JORUN BOMBAY AND HE TEACHIN' THE CLASS

Hello to all my Realschitters... well, however many of y'all who are still checkin' in here at the blog that was declared dead months ago, THAT REAL SCHITT. It's actually not dead, I've just been busy beyond words. Renovating the crib, doing my part to get the Phill Most Chill "All Cuts Recorded Raw" limited edition LP done with my dudes over at DWG, etc. etc. No time for bloggery these past few months... STILL really no time for it, to be honest. But I was inspired to stop what I've been doing to rock this long overdue post, so here it is.
I was supposed to do this Real Schitt installment featuring my homeboy and one of the best producers on earth IMHO, Jorun Bombay, for probably like a year or maybe even two years (I'm senile- I really have no idea how long it's been other than TOO long). Never got around to it- had to get other schitt out of the way first. The other day I said to myself, "self, you better hook up the Jorun post before you have a stroke or suffer some other debilitating malady that old people sometimes fall victim to". Word 'em up.
For those who ain't familiar, Jorun hails from Halifax, Nova Scotia and is a full fledged master of the beats. We go back to my early days at Rap Sheet; Jo used to send me letters and his beat tapes and records and the whole nine. At that time I had no idea if Nova Scotia was in Canada, Iceland, Sweden or Wyoming (it's in Canada) but I knew that this dude was serious about this beat schitt. My man even had the Baritone Tiplove 12" so you know we hit it off.
To make a long story short(er), fast forward to today. As I said earlier IMHO Jorun is one of the best producers out there when it comes to real schitt Hip Hop. Creativity, sound quality, dope breaks... my kind of music, no doubt. So a while ago I asked Jo to send me some of his work so I could erect a real schitt statue in his honor on my blog, and he did. I listened through all the music, thought it was dope, then inadvertently pushed it to the side due to about a million things coming at me from all angles of my life (I have SO much great music that people have sent me just sitting in a pile, having been listened to only once because I haven't had a chance to get back to it.. such is the life of a Soulman).
About a week ago I burned all the Jorun tracks to a CDR and rode around in the whip rockin' that schitt at high decibels so I could really live with it for a minute, and thoroughly enjoyed pretty much all of it, especially the production value. So I'm dropping almost ALL of these joints here on the world infamous THAT REAL SCHITT blog. Bus' it-

Ghettosocks "Out For Treats" (official video)



Monark & Jorun "Hangin By A String"



Jorun & Soulman (Phill Most Chill) "Smash"



Jorun Bombay "Jorun's Way"



Jorun Bombay, Jazzy Jay & Rick Rubin "Rock The Bells Instrumental"



Not a typo- you read that last one correctly. An instrumental for the LL Cool J sureshot from 1985. This is the kind of thing that Jorun Bombay does- no instrumental available for a classic rap joint? He just remakes the schitt himself. With stunning attention to detail- I never would have known that this instro was totally remade from scratch. Now you tell me, what's f--kin' with that? Maybe YOU know what's f--kin' with that, me I'm not so lucky. What I am, though, is very impressed.
So if you are also impressed (and if you're the type of person who would even venture to this blogsite I think you should be), feel free to click the link down below and download all nineteen tracks produced by Haltown's living legend. Thanks for the hook up, Jo (and sorry for the long delay).

Soulman Presents JORUN BOMBAY (various artists)

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THERE'S MUSIC ALL AROUND ME, CRAZY MUSIC

This one is for my girl NativeSoul, who was looking online for the right version of King Pleasure's "I'm In The Mood For Love" but wasn't getting lucky. Well, finding your way to THAT REAL SCHITT was the thing to do- as DMC might say, your dreams have been fulfilled. For those who don't know, this particular version of the song was the late WBLS radio personality "Chief Rocker" Frankie Crocker's theme song which he ended his show with every day. So if you were a person of color who grew up in the NYC area back in the 70's and 80's like me then you pretty much HAD to know this schitt. It's an example of an old musical genre known as vocalese, which is very interesting- I'm not going to go into detail about the history of vocalese here, but I suggest that you hit up Google for more info on it. Anyway, like NativeSoul I needed to have this in in my catalog and looked around online a couple of years ago, at first having no luck just like her but after applying my super digger skills to the cyber world I found that schitt. F**kin' viola! So NativeSoul, I hope you check back to THAT REAL SCHITT since you neglected to give me your email addy. James Moody, you can come on in, man, and you can blow now if you want to- we're through.

