A COUPLE OF VIDEOS I LIKE

Yo... thanks to all who have hit me up during The Hiatus via comments or e-mail. Wish I could say I'm back, but really I'm not... just wanted to post these videos I peeped recently because they were both made to be posted on THAT REAL SCHITT.
First is an excerpt from the film SBX! Holding Down The Tradition, which is a real nice slice of Hip Hop from the home of Hip Hop, the Bronx, New York. Featuring cats like Lord Finesse and other D.I.T.C. members / affiliates... real nice. Highlight of the film is this little performance by Edan in which he simply kills it... watch for yourself and see what I mean. Be sure to buy that Echo Party joint by Edan when it drops shortly... haven't heard it yet but word is that it's bananaramas.



My favorite music video of the moment, and possibly my favorite music video of the last and current centuries, is this joint here by my brothers PUTS. People Under The Stairs just seem to make great videos... man, they shoulda been out in the Yo! MTV Raps days back when good rap videos actually got a lot of airtime. This, IMHO, is a great rap video.



One last thing: I WILL be back. Working on some stuff now. See y'all soon...

THE HIATUS

Yep, I'm in the middle of it right now. Hot fun in the summertime + real schitt malaise + another possible external hard drive issue (yep, even my extra back-up drive is acting like it's about to push up daisies) = hiatus status for the time being. I may be back in effect tomorrow, I may NEVER return to regular real schitt blogposts, who knows. Football season's about to start, I'm getting my young people ready to go back to school and I'm rockin' Jay-Z's latest collection of old man rapps in the whip... my mind is just not into bloggery right now. I do have some mixes that just need to be finalized, so once that's done maybe I'll make my comeback at that time. Like I said previously, who knows. I'm checkin' the stats though, I see a lot of folks are still coming through on a daily basis, so that's most definitely appreciated. Until I get my mojo back (IF I get my mojo back), feel free to drop me a comment and tell me what kind of schitt you'd like to see here at THAT REAL SCHITT in the future... maybe that'll light a fire under my azz. ONE.

SEASON OF DA VICK

Yep, it's NFL Football (the american version of football... you know, with the brown ball) time again.... don't know how many people who are reading THAT REAL SCHITT can help me with this, but if there are any pissed off Eagles fans out there who want to sell their season tickets, I will buy them. Contact me at philasoul@aol.com and we can do biz. Hey, I love dogs too, but season tickets are season tickets.

THE PROMO

Shout out to my family over at DWG aka Diggers With Gratitude... I'm late as usual but for those who haven't already copped I must plug their latest special project, the second installment of their rare Hip Hop record label poster series. This one features the most sought after promo-only rap 12"s... haven't gotten my print yet but if I squint my eyes reeeeeal hard and look closely at the above pic I can make out stuff like the Big Red & Diamond D joint, Run DMC "Here We Go", I think that's the LL Cool J "No Airplay" that Rare Dave got from me (yep, same one you may have downloaded a few posts ago on this very site), Milk "Get Off My Log", Big Daddy Kane "Ain't No Half Steppin'" and many other rare as f--k promos. Super high quality, from what I hear. 700 x 500mm size, only 350 copies printed. Cost- £15 per poster (including worldwide postage). Paypal payments should be made to poster2@diggerswithgratitude.com if you are interested (and why wouldn't you be?).
This exquisite print should hold you until the next Phill Most Chill / DWG project drops... all I can say about that one is OMGWTFLOLOLZOMGFTW!!! I can't wait. More to come, stay tuned...

PEOPLE WHO FEEL IT'S NICE JUST TO GET HIGH WITH YOU

In between the last Headphone Music post and the next one, the main thing I've been listening to is a fantastic mix by my guy Jared Boxx, formerly of The Sound Library record shoppe and now reppin' Big City Records, NYC. This mix, entitled Thanks For Waiting, features some rare and ridiculously nice soul music- I guess the kind that most people today would call modern soul or boogie or whatever.


Me, I'm from back in the days when that soul actually was modern so I don't know nuthin' about those particular monikers... it's just soul or R&B to me. But you know how it goes, a rose by any other name yadda yadda.
Anyway, one of my favorite joints out of many on Jared's mix is by an obscure group out of Cali named Spaceark. I could type out a quick bio on them, but you know I'm not going to go to the trouble to do that. But I will do something even better and link you to this site that will tell you just about everything you could ever want to know about the group.
But back to the song, "Welcome To My Door"... this might be on my list of all time favorite songs (I probably have over 10,000 tunes on said list so I don't know how special that designation really is). It's basically a song about hitting the pipe- I assume a pipe full of weed since this is from back in the 70's and not the crackpipe era of the 80's, but who really knows what the hell Spaceark was tokin' on even back in 1978. Regardless, just as Troy Raglin sings it, this jam has me "feelin' fine all the time".

