Top Shelf 8/8/88
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Nah, it's them and this looks like some rich kid paid all his favorite rappers to make a super album. This sounds new so don't expect most people like Kane to have the same flow almost 20 years later. Suprisingly, Lyte sounds the same which is dope - speaking of, anyone check that new song she put out with Premier? It's not bad.
From the CD insert
???Introduction: 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.
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 [woot! Jersey represent!]. ???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.???
???Introduction: 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.
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 [woot! Jersey represent!]. ???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.???
I posted up a post at my blog about this, please have a read.
http://coldrockdaspot.blogspot.com/2007/08/hmmmmsomething-just-isnt-right-about.html
I love the Special Ed joint, the MC Lyte,Craig G and Masta Ace the most, I just don't get why their is a fake story to this album.
http://coldrockdaspot.blogspot.com/2007/08/hmmmmsomething-just-isnt-right-about.html
I love the Special Ed joint, the MC Lyte,Craig G and Masta Ace the most, I just don't get why their is a fake story to this album.
This is the dude behind it
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=20485722
If you ask me, I think it's just like I said above; he paid them to record and made up a lame story to go along with it.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=20485722
If you ask me, I think it's just like I said above; he paid them to record and made up a lame story to go along with it.
Because japanese labels are content to sell their wares to the local market. The amount of work required to sell internationally vs the profit returned is much lower compared to the domestic market. Why bother dividing a measley 2000 cd's to 15 distros all over the world when they can sell 5000 quickly w/ their established network.
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Thats what I assumed from the get-go... bunk-ass stories like this used to hype up product initially just leave lame associations with it forever though AFAIK... I'm less inclined to even check this out now than I would be if it were presented as was it is.
Yeah, it has some of the better performances I've heard from some of these folks in the last few years. The Craig G is
Yeah, I think its great. Not one weak track IMHO. The bogus lost tapes story doesn't impact on my enjoyment at all (its obvious from the production sound that it ain't from 1988).
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