KING PLEASURE - I'm In The Mood For Love (The Frankie Crocker Version)

LOVE, OH LOVE

Soulman interview alert: I did a Q-n-A with the fine folks over at the Themes For Young Lovers blog a few weeks ago, so head over there when you're done over here and check out what I had to say about my favorite music to get busy to (and then check out all the other interviews as well... very nice site indeed). Love is grand.

SOULMAN WORLD OF BEATS VOL. 2 - DIG IT! (A BLAST FROM THE PAST)

After dropping two "now-level" Soulman mixes this week, it's only right that I step into the time machine and come back out with one of my early joints, the 1998 released Soulman World Of Beats Vol. 2 - Dig It! This is from back in the cassette days, the all analog no digital days, the just discovering the wonders of the internet days (you know, that magical era when you were up all night marveling at the fact that you could see SO much porn so easily in the privacy of your own home- man, the things these kids take for granted nowadays, they just don't know what it used to be like!). The Corel Draw graphics because I don't know about Photoshop yet days. Great memories, everything was still so fresh and new back then. I've gotten a few requests to drop some of the old mixes, so the giving person that I am will gladly oblige from time to time (just don't forget I still sell stuff on CD-Rs too if you really need some of the earlier Soulman joints... hit me up, I'll let you know what it is).
I merely dropped an excerpt of this mix in an earlier post, this time I'm blessin' y'all with the full monty (pause). Breaks, beats, loops, grooves, sample spotting... it's all there in that time honored Soulman style (and I WILL get back to some schitt like this again one day... I don't know when, but I will).

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SOULMAN - BEAUTIFUL 2

The good news is that it's been a productive day today... finished up and mixed this Beautiful 2 joint, did the photoshoot (thanks to Khalil Stroman Photography Inc. for the hook up), put together the cover art and here it is for your listening pleasure today, just as I promised yesterday. The not-as-good news is that it looks like I'm gonna miss the Freeway / Jake One show here in Philly at the Troc tonight (sorry I can't make it but thanks for putting me on the list anyway, hommie... I know y'all gonna rock it). Well, just as with the last Beautiful joint I did, I'm real happy about this one. Make sure to let me know if you dig this kind of schitt, 'cuz I'm itchin' to drop number three very soon if you want more.

BTW (and totally off topic), did anybody see that NBA all star dunk contest the other night? WEAK. Worst of all time. Dudes have no imagination whatsoever. If any of y'all NBA dunk dudes are listening, I'll give you one for next year (save this for your show stopper)- dribble the ball while you're standing at half court, about to make your dunk. Then suddenly just put the ball down. The crowd will start gasping like "wtf??? What's he doing? Is he quitting???" Then just start running towards the hoop without the ball. Everyone will think you've gone insane. What they don't know is that while the last guy was doing his li'l wack ass dunk, you were on the sidelines untying one of your kicks, loosening it up just enough that it won't fall off while you're running. As you leap into the air towards the hoop, you reach down and take off the loose sneaker while in midair then bring it up and WINDMILL DUNK THE SNEAKER. Hang from the rim for effect (and also to ease your one-barefooted landing). The fans are happy, the streets are happy, the sneaker companies are happy, and David Stern is doing something prematurely in his dress slacks he's so happy. You don't have to pay me for that one, NBA dunk dudes... just do it. Do SOMETHING. Anything. I got a million of 'em, hit me on the e-mail and I'll do y'all that solid (the sneaker dunk was free but any of my other ideas will be for a small fee, of course... y'all can afford it).

SOULMAN - BEAUTIFUL 2

EDIT: if you need this in MP3 form instead of the M4a or whatever that schitt is above, here it is again-

SOULMAN - BEAUTIFUL 2 (MP3)

SOULMAN - LOVERS AND FRIENDS

Although my PC is down, I refuse to let my computer woes stop THAT REAL SCHITT from marching forward... had to pull out the Macbook (which I rarely use due to the fact that I don't know jack about Macs) and get busy as best I can. I planned on dropping another one of my many belated mixes this Valentines weekend and here it is. Didn't have many of my usual tools to hook up the music and visuals, so I improvised. No Photoshop? I downloaded the GIMP schitt for Mac and did what I could do for the graphics (not much different than what I normally do- I'm no pro at any of this schitt, believe me). Had to do a LOT of schitt differently, but it got done.

