early crew names

[Phill_Most]

Sureshot 2 MC's
Devastating 2
3/5 Of A Man
AKA Soulman
Soul Brothers No. 9
Five Pillar Guerillas
Terd Burglars Inc.

Almost forgot, pre-dating all of those was The Canine Crew... all members took 2nd names after various pop culture or cartoon dogs (like Wu-Tang took Gambino names over a decade later). No rap music involved, this crew was only interested in hardcore MACKING, getting drunk and turning out parties. As second-in-command I was Deputy Dog. Others included Huckleberry Hound, Doggie Daddy, Marmaduke, Snoopy. My cousin, the ass-kicker of the crew, was Cujo.

 

[TSG]

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.

i thought i might have mixed the two up...

CANINE CREW!

 

[oldnewsoul]

senepod!

i'm looking for lesser known names from around the way, too...old crews you were in, etc.

My first crew was Blow 4 Blow(no Homo). 3 dj's and 2 MC's. I left that crew to join DSI,did some demos and stuff. they were signed by Jerry Bloodrock(early hip-hop DJ) and I left because they were corny. I resurrected the Blow 4 Blow name, got another MC and DJ and we made a split EP with some cats frome Harlem. After that I went solo and started making moves with these kids from Queens and we called ourselves L.I.F.E . I liked the solo thing , so I put out a 12" under my name, Chill Divine. Bit of misfortune, a young MC named Bobby G decided he liked my name and changed his to Chill Rob G. And whenever I went to look for a deal, people thought I was unoriginal.

 

[TSG]

senepod!

i'm looking for lesser known names from around the way, too...old crews you were in, etc.

My first crew was Blow 4 Blow(no Homo). 3 dj's and 2 MC's. I left that crew to join DSI,did some demos and stuff. they were signed by Jerry Bloodrock(early hip-hop DJ) and I left because they were corny. I resurrected the Blow 4 Blow name, got another MC and DJ and we made a split EP with some cats frome Harlem. After that I went solo and started making moves with these kids from Queens and we called ourselves L.I.F.E . I liked the solo thing , so I put out a 12" under my name, Chill Divine. Bit of misfortune, a young MC named Bobby G decided he liked my name and changed his to Chill Rob G. And whenever I went to look for a deal, people thought I was unoriginal.
long live the lyrical!

that's an unfortunately dope mc who decided to take the chill...thanks for sharing that...mad interesting.

 

[oldnewsoul]

senepod!

i'm looking for lesser known names from around the way, too...old crews you were in, etc.

My first crew was Blow 4 Blow(no Homo). 3 dj's and 2 MC's. I left that crew to join DSI,did some demos and stuff. they were signed by Jerry Bloodrock(early hip-hop DJ) and I left because they were corny. I resurrected the Blow 4 Blow name, got another MC and DJ and we made a split EP with some cats frome Harlem. After that I went solo and started making moves with these kids from Queens and we called ourselves L.I.F.E . I liked the solo thing , so I put out a 12" under my name, Chill Divine. Bit of misfortune, a young MC named Bobby G decided he liked my name and changed his to Chill Rob G. And whenever I went to look for a deal, people thought I was unoriginal.
long live the lyrical!

that's an unfortunately dope mc who decided to take the chill...thanks for sharing that...mad interesting.
Damn, you got that?

I didn't think anyone on here had my raers.

 

[TSG]

yeah, you'll be surprised how many know of this record.

 

[batmon]

Back around 1980, this cat would come around my way w/ tapes. He claimed to be a part of THE HOMICIDE 5. Probably just some local mofos, but that name still gets me open.

 

[djnikoless]

Sureshot 2 MC's
Devastating 2
3/5 Of A Man
AKA Soulman
Soul Brothers No. 9
Five Pillar Guerillas
Terd Burglars Inc.

hmmmm....we may have to travel back in time and battle for the "devastating two" name. How about you pull out your devastating two demo and I pull out my demo and battle...ha! mine is actually pretty bad but it's so "cute" with my 12 year old "between demo commentary"...guaranteed to get the ladies vote...ha!

 

[TSG]

Back around 1980, this cat would come around my way w/ tapes. He claimed to be a part of THE HOMICIDE 5. Probably just some local mofos, but that name still gets me open.

 

[sticky_dojah]

bump!

 

[Hotsauce84]

Speaking of the Skratch Piklz, were all three of 'em in FM2000 (or something like that)? Or just Q-Bert? I remember reading about that group in Urb back in the day. Never heard any of their output though...

 

[DJ_Enki]

Jspr said:idiotproof said:
The Alkaholiks = E.S.P.




Surely not the ESP who did the Valoom padoom pink album w Howie Tee on Select in '91?

"Fingertips" b/w "Clap Yo Hands" was my joint.

 

[jjfad027]

In highschool I was DJ Flowmaster, my partner was DJ Wonder. We were refered to as Wonderflow. The system for our first big house party consisted of about a dozen different speakers from peoples home stereos and car boxes. 5 amps ( 1 of which was a 12v DC amp hooked to a car battery with charger) We had to run an ext cord to the neighboring house because we kept popping the breaker. I have a VHS tape somewhere.

 

[batmon]

C.ommando A.ttack T.eam.....circa 1986.


We didnt fusk w/ music though. Just on some ninja shit running through buildings without being seen.


Sneakin into the local public school and avoiding custodians.


2 outta of us four went on to TroubleNeck Brothers.


One of us had a single Just The Two Of Us - MVP, but he wasnt in C.A.T.

 

[Hotsauce84]

Old graf crew was CWA (City Wide Assault), which then became FBI (Far Beyond Insanity). Unfortunately, as FBI developed more of our gangbanger friends became involved and the crew became more about tagbanging then for the "art" of it. Jumping other crews, bombing anything and everything, robbing the ticket/cash handler at local raves and in the case of an old friend who was also my first ever graffiti partner, getting locked up as an accessory due to a carjacking/killing that happened at my job. (I was literally less than one minute from being an accessory myself. I was still in the parking lot - driving away - when the shot went off. No joke.) Fortunately, a couple of us regular, non-banger dudes left the crew once we saw who was involved and either started other crews or (as in my case) stayed solo.





(This city being as small as it is, the cousin of the man who was killed ended up being my boss years down the line and remains a good friend to this day. It was weird when the revelation came to light. He was telling me about his cousin who was killed in a carjacking and I had to stop him and admit that my friends were responsible.)

 

[Juan Cocktolstoy]

Let's see; my brother and I had a dance duo named Step 2 Dis. His name was Jaywalk and mine was Freeze (due to my incredible ability to be able to freeze my body in any position while breakdancing). We also used to beat box and rhyme on 8 track tapes and James Brown breaks for hours on end, lots of spit and lots of mistakes. Then my boys and I had two names for our two MC and one DJ crew. One, D.O.P. (Definition of Power) didn't go over too well so we went with Rhyme Arsenal with the title of our album being "Loading Lyrics"... I even remember drawing the cover art with graffitti letters, microphones and .45cal pistols. Our names were; Murder Mike, L-Dogg, and DJ Supreme Being (that was my name). We used alot of Curtis Mayfield beats one of our faves was Freddie's Dead.