The Cold Crush Brothers
Live at the Hoe Avenue Boys Club 1982
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Real-time live action rapping oozing with vitality and impossible opportunity rough around the edges but magical and charming and infinitely funky the inimitable power of just a drumbeat and vocals timelessly powerful but when the delayed bass drop crossfade mix drops the groove in your hips floats into your heart and you're floating
Addendum - the Hoe Avenue Boys Club was the site of a legendary NYC street gang summit on December 8th, 1971, called in light of the murder of Black Benjji from the Ghetto Brothers. This would be the inspiration for the main plot point of the 1979 film The Warriors
Addendum #2 - I was a bit stymied in my effort to properly identify the specific song or songs included on this single. Its release being of the unofficial sort and the available documentation online being scant, I resorted to good ole' Shazam which identified T. Ski Valley's "Catch The Beat" as the backing rhythm track (a standard go-to of the era, no doubt) pitched up a hair to my ears, but I tend to think the rhymes themselves are essentially unique
Addendum final - I am scared to even further dip my toe into the waters of first wave hip hop live battle tapes....shiiiiit this gonna continue to flip my lid for the rest of my days no doubt
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