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Millenium | Fantasia | 1998

Baltimore born and Washington raised rapper Millenium first started rapping in High School, where he won its prestigious Blue & Gold talent show for two consecutive years. Later, he dominated the freestyle battle on a local radio station for four months straight, and also the rhyme battle of the night in WPGC, one of the top radio stations in USA. “Fantasia” is a song about love, lust and betrayal, included in his debut album “Kaos Theory”.

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Sandinistas | Madd Luve (C-12 Laboratories Remix) | 1997

Brooklyn, NY group formed by MC’s Devine and Lon, when the two friends that were working as photo assistants at the time were overheard rapping by the photographer who had hired them and decided to fund and produce their group, with the help of a more experienced hip-hop producer called Bess. They got to record a few songs and very limited copies were pressed and sold, before the group finally disappeared from the rap scene.

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Lyrical Terrorists | Payback | 1995

Underground group from Philadelphia that consisted of Dark Man, Spade O, Zammie, and Riz Ruckus. Their only album, “Payback” b/w “Don’t Worry”, was produced by Melvin “Ruggedness” Carter, from Philly’s legendary trio Ruggedness Madddrama, and engineered by Philly’s prominent DJ Miz

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D.Prosper aka Mastermind | Autobiography Of A Bad MC | 1996

Derick Prosper is a MC, Producer and A&R from Providence, Rhode Island, NY. He began his career in the music industry performing at open mics at Nuyorican Poets Cafe in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, alongside artists as Masta Ace, Mos Def, Da Bush Babees and Pharaohe Monch. His first  single “The Adventures of Mastermind” with three tracks on it “Karma”, “Autobiography of a Bad MC” was released on Fatbeats in 1996. That same year he began working at Columbia Records, where he met Lauryn Hill while she was recording The Fugees LP ‘The Score’. This led him assisting in the studio during the making of her solo album 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’ which won 5 Grammy Awards. After that, Derick worked for 50 Cent, Young Buck, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and Mobb Deep as the G-Unit/Interscope Records Director of A&R, and from 2002-2004 he was A&R Consultant for Rawkus Records, being responsible for hiring music producers for projects as Black Star, Soundbombing II and III and Talib Kweli and Hi Tek’s 'Reflection Eternal’.

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Bound E! Hunters | Da Huntaz | 1994

Con Rock Hard and MC Pay Juan first met in Queens in the late 70’s, after Rock Hard had moved from Long Island and Pay Juan from Hollis, and they both felt attracted to hip-hop since a very young age. Rock Hard had attended John Bowne High School in Flushing with Kool G. Rap when he was still known as Abdul, who exposed him to the freshest styles of the day, and also used to hang out with Akinyele on a daily basis, who he frequently used to get into rhyme battles with . The group sadly only put out one 12’’ with 3 tracks in total, released in 1994 on Bleecker Street Records and entirely produced by Con Rock Hard.

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Hahz | Gott Damn It | 1992

New Jersey native Brother Hahz started in the rap game working and performing with Rockafella Records after making a strong impression on Damon Dash and Jay-Z. After his first release, “Gott Damit”, he toured the country and performed in Europe with Queen Latifah, Naughty By Nature, The Fugees and Jay-Z to name a few. He later relocated to Florida to help build the foundation of light heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr.’s record label, Bodyhead Entertainment. After many disappointments and setbacks, Hahz returned home and in 2003 he was shot in the chest. His narrow escape from death and the birth of his daughter was the catalyst for a shift in his career. In 2004 he committed his life to Christ resulting in a dynamic anointing on his musical gift.

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Slick Rick & Dana Dane | Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy (Godfather Theme)

In the year 2000, Priority Records released the enormously popular soundtrack album “WWF Aggression” which featured some of the most popular names in the rap music back then such as Snoop Dogg, Method Man, Redman, Eastsidez, Mack 10, or R.A. The Rugged Man, among others, rapping over the entrance music of WWE wrestlers. There were, however, a few outtakes for the album, which included a version of Kane’s theme done by Method Man, and this version of The Godfather’s theme done by Slick Rick and Dana Dane, which was replaced in the album by the Ice-T’s version.

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Warren G and Nate Dogg’s classic hip-hop jam “Regulate”, mixed up with the Michael McDonald’s original sample. From Death Row’s “The Singles Compilation” which features lots of rare jams and B-Sides.

‘cause we’ve got one of them

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NINE | Whutcha Want (Redcaps Edit)

Not a big fan of mash-ups, but this one here of Nine’s most successful single “Whutcha Want” (from his debut album “Nine Livez”), with the song “The Intro” of English indie darlings The XX, is pretty dope. Pulled off by Redcaps.

