" Gold Chains, Track Suits and those DAMN Addidas Sneakers...

Sometime over the weekend, I managed to peel myself off my computer to head down to the East Village. You see, I've have become some sort of a recluse these last couple months and alienated a whole bunch of my friends unfortunately. It's STRESSSSS!!! 'Kemi has become anti-social and prefers working, eating and sleeping BY MYSELF... in no particular order. Anyway, I'm just managing to get back my spunk so i apologise to all those in Lagos and here in NYC that have complained... Rose, Chude, Daniel and MANY MANY others... I APOLOGISE!!

But i digress...

So i peel myself off my computer (and bed) and head down to the 'Alphabet City' to hang out with my boy Nunu and another friend, Ayo who was in town. Nunu promised me portuguese wine... you know you don't have to ask me twice when alcohol is involved. So i get there, pleasant convo, lots of laughter, clinking glasses... hey it was fabulous company. Then Ayo decides to test my "ol' school" music knowledge. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! BLASPHEMY!!! Even going as far as to ask how old i was, "Lets see if your old enough to remember this one" ME? Kemmy-kems... Dj Kems a.k.a Killer-kems... You wanna take it way back, and you think i 'can't hang'? Naaahhh homie... thats a downright challenge. SO im thinking they BETTER 'come with it'... So Nunu queues up the track on iTunes. Guess what it was?  The Geto Boys'  'My mind's Playing Tricks on Me'... I was damn near insulted! So just for fuller 'show-off' effect I join the song on a couple of bars. Next thing everyone flowing along. It was fun, classic throw back, but no 'hairs standing'.  I mean, i LIVE in the Yesteryears of HipHop. My favorite songs are from the late 80's, early 90's. When I DJ i tend to live in that era, unfortunate for those that want the Top 40's in rotation. I mean, I do like me some Lil' Wayne (LOVE actually) but there is nothing like the way 'You Gots to Chill' makes you feel. Oooh remember that robotic, techno sound? I feel like doing the breaks just thinking about it;

                       "Relax your mind, let your conscience be free

                         and get down to the sounds of EPMD... "

                        

Or how bout;

                        "Turn up the bass, check out my melody, hand out a cigar

                          I'm lettin knowledge be born, and my name's the R
                         A-k-i-m not like the rest of them, I'm not on a list
                         That's what I'm sayin, I drop science like a scientist
                         My melody's in a code, the very next episode
                         Has the mic often distortin, ready to explode
                         I keep the mic in Fahrenheit, freeze MC's and make em colder
                        The listener's system is kickin like solar
                        As I memorize, advertise, like a poet
                        Keep you goin when I'm flowin, smooth enough, you know it
                        But rough that's why the middle of my story I tell E.B.
                        Nobody beats the "R", check out my melody... "

Even 50 Cent who has an ego bigger than a hippo's belly had to give it up for this one.

Or the famous one involved in the bragging war for the true birthplace of HipHop... the simple beat, the monotous piano chords, but packing enough of a lyrical punch to give MC Shan and producer Marley Marl sleepless nights;

                        "The Bridge is over.. The Bridge is over...."

 And then come the famous bars,

                        

                         "Manhattan keeps on makin it 

                           Brooklyn keeps on takin it

                           Bronx keeps creatin' it

                           and Queens keeps on FAKIN IT... "

HAAAAA!! KRS taking No prisoners. Even the 'bridge' residents couldn't deny this as a Classic Cut status. Once again i refer to 50 Cent.

I'm not gonna go into my fav era.. the early DeathRow/Dre years hits. I think ill put out a special post giving ode to that alone. *sigh*

Anyway, i digress even more. So going back to Nunu, and Ayodele (yes oh! we're STILL meant to be on that story), they switch it up and play something else. Now people I was literally quiet for about 2mins. Anyone that knows me properly knows this is a feat. I hadnt heard this song in AGES!! What baffled me more was that it hadnt made my ipod. I PRIDE myself in the fact that my IPOD is a collector's IPOD. There is NO ONE that riffles through it that doesnt go WOW and wanna keep it *'Kemi b-boy stances again, flicks collar*. Anyway, this song WASNT on there. I HAD to give it up to them... in my mind and heart though. Not aloud. I wasnt gonna give them that satisfaction. HECK NO!! 

That I get home almost midnight, thoroughly enibriated.. first thing i do is switch on the computer, download the song, and now IPOD is COMPLETE now. No more embarrassing, silent moments of shame and i will NO LONGER live in the shadow of Nunu and Ayo's 'old school' musical knowledge. 

Wanna know what the song was? How bout it's out the stables of the 'Chocolate Boy Wonder' for a clue. For you merriment click below. Only those that 'KNOW' will enjoy this blast from the past. Let the head bumping begin;

...for EXTRA love and to keep those IPODS updated (don't say i don't do anything for ya'), here's another one. Check Puba's flow on this song. You don't need a video to sell this song. Honestly, while looking to put up this post, this is the first time i've ever seen the video but LOVED the song for YEARS. Close your eyes while listening and imagine Puba at a Sunday BBQ with all your friends, a dixie cup filled with whisky in hand free-styling. You can TOTALLY visualize it. It's effortless, easy as a sunday Morning. This is how lace up a track homie! As he so aptly spits to end the cut;

"...You didn't know I was the bomb, baby
Somebody should've told you... Somebody should have told you "