WRITER'S GUILD (LOER VELOCITY & L.I.F.E.LONG) UNRELEASED FREESTYLE

WRITER'S GUILD UNRELEASED FREESTYLE

This was another freestyle done for the same unreleased project, that the Rok-One freestyle I posted earlier was for....Loer Velocity and L.I.F.E. were our dudes and I regularly had them appear on my mix-tapes because they always ripped...They picked O.C.'s classic "Time's Up" instrumental for their track and it came out real nice...

- James "DL"

MONEY BOSS PLAYERS & PETER GUNZ @ "THE BASEMENT" on WUSB

MONEY BOSS PLAYERS & PETER GUNZ @ "THE BASEMENT" on WUSB

Whether each show had guests or not, every week I scheduled multiple acts to come out to Long Island.  Usually, out of the three we booked, one or two would no-show and we would then try to reschedule them for another week. This was one of those nights where EVERYBODY showed up, so it was kind of mad house because they all came crew deep.  Hi-Tech and the Mass Vinyl crew came up, P-Dap and Sha Self (who later changed his name to Sha Money XL when he co-founded G-Unit) and of course, the Money Boss Players, Peter Gunz and super producer Minnesota.  Peter Gunz was already our dude because he was one of our first guests ever; back in the day when he came through with The Gunrunnerz.  Being that he was affiliated with Money Boss, he rolled with them when they stopped by to promote their "Walk With A Limp" 12". Money Boss came with about twenty dudes! But they were all real cool and Lord Tariq, Eddie Cheeba, and Trey Bag laced this freestyle. Unfortunately, the tape that was rolling cut out and I lost about 3-5 minutes of the session...After Money Boss finished up, Peter Gunz gave us another cameo as well. Will post some of the other parts of this show when I locate the tapes....

- James "DL"

I.G. OFF AND HAZADUS @ "THE BASEMENT" on WUSB

I.G. OFF and HAZADUS @ "THE BASEMENT" on WUSB

This was one from Summer 1997 at the Long Island show.  DJ Spinna brought the Beyond Real crew up to the radio show. Himself, Kriminul, Skam, and their newest artists: I.G. Off and Hazadus.  I had never met I.G. and Haz before this night, but I had heard them on Stretch & Bobbito a few years before and knew they were nice.  This turned into a great freestyle session, with DJ Spinna cutting up for them while they were rhyming.  After this night we all became family; recorded some songs together, and Cross Phada and myself even went overseas with I.G. Off in 2000. Unfortunately my friend and underground legend, I.G. Off, passed away last year, but his legacy lives on whenever you hear his rhymes in these types of settings.  This dude lived for the microphone and you can really hear how much he truly enjoyed his craft when he spit....R.I.P. I.G. Off; one of the true kings of off the head flow....

- James "DL"

PUNCHLINE AND WORDSWORTH @ "THE REMEDY"

Punchline and Wordsworth at The Remedy

Another great freestyle up at the "Remedy" show.  These two had just finished up a Lyricist Lounge U.S. tour and had been part of the cast of the Lyricist Lounge series on MTV that year. At this time they were also doing some promo for their debut EP (which came out that Fall), so it was convenient timing to finally get them through. 

- James "DL"

KWEST THA MADD LAD, KAHIEM, and MANY STYLES @ "THE REMEDY"

https://soundcloud.com/dustycassettes/kwest-tha-madd-lad-kahiem-many

This is another cypher from the "Remedy" show we were doing on Audiotunnel.com.  This one featured Kwest (formerly Kwest Tha Madd Lad), Kahiem, and Many Styles.  Kwest was  a good friend of ours and we were working on music with him at the time, but this was actually the first time I had heard Kahiem and Many Styles.  Emmo, who was one of the co-hosts on the show, had previously met them and invited them up to the show.  This worked out nice, because both of these guys could really spit.  Combined with Kwest, this was an interesting and dope cypher of emcees with different styles.

- James "DL"

FUC THAT (STREETSMARTZ) and RAFEESE @ "THE REMEDY"

FUC THAT (STREETSMARTZ) and RAFEESE @ "THE REMEDY"

This is another freestyle from the online show that we were doing for Audiotunnel.com.  This time we had F.T. (Fuc That) from the group Streetsmartz come through.  F.T. was a rapper that we were real tight with. He released several dope 12"s throughout the mid to late 90s and had come up to the Stony Brook show a couple times in the past...This time he brought another emcee named RaFeese (or Hafeese at times), who I had never met before that day, but ripped it as well. This was always one of the best parts of underground radio to me; putting on deserving artists who had real skills.

- James "DL"

L-FUDGE, J-LIVE, PUMPKINHEAD, OCEAN (NATURAL RESOURCE) on WUSB in 1996

L-Fudge, J-Live, Pumpkinhead & Ocean (Natural Resource) @ WUSB 

This is another WUSB "Basement" freestyle.  This was an excerpt of a larger cipher that included Natural Resource, Pumpkinhead, Meat Pie, J-Live, Mr. Complex, Parle, and L-Fudge. This was before L-Fudge was signed to Rawkus, and before my co-host HB and myself were managing him.  He was relatively unknown at this time compared to most of the other participants, who were big names in the underground.  It was fun to get everyone to come out to Long Island for this; as this show was pretty much the entire roster of Makin' Records and Raw Shack Records spitting together.  Hip-Hop giant, DJ Spinna was up there too, and he deejayed part of this, alongside J-Live.  One of those crazy impromptu episodes that came out kind of memorable...


- James "DL"