A Bullet With A Picture Of The President On It
Point Blankk Range – “Check Me”
Point Blankk Range – “Fuck 5′0“
from Check Me EP (Polemic Records, 1993)
Finally tracked down one of my holy grail rap tapes this weekend. You might remember Point Blankk Range as the last rapper to spit on The Coup’s Genocide & Juice. Check Me is the one of just two tapes released by Boot’s Polemic records, the first being The Coup’s own debut EP.
As you’d expect, Point Blankk’s politics are pretty closely aligned with his those of his crew. He even raps a little like Boots, I think. The production, courtesy of Boots and some guy named Onion, sounds like some G&J outtakes. So basically it’s as close as you are going to get to a lost Coup tape from that era.
Now who got some Osageyfo demos?
After the jump are the thank yous, complete with a line drawing of Point Blankk dragging an unconscious or dead police officer by the back of his head in the background.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Holy shit. Good fucking look on this.
I always wondered who the various other rappers to pepper the first two Coup albums (other than the stars on Santa Rita Weekend) were, was always looking for… well, pretty much exactly what you just upped. Damn.
March 18th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
nice tracks
March 18th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
This is huge. The first two Coup albums are absolute classics, and I never knew Boots did any production outside of those LPs. Props.
Quick question: is your scanner acting up, or is Point Blankk’s face really like that?
March 18th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
thanks much. I’m always on the lookout for obscure Oakland/East Bay stuff (of any genre, really), especially when it’s as good as this. I also got a kick out of seeing both East and West in the liner notes (North Oakland stays losing, I guess).
March 18th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
great stuff.
March 19th, 2008 at 10:12 am
“Quick question: is your scanner acting up, or is Point Blankkâs face really like that?”
That’s the way his face looks. On the tape at least.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:11 am
Why does that Nigga have oatmeal all over his face?
March 24th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I think that’s D-Frost. He’s in the remarkable “Not Yet Free” video.
Don’t get me started on Osageyfo. That dude’s verse on “Genocide and Juice” is one of those RBX on “The Chronic” or Spoon on “Heavyweights Round 1″ low voice, rumbling from the heavens, cloud-splitting verses. And his imagery is so crisp. He could have made some incredible music. As it is there’s that and his shitty beatbox on “Economics 101.”
I got into a gentle argument with Boots about Osageyfo at a rap convention at Oberlin back in ‘97 (which was hard as hell btw–The Coup, Siah and Yeshua, Del, and Medusa rocking a dark church and Boots and Upski running a panel). Boots kinda brushed him off. Apparently he didn’t give a shit about rapping and didn’t bother recording.
That reminds me when I got into a real argument with Pam about the Originoo Gun Clappaz. She was pro. God, I hope I’m not still that annoying.
Speaking of Mau-Mau, there’s an Afrikan Identity album from ‘93 too. It’s not that hot, but there’s hard song with del where they narrate from the view of runaway slaves.
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
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