This is just a collection of some sweet soul-ish stuff that I like and have been listening to for awhile now. Some I got from my vinyl collection, some I got from around the internets (like the Top Shelf "Let Them Keep On Talking" from Matthew Africa's blog... thanks, Matt!). I'd like to say this is perfect since this is Valentines Day, but some of the songs are more on some "I lost you and we're not together any more" steez rather than some "I love you and you love me and we'll be together FOREVER" schitt. There's plenty of that too, but I'm just giving y'all that disclaimer before you play this mix for your sweetie tonight and she gets depressed and leaves your ass. Regardless, it's a lot of great music so enjoy.

And also, BTW- Soulman BEAUTIFUL PT. 2 tomorrow.

SOULMAN - LOVERS AND FRIENDS

EDIT: if you need this in MP3 form instead of the M4a or whatever that schitt is above, here it is again-

SOULMAN - LOVERS AND FRIENDS (MP3)

DOIN' HIP HOP A FAVOR: FREEWAY & JAKE ONE OMG

Hey y'all... still chillin' on the THAT REAL SCHITT content for now, but looks like I'm about to get snowed in yet again here in Philly (we just got hit with 29 inches on white flakes last weekend, now Mama Nature's about to dump another foot and a half on us tonight and all day tomorrow... yikes) so maybe while I'm stuck in the house for a day or two I'll come up with some new schitt for the site. Meanwhile, here are a couple of Youtube vids that have been making the rounds already all over the internet, but if you haven't already seen 'em you really need to get a load of these. My homie Jake One and one of my favorite rappers, Philly homeboy Freeway, are prepared to drop an album that's gonna bring the rap world to a halt just like this cotdamned snow is about to stop everything from moving here in Philly. Not trying to make this into a commercial, but as crazy as any Jake Wizzle / Philly Freezer fan knows the music is gonna be.... well, just check out the packaging. INSANE. I just ordered seven copies, no lie (and will probably cop another five or so... even if this album sells a million, sealed minty copies are probably gonna be worth some dough one day... real collectors know the deal). Check out both the cd and the LP and tell me what's f***in' with this. WOWWWW.

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PHILLY PHILL - FIGHT GAME (MORE YOUTUBERRY)

Yoooo... been mad busy getting my eBay on and whatever else, haven't had time to update in a minute. Until I get back into the flow, here's some more Youtubbery I put up whilst experimenting with the whole upload process. Another sneak peak from the Phill Most Chill "Philly Phill's Old School Album" which I hopefully will finish up one of these years. Have a happy old school winter's day and I'll be back soon.

 

SOULMAN - DRUGS (MY FIRST YOUTUBE VID)

Hey, my realschitters... this is my first little test attempt at putting up a Youtube vid, a clip from my Soulman "Drugs" cd from back in 2001. Seems easy enough, so I'm gonna see about making some more of these- my own music but also just some other stuff that hasn't been put up on the Tube by anybody else yet. My Youtube username is thatrealschitt (what else?), so check me out periodically.
Meanwhile, here a few other Soulman / Phill Most Chill related music vids I stumbled on while browsing Youtube the other day. Happy 2010!

HIP HOP LESSONS 2009: MORE OLD SCHOOL TAPE HISTORY FOR Y'ALL

A schittload of old school tapes have flooded the internets since I first started dropping my Hip Hop Lessons for the holidays a few years back, so I wasn't so sure that there was still a need for me to continue with it. But, as always, the people have spoken and informed me that the world is still in need of an education on the true meaning of Hip Hop. So here we go again-

COLD CRUSH BROTHERS vs. DOCTOR ROCK & THE FORCE MC'S - One of the great battle tapes from Hip Hop's early days, a battle that was really more like a sucker punch TKO. The CC4 had no idea that a battle was even taking place, so they did their normal show then bounced to go make another engagement later that night. After the Cold Crush was gone from the premises, the Force MC's took the stage and proceeded to go at them with an unprecedented level of sheer disrespect, even beyond Kool Moe Dee vs. Busy Bee preportions. As legend has it, when the Cold Crush later got wind of what had gone down, they made a point of stepping to the Force HARD the next time their paths crossed- made them apologize and seriously warned them to never pull a stunt like that again. What surprised me when I read about this battle was that the Force MC's really were not all that respected among the top groups of the day... I know they were from Staten Island, which at that time I guess was like being from Martha's Vinyard as far as the hardcore Bronx dudes were concerned. But I'd heard so many tapes where the Force was rocking at shows with all the other groups and were killing it with the harmonies and routines, I just assumed that everybody respected them as being among the elite. Regardless, they most definitely made their mark in the streets with this battle- if you don't already have it you certainly need it.