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African Identity| You Won’t Come To My Funeral (feat. Screwface) | 1995

On September 15th, 2015, died Irvin Jones aka Hunafa, aka African Identity, a veteran Bay Area rapper who rose fame in the early nineties with his firebrand mic skills and hardcore political hybrid style. The Fillmore, San Francisco emcee became a respected mainstay on the Bay Area hip-hop scene with his acclaimed single “Let’s Get It On (Pullin That Trigger)” in 1992, but it wasn’t until 1995 when his debut album “You Won’t Come To My Funeral” was released. The album was a largely slept-on hip-hop gem. It featured an impressive roster of his peers as guests that included The Coup, Del tha Funkee Homosapien (who also did some production), JT Tha Bigga Figga, and Shock G of Digital Underground, among others, and defined both the Bay Area sound at the time, as well as that of the artist himself. In words of African identity himself, the album was  “enlightening, tantalizing, sensational, provocative, political, Afro-centric, Euro-centric, it’s everything that we are....”.  Rest In Power African Identity.

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MC Ant | Miss Sexy | 1991

MC Ant (real name Anthony Jerel Thomas) was a West Coast rapper from Oakland, California, tragically killed in 1999 at age 29. In 1987 he recorded his debut album “The Great”, produced by his lifelong friend Ant Banks, and which was released in 1989 through Raw Dog Records. His next and last album, “The Come Back” was released in 1991 through Tomohawk Records.

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U.G.K. | Pocket Full Of Stones (Port Arthur Remix) | 1992

In 1992, Bun B and Pimp C put out their first studio release “Too Hard To Swallow” under Jive Records, and began their extremely successful career as Underground Kingz. At at time when there wasn’t much hip-hop coming from anywhere other than New York or California, it’s easy to see how important this album was to the South, as it opened up a door for a whole new wave of southern rap to emerge. The album stands out for both its aggressive beats and lyrics, and delivered to the hip-hop world three hit singles that many consider classics of the group’s catalog: “Something Good”, “Use Me Up”, and “Pocket Full of Stones”, which appeared on the soundtrack to the 1992 movie “Menace II Society”.

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Mad Drama | Raise Up | 1994

Mad Drama was a group from Philadelphia, formed by Kaoz, Jragin, and DJ Toney Toné. “Raise Up” b/w “Tiff Luvz Men” was their only album, released on Broke Ratt Recordings.

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Missin Lynx | Goin’ Off | 1993

Lunatic and Demi D are Missin Lynx, a duo from Atlanta, GA who reached a big local hit i 1993 with their first album “ Uh So ✓ It “ which included two songs, the a-side “ Uh So ✓ It “ and the b-side “Goin’ Off”. Their last known album was released the following year, an album titled “Straight G’z” and which contained 4 new songs.

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Mass Kunfusion | I Do My Dirt | 1996

New Jersey duo Mass Kunfusion consists of LBE Tread aka Tread and CDVS, who are down with the Get Luc Allstarz. In ‘95 they recorded the 12’’ 'State Your Name, State Your Game’ + 'I Do My Dirt’ which was released in '96 on Beau Mo Records. 'I Do My Dirt' had some rotation on the Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Hot 97.1 Show.

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Black Caesar | Black Caesar | 1993

All through the ‘90s there were a bunch or rappers and groups going under the name of Black Caesar, but it was New Jersey’s Black Caesar who drop this monster record in 1993 on Rap Baby Records. He later got to sign with Tommy Boy Records where he released  ‘Introducing Black Caesar’ + 'Symptoms’ in 1997, that was included in the motion picture 'Ride’ soundtrack, and 'Put That On Something’ + 'Introducing Black Caesar’ in 1998, which was supposed to be an advance of his upcoming debut album on Tommy Boy Records, but which unfortunately never happened. In 2000 he put out a 6-track EP called 'The World Is Mine’ on Obsessed Entertainment.

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Dedicated 2 Tha Streets (D2ThaS) | Livin’ In A Hellhole [Remix] | 1993

D2ThaS was a rap duo from Chicago formed by The Legendary Traxster, K-Tone and DJ Kaoss 1 (from CMB) and they were part of the Ill State Assassins crew. They released three 12inches together, ‘Livin In A Hellhole’ in '93, which also contains the songs ’ Gimme My Reck’ and 'Sound Of Revolution’, and 'Doomsday’ in '94, that included the tracks 'Caps Get Peeled’, the tape only bonus 'Come Wid It’, and their most famous 'Dissing These Fools’ featuring Toxic, which was a direct respond to Naughty By Nature’s Treach’s negative comments about Twista and Chicago MCs in general. By this time they started promoting their upcoming album 'Massive Blows’ which unfortunately never dropped. In '96 'My Brothaz Keepa’ + 'Whatz On The Other Side’ came out, and that would be the last D2ThaS release. Traxster kept focused on production work, and later went on to form another group called 'Shock The World’ with Toxic of The Chamba. K-Tone would also go on to do more production work for various Chicago artists, until it was announced that he sadly passed away on September 12th of 2010.