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By O-Dub 
Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band: What Can You Bring Me?
From You’re So Beautiful (Warner Brothers, 1971)
Craig G: Take the Bait
From Now, That’s More Like It (Atlantic, 1991)
A Tribe Called Quest: Rock Rock Ya’ll
From The Love Movement (Jive, 1998)
(Dec. 2011: This is another repost/resurrection. First posted in 2007 but original comments were lost. Since I just wrote about this Wright/Watts 103rd song for the Oxford American, it also seemed totally apropos to bring it back. –O.W.)
Original post from ’07: The original song [...]
Continue reading MARLEY MARL/CRAIG G VS. ATCQ: WHO FLIPPED IT BETTER
By O-Dub 
Bobbi Humphrey: Blacks and Blues
From Blacks and Blues (Blue Note, 1974)
KMD: Plumskinzz
From 12″ (B-side of “Nitty Gritty”) (Elektra, 1991)1
Eric B. and Rakim: Keep the Beat
From Don’t Sweat the Technique (MCA, 1992)
(This was originally posted four years ago but because of how my commenting system has changed since then, I lost all the original comments about it and that seemed like a shame. As it was, I was listening to “Plumskinz” again – I never can get enough of this song – and I figured, “hell, why [...]
Continue reading KMD vs. Eric. B and Rakim: Who Flipped It Better?
By O-Dub 
I’ve been in the midst of digitizing my old hip-hop tapes and the last actual cassette mix-tape I put together was this: Double Flip Vol. 9, originally created in 1999/2000. It was a double tape (hence the name) and packs in 2 hours of music.
You can find more info and the tracklist here.
Enjoy! (And happy holidays from Soul Sides to you and yours).
By O-Dub  
 
Polyrhythmatic was the 8th installment in my hip-hop mixtape series, originally released in 1998. This took me about five months to put together and all said, I’m still satisfied with most of my song choices here. There’s only a handful of tracks I’d probably swap out but for the most part, a lot of these still hold up for me.
Side A: shape of the rhythm intro
Jurassic 5: Concrete Schoolyard
Shabaam Sadeeq: [...]
Continue reading AN EARLY HOLIDAY GIFT: A GREAT FROM ’98
By O-Dub I mourn the way way way too early loss of Heavy D but he gave us all a gift a few weeks back with this performance.
Also, this is the first Heavy D song I ever heard. I was always amazed at his sense of movement and dance skill despite his heft.
…and of course, this song seems apropos. Originally written for Heavy D’s dancer, Trouble T Roy.
By O-Dub  
Whoa, has it been six weeks since our last installment? Since our last check in, I managed to get through all of my alphabetized collection and now have about 500 or so unfiled promos from the early ’00s to go through before this phase of the purge is complete. 1 In the time since, I also put aside about 20 singles for the series and since I had that much music, I whipped together a pithy mini-mix:
Great Rap Purge Part 7 Mini-Mix Rubbabandz: Purple Rain (Messenger, 1995)
Continue reading THE GREAT RAP PURGE: PART 7
By O-Dub 
As promised, here’s part two of our interview with Thes One (recorded in August). If you haven’t peeped part one yet, please do!
And don’t forget that the new PUTS album, Highlighter is now out.
The Sidebar #20: Thes One, Part Deux
Music used in this episode:(All instrumentals available on the forthcoming Ten Years of Thes One *except when noted.)
Acid Raindrops (vocal version) *Target (from Lifestyle Marketing) *Duralcha: Ghet-To Funk The Dig (vocal version) Breakdown (vocal version) Brownout (vocal version) The Fun (vocal version) Gamin On Ya (vocal version) The [...]
Continue reading THE SIDEBAR 20: THES ONE, PART DEUX
By O-Dub 
Given the recent passing of Sylvia Robinson, singer/writer/producer extraordinaire, I got on the horn with Dan Charnas, who profiled the late legend in The Big Payback.
Sylvia was best known as the producer behind “Rapper’s Delight” but her career spanned far more than just a hit song in 1979. Our chat covered her early career as Little Sylvia Vanterpool, into her first hits as half of Mickey and Sylvia and then into her rise as one of the most important music figures out of New Jersey, not the least of which was as [...]
Continue reading THE SIDEBAR 17: DAN CHARNAS AND THE MANY LIVES OF SYLVIA ROBINSON
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