tired of adidas")
Then in '87 started a new crew that we had the hardest time naming. One of the MCs that didn't stay in the group was pushing for Rose Productions. I didn't have anything better so I just rolled with it and we recorded one demo using that. Later to find out "Rose" was the name of his barber who he apparently had mad respect for...ha! Then at a late nite Mcdonalds parking lot "cipher" I was thinking of the perfect name to represent what I thought we were-old school but pushing the limits creatively and it popped in my head the perfect name, "WIldstyle". That's what I recorded most of my music under for years.
Around the same time as "WIldstyle" started I started my production company called Rage Productions and Rage Cage Studios.
In the early 90s when Wildstyle disolved I chilled for a couple years then came back with my last rap venture that I named "Savage Intellect"....
that's the crew name history.....
let's see in '82 my crew was Devastating Two: we recorded one session rapping over "magic's wand", "rocking it" and Nice & Nasty 3's "holiday rap". I still rock that on semi reg in the whip...
then in '85 I started the 3D Crew (a.k.a 3RD Dimension): rocking shows, winning talents shows, much jheri curls and spiked belts/wristbands! Oh yeah, and Tom Macahn's (?) "wildstyle" shoes (quote: "we're a co' crush crew and you can't defeat us, wear wildstyle got tired of adidas")
Then in '87 started a new crew that we had the hardest time naming. One of the MCs that didn't stay in the group was pushing for Rose Productions. I didn't have anything better so I just rolled with it and we recorded one demo using that. Later to find out "Rose" was the name of his barber who he apparently had mad respect for...ha! Then at a late nite Mcdonalds parking lot "cipher" I was thinking of the perfect name to represent what I thought we were-old school but pushing the limits creatively and it popped in my head the perfect name, "WIldstyle". That's what I recorded most of my music under for years.
Around the same time as "WIldstyle" started I started my production company called Rage Productions and Rage Cage Studios.
In the early 90s when Wildstyle disolved I chilled for a couple years then came back with my last rap venture that I named "Savage Intellect"....
that's the crew name history.....
My first crew got called Walking Endustries. We had it from a kid who wasnt able to say the skatecompany name "World Industries" in the right way. He always said Walking Endustries. This became like a running joke, everbody said that and it stick with us 3 MC and 1 DJ crew. Our DJs name was Record Eliminator Paul because he needed only 5 minutes to put hiss noises on a record.
After a lot of changes in the crew DJ Lord Wax and me were the remaining members. We did a instrumental LP around 1996 which was downsized to an EP. The style was downbeat,trip hop, slow hiphop whatever you want to call it. After that we did severeal other records and remixes under this name till Walking Endustries as a crew faded out.
Funny thing is that this record is always coming back at me. But not from the hiphop side. Electronic people ask me for copies, electronic DJ queen Miss Kittin put one of our tracks on her Radio Caroline Vol. 1 compilation. House DJs Moonbootica sampled one of our tracks to produce their EP "Listen" out of it and I'm curious what will happen next.
Peace
Hawkeye
After a lot of changes in the crew DJ Lord Wax and me were the remaining members. We did a instrumental LP around 1996 which was downsized to an EP. The style was downbeat,trip hop, slow hiphop whatever you want to call it. After that we did severeal other records and remixes under this name till Walking Endustries as a crew faded out.
Funny thing is that this record is always coming back at me. But not from the hiphop side. Electronic people ask me for copies, electronic DJ queen Miss Kittin put one of our tracks on her Radio Caroline Vol. 1 compilation. House DJs Moonbootica sampled one of our tracks to produce their EP "Listen" out of it and I'm curious what will happen next.
Peace
Hawkeye
I thought H20 was the only one from YSS in Mass Influence. I didn't think Uncle Buck, Logic, or X were in MI at all... please correct me if i'm wrong.
before we landed at Litterthugz, we contemplated: The Hi-Five, The Pentagon, and Missouri Sound Machine.
Hey Sir.
You still need to send me dubs of all that shit you played me way back!
Nikoless' crews/tapes were real bad!
My old ones:
HCG = Hip Club Groove (martime rap band with Corey from Trailer Park Boys, haha late 80s, early 90s).
One Inch Punch (thing judgement night soundtrack materialearly-mid 90s).
You still need to send me dubs of all that shit you played me way back!
Nikoless' crews/tapes were real bad!
My old ones:
HCG = Hip Club Groove (martime rap band with Corey from Trailer Park Boys, haha late 80s, early 90s).
One Inch Punch (thing judgement night soundtrack materialearly-mid 90s).
ha! word, thanx. I acutally just converted the "Wildstyle Album" to my computer and been rocking it on CD for the first time...ha! I'll send you a disc. I gotta get your address hit me at kevin@rhymesayers.com I need to call you anyway cause it's been a minute!!
My brother, me, and some homies where in mobile dj crew called "Essence Of Sound" waaaaaaaaay back in the day. I was also in this rap group with my boy Hanni called "testing ground".
shudder
shudder
Sureshot 2 MC's
Devastating 2
3/5 Of A Man
AKA Soulman
Soul Brothers No. 9
Five Pillar Guerillas
Terd Burglars Inc.
Devastating 2
3/5 Of A Man
AKA Soulman
Soul Brothers No. 9
Five Pillar Guerillas
Terd Burglars Inc.
Mad Lifted Crew
Westend Crew (theres a record out called "Bosston Breaks" feat. General Levy on one track...270 copies pressed...)
on a graff tip:
Third Rail Surfers
Uptown Bazerk Movement
Q-Bert's old crew was Live Style Productions, out SF/Daly City. Mike's was High Tech Sounds, out of Sacramento. DJ Apollo's was Unlimited Sounds, out of Daly City. DJ Shortkut's was Just 2 Hype, out of Daly City.
Here's three pages of old Bay Area mobile crew names, all out of SF/DC for the most part.
http://legionsofboom.com/2005/12/san-franciscodaly-city-business-cards.html
dag, q-bert was way off then...the part i'm referring to is in the 'q-bert's evolution' portion of battle sounds where he's talking about his early battles vs. Mike.
I went back to my notes...
According to what Q-Bert told me, it was Mixmaster Mike who was a member of Audio Visual (this is when Mike was living in D.C. and friends with Apollo, who introduced him to Q.) Then Mike got offered the opportunity to take over Hi Tech out in Sac so he moved out there and was the main DJ for that crew for the next few years before coming back to SF/DC.
According to what Q-Bert told me, it was Mixmaster Mike who was a member of Audio Visual (this is when Mike was living in D.C. and friends with Apollo, who introduced him to Q.) Then Mike got offered the opportunity to take over Hi Tech out in Sac so he moved out there and was the main DJ for that crew for the next few years before coming back to SF/DC.
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