SPACEARK - Welcome To My Door
SPACEARK - Color World lp

LATE JULY HEADPHONE MUSIC

As I said in the previous post, haven't been checking for much rap lately- mostly a lot of soul and R&B, both old and (gasp!) new. Anyway, this is what it is right here-
TWEET - Southern Hummingbird and It's Me Again lps - highly underrated R&B from the mid 2000's... Tweet is real dope IMO.
BEASTIE BOYS featuring NAS - Too Many Rappers - always like to hear the Beasties rock with other emcees that you might not expect them to collab with (see Q-Tip on "Get It Together"). Also must send a get well soon out to Adam Yauch.
MAZE FEATURING FRANKIE BEVERLY - One of those legendary groups that I heard all the time as a youth and kinda got away from as I delved into the deeper, more obscure musics of the world... sometimes you have to go back to those legends and rediscover their greatness. Songs I been rockin' hard: "I Love You Too Much" (always one of my favorite Maze joints, for some reason I thought about this song when NFL QB Steve McNair got tragically murked by his young mistress a couple weeks ago... R.I.P.), "Ain't It Strange", "Woman Is A Wonder" and "While I'm Alone" (although the Raw Soul version on the Gregar 7" outdoes the Maze version IMO).
BUDOS BAND EP - that little 30 second jawn on there is the BOMB.
MAYER HAWTHORNE - Green Eyed Love (Live) - still gotta hear the whole "A Strange Arrangement" album in it's entirety (sounded good from what I heard), but it appears to me that this live version of "Green Eyed Love" is killing the studio version.

GEORGIA ANN MULDROW - Roses - boy, do I love me some Georgia Ann Muldrow. Sista is a star in the making IMO. A lot of people prefer her solo version of "Roses" to the one with Mos Def... I dunno, I kinda like Mos' input on the song (maybe because I heard his version first). But with or without Dante, Georgia is the star of the story. I'm still trying to figure out what kind of pencil she says she's drawing her roses with... if anybody knows please enlighten.
MAXWELL - BLACKsummer's night lp - I don't check for a lot of new music, but I'm definitely a Maxwell fan. I like almost everything on the album, especially "Bad Habits" and "Help Somebody".
PHIL PERRY - In The Rain (Live) - okay, I just mentioned three current singers with new albums that are out or coming out. Now, let's listen to one of the best soul sangers of our lifetimes that a lot of people probably have never even heard of (I got this clip via my step cousin Xanax Jenkins' favorite web portal SOULSTRUT.COM). Man, whatever happened to the screamers? Just one of the many things missing in today's music...

LONG DAY (a CD-R given to me by Dave Tompkins) - I really wish I could name some of the songs that Dave put on this homemade CD for me, but I am sworn to secrecy. I'll just say that he hooked me up with some of the nicest soul, boogie etc. music that I have heard in a minute. Some bonafied rarities too, schitt you won't find on Popsike (trust me on this). Thanks, Dave!

Plus, once again I have a trailerload of jawns that I will probably put on upcoming mixes, so I can't divulge right now. Stay tuned for the mixes, though. Might do it SOULMAN RADIO stylee, we'll see. PEACE.

MIRACULOUS RAW SCHITT SCOOPED OFF THE CONCRETE TO MAKE A HIT

A-ight, I haven't been listening to much Hip Hop lately, but let me get back to what I'm about. I'm coming back extra hardcore too, with this promo-only dirty unedited version of LL Cool J's "No Airplay", possibly Uncle L's best offering after his pinnacle "Mama Said Knock You Out" period. Just another example of how nasty Todd Smith was, for those who like to conveniently exclude L from the conversation when they start talkin' bout who the GOAT is (not saying he's it, but he should most definitely be in the convo when all things are considered). And damn, don't those Whatnauts drums still sound raw as f--k even after all these years? Beautiful schitt.

LL COOL J - No Airplay (Unedited Promo Version)

THE BEST SOAP FROM THE HEAVENS ABOVE

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OLD SCHOOL HIP HOP MEGA MIX

Liked this video mix joint courtesy of the newest member of our links section, namely the Old School Scholar blog, so much that I decided to submit it right here for your approval. Truly THAT REAL SCHITT worthy.

BACKBONES ARE BROKE AND CHOKED NECKBONES ARE BREAKIN'

I was gonna call this my favorite rap record ever by a female emcee... couldn't honestly do that once Lyte thee MC's "10% Dis" popped into my head, but trust me, this joint here by Yo-Yo is right up there with the best of 'em in my book. The Sir Jinx / Del production is crazy. And I don't know if sister Yolanda was writing her own rhymes or not back then, but she was certainly saying them schitts very impressively. ALWAYS loved this record (I'm east coast fo' life but real schitt is real schitt, east coast or wessSIDE or where so ever it originates from).
Posting this got me to thinking... hmm, what would my top ten female rapper records of all time be? After some long thought about this (possibly over thirty second's worth of straining my brain) I came to the conclusion that there might not even be ten records by female emcees that I really love. That's some shameful schitt! I'm probably just old and can't remember all those female rap jawns that I've rocked to death over the years. Yeah, that's the ticket. If y'all want to name some of your all time bestest rap jams by women, hit me in the comments. Or just download the free music and say nothing as usual (LOL just kidding... I appreciate all the regular commenters and even y'all nameless freeloaders as well).

