Weekend At Diggedy's - Volume 7

That's why I give you mooooore of the raaaaaaaaaaw....

I'm in a funky mood this evening. I've got that cold, where it doesn't want to be a cold, but it doesn't want to be completely healthy. It's basically cold purgatory. Plus, I just saw that Quizno's prime rib commercial where the Asian chick at the end lets loose the most ear piercing laugh in the history of humanity. It sounds like a Jackal getting his tail caught in a paper shredder. You know what commercial I'm talking about. If you don't, you watch entirely too little television.

Now, on to the somewhat abstract choice cuts for Friday, March 23rd...


Jemini The Gifted One - "Funk Soul Sensation"
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ixqhrd


Let's work backwards, shall we? You know who Danger Mouse is. You love him in Gnarls Barkley. You applaud his work with Gorillaz. You were that guy/girl saying over drinks "OMG did you hear the Grey Album?? It's ingenious. This Danger guy mashed up Jay Z's Black Album with the Beatles white album. F*cking brilliant." Now, what you may or may not know, is that Danger Mouse had an album drop a few years ago called Ghetto Pop Life. It's one of my favorite records since the turn of the century. DM handled the production, and the master of ceremonies holding the album down was 1990's underground stalwart Jemini The Gifted One. My thoughts prior to hearing GPL were "Who is Danger Mouse? And is this the same "Brooklyn Kids" Jemini??" After one listen, I confirmed the latter, proclaimed Danger Mouse the next great maestro, and played the cd 'til my boom box begged me to give it a breather. If you haven't heard the album, buy it. "Funk Soul Sensation" is from Jemini's mid 90's EP Scars and Pain. Jemini flips his voice like flapjacks throughout the 4 minute track. This is headphone music. Download it!

Saukrates featuring Masta Ace & OC - "Rollin"
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bnduno

This one is dedicated to all the Canadians checking out the board. So basically Robert Downey Jr. Just kidding Avril! I see you!

Back in the mid 90's, there was a little wave of Canadian artists like Choclair, Rascals, Kardinal Offishal, etc making some noise on the NY underground scene. I remember the first time I heard of Choclair was at Bobbito's monthly Words event at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
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I have a lot of amazing memories at the Nuyorican. One in particular was when this fairly new artist Mos Def performed a little set where he did his new single "Universal Magnetic", and then dropped his "Children's Story" and a couple of other tracks. After the show, I'm talking with friends outside when Mos comes into our circle, and asks if he can smoke his cigarette there so that his folks wouldn't see. Now he's making movies with Marky Mark and Kevin Bacon. Geeeeez.
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After Choclair's set, him and his crew starting throwing candy bars at the crowd. Catching chocolate was a lot better than the time I caught a CD off the forehead. Good times. Anyway, Canada's finest had quite a few joints that made it's way into my heavy rotation. Saukrates was part of that scene, and I always love this butter soft track. Plus it's got Ace & OC killing it. You can't go wrong. Download it!

Dysfunkional Familee - "Feeling Da Highs"
http://www.sendspace.com/file/92w1wi


This is the 7th edition of Weekend At Diggedy's, and I'm pretty sure that if you go back and check the previous 6, that I name drop Bobbito at least 100% of the time. That show was church to me. Since I was the only knucklehead staying up that late on a weeknight, I earned a reputation as the pause tape king in my circle of friends in high school. Kids would come to school with 90 minute TDK's, and I'd come back with 90 minutes of pure gold. They were epics. I did it for free, and I loved it. For the most part, it was exclusive sh*t from artists we all knew. Every now and then, though, there was some new artist, or just a simple demo that would be played once. Didn't matter to me. If I dug it, it made my tape which is still on a shelf in my room. "Feeling Da Highs" was a song that made quite a few of my tapes. Thanks to the wonderful world of blogs I eventually found some more songs from the Dyfunkional Familee crew, but this has always been my favorite. Fuck all the ice, open up a jewelry store / you play rich, we play poor / NEED I SAY MORE? Download it!

Come into my world people!