Disco Scratch

Overlord X has to be in the top 5 MC list of most UK Hip Hop fans.  X brought energy, politics, raw Hip Hop in a B Boy Stance not seen before and became a defining act in the early days of UK rap, moving away from the American sounding party tunes.  His track “14 days in May” broke down many boundaries and showed non believers that Hip Hop was a serious artform and not just kids rapping about gold chains and girls.  Likened to Chuck D & Melle Mel, Overlord X dropped 2 massive LPs and multiple 12s.

In this interview we discuss many aspects of his introduction to rap and his involvement in it, his politics and thoughts on the industry, plus the infamous beef with MC Duke!  Many thanks for Overlord X for having the time, energy and enthusiasm to make Old School UK Hip Hop lovers very happy!  Nuff respect, enjoy the interview, tracklist below, download at the bottom of the post.

DSR6 – Overlord X

Tracklist:

1.Disco Scratch Intro
2.DuckAlert – Project 88
3.Goldtop – My Introduction (Instrumental)
4.Trouble – I Get Hype (Instrumental)
5.DJ Format – Last Bongo In Brighton
6.Hijack – The Drummer
7.Mighty Ethnicz – Any R’ddim (The Dub)
8.Barry Blue – Cancel ‘Em All Out (Instrumental)
9.X’s Choice – City Limits Crew – Fresher Than Ever
10.X’s Choice – Overlord X & Dark Heart – Let There Be Rock
11.Demon Boyz – Northside (Instrumental)
12.Freshki & Mo Rock – Talking Pays (Beats)
13.11:59 – Dubrise
14.X’s Choice – 14 Days In May
15.Champions Of Nature – The Fuck Off (Instrumental)
16.Most Dominant – Hostility Part 2 (Instrumental)
17.Def Tex – Addiction To Rhyme (Instrumental)
18.Point Blank – Planting Semtex (Instrumental)
19.X’s Choice – Rough In Hackney
20.Jehst – Carpe Diem (Instrumental)
21.Krispy 3 – On Tempo (’94 Lick Instrumental)
22.X’s Choice – X Posse – Return Of The Breaks
23.EMF – Rough Potential (Instrumental)
24.NSO Force – Give It Up (Bonus Beats)
25.Daddy Freddy – We Are Champions (Version)
26.MC Duke – I’m Riffin (Instrumental)
27.Overlord X – 2 Bad (Bonus Beats)
28.Cash Crew – You Can’t Stop This (Instrumental)
29.Cookie Crew – Come On And Get Some (Cookstramental)
30.She Rockers – Jam It Jam (Instrumental)
31.Silver Bullet – Bring Forth The Guillotine (DJ Beats)
32.Def J – Just Save It (Instrumental)
33.Deliverance – Dead Funny (Instrumental)
34.X’s Choice – Hijack – Hold No Hostage

 

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b1.Jungle Bros – Black Is Black
b2.Juice Crew – The Symphony
b3.**Break To The Beat ***
b4.B Fats – Music Maestro
b5.**Break To The Beat Winner***
b6.Fresh Finesse – You Ain’t Sayin’ Nuttin’
b7.Cookie Crew – ?
b8.EPMD – Because I’m Housing (Remix)
b9.Justice – The Desolate One
b10.? For The Love Of Money
B11.James Brown – Drive Your Funky Soul

I have typed this exactly as I wrote it when I did the tape 20 years ago to maintain some of the mystery there used to be when Tim said the name of a crew wrong or just cocked the words up, or he just didn’t say the name of the joint!

The rip is exactly what is on the tape so all dodgy advert edits are still in.

Good lookin’ on the listen, respect, Waxer, Palace Of Villainy, Friday 19th December 2008.

 

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From about ’88 I actually started to keep the tapes I was recording from the radio and not just recycling the same ten tapes over and over.  The result is 70 or so tapes, filled with a mix of Westwood (Capital FM), Max LX & Dave VJ, Richie Rich & Dave Pearce.  Most of the tapes have reliable dates on them with tracklistings so it won’t just be a load of pony untitled tapes.

The first one that I kept was just titles “Hip Hop 1″ and that stayed throughout the course of all the tapes.  Unfortunately in my infinite wisdom I decided to rip that one about 6 months ago then chuck the tape, but have since lost the recording (what a bell end) so the series starts with “Hip Hop 2″

Great Graf, eh?

Side A Tracklist:

a1.Kool Rock Steady – Turn Up The Bass
a2.Eazy E – We Want EZ
a3.Too Short – Life Is Too Short
a4.De La Soul – Me,Myself & I
a5.De La Soul & JBs – Buddy
a6.Kool G Rap & Polo – Men At Work
a7.Kid Flash – Ain’t Nothin But A Party
a8.Audio 2 – From The Planet Of Brooklyn
a9.TV Pressure news
a10.Overlord X – Weapon Is My Lyric
a11.MC Einstein – My Rhymes Are Smoking
a12.London Hip Hop Top 10

 

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