J-ZONE:
IN THE ZONE WITH... CAPTAIN BACKSLAP AKA THE TOM JONES
OF RAP
‘You better lock up the Bacardi at ya party
when the Zone roll through’, J-Zone rapped on
‘Spoiled Rotten’, a hit song of his terrific
2004 ‘A Job Ain’t Nuthin But Work’
album, his fifth album already, releasin just one year
after ‘Sick Of Bein Rich’. The track also
featured Celph Titled, with whom J-Zone has just finished
the recordings of the ‘Bo$$ Hogg Barbarian$’
album. Jep, anno 2005, J-Zone is still one busy man:
he released a remix album and produced for artists like
Access Immortal and Majik Most....
But today we caught him on a time-out, suffering from
a bad knee injury and tropical temperatures, time to
kick back and talk about music, music and more music...
Wassup J-Zone?
Gas prices!
Majik Most told me you did a sandwich dance
with two lesbians in a club called Empire and no money
was spent, so I guess Florida was great fun for you?
Oh yes! I loved Florida. Me, Celph and Majik went wild.
I got tore up and was throwin up in the airport the
next morning. Second drunkest I ever been in my life!
Lesbians will dyke out in Florida and let you joke around
with em. In New York, you gotta buy them bitches drinks
and sweat em all night. They act like we should be impressed
that they're makin out. Bitch, I don't care, that shit
ain't new! Then they give you attitude. Fuck New York
and all these snotty hipster ass bitches and punk ass
hoes.
When’s the ‘Bo$$ Hogg Barbarian$’
album with Celph Titled comin out? What can we expect
from it?
Early 2006, probably March. It's different from what
you'd expect. I mean, it's hilarious, rude and wild
like you'd expect, but the beats are straight funk.
There's maybe three or four songs that have that ‘Eatadiccup’/’Spoiled
Rotten’ vibe. The rest is straight hoggin on some
funky ass beats. Me and Celph did the beats, and we
got one beat from Mr. Walt of Da Beatminerz. Don't expect
‘Pimps Don't Pay Taxes’ meets ‘The
Godz Must Be Crazy’, it's some all new shit.
You did this album called ‘Hotter Than
Fish Grease’ with Dick Stallion. What was the
idea behind that?
We just got drunk, watched ‘American Pimp’
and said ‘let's do an album in one night’.
So we just jacked all the obvious funk loops, sampled
a bunch Too $hort albums for the hooks and got crazy.
Written, produced, recorded and mixed in one night while
we were drunk! People that heard it took it too serious,
sayin ‘oh, J-Zone used to be dope, he let me down’.
It was a joke! We did it for fun, it was totally unprofessional.
Sometimes you gotta do outrageous shit to keep from
goin crazy with all that hip-hop shit.
Wassup with Dick Stallion?
Stallion is chillin. He sang two hooks on the ‘Bo$$
Hog’ album. He's a high school teacher (seriously)
and a preacher at the Church Of Pimpin.
What about Al-Shid? Is he gonna release a solo
album soon?
Shid is workin on an album and he makes his own beats.I
did a beat for his album and we're still real cool,
but he's tryin to get his own shit off the ground. He
just built a studio. I'm pressurin him to hurry up cause
everybody asks about his album! Shid is the dopest MC
I know.
’I rather play ‘Ice Ice Baby’
cuz that even sounds better than all of that shit out
now’ you rap on your first album. Do you still
play Vanilla Ice often? Was that being sarcastic or
do you really dislike today’s music scene?
(laughs) Me and Celph just did a parody of that song.
I was being dead serious when I said that. I mean, Vanilla
Ice was weak, but he's way better than 8 out of every
10 rap songs that play on MTV now. Vanilla Ice was a
perpretrator, which was mainly why he got hated on.
His rhymes were just below average, and most dudes back
then was at least average, but that muthafucka was flowin
real dope on that song! Don't front, I'm bein serious.
He could flow. I hate soundin like a bitter old man,
but most dudes rhymin now is trash, so in retrospect
Vanilla Ice wasn't that bad. If he came out now, he'd
be pretty decent.
What do you think of the older commercial acts
like MC Hammer, Kris Kross, Skee-Lo,...?
