Mikey D and his DJ Johnny Quest with the legendary Paul C on Mr. Magic’s show on WBLS in 1986. A few weeks back Mikey D was on The Block radio show, rhyming with a dope 12 year old mc named KUDA from Jamaica Queens that he’s been mentoring. Shared by Oxygen via Old School Hip Hop Tapes

Part 1


Part 2 freestyle

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Paul C. Lives Vol. 1 / mixtape

Mix dedicated to Paul C. Mckasty (1964-1989)
01. Intro
02. Atom- Main Source
03. Line for Line- Freak L
04. Sex, Sex, And More Sex- Spicey Ham
05. Girls I Got ‘em Locked- Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud
06. The Ghetto- Eric B. & Rakim
07. Listen To The Man- Kev-E-Kev & Ak-B
08. Its My Turn- Stezo
09. We’re Back Y’all- Freddy B and the Mighty Mic Masters
10. God Made Me Funky- Too Poetic
11. Time To Get Paid- Heartbeat Brothers
12. Go G. Whiz- Captain G. Whiz
13. A Thing Named Kim- Biz Markie
14. Comin’ in the House- Mikey D and the LA Posse
15. Interlude
16. Give The Drummer Some- Ultramagnetic MC’s
17. Ladies First- Queen Latifah Feat Monie Love
18. Got To Get Paid- Live ‘n’ Effect Posse
19. Cooling One Day- Simply II Positive (Organized Konfusion)
20. Stop The World- Black, Rock & Ron
21. Louder- Sport “G” & Mastermind
22. Pelon- 360 Degrees
23. Can’t Get Enough- Black By Demand
24. Outro

There’s been some thought ’round these parts about some of the great stories in hip-hop that rarely find their way to the surface. Then some cats on the Okayplayer boards were asking about Paul C- who he was, his legacy, his death. Thought it’d be good to dig in the archives and pull this story out, by Dave Tompkins, the most comprehensive piece on Paul C ever written.

This story’s origins began somewhere in the office of 360hiphop around 2001, those halcyon days of internet-media revolution. The story was published after about three months of work, but the hubris of the site’s upper-management had created a space that few people could actually access, tricked-out computers or not. Luckily DT found a print home for it eventually, with Big Daddy. Still, just wanted to put out the word of where it came from first.

That 360 crew we had was no joke: jeff chang, caramanica, dave tompkins, kris ex, hua hsu, sly stallone (where is you man?), egon, etc. Maybe some more from those archives should go up in the next few weeks.

Anyway, here’s the piece for folks to read. It was absolutely unbelievable to edit; Tompkins was just on some other shit. Enjoy.

“He produced the Ultramagnetic MCs and Eric B & Rakim. He perfected techniques like the “chop” and “pan.” He taught Large Professor everything he knows. And he died in 1989 at the age of 24. Paul C is the most influential producer you’ve never read about – until now. This is a 360 report on a man and his music.” “There Was a Time” and Paul C was ahead of his. It was as if Ced Gee called it when, in ’86, he rhymed over the Dynamic Corvette cowbell stabs of Ultra’s “Funky Potion” and said, “Anticipating laws concerning realized composition.” When Paul C crashed “Funky Drummer” into Dee’s “Time,” isolating the drums in the meantime, it was a profound moment in hip-hop history: the introduction, essentially, of the “chop” and the “pan,” techniques forever repeated that would change the music at the rate Kool Keith turns his Budweiser painter-cap sideways.

Paul C was a master at innovating such production techniques with confining technology, trumping the sound of even today’s advancements. Paul C’s ideas were not in the lab’s job description. His story is a mutation of a theme essential to hip-hop: making the most of limited means. It’s the plug in the park lamppost or taking the two copies of a break and turning five seconds into five minutes of funk.