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VIDEO: Tame One For Wax Poetics TV

steadybloggin — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:07:39 +0000

Tame One from Wax Poetics on Vimeo.

Tame One drops some interesting tidbits of Artifacts history and some views on the music industry. The video is actually an addendum to a thorough informative article on Tame’s history, which you can (and should) read over at the Wax Poetics site HERE.

Breezly Brewin & Tame One – Slick Talkin / Fried Fish (Ft. Cage)

steadybloggin — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:50:49 +0000

Weathermen’s The Conspiracy mixtape always hung in a weird limbo. At the time of its release in 2003, in the final sunset hours of the backpack era, many among the target audience were confused and appalled by the thought of their favorite underground heroes rapping over instrumentals concocted in the commercial realm (and thus explicitly off limits to any troo backpakaz.) These days many of these same naysayers have completely broken away from their Rawkus-era affiliations, often if favor of the same rap styles they used to hate in the past. They can only acknowledge the compilation’s existence tentatively, maybe as an addendum to greater appreciation of other more critically favorable music from the same period.

Perhaps I’m being too harsh, as objectively speaking some the songs included have not aged well. In retrospect, some were not great to begin with. The currently embarrassing public images and career developments of several featured artists certainly don’t help. That might sound superficial, but a shitty present tends to put a shitty tint on the past. If there was more El-P, Camu and Brewin in there instead of Copywrite, The Conspiracy might have fared better. But all that aside, there are some things here that are really worth revisiting.

Arguably the best and most worthwhile are these two songs. Here you have Tame at his drugged out best. You have two great verses from Brewin, the one on ‘Fried Fish’ in particular is a standout in a career full of standouts. You have Cage still in his angry young drug addict mode. You have further underground synergy on ‘Slick Talkin’ via the J-Zone beat (Brewin’s verse was later inexplicably removed when the song appeared on Tame’s solo.) And of course on ‘Fried Fish’ you have these guys rapping over one of the GOAT RZA beats.

DOWNLOAD: Tame One – Slick Talkin Ft Breeze Brewin (prod. by J-Zone)

DOWNLOAD: Breeze Brewin, Tame One, Cage – Fried Fish

Some very old never heard Redman/Tame One gems via the TROY forum

steadybloggin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:53:50 +0000

This right here is a good example of why the TROY forum is the shit… These tracks popped up on a soundcloud page of a producer named Rhino CMZ, then were relayed to TROY by The Custodian Of Records. These kinds of random unearthings happen on the forum frequently…

9. A Day Across The Water-Jam C, Tame, Redman by RHINO CMZ

3. The Niceez Pisces-feat Tame One by RHINO CMZ

These two jumped out at me initially but there’s more good stuff to be found on that soundcloud page, GO HERE. Huge props to RHINO CMZ for sharing them and The Custodian Of Records for the heads up.

HOLY SHIT THERE’S A NEW ARTIFACTS SONG

steadybloggin — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:35:50 +0000

The fact that this even exists is very surprising in itself, AND it’s not terrible to boot, pretty good in fact. Aside from an uninspired hook (I’m always picky on hooks) this is a much better than what most of their still active contemporaries are putting out these days. Shout out to old man raps. A man who goes by 44th P handled the boards on this one.

DOWNLOAD: Artifacts – Big Deal prod by 44th P

huge props to Kevin Nottingham for this one

Tame One – Freedom of Speech / Tone Liv – Splish Splash (taken from The Sampler Platter by The Custodian of Records)

steadybloggin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:00:50 +0000

My appreciation of Tame One has been well documented on here and on the Philaflava boards. My appreciation of Tone Liv has been steadily rising ever since I came across Remarkable Mayor (expect to see some selections from their LP posted here soonish). NJ rappers in their mid-thirties FTW.

The Sampler Platter can be downloaded for free here.

MC Ren vs. Willie D, Tame One vs. Godfather Don

steadybloggin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:59:04 +0000

Just two more days to cast your votes. Who will meet in the finals? Right now it’s a tie between Tame One and GFD but you could be the deciding factor. Real vs. Trill? Click here to go vote.

Download updated bracket.

Del tha Funkee Homosapien & Tame One – “Flashback” (VIDEO)

steadybloggin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:45:15 +0000

Shit is hard. Great combo.

Peace,
Employee

Tame One and Del – Flashback (single and video)

steadybloggin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:01:24 +0000

First (official) single off â€œParallel Uni-Versesâ€ by Tame One, Del The Funky Homosapien and Parallel Thought. Produced by Parallel Thought.Â Audio is available for sale via ITunes.

Not bad. Not great, but not bad. If these guys stay focused this will be a solid album.