I won't lie, I like some of it. I never liked Kris
Kross or Skee-Lo, but Hammer had ‘Turn This Mutha
Out’. That was dope! Young MC had one or two cuts
on his first album that was cool. Tone Loc's second
album too.
Unlike most underground fans, you’re
a big fan of E40, B-Legit, Juvenile, Suga Free,... What
arguments do you have to convince underground heads
to listen to these artists anyway?
All them dudes you mentioned make dope hip-hop, it's
just different from the hip-hop most underground kids
are used to. They got different accents and they have
sample-free beats, but that doesn't mean they ain't
dope. Them dudes you mentioned can all rap they ass
off. If Suga Free or E-40 were to rhyme up against 98%
of the underground rappers, they'd destroy the underground
dudes. I put every dime I have on that bet.
You released a remix album this year, and you
finally featured on a Eazy-E track! The chemistry was
blazin, man! You must’ve been playing with that
idea for many years before puttin it out?
(laughs) Thanks. I always wanted to do a song with
Eazy, so when I decided to do the remix album I remembered
I had an acapella of his song with Erick Sermon. No
disrespect to Erick, but instead of just remixin the
whole song, I replaced his verse with mine to make it
a new song. I'll never get a chance to work with Eazy,
so I had to do it.
Why did you put out this remix album?
That remix album was to show people that I'm a fan
of a wide range of rappers and I got beats to fit em
all. From De La Soul, to MOP, to Redman to Project Pat,
who's the complete opposite of De La! I wanna work with
everybody I remixed, so hopefully the project is a step
closer to makin it happen.
Did you get some reactions on the ‘A
Game Of Friendly Basketball’ track (of the ‘A
Job Ain’t Nuthin But Work’ album), from
Bow Wow, Scottie Pippen or Large Professor?
Nobody said shit. I think Large Professor is the only
dude out of all of them that even heard it.
So have you been invited to a celebrity all-star
match yet?
They used the song during the Celebrity All-Star Game
on ESPN this year which was cool.
Let’s talk production; what’s your
equipment?
MPC-2000, TR-Rack sound module with the Oxygen 8 MIDI
keyboard, turntables, a Mac with ProTools, a CD-J 800,
some old tube compressors and an old Tascam Analog Board.
Has it always been the same since you started
producin?
I switched from SP-1200 to MPC-2000 in 1997. I started
usin the sound modules in 2002. I got the CD-J in 2003
and got ProTools in 2004.
How do you like ProTools ?
‘A Job Ain't Nuthin But Work’ was my first
ProTools project, I was usin DA-88 tape machines before
that. ProTools makes me nervous cause computers scare
me, but it makes life 1000% easier. I love how much
more convenient it is. Instead of sampling acapellas
and flying them in over the beats manually, I just open
the session. That song ‘Edit These’ where
I reverse everything but the curses, that woulda been
a nightmare if I didn't have ProTools. Same with the
remix album, cause I changed the tempo of the Eazy-E
joint without changing the pitch of his voice. That's
impossible without a computer or CD-J.
You often emphasize the importance of drum
programming. Paul C was definitely one of the best in
programming, but you never really mention him in interviews
as being an influence. So did he influence you?
Oh hell yeah! I've mentioned him before, but there
so many producers that influenced me that it's hard
to remember them all on the spot. He was a damn genius.
That ‘Gets No Deeper’ remix by Super Lover
Cee & Casanova Rud! Where he dismantled the ‘Love
City’ drums?! To this day I don't know how he
did it. That shit was bananas! Paul C and Ced Gee would
have samples pan mixed and snatch different parts from
different sides of the stereo image, which I definitely
do with my beats. He was raw. Paul C, RIP. Him, Pete
Rock and Timberland all revolutionized drum programming.
Listening to your beats, you can hear that
you use different records of all kinds of music...What
was some of the craziest shit you ever sampled?
’County Check Pimpin’ was some wild Greek
shit. ‘Candy Razors’ was some foreign chant
record. ‘Kill Pretty’ was some retarded
rock shit. ‘Slick Talkin’ by Tame One was
the weirdest Asian record I ever heard. The cover and
everything. It was bizarre, dog! I used a lotta bugged
shit for this upcoming album with Celph too.