YO-YO - Dope Femininity

WITH A CHILD'S HEART - R.I.P.

Right now I know a lot of people are reminiscing about Thriller, Off The Wall, Bad, the moonwalk, the glove and the jacket with the zippers. But me, when I think of Michael Jackson the first thing that's always gonna come to my mind is that little guy with the afro and the brown skin and the African-American nose who could sing and dance better than anybody before he was old enough for junior high. That little guy who had to grow up way before he was ready to and disappeared way before he should have. The world has lost one of it's giants today. REST IN POWER.

THAT ODD SCHITT

If you're bored at work sitting at your computer with nothing to do, tired of playing solitaire and mah jongg, the first thing you need to do is thank the Lord that your azz hasn't yet been laid off. After that you may want to check out a spot that's one of my favorite time wasters, the Oddee.com site. Those who know me know that I have a thing for lists- well, this site has a schittload of the most interesting yet bizarre lists that you will ever see. Keeping it music related, I posted a few selections from Oddee's 15 Creepiest Album Covers (some of which were too creepy even for THAT REAL SCHITT). A few other favorites- 15 Extraordinary Sand Sculptures (that first one is amazingly the least impressive and yet also the most impressive at the same time), 20 Awesome 3-D Pavement Illusions and World's Most Flexible Women. Those are barely the tip of the iceberg, though... check 'em out when you have absolutely nothing better to do.

MID-JUNE HEADPHONE MUSIC

Mos Def - The Ecstatic - IMO this is the best Mos album since Black On Both Sides, maybe even better. Not perfect, but damn good. I hear a lot of folks saying they ain't feelin' Dante's singing, but I like it a lot when he does it like he does it on this album (as in just to accent the rhyming, not trying to be a real full-time this-is-my-day-job singer). Highlights: "Pistola" (love the nod to the Intruders), "Worker's Comp", "Supermagic", "Roses" (featuring Georgia Anne Muldrow), "Casa Bey", "History" (with Mos' Blackstar compadre Talib Kweli) and "Auditorium", which features a GREAT guest appearance by The Patch, better known as Slick Rick - check it out below.



Drew Nice - People Music II Enchanted Soul - this may be one of my all time favorite mixes, and I've heard a lot of good ones.
Dr. York - New lp
Laura Izibor - From My Heart To Yours (Primo Remix)
Jay-Z - D.O.A. The Death Of Autotune
Tomorrow's People - Open Soul lp
The Sequins - various
Little Milton - Driftin' Drifter - I need to get into some more of Little Milton's catalog, he's one of those dudes I always knew about but never really checked for.
James Brown - Goodbye My Love / JB's - King Heroin (instrumental) - gotta love those Godfather slow jams
Pirimas 3 - I Don't Know
Jimmy Bo Horne - Get Happy
The Bionic Woman - The Return Of Bigfoot Pt. 2 (soundtrack from the tv show)
Jimmy Spicer - This Is It - one of my favorite purple label era Def Jam joints
Snap aka Red Clay - Snappage Vol. 1 mixtape - for anybody who thinks I don't like any southern rap just because it's from down south... wrong. Snap is one of the nastiest emcees alive IMO... I don't know how many people are familiar with him, but if you're not you need to get familiar. This schitt is extremely dope to me.
A lot of stuff off of my guy Matthew Africa's blog - stayed up til the sun came up one morning just listening to and downloading schitt... great music
A lot of 60's-style soul that I can't mention yet because they'll be on my new mix (coming soon!).

SOULMAN + GOOD RECORDS = YES

Just got interviewed by the homie Jonathan Paycheck for his Good Records NYC blog, so be sure to head over there and check it out after you're done checking this out. Very nice blog and, from what i hear, very nice record shoppe (I have never actually been there because I don't think I've even been back to New York since the store opened, but I will definitely come through one of these days). So yes, this is a ringing endorsement from your man Soul- although I have never set foot in this fine establishment I encourage you to go to Good Records NYC with fat pockets, buy all the wall items and basically any other album that has a nice cover until your fat pockets are depleted and THEN run up an absurd amount on your credit cards as well. Because, as we all should know, records are the truth. Money (and good credit) may come and go, but the truth is forever. What up Jonny!

PULL YOUR SKIRT BACK DOWN- GROW A SET, MEN

This is already all over everyplace and got the internets goin' nuts but I wanted to put it here on THAT REAL SCHITT too. Because I got somethin' to say on this. First of all- great track, Hov and No I.D. So sorely needed. What's funny to me, though, is seeing some people who have been down with the recent trends in today's so-called relevant rap world suddenly jumping ship. I hate hypocrites. Keep it 100, y'all li'l b**ches! You down with the stanky leg, ride that schitt to the end! If you were down with what my man Danny Dan The Beatman calls that "gay robot" schitt don't bail the f**k out now that Jay-Z has proclaimed that schitt dead and stinkin'! I could actually have some respect for that. Have some conviction, suckers. I hate hypocrites and I hate fair weather muthaf**kas just as much. Other than that, if you haven't heard "D.O.A." yet check the link down below and have a nice day.

Jay-Z - D.O.A. Death Of Autotune