Into The Groove (21)

Hello, Into The Groove goes back to the old skool, way back infact as it is said that my first show cut the first raptrack back in 65 it was called Rap Dirty, most Ho's weren't even born then ! I'm talking Blowfly here a nick he got from his grandma when she overheard him singing his own -dirty rhyme..over the hit of the day, personally i think thats a nice way for an adolescent to express his hormonal mind. Anyway, as later he was a respected songwriter, his Blowfly activities were strictly anonymous. In the seventies thru to the eighties he released an album of these party tracks almost every year. Then things got more quiet until recently he's found a new home at jello biafra's label, alternative tentakels, and he has released 2 albums using punk/wave music as inspiration to rap dirty "I Wanna Be Fellated" guess who inspired that one.. Well as for this best of it's not that inspiring as it once was, but then these days i have more control over my hormones...Kurtis Blow, todays next show, had a thing with first, and late seventies early eighties he was big, but then things slided into oblivion, with one mentionable burp, Ego Trip. Here i present a mini hits album that was released in Europe ..Finally a compilation of oldskool raptracks, nice packaging 2x12" format first of which with W.M.O.T. artists. Well what can i say labels didn't have a good grasp of the market back then in 81, when it was still unclear which musical direction rap would take. Still some nice raps on it...

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Blowfly - Best of ( 96 * 99mb)

Blowfly is the stage name and alternate persona of Clarence Reid , he started off writing songs for artists including Betty Wright, Sam & Dave, Gwen McRae and KC & the Sunshine Band. He also recorded a few hits of his own in the 60's including "Nobody But You Babe" under his real name and a Blowfly song called "Rap Dirty" in 1965. Many hip hop fans consider "Rap Dirty" as the first rap song because in he talks in rhyme and it has rap in the title.

Reid would write sexually explicit versions of hit songs for fun but only performed them for his friends at parties or in the studio. In 1971, he along with a band of studio musicians recorded a whole album of "dirty" songs under the name "Blowfly". Back then, no record label would release profane material so he distributed the records himself on his own independent record label, Weird World. As Blowfly, he has recorded numerous albums, mostly of sex-based parodies of other songs as well as original raps themed around sex. His stage name originated from his grandmother, who overheard him as a child singing "Do the Twist" as "Suck My Dick", and said "You is nastier than a blowfly." Reid performed in increasingly bizarre costumes as his Blowfly character. The albums were widely popular as "party records" in the 70's.

Many of Blowfly's songs featured his style of talking in rhyme which can be considered a primitive form of rapping. Many of his songs have also been sampled in numerous hip hop songs. After rap music hit the mainstream with Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight", Reid recorded a profane version of "Rap Dirty" titled "Blowfly's Rapp ". The song was a hit and helped the album, Blowfly's Party reach #26 on Billboard magazine's Black Albums chart and #82 on the Billboard Top 200 in 1980.

After 17 years of sporadic touring and occasional re-recording of his classic raps, Blowfly signed with Jello Biafra's independent Alternative Tentacles label in 2005. His first album for Alternative Tentacles, Fahrenheit 69 (2005), featured appearances from Slug of Atmosphere, King Coleman, Gravy Train!!!! and Afroman. Blowfly's latest album and second Alternative Tentacles release is Blowfly's Punk Rock Party. The album features several punk classics given the Blowfly treatment, including a rewrite of the Dead Kennedys song "Holiday in Cambodia" recast as "R. Kelly in Cambodia", that features Biafra playing a trial judge.



01 - Blowflys ABC (5:12)
02 - Porno Freak (4:21)
03 - Hole Man , Clean Up Woman (4:14)
04 - I've Got To Be Free (5:48)
05 - Shake Your Ass (5:38)
06 - Who Did I Eat Last Night (3:23)
07 - Please Let Me Cum In Your Mouth (3:55)
08 - Fuck The Pain (6:09)
09 - The First Black President Part 2 (6:57)
10 - Cum Of A Lifetime (5:02)
11 - Blowfly For President (6:20)
12 - Blowfly In The Army (5:30)

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Kurtis Blow - The Breaks (83 ^ 92mb)

As the first commercially successful rap artist, Kurtis Blow is a towering figure in hip-hop history. His popularity and charisma helped prove that rap music was something more than a flash-in-the-pan novelty, paving the way for the even greater advances of Grandmaster Flash and Run-D.M.C. Blow was the first rapper to sign with (and release an album for) a major label; the first to have a single certified gold (1980's landmark "The Breaks"); the first to embark on a national (and international) concert tour; and the first to cement rap's mainstream marketability by signing an endorsement deal. For that matter, he was really the first significant solo rapper on record, and as such he was a natural focal point for many aspiring young MCs in the early days of hip-hop. For all his immense importance and influence, many of Blow's records haven't dated all that well; his rapping technique, limber for its time, simply wasn't as evolved as the more advanced MCs who built upon his style and followed him up the charts. But at his very best, Blow epitomizes the virtues of the old school: ingratiating, strutting party music that captures the exuberance of an art form still in its youth.

