Ahhh memories.  This is a dope tape actually as it has Original Concept live in session and a recording of Overlord X in interview, with live performances from him & Salt n Pepa from the Apollo in Manchester.  There’s a couple of old adverts in this tape that I hadn’t dubbed out either.  I’m glad I left them in cos it gives you more of an idea of the age of the tape.

I used to put my mattress on the floor and lay with my headphones on, with the headphones in the tape deck monitor socket so if I fell asleep hopefully the music stopping would wake me up so I could turn the tape over.

I hope you people out there are enjoying this series of tape rips, please leave some comments if it brings back some memories

Next in the series will be my personal recording of UK Fresh ‘86 that I made off Mike Allen.  I know you can get this elsewhere on the net, but this is my tape!  I recorded it in 3 parts and so will upload in 3 parts, so that should be up later in the week.

Peace y’all!

Hip Hop 5 Tracklist:

a1.KRS 1 intro
a2.Chill Rob G – Court Is Now In Session
a3.MC Duke – I’m Riffin’
a4.Queen Latifah – Rap Inside Out
a5.Gig Guide
a6.Break 2 The Beat – Isaac Hayes, Shaft In Africa
a7.Kyna Antie – Let The Music Flow
a8.Break 2 The Beat – Cookie Crew, Born This Way
a9.Flavor Unit – Let The Words Flow
a10.?
a11.Black, Rock N Ron – Stop The World
a12.Big Daddy Kane – The Wrath Of Kane
a13.Cash Money & Marvellous – Who’s In The Place
a14.Jerome Priesta – Let Me Tell Ya About My Girl

b1.James Brown – Soul Backtrack
b2.Capital Rap Session – Original Concept with Jeff Foss
b3.Jungle Brothers – Straight Out The Jungle
b4.Stop The Violence Movement – Self Destruction
b5.Overlord X interview with Dave Pearce
b6.Steady B – Serious (BDP Remix)
b7.Stu Allen Nortern Hip Hop Report
b7a.Lady Tame -
b7b.Wild Child -
b8.Overlord X – Rough In Hackney live at the Apollo Manchester
b9.Salt & Pepa live Apollo Manchester

Ripped By Waxer @ The Palace Of Villainy 20th January 2009

I was normally pretty good at putting dates and shows on tapes but this one had no inbfo on it.  I remember knocking the inlay up on the computer at college when I was doing a business studies GCSE (I got a grade U!).

If you can’t read the front it says the following (ahhh, bless him says the crowd)

I Quote…

“THIS IS THE DEFFEST HIP HOP COMPILATION OF 1989

STARRING

DAVE PEARCE & THE PEARCE POSSE

TIM WESTWOOD

PETE TONG

CHECK OUT GLR FROM 8P.M. – 10 ON SUNDAYS, 7P.M. – 10 ON MONDAYS

CAPITAL RAP SHOWS ON SATURDAY MORNING  FROM 12 – 1:30

AND THE DANCE SESSION FROM 8-10 ON SATURDAY EVENING

DON’T FORGET THE SOUL SESSION ON CAPITAL SATURDAY AFTERNOON

SMOKIN’”

Hah, brings a smile to my boat this.  I was 16, absolutely craving for any form of hip hop I could get my hands on while chasing birds at college (Havant college in Pompey big up Dave & Mark the Nave!)

So I used to tape the Saturday night Capital show as well as it had NY rap reports and all that, and just used to let the tape run to get a fix of soul stuff as well, although I’ve never bothered with that style of soul really since, I still like the earlier 80s soul stuff but the late 80s started to get dodgy.  I suppose it was a way for the hard rocks to go to a dance and cop off with some bird.

On the tracklist if I didn’t know or cou;dn’t catch the name of the track I used to l;eave it blank, put a question mark or listen to the name of it when it was said again and again and make a good guess.  Tim was a pro at messing up track names or mis pronouncing names.  Still, it makes for entertaining listening!

If you Can’t read my scrawl the tracklist is:

a1.?
a2.Ms Melodie – To Sing All Night
a3.Cookie Crew – Born This Way
a4.TV News
a5.T La Rock – Flow With The New Style
a6.Gig Guide
a7.Cuetips & Dashy D – Control
a8.Sweet Tee – Lets Dance
a9.Lakim Shabazz – Lakim’s Theme
a10.D 2 The K – Slow Jam
a11.Shut Up & Dance – Spike BST & Cash Money
a12.Sweet Tee – On The Smooth Tip
a13.Kid N Play – Rolling With Kid N Play
a14.London Top 10
15.?

b1.7A3 – Express The Mind
b2.Instrumental
b3.Salt N Pepa Live at Manchester Apollo
b4.Manchester Hip Hop Top 10
b5.MC Peaches – Treat Her Like A Lady
b6.Antoinette – Let The Music Go
b7.Justice – The Desolate One
b8.James Brown – Don’t Tell It
b9.The JBs – Same Beat
b10.Old Break – Doin it after Dark
b11.Cookie Crew
b12.Cool Gee Rap & DJ Polo – Back Again
b13.Tone Loc – Doin’ It After Dark
b14.Lakim Shabazz – Pure Righteousness
b15.3 x Don’t – Dividends

Hah, B15 is a prime example of trying to decipher a track name, obviously this is 3 x Dope – Funky Dividends

I kept it exactly as I wrote it 20 years ago cos I don’t front, word to the jimmy!

Enjoy, leave some comments about another slice of UK Hip Hop history, especially about the live UK part & the top 10s.

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