“sensacional cuando salió en la madrugada
a mediodía ya noticia confirmada
y en la tarde materia olvidada”triple OG’s
That's Not Gangster
Tito Puente | Watu Wasuri
Puente could even get down at the disco.
One more to go.
Grabbed this LP from my dude over on Court St. Straight heat on Tico Records despite the rather unassuming cover art.
Hip Hop Flyers
Big Gipp f/ Witchdoctor - “Creeks” (Koch, 2002)
The shadow of the Atlanta child murders looms pretty heavily over the first wave of Dungeon classics, as I imagine it does the imaginations of anybody growing up in that era (the only thing we feared was Williams, Wayne) but it wasn’t until this haunting cut from Gipp’s late solo album that they addressed the matter at length.SUGGESTED READING: Also sorta past his prime but not, James Baldwin wrote of the killings with the same disjointed anxiety of any Goodie Mob song in The Evidence Of Things Not Seen.
“You should get the shivers…every time you pass the Chattahoochee River…”
It still looms…when they revisited the case a few years ago, it stirred up all kinds of emotions in the city.
View Larger Fania All-Stars (c. 1980)
Back row L-R: Yomo Toro, Roberto Roena, Papo Lucca, Adalberto Santiago, Johnny Pacheco, Reynaldo Jorge, Ismael Miranda, Puchi Boulong, Luigi Texidor, Leopoldo Pineda, and Hector Lavoe
Middle row L-R: Anibal Vazquez, Eddie Montalvo, Ruben Blades, Pupi Legarreta, Santos Colon, and Ed Byrne
Front row L-R: Juancito Torres, Sal Cuevas, Pete “El Conde” Rodriguez, Celia Cruz, Cheo Feliciano, Nicky Marrero, and Hector “Bomberito” Zarzuela