COLD CRUSH BROTHERS & TREACHEROUS THREE BOATRIDE TO BEAR MOUNTAIN, 1982 - I used to go to Bear Mountain (in Verplanck, NY) almost every summer when I was a teenager... a great place to see nature and all that schitt but also an ideal spot to bring a few cases of brew and find a secluded flat rock up in the hills where you could get busy with the fly girly of your choosing. Such fond memories. Anyway, it seems that some of the early Hip Hop legends also used to venture out to the Mountain- by boat, it would appear- and actually did shows during their fantastic voyage. This clip features LA Sunshine and Moe Dee of the Treach rockin' the m-i-c along with Easy AD, JDL and GMC of the Cold Crush, with the highlight being Caz not only saying the original "Knucklehead Rap" but ALSO the rarely heard part two.

TREACHEROUS THREE FREESTYLING - Yes, I know I post a lot of clips with the Treach rhyming... an indication of how much admiration I have for the group and their skills in their heyday. I was blown away by "New Rap Language" back in 1980 and just thought T3 had the best rhymes out of all the other groups runnin' schitt in the early days. Most crews back then had one or maybe two emcees who were strong and then the rest of them were kinda nondescript, but all three of the Treacherous rappers were real nice IMO... super clear voices, style, intelligent well constructed lyrics, etc. For me, not much beats hearing Moe, LA and K rhyming to "Life On Mars", "Truck Turner", etc... RAW.


MASTERDON AND DEATH COMMITTEE (a.k.a. The Turn It Out Three), HARLEM WORLD 1982 - A couple of clips from one of my favorite old school tapes. Always love those Death Committee routines back when Boo-Ski was down with the crew. And BTW, for those who don't know, in the Hip Hop world "def" was spelled D-E-A-T-H before Def Jam records hit the scene in '84.


FEARLESS FOUR at HARLEM WORLD, 1982 - Since a few people requested more Fearless Four recently and my homeboy Oldskool4real said he hadn't heard many tapes with the whole crew together, here's a clip with DLB, Tito, Mike C and Peso passing the mic around during one of their shows at Harlem World sometime between the release of "It's Magic" and "Rockin' It". Would've included more of their performance but IMO their harmonizing routines really were not their strongpoint so I cut those parts out... maybe I'll drop the whole show some other time.
SOULSONIC FORCE & JAZZY JAY at the T-CONNECTION, 1980 - Love those Zulu Nation tapes- they're always rocking some beats you don't hear on anybody else's tapes. This time I'm hearing stuff like Kenny Rogers' "Tulsa Turnaround" and "Funky Soul Shake" by E.T. White.

There you have it... as always, if you are looking for the full tapes and / or for other long lost old school live Hip Hop cassettes, hit up my brother Troy L. Smith over at the Old School Hip Hop forum (and Troy, if you want to feel free to leave your contact info in the comments or get in touch with me and I'll put the info up right here). Class dismissed.

PRE-XMAS SNOWSTORM OLD SCHOOL YOUTUBE REAL SCHITT MEGABLAST

I'm snowed in my crib on a Saturday watching the Cowboys put it on the Saints (could this be the end of the unbeaten season? )... seemed like a perfect time to post some raw mid 80's hip hop courtesy of Youtube...

























So dope...

ASTRONOMICAL LYRICAL WHEREWITHAL AWAKENS YOUR SENSES

WORD POWER. What up MC Paul B!

SEE YOU TOMORROW (MONTY STARK 1940 - 2009)

I'm not gonna make this post about how I copped my Stark Reality og vinyl or how much it's selling for according to Popsike or any of that. I'm not gonna write a full fledged eulogy, either (but I will direct you to what Egon wrote on the Now Again Records site)... just a few words about the man Monty Stark. Although I only knew Monty personally from a few e-mails and posts on Soulstrut, MySpace, etc., it was clear to me that he was cool people. Just little stuff like his posting of the cover of my Archaeologists' Classics Vol. 82 cassette - the one with the Stark Reality-bitten artwork- on the 'Strut, his way of winking at me and saying "I see you, Soulman!" Putting the picture of my kids holding my copy of the Stark lp up on his site (Akilah and Khalil loved that). Hearing a beat I made using his "All You Need To Make Music" and giving it the thumbs up, even if he probably didn't really get my "hiphopizationing" of his original tune. Cool people. So of course I'm sad to know that the world has lost not only a brilliant music man but also a very cool human being... I don't know, maybe it's me but it doesn't seem like they make so many of those anymore. Anyway, I'm rockin' "Comrades" right now as I type these words, and I'm feeling pretty good. "Friendship for life... see you tomorrow." Word up. Thanks, Monty.