You produced for household names like Biz Markie,
Akinyele, Cage,...but also produced for unknown up-and-coming
artists like Access Immortal, is that important for
you, to keep a balance between big names and underground
artists who aren’t that known?
Yeah. I try to work with household names to keep my
name out and expand my audience, but I work with up-and-comers
to show that I still got an ear to the ground and you
never know when one of these up-and-comers is gonna
blow up. I hadn't heard of Access Immortal, I knew his
producer, Vanderslice. I played Access beats and he
was a cool dude and I never even heard him, Vanderslice
asked me to play beats and I trusted him on it. I get
back the acapella for the song we did and Access was
dope. I heard his album and it was real dope, it caught
me by surprise. I wasn't sleepin, but most underground
albums I'm not into. I liked his album though. All of
a sudden people are askin me about him and there's a
lil buzz on-line with his album. Now my name is attatched
to the buzz. You never know when that next dude is gonna
take off, so if they're dope, I'll work with an unknown.
You also engineered on a few hip-hop records
fans might not be aware of, can you name some of those
recordings?
I was a gofer/intern/assistant for the known records,
but the records I actually engineered never came out!
That's my luck. I was an intern at Power Play Studios
in Queens when I was 15 years old, in 1992. I saw Akinyele's
‘Vagina Diner’ and Roxanne Shante's ‘The
Bitch Is Back’ recording sessions. In 1994, when
I was 17 years old, I was at Vance Wright's studio.
Vance was my mentor and Slick Rick's DJ. I never met
Rick cause he was in jail at the time, but I saw some
sessions for Nice-N-Smooth's ‘Return Of The HipHop
Freaks’ Remix and Grand Puba's ‘2000’
album. I engineered a song for Greyson (from Greyson
& Jasun), and Amil (yeah, that Amil from Roc-A-Fella).
They did a demo together over one of my beats in 1996,
but I lost the fuckin tape. That was before she was
rollin with Jay-Z. I did a session with the YG’z
(they were down with Pete Rock). My first record ever
was when I did a beat for Preacher Earl (down with Nice-N-Smooth)
called ‘Fool, I Got Your Back’. It came
out in 1996, I was 18 or 19 at the time.
During your internship at Powerplay Studios
in 1992; who else did you bump into except for Large
Pro and Akinyele?
I saw Rob Swift there. He and Ak was always playin
the Ms. Pac Man arcade game in the studio lobby. I saw
Kool G Rap, Grand Daddy I.U. and Roxanne Shante there
workin on her album. Her son was with her and he had
a big ass rope chain on! I pretty much gofered sessions
for the unknowns, those two were the only sessions I
saw with famous people.
What did you learn from your internship at
Powerplay?
I didn't learn shit there except for how to wrap cables,
run errands and clean trash cans, but I knew at that
point I wanted to do music for a career. I always wanted
to have a career in music, but at the time I was becoming
a pretty good athlete. I played football, ran track
and played basketball in high school. I was thinkin
about sports a little bit cause I got a few minor looks
for college, but I got a bad sports injury running track.
Hospitalized for a week and the whole shit. That injury
and those internships made me realize that the music
is what I was meant to do.
Years later you produced for Akinyele... Did
he still know you from the Powerplay days?
Naah. I was just an intern. I never even spoke to any
of them except Large Pro. I asked him where he got his
SP-1200. He told me they stopped makin em. Three months
later I found one, it was my first real sampler.I told
both Large and Ak about that internship when I met them
years later and they both laughed. Neither remembered
me.
You also did an internship with Vance Wright,
tell us more about that experience...
That internship is where I really started to learn.
I started out cleaning the studio and goin to the store
for Vance and Greg Nice, but it was smaller than Power
Play so Vance always gave me an hour of free studio
time every day for myself, to figure out shit, make
beat tapes, go through his records, whatever. That was
summer 1994, so I was there five days a week from 11AM
to 8PM. Vance and Mark Spark (a producer that did shit
for Nice-N-Smooth, Grand Puba and Salt N Pepa) taught
me how to program drums. Vance taught me all the equipment.
