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Frank Ski – “Whores In This House (Doo Doo Brown Version)“
from Whores In This House 12″ (Deco, 1993)
Maybe this is outside the scope of Cocainebluntsism but I was surprised to find this alternate mix of Frank Ski’s Baltimore Club classic “Whores In This House” that actually featured pretty good rapping on it. Ski, also the architect of “Doo Doo Brown,” actually hails from Miami but his records somehow ended up being a major blueprint for mid-atlantic party music.
Can anybody recommend any other Club records that have competent fast rapping? Is this a common thing? All I hear on the radio and at parties is endless chants about breasts and whatnot. Is there a heepster conspiracy to suppress actual rapping?
And hit the jump for the Memphis/Bmore crossover you’ve waited your entire life for. (*Update and a Bay Area/Pack/Lil B link, as well! All the dots are connecting. Via Pilly Wonk)
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24 Comments, Comment or Ping
Antonio
I should have seen this coming, after the title…
Sep 23rd, 2009
khal
this isn’t really common – i mean there’s possibly a scene with fast rapping like that, but i don’t know if its any bigger than, say, the Bmore/Party Music in Philly. Definitely not bigger than jungle with MCs like skibadee. or bigger than Grime.
heepsters like ironic ignorance. or, rather, they like being ironically ignorant. like, of course they think lil jon is a genius.
Sep 23rd, 2009
noz
Oh no. We aren’t having the jungle conversation again.
Sep 23rd, 2009
DQ
That was a good conversation. I went with the observation (i think it was Padraig’s) that it was in influence that was just “in the air” at a certain period. It isn’t credible that the LaFace hitmaker behind “Bills Bills Bills” or DJ Scratch’s “Gimme Some Mo’”—that those sort of rhythms—were coming from Timbaland exclusively and not the UK in some nebulous sense. I was just listening to Zion I’s “Boom Bip” the other day and thinking those rhythms were a distillation of UK electronica with a heavy dose of da junglist.
Sep 23rd, 2009
mr. pilly wonk
you heard that new Pack track right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGMRvqQZKrc
Sep 23rd, 2009
DQ
I really like this track. Hope somebody comes with more examples.
While we’re in the shop, come with rappers reviving the late lamented revival http://www.ohword.com/images/407.jpg
Sep 23rd, 2009
mike
Hey Noz,
Is this the same Frank Ski that has his own radio show on WVEE atlanta (v103) and constantly pushes religion and name drops his celebrity friends on the radio every morning?
Sep 23rd, 2009
noz
Yes.
Sep 23rd, 2009
faux_rillz
“[Ski] actually hails from Miami but his records somehow ended up being a major blueprint for mid-atlantic party music.”
Wasn’t he a Baltimore radio personality prior to relocating to Atlanta? I remember him being introduced that way when he debuted on V-103 circa 1997. Surprised to learn he is from Miami; he used to host “tri-state” parties in the late nineties at Kaya for aging displaced New Yorkers.
Sep 23rd, 2009
david
fuck the rappers…im just glad bass music is back
Sep 23rd, 2009
brandonsoderberg
Frank was a radio DJ in Baltimore in the early 90s, that’s how he influenced Bmore Club stuff, he was there, arguably THE dude.
Sep 23rd, 2009
walkmasterflex
Rapping over club tracks isn’t really common, as already mentioned. Because it’s music made for the club it’s much more about the rhythm and percussive use of voice than intricate rapping. There is one great exception, and that’s Labtekwon’s work with legendary club producers Jimmy Jones and Booman under the name 410 Pharoahs, which I think I’ve mentioned before here.
Here’s their myspace, check out “Hammerdance”:
http://www.myspace.com/410PHARAOHS
Noz I’ve been mad busy this week but I’ll give you a call Friday
Sep 23rd, 2009
walkmasterflex
Oh and btw club tracks have suppressed rapping since way before it was well-regarded by hipsters, but Emynd also did a pretty good rap/club collab with Young Chris:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbYpNoa4eGM
Sep 23rd, 2009
noz
Yeah some of the 410 Pharaohs stuff seemed cool but Labtekwon’s internet persona makes me never want to listen to him again. (Cue his google alert and subsequent comment…)
Sep 23rd, 2009
walkmasterflex
Yeah I remember that. Lab seems like a really great rapper and protector of Baltimore culture and black music (in general) but it seemed kind of unnecessary of to ask you to take his shit down.
Marc Decoca just linked me to a couple more mp3s of his on twitter, you checked these out? They’re pretty dope.
http://usershare.net/marc_decoca
Sep 23rd, 2009
noz
“Ask” wasn’t exactly what he did. If I recall correctly my journalistic ethics were called into question.
This Decoca stuff is pretty great. I GOT BIG OL BANK ROLLS THE SIZE OF YUNG JOC’S NOSE.
Sep 23rd, 2009
khal
im sorry. i didn’t want, nor was i trying to have the jungle conversation. excuse my ramble.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Jesse Serwer
All 38 people who’ve heard 410 Pharaohs’ 410 Funk know it’s one of the best rap albums of 2008. It’s definitely the only LP I’ve ever heard where someone raps hard on that many tracks that fast, and pretty much all of the beats are good, too (some of them being familiar Dew Doo Kidz joints, like “(Watch Out For The) Big Girls”)
Lab may be his own worst enemy sometimes, but he’s a got a good heart.
Oh, and I love Young Chris to a fault, but that Emynd track is horrible.
Sep 23rd, 2009
brandonsoderberg
Co-sign 410 Pharoahs…Also, Diamond K does some rapping on his Club tracks, both new and old…Mullyman does it too sometimes.
The more common trend of Club of that Ski era though, is to have a rap side and a Club side, sometimes the two overlap, but often it’s like Black Moon shit on one side and all-out Bmore/Hip-House joints on the other.
And people like Miss Tony or Jimmy Jones, though they’re not exactly rapping, are certainly emceeing on old tracks.
Sep 23rd, 2009
v4g4rd
You gotta get up on DONK!
North England club rave rap euro dance MC’ing meets grime. It’s so white trash that even though VICE tried to embrace it, the hipsters just can’t take it.
Blackout Crew – Put a Donk on it
Sep 24th, 2009
Al
Damn, never heard this version of the song before. I have an unpublished interview in my vault w/ Frank Ski’s producer at the time who’s actually the voice saying “whores in this house” — I gotta tell that story sometime.
Sep 28th, 2009
nico
god the pack sucks…
I like a lot of lil b’s solo shit, but the pack makes unbearable music.
Sep 29th, 2009
BigApplz
Stacey Kidd “I Wanted You” ft Great Chi-town house with a decent rap version. Hip House saw it’s day, thankfully there is still Black music that doesn’t require an MC. Club / House music is the most independent of the independents.
Nov 13th, 2009
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