Monster Island Czar Tommy Gunn/Megalon’s full length is available over at UGHH….or shipping soon anyway. Peace to Day by Day, the hardest working label in hip hop music. They hooked up with Atoms Family backbone Cryptic One a while back and finally released his album (which is one my favorites this year…). And if you didn’t know, Day by Day also runs a rock label and serves as a distributor for magazines TABLIST and Cool’Eh. I wonder if Grimm is hiring….
Here’s a lost and found ‘freestyle’ session with Tommy Gunn and Trife – another legendary long island spitter, going back and forth (circa 1999) . For those of you who aren’t familiar with Trife (no not this Trife…) check this old Pete Rock 12″ featuring trife and rock marciano of the U.N. (Carson Daly’s 456 Enterainment recently released the U.N. album). Trife has been tearing up mcs in Queens, Long Island and beyond since the early 90s battling or sharing stages, mics, and cipher-time with the best of them. Semi-recently he recorded a crazy 3 or 4 verses, one-take-jake style, over a moog-ed out DJ Signify beat but don’t expect that to ever surface. Be on the look out for possible Trife appearances on future GRANDGOOD projects.
[...] Good read – but you can’t write a lengthy article on hip hop videos without mentioning Ralph Mcdaniels or Video Music Box (remember Crazy Sam?). Speaking of Uncle Ralph, I wouldn’t mind seeing a best of Video Music Box DVD – they must have a nice archive of footage. Mr. Agoston is a cool cat who also writes for several magazines, djs, and runs Female Fun records (MF Doom, Dooley-O, Chris Lowe, J Rawls…). “My old friend Tim Holland (bka Sole) had established a distribution company of his own, for his own group Anticon, after several distribution problems here in the States. Soon after, he asked if I’d like to start a record label to be housed within it. With no hesitation I agreed. I contacted my friend DJ Fisher (Day By Day Ent) and asked him if MF Doom would be interested in doing an instrumental release of his album Operation Doomsday…A few calls later, it was in the works and the first of the Special Herbs… records dropped in December of 2001…it wasn’t easy to establish and it’s not gotten any easier whatsoever as the time progresses. It’s an incredibly consuming undertaking, it’s costly, both emotionally and monetarily. I do it alone, I don’t have partners or associates. A few friends and family lend advice, but I’m my own publicist, promotion director, street team, marketing strategist, all of that and more. I love it and I appreciate every ounce of help any one has provided along the way…My only agenda is to be interesting to the ears of people that have an open mind.” [...]
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