When I started there, all I knew was the SP-1200. That
was also the first time I got to meet the artists and
talk to them at length. Like when Greg Nice told me
about when him and Smooth B went down to the Sleeping
Bag Records office and the gates were pulled down. The
label folded and nobody called and told them, they just
showed up to a shut down office! Those days were the
best cause I was young and excited and learning shit
everyday. I hated high school and was depressed about
the sports injury, so goin to the studio after school
and in the summer kept my spirit up. I eventually became
a paid engineer and I'd do sessions all weekend and
spend the money at the Roosevelt Hotel record conventions
on Sundays, buying break beats and shit. Leavin flat
broke! Those were the days. To be a high school senior
and that was my job, workin with people all the kids
my age looked up to, was crazy. I owe Vance for life.
Do you still have contact with him? What’s
he up to nowadays?
Yeah, I spoke to him last week. He's in Atlanta with
a regular job, wife and kids. He just dabbles in the
music for fun. I went down there and saw him in April.
He still got better beats than most these dudes that’s
out.
You told me earlier you saw Greyson & Jasun...
Yeah, I still speak to them too.
What did you think of their album ‘Sweatin
Me Wet’ ?
I love that album. I still bump that. The cover art
looks real R&B style, so a lot of people slept on
it, plus Atlantic sucked as a rap label back then, so
it was underpromoted. That album was hard as a muthafucka.
Are they still doin music?
Greyson does video editing, Jasun still does beats.
He just put out something with an artist named Sunshine.
Greyson was talkin bout doin some new shit. He'll still
destroy half these dudes on the mic. I made 4 demos
with him back in the day. I still got 3 of em on tape.
The only one I don't got is the one with Amil!
Do they have a fan club so we can order some
T-shirts?
(laughs) I don't think so.
I read somewhere that you asked Milk D for
a copy of Audio Two’s ‘First Dead Indian
LP’, you got it already?
Milk only had it on DAT, but he didn't have a DAT machine
anymore. I was gonna go to his crib with my DAT and
burn a CD, but he was busy with the Eamon tour and went
outta town. I ain't spoke to him in a year, I gotta
hit him up.
What’s the deal exactly with that album?
That album never came out. I think their label, First
Priority, had a problem with Atlantic. See? Fuck Atlantic.
Which Audio Two album do you like the most?
’I Don't Care -The Album’ by far !! Love
that album. In my Top 20 of all time. I got in trouble
with my moms for singin the lyrics to ‘Whatcha
Lookin At?’ around the house. ‘Top Billin’
was cool, but ‘Get Your Mother Off The Crack’
is Milk at his best!
Do you like Milk D’s solo album ‘Never
Dated’, released on American Recordings?
Hell yeah. ‘Get Off My Log’, ‘Rude
and Cocky’...classic Milk. And ‘Go 2 Hell’,
where he don't even rhyme on the whole song. Milk is
one of my biggest influences. The original arrogant
brat rapper and a dope producer.
Definitely, Audio Two were excellent producers
too. The beats they did for Barsha, for example, that
was maaad hard!
That's what I'm sayin! ‘Knockin Hiney’
and ‘Pimp Of The Year’ by Barsha were my
favorites. I also liked ‘Fish Heads’ by
Alliance and the shit they did on the second MC Lyte
album. They also had that group UBC that put out ‘2
All Serious Thinkers’, but they fell out and UBC
came out on EMI and tried to diss Audio Two on a song
called ‘Burning Bridges’.
What’s your opinion on Ebay and the high
prices you sometimes have to pay. Would you pay 200
dollars for Makeba&Skratch’s ‘Mental
Fitness’ record or even 250 or more for J Rock’s
‘Street Wise’ ?
I bought most of that shit when it dropped, but sometimes
you just want a clean copy and don't wanna spend that
loot. I got J Rock on vinyl and it sounds shitty cause
25 minutes per side on single vinyl. I gave the tape
away like an asshole back in the day, and it never dropped
on CD that I know of. So now I gotta try to burn the
shitty soundin vinyl to CD to preserve it. The prices
is outta control, but you can't do shit about it.
Did you ever bought something on Ebay?