SOULMAN - BEAUTIFUL

I was at the Old Country Buffet (one of my favorite eating spots- I'm cheap) awhile back and I noticed one of the employees, a barely legal if even legal at all young dude, hitting on a customer, a cute late 30-ish older woman. She rebuffed his advances, claiming that she was too old for him. Young dude, undeterred, stared her in the eye and calmly replied "I know what I like." Gotta give it to the youngin'- swag for days.
That's kinda how I feel about psych rock, which is my current favorite genre of music to listen to. I probably don't really know a damn thing about psych- every time I look up info on a psych album online, the reviews rarely sing the praises of the songs on the album that I like the most. They'll talk about the genius of some song on the lp that I'm not familiar with, then I'll go back to the record to listen to this song and be like WTF is this? Obviously I'm not hearing it from a true psych enthusiasts' perspective. Which I guess makes sense, since I'm a black first generation Hip Hop dude... I didn't grow up on Zep or Sabbath or the Beach Boys or Zappa or even Hendrix. I grew up on James Brown and Earth Wind & Fire and Stevie Wonder and the Furious 5.
Yet and still, I know what I like. Music with soul, music that touches you somewhere deeper than the epidermis. And any real music head knows that soul isn't just found on albums that have pics of dudes with afros on the jacket. I hear the soul in Aretha Franklin but I also hear it in Rachmaninoff's 2nd. In fact, "hear it" isn't the best way to put it- I feel it. That's what music is all about, man... people can tell you all day that this is the hot schitt, this is what's banging now, whateva whateva, but it doesn't matter. Music isn't a popularity contest, it's not about soundscan numbers, it's only about what you feel or don't feel. No matter what I say about something being THATREALSCHITT, if you can't feel what I'm feeling then it's a waste of time even trying to explain it.
So anyway, enough of my yadda-yadda-ing. Yes, it's true- I'm dropping another new Soulman mix a mere three days after the last new Soulman mix. Guess the hiatus is officially over, eh? This one, entitled Beautiful, basically picks up where The Truth Is Forever left off. Just playing a bunch of soft, mellow psych songs that I really love. Familiar folky stuff that the Vashti Bunyan and Linda Perhacs fans out there may already know and love but also some other very nice tunes that only the most hardcore psych dudes are gonna be hip to. This joint may be too light for the more gnarly real schitters, and my Hip Hop real schitters can probably just fuggetaboutit, but I'm hoping folks will dig this (Beautiful Pt. 2 and maybe even Pt. 3 are on deck already, so if y'all are feelin' it more will be dropped ASAP). Thanks for listening.

SOULMAN - BEAUTIFUL

SOULMAN - COME TO ME SOFTLY

Told you I'd be back... and here I is with another Soulman mix. This is really more of a Best Of Archaeologists compilation type joint... I'm just putting my name on all of 'em from now on (why not?). No cutting and scratching, just playing some music I like.
This is another one of those mixes that's been sitting around unfinished for a long azz time- probably a couple of these songs I wouldn't have put on the mix if I did it yesterday just because I've heard them on too many other people's mixes. But who cares... I like all the selections regardless if I heard them a hundred times before or if they're still new to my ears. Like a wise dude once said, the truth is forever. Besides, I think it's a pretty decent mosaic of uncommon and commonplace, rarefied and somewhat routine. Soul, psych, jazzy, modern, whatever's clever.
The working title on this was "Spring Mix" because most of the stuff is light and breezy and soulful... unfortunately I'm like a couple of season changes late on the release date and I didn't feel like waiting until next March to drop it, so here it is. F--- it, autumn is pretty breezy too, right? I can see the leaves falling in the background while sipping a mug of hot apple cider and vibing out to this schitt. Hope y'all like it, and if not I got another one in the chamber that may be ready by this weekend as well. Happy turkey day to whoever's celebrating it and peace to everybody else too.

SOULMAN - COME TO ME SOFTLY