Kurtis Blow was born Kurtis Walker in Harlem in 1959. He was in on the earliest stages of hip-hop culture in the '70s -- first as a breakdancer, then as a block-party and club DJ performing under the name Kool DJ Kurt; after enrolling at CCNY in 1976, he also served as program director for the college radio station. He became an MC in his own right around 1977, and changed his name to Kurtis Blow at the suggestion of his manager, future Def Jam founder and rap mogul Russell Simmons. Blow performed with legendary DJs like Grandmaster Flash, and for a time his regular DJ was Simmons' teenage brother Joseph -- who, after changing his stage name from "Son of Kurtis Blow," would go on to become the first half of Run-D.M.C. Over 1977-1978, Blow's club gigs around Harlem and the Bronx made him an underground sensation, and Billboard magazine writer Robert Ford approached Simmons about making a record. Blow cut "Christmas Rappin'," it helped him get a deal with Mercury . Blow's second single, "The Breaks," was an out-of-the-box smash, following "Rapper's Delight" into the Top Five of the R&B charts in 1980 and eventually going gold; it still ranks as one of old school rap's greatest and most enduring moments. The full-length album Kurtis Blow was also released in 1980, and made the R&B Top Ten in spite of many assumptions that the Sugarhill Gang's success was a one-time fluke, the poverty-themed "Hard Times" marked perhaps the first instance of hip-hop's social consciousness, and was later covered by Run-D.M.C.

Blow initially found it hard to follow up "The Breaks," despite releasing nearly an album a year for most of the '80s. 1981's Deuce and 1982's Tough weren't huge sellers, and 1983's Party Time EP brought D.C. go-go funksters E.U. on board for a stylistic update. Around this time, Blow was also making his mark as a producer, working with a variety of hip-hop and R&B artists; most notably, he helmed most of the Fat Boys' records after helping them get a record deal. 1984's Ego Trip sold respectably well on the strength of cuts like the DJ tribute "AJ Scratch," "Basketball," and the Run-D.M.C. duet "8 Million Stories." Blow followed it with an appearance in the cult hip-hop film Krush Groove, in which he performed "If I Ruled the World," his biggest hit since "The Breaks."

"If I Ruled the World" proved to be the last gasp of Blow's popularity, as hip-hop's rapid growth made his style seem increasingly outdated. 1985's America was largely ignored, and 1986's Kingdom Blow was afforded an icy reception despite producing a final chart hit, "I'm Chillin'." Critics savaged his final comeback attempt, 1988's Back by Popular Demand, almost invariably pointing out that the title, at that point, was not true. In its wake, Blow gave up the ghost of his recording career, but found other ways to keep the spirit of the old school alive. He spent several years hosting an old-school hip-hop show on Los Angeles radio station Power 106. In 1997, Rhino Records took advantage of his status as a hip-hop elder statesmen by hiring him to produce, compile, and write liner notes for the three-volume series Kurtis Blow Presents the History of Rap.



01 - Party Time(feat. EU) (9:27)
02 - Do the Do (3:01)
03 - Boogie Blues (5:24)
04 - The Breaks (7:40)
05 - One-Two Five (5:05)
06 - Your Years (5:13)

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VA - Rap Tracks ( 82 ^ 99mb)

W.M.O.T. ("We Men of Talent") Records, an independent recording company in Philadelphia, produced a number of singles in the "Philadelphia sound" soul tradition. The best selling record among those produced by WMOT was Double Dutch Bus a 1981 funk song by Frankie Smith, made famous for its extensive use of the "izz" infix form of slang. The song title represents a portmanteau of two institutions in Smith's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania neighborhood: the double dutch game of jump rope played by neighborhood kids, and the SEPTA bus system that was a backbone of the local transportation network (and for which Smith had unsuccessfully applied for a bus driving position). The song rocketed to popularity in a matter of weeks. On the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, it held the number one spot for eight weeks, and sold more than 4 million copies.
Other WMOT artists present on this compilation include: Count Coolout, Captain Sky, and Funk Fusion Band .

Doctor Ice was a rapper in the hip-hop group UTFO, most famous for their song "Roxanne, Roxanne". Doctor Ice is the younger brother of Jalil from the rap group Whodini. T3 was formed in 1978 in the Bronx, New York, consisted of rappers Kool Moe Dee, Special K, L.A. Sunshine, and DJ Easy Lee. Kool Moe Dee, LA Sunshine, and DJ Easy Lee all went to the same high school (Norman Thomas) and added MC named Special K (Kevin Keaton). They became popular in part due to Kool Moe Dee's faster style of rapping (dubbed 'speed-rapping').



01 - Frankie Smith - Double Dutch Bus (5:17)
02 - Funk Fusion Band - Can You Feel It (Progressive Version) (8:06)

03 - Captain Sky - Station Brake (5:56)
04 - Count Coolout - Here To Stay (Me And My Double R.R.) (7:08)

05 - Doctor Ice - Calling Doctor Ice (8:02)
06 - Midnight Blue - Enjoy With Me (5:59)

07 - Treacherous Three - Put The Boogie In Your Body (6:18)
08 - Disco Four - Do It, Do It (5:50)

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