Yeah, but nothing too expensive. I needed No Face's
'Wake Your Daughter Up' on CD and I spent $18.
Talkin about rare albums; euhm... I also read
you got the Mob Style stuff?
Yup, I got both. ‘The Good, The Bad The Ugly’
on tape and ‘Game Of Death’ on vinyl. I
got AZ's solo album, ‘Streetwise’, on tape.
That one is so rare it don't even got a barcode. I hope
they re-issue it though. ‘The Good, The Bad The
Ugly’ is out again on CD. I'm not some elitist
snob that wants everything to be rare. People should
hear these albums cause they never got the props they
deserved back then, so I hope they get reissued.
Any more rare records from your crates you
wanna mention?
MC Sergio - ‘Makin A Killin'
Royal Flush - '976-DOPE' (not the Ghetto Millionaire
Royal Flush, a group from Texas)
415 - '415in'
Too Much Trouble's first 2 albums on Rap-A-Lot
All the Pretty Tone Capone (from Mob Style) 12”s.
I got a Pretty Tone Capone song on a Source Magazine
sampler from 1991 that never came out officially called
‘Can't Talk Too Long On The Telephone’.
Classic song, and if you search the net for it, you
come up with nothing.
Romeo Black – ‘Chemical Warfare’
b/w 'Same Old Same Old’ 12”
1-Five Posse - Lifestyles of The Young and Crazy
Javier & The Str8 Jackers - The Hard Way (Jermaine
Dupri produced this album when he was 16 and all the
beats were dope)
Anttex - ‘The Corner’ b/w ‘Ya Open’
and ‘The Other Side’ 12”
C-Lo - 817 Most Wanted (not the Goodie Mob, a gangsta
rap dude from Texas)
St. Ides Malt Liquor Commercials on triple vinyl
Wow! So are there any more albums you absolutely
want to have in your collection?
I need Ganksta Nip's 'South park Psycho' real bad.
What was the first record you bought?
First ever? 'The Hardness Of The World' by Slave. First
rap record? The ‘High Rollers’ single by
Ice-T.
What was your first remembrance of hip-hop?
1984. New York City Breakers compilation tape. My friend
Rob and I went to the store with our moms and they bought
us each a copy. ‘Sucker MC's’ was amazing
and it had ‘White Lines’ on there too. Those
were my first two rap songs I really liked. I got into
hip-hop late, cause I didn't hear ‘Rapper's Delight’
and all that late 70's/ early 80's shit til later. I
didn't really become a rap fanatic til 1988-89. My moms
bought me the ‘Roxanne, Roxanne’ 45”
by UTFO around '85. I still got that 45”. It's
fried so bad it barely plays!
Let’s take the time for some names, feel
free to leave some comment:
Tim Dog
Responsible for my second favorite rap album ever.
‘Penicillin On Wax’ is classic!!!
Word. So you were a big fan of Timster but
also a big fan of West Coast gangsta rap. Was it hard
to choose between Eazy and Tim?
Yeah man, I loved em both! I was more into Tim Dog
than Eazy back then, but over the years it evened out.
Freshco & DJ Miz
I met DJ Miz and did a show with him in Australia.
He spun for me. I was honored and in shock. Him, DJ
Alladdin and DJ Scratch are my favorite DJ's to this
day. I got footage of Freshco & Miz on MTV Raps
in 1990 with Ed Lover & Doctor Dre. Miz kept buggin
me for it, but I wouldn't give it up!
King T
He called me at 4 in the morning the other day, drunk
as hell (laughs). He was givin me props for ‘Heavy
Metal’ with Al-Shid, from my last album. He put
it on his new mixtape and he was drunk and raving about
it! Gotta love Teela, he's a muthafuckin legend. ‘The
Triflin Album’ is a major inspiration for me to
this day, and I was happy to have him on ‘Sick
Of Bein' Rich’. Dream come true.
Devin The Dude
Another underrated legend. I grew up on his shit too.
The Odd Squad was my shit in high school. All his solo
albums are brilliant. And he's the coolest, most down
to earth dude. He picked a beat from me for his next
album, I hope it gets used. I hope he gets a platinum
album soon, cause if he don't, it's more proof that
the rap game is dead and buried.
