A classic Sacramento hip-hop moment featuring a young E-Bro Darden (NY Hot 97), E-train, and Sacramento hip-hop legends the Cuf. A live-on-air hip-hop freestyle on E-Bro's KSFM 102.5 Flava Show - circa 1995.
Originally Published: Oct. 1994 N4MR / Informer Hip-Hop Magazine; Vol 4, Issue #13 The Workshop is a weekly club held every Monday night at Café Montreal. The Café is a regular ‘happy hour’ alternative spot during the rest of the week but on Mondays, the true Hip-Hop headz come out to perform. All of the local Hip-Hop crews such as Fonke Socialistiks, Blackalicious, E-Train, Soul Clap, The Eargazmiks, The C.U.F. and Trinity have rocked the set winning over the love of the local Hip-Hop fans. There have even been major recording artists who have stepped through to check out the spot such as Raphael of Tony, Toni, Toné, (He came in and played the drums one night during the freestyle...
The RootsDo You Want More?!!!??!DGC/Geffen 1994 Many have incorporated live instrumentation to their music. Few were successful, and fewer still to the degree of The Roots. The Philadelphia crew pride themselves on using no samples or a DJ, just a live funky band. You may think that’s not possible, but Do You Want More !!!?! dispels that notion. B.R.O.THER?, Black Thought, Malik B, and Bassist /Hub combine to create “Organic Hip-Hop Jazz, 100% Jazz.” An Upright bass, keys, drum, and horns put forth a rich musical landscape that the lyrically adept The Roots style over. Pronounced high hat on “Proceed”, intricate keyboard riffs on ”Mellow My Man” and “What Goes On”, syncopated laughter snippets and static on “Distortion to Static” are some...
