IPOD UPDATE: DESTINATION BROOKLYN!!!

I initially started this post just before the NEMO storm that hit New York last week. New York got buried under tons of snow, intensity varied only by location. My day goal, was to stock up on food, drink, alcohol and of course music. Somewhere along this line, I got side tracked from finishing this post.
As I made my shopping list, my music playlist (set on random) queues an old classic from the days of half-tops, box-braids, and the butterfly dance, POW!!!!

Today's offering brings back sooooooooooooooo many memories of secondary (high) school. I remember my ride or die girls; Amaka Agbakoba, Simi Dosekun, Irene Dumuje. Music was our thing, and Simi's house was the location of most of the action.

I was called "DJ K" in high school 'cos I could get my hand on any track that you needed. *BIG SHOUT OUT TO "ATLANTIC HALL!!*
I was like a music-crack dealer with multiple streams of supply, and one of those streams was my friend, Simi Dosekun. Simi was on a plane out of Nigeria, on almost every school break. Destination the UK or US and with similar music taste, she helped keep my music library up-to-date. She ROCKED!!!

My memory is sketchy, but I think Simi introduced me to the artiste featured in today's post.

I vaguely remember a mix-tape she brought back from her THEN recent trip to the States. She lent it to me for the day to 'dub'. CDs were just flirting on the scene then, but the walk-man days, and pencil tape-wind was still in full effect.

It was late in the year of '93, and with each new single blending into the other on the mix-tape, I'm suddenly hit with this 'spit' from a screeching voice that was far from hitting puberty.

The genre was familiar, (thanks to Patra) DANCE-HALL!!! The voice shouted out a familiar name too, DOUG E. FRESH of "Get Fresh Crew" fame; The beat-box master himself. Now this was getting more interesting.
Doug E. Fresh at that time was riding a high with his single "Aiiiiiight!!!". *Remember that track with the hook that went "Heyyyyyy, YO!! A-iiiiiigggghht!!!"* Actually, I think it was the song that blended into this one on the mixtape. This song called "FREAKS"... This song that sounded like it was recorded by a 3rd grader, instrumentals supported ENTIRELY by the beat-box(ing) legend, DOUG E. FRESH!!

"Some gal a' FREAKS

Some gals are FREAK a' de week

Some gal a' FREAKS

Some gals are FREAK a' de week"

That was it!! It was infectious. The sound, the flow, the beat-box. . . The artiste "Lil' Vicious" was birthed, and he was GOOD.

Brooklyn born Lil Vicious; government name Quame Riley is a jamaican-american 'rapper' discovered by beat-box legend DOUG E. FRESH at the age of 14. The single "FREAKS" was the first offering to public, and it grabbed by throat and refused to let go. Lil Vicious had the flow that many adults in the industry right now would envy, plus a mind entirely in the gutter. 

The single, "FREAKS" is filled with suggestive lyrics from beginning to end, and even though you don't understand 90% percent of what this 'then' child is singing/rapping/patois(ing) you know he is being VERY naughty.

"Say punani get serious

AnTANKAROUS and DanGAROUS

DOUG E. FRESH!! Not even in the CANDOM (condom)

Where I put my truuSSSS"

WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?? DID I GET THE LYRICS RIGHT??? WHO CARES??? IT WAS HOT!!!

But it wasn't till the single "NIKA" came through in '94 that Vicious totally SLAYED the scene.

"A One NEEEWWWW gal,  a' Vicious find again

Live up the street when a go right round de bend

Nika is a' name, and not Nacle

I woulda marry the gal if she cripple

Inna de park we ride a bicycle

And then we go gon buy icycle

I wonder why my parents love her soooooooooo

I WANT UUUU FE KNOW!!!"

JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!! Or as some of my friends will say "CHUUUUUUUUUUUNE!!!!"

Ghetto love song at its best. It felt like the Teeny bop version of the LOST BOYZ classic "Renee". Well. . . without the death at the end. 

Finally Vicious was spitting lyrics relatable by his age-grade, but the older folks were bumping this HARD too. Now, he might have been spitting PG 13 lyrics, but his corkiness was still rated "DON'T TEST ME, son!!"

"Cos when I inna de party I freak de raggamuffin flow

I make the ladies say 'AHHHHHHH'

Brothers say 'OHHHHHHHHHH!'

My name is Lil' Vicious and I rip up the show... BLAOOW!!!!"

It's a shame that this is the last HIT we've heard from this voice. Yea, he had that ode to gun control called "The Glock" but nothing quite made a mark like the two previous singles.

I recently did some research online looking for this 14 year old phenom, but instead discovered a full grown man in his  early 30's, face full of hair and voice far from the squeaky I was used to. I guess that was bound to happen. It's been almost two decades!!

Vicious recently reunited with DOUG E. FRESH at Gabrielle Union's birthday party where they shut the place DOWWWWWN with a 2012 rendition of "FREAKS".

Some video crew also fished him out, and after spitting those familiar lines from the hook "FREAKS", this MAN switches to his authentic American accent, (shocker: You mean he didn't run around speaking 'patois' all day??) talking about the new album he was trying to put out.

It was sad. I just want to remember Vicious as. . . well. . . Lil'. 

"Me find me 'art beat again

Brand new gal a' what me have upon dem

A' she a' MURDA DEM!!!"

Yea... I want to remember him Just. Like. That!!!

So if you lost this gem sometime over the years, update your ipod. It'll thank you.
Check out the videos as well for the two singles and reminisce. What was going on in your life during this period?
Underneath, I've also added a video by another New York native, born round about the same time as Vicious. His name is A+ and you might remember that one hit single by the 15 year old in 1996, "ALL I SEE".

"Been inside my head all day, what can I say

All I can do is reminisce like Mary J

I wanna get witchu

So come and get with me

then we'll be K.I.S.S.I.N.G... and all that good stuff"

FUEGO!!! ENJOY!!!! :)

LIL' VICIOUS - FREAKS

LIL VICIOUS - NIKA

A+ - ALL I SEE

Lil' Vicious/Doug E. Fresh - FREAKS (Live at Gabrielle Union birthday party '12)