Steady B
Ironically, I think Steady B’s ‘V' is his
best album. I love that album. I guess it didn't sell
cause he had to do bank jobs. I listened to his C.E.B.
album with Cool C, last week. C.E.B. probably stood
for ‘Casing Every Bank’!
Superlover Cee & Casanova Rud
Superlover Cee was underrated and so dope on the mic.
His flow was raw!!! And their beats was hittin. 'Girls
I Got Em Locked' was a classic album and the ‘Romeo’
single was one of my favorite 12”s ever, but the
'Blow Up Da Spot' EP sucked.
Style
Tony Tone! That's my dog, I know him personally. I
spoke to him on the phone and I started quotin shit
from the 'In Tone We Trust' album and he was buggin!
He goes by T.O.N.E. now and he's still doin music. I
chilled at his crib in the Bronx once, and we went to
New Jersey to visit Hollywood Impact (he produced all
the Style, King Sun and Twin Hype shit). I lost his
numbers when I lost my cel, I gotta get at him.
Kid N Play
Just because I was a real light skinned black dude
with a hi-top fade in junior high school, people used
to call me Kid. Especially after ‘House Party’
came out. So I cut my hair to a gumby instead so people
would shut up. Their 'Funhouse' album had some beats
on it.
Rated X (the group on Tandem Rec)
You got me on that one. I never heard em.
Joeski Love
Never liked him.
Willie D
Yes!!! Everything he ever did is classic to me. All
three solo albums, the Geto Boys, all that shit. He
was rude as hell and would kick your ass because he
was a boxer, but he was also a real intelligent dude.
I still wanna do a song with him.
Robin Givens
Gold diggin tramp ass bitch, but she is so fine. I
had a crush on her when she was on the ‘Head Of
The Class’ TV show. And in ‘Boomerang’
I'd marry that bitch, but she did Tyson wrong.
Lucy Liu
I gave up the crush I had on her, but I'd still marry
her. She's too fine. Just give me 4 minutes with her,
that's all I need. 4 minutes.
Alicia Keys
She could get the Zonestroke too, but I'm not into
her music.
Jada Pinkett
I'll put it on Jada too. And what's Will gonna do about
it? He thinks he can beat Mike Tyson, but he can't beat
me!
You performed in Amsterdam and Paris, but I
believe you’ve never been to Belgium. People are
waiting!
Hook it up!
We’re the land of French Fries and chocolate.
And we also have the best beers in the world, but you’re
not really into brew, right? What do you prefer instead?
A glass of rum and a Belgian Waffle.
I’m eager to make one myself; what exactly
is in a Long Island Iced Tea?
It has five different liquors in it. Vodka, tequila,
rum, gin and triple sec. Then add sweet and sour mix
and Coca Cola. Just one will get you fucked up!
You call yourself the Tom Jones of Rap. Engelbert
Humperfunk (who’s responsible for the funk record
reviews) wonders why you didn’t pick his idol,
Engelbert Humperdinck It’s because of the ‘What’s
New Pussycat’ song right?
Naah, cause Grand Puba already mentioned Engelbert
Humperdink on ‘All For One’!
Humperfunk is a funk addict and most of the
hip-hop he listens to is based on funk music like Redman,
Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Son Of Bazerk, X-Clan, Stezo... You
being a big funk fan, does that go for you too, do you
rather listen to funk inspired hip-hop?
Yup. I never liked that smooth mellow shit. Nothin
better than a raw funk loop. I didn't start makin funk
type beats till ‘A Job Ain't Nuthin But Work’.
Humperfunk will love the ‘Bo$$ Hog Barbarians’
album.
I’m sure he will. So how”s your
grandma Evil-E doin?
Chillin, drivin me crazy.
What music does she listens to?
Brotha Lynch Hung. Naah, she doesn't listen to music,
she just watches TV.
Do you sometimes play the song ‘Funky
Granny’ (by Kool and The Gang) for her?
No, but I think of her everytime I hear ‘Funky
Granny’.
What’s your favorite Kool and The Gang
records:
'Music Is The Message', 'Kool & The Gang' (the
first one) and 'Good Times'.
Your favorite Kool and The Gang breaks:
Breaks? Probably ‘Give It Up’, ‘Breeze
& Soul’, ‘Chocolate Buttermilk’,
‘Music Is The Message’, ‘The Frog’,
‘Rated X’, ‘Let The Music Take Your
Mind’, ‘Come Together’ and ‘Superband’.
Everybody loves ‘NT’. I like ‘NT’
a lot, but not as much as these.
Your favorite James Brown breaks:
’Time Is Running Out’, ‘Mind Power’,
‘Get Up, Get Into It’, ‘Soul Pride’
and ‘I Can't Stand It '74’
Your favorite J-Zone record:
Album: ‘A Job Ain't Nuthin But Work’.
Song: ‘Rockaway & Crenshaw’ Feat. Eazy-E
from the Gimme Dat Beat Fool remix album.
Your favorite First Priority records:
Audio Two - ‘I Don't Care - The Album’
Kings Of Swing – ‘Strategy’
First Priority – ‘Basement Flavor Compilation’
MC Lyte – ‘Eyes On This’
Barsha – ‘Barsha's Explicit Lyrics’
Your favorite Rap-A-Lot records:
Scarface – ‘Mr. Scarface Is Back’
Too Much Trouble – ‘Player's Choice’
Odd Squad – ‘Fadanuffaerybody’
Ganksta Nip – ‘South Park Psycho’
Geto Boys – ‘We Can't Be Stopped’
Your favorite Rhyme Syndicate records:
Ice-T – ‘O.G-Original Gangster’
Ice-T – ‘Power’
Ice-T – ‘Freedom of Speech’
Divine Styler – ‘Word Power’
Donald D – ‘Let The Horns Blow’
Your favorite LL Cool J records:
Album: ‘Mama Said Knock You Out’
Song: ‘I'm Bad’ (from Bigger & Deffer
album)
Your favorite Kool G Rap records:
Album: ‘Wanted Dead Or Alive’
Song: ‘Talk Like Sex’
Verse: ‘Break A Bitch Neck’ (with Akinyele)
Your favorite Beatnuts records:
Album: ‘The Beatnuts’
Song: ‘Story’ (from Intoxicated Demons EP)
Your favorite Fat Boy:
Buffy
Your favorite Skinny Boy:
The one all the way to the left on the ‘Skinny
& Proud’ album cover.
Your favorite Bizzie Boy:
Never got into em.
Your favorite Boogie Boy:
See Bizzie Boy answer.
Your favorite Wu-Tang Clanner:
ODB baby!!! RIP
Your favorite X-Clanner:
Brother J. He's incredible and mad slept on.
Your favorite Poison Clanner:
JT Money the Bitchizer, of course!
Your favorite hip-hop album covers:
C-Lo – ‘817 Most Wanted’
Big Tymers – ‘How U Love That?’
Bustdown – ‘Nasty Bitch’
J-Zone – ‘A Job Ain't Nuthin But Work’
and ‘Music For Tu Madre’ (US pressing)
Master P – ‘Mama's Bad Boy’
2 Live Crew – ‘Sports Weekend’
Ice-T – ‘Power’
What are you listening to right now?
Terminator X & The Valley Of The Jeep Beets and
Da Lench Mob's ‘Guerillas In The Mist LP’.
You wrote for a few hip-hop magazines like
Fatlace Magazine (famous for its reconstruction of Steady
B and Cool C’s robbery, your interview with Vance
Wright and the item ‘Cookin with Diamond Shell’).
Does that magazine still exist?
Fatlace is dead as far as I know.
Are you still writing for a magazine and if
so, if we wanted you to do a column about ‘hoodrats,
doo rags and hairstyles throughout hip-hop history’
and an interview with K-Dee (author of the ‘Ass,
Gass or Cash: Nobody Rides for free’ album) how
much should we have to pay you?
I don't write for anybody now, except for Bounce, which
is Bobbito Garcia's basketball magazine. No music mags
though. If you can find me the Ganksta Nip album or
the First Dead Indian album, I'll do it.
I’ll start diggin right now. Thanks a
lot J-Zone!
Word up.
Usefull links:
www.zonesite.net
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