The Almighty El-Cee was born with a name ideal for hip-hop: The Almighty El-Cee. Actually, we think he was really called Leroy Lott. Of his 3 12″s, two are negligible, one an absolute must-have – ‘We Have Risen’ / ‘School’s Out’ on Supertronics from 1987. Hard beats, hard rhymes, it ain’t complicated. Yet, try as we might, we can’t find any biographical information on El-Cee/Leroy. Did he struggle at school? Did he come up hard? Did he like bees? It’s unknown. In fact, we know hella more about the producer Freddy Bastone. He was a pretty famous DJ who went on to produce and remix for the likes of Queen and Judas Priest. The only other rap joints he did, apart from El-Cee’s later records, were ‘I Rap Again’ for Mistique on Tuff City and a cut called ‘Diseases’ for Love Master Ace feat. Triple S-Fee and we’ve never even seen that. So, he’s a semi-legend with his own Wikipedia entry, and El-Cee probably works for the sanitation department pulling used tampons out of blocked drains. Unless you know different…
Listen to ‘We Have Risen’
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Bump ‘School’s Out’
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Damn, even John Peel was bumping it:
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Or download the whole kit and kaboodle here…
11 responses so far ↓
1 whut // Oct 22, 2007 at 11:24 am
Was that the same Freddy Bastone who produced the hilarious ‘Dame Chocha’ LP by Pablo Toto with tracks like ‘Pablo’s Pinga’ and ‘She’s On The Rag’?
2 Brian Beck From Wisconsin // Oct 22, 2007 at 11:30 am
I read on CocaineBlunts that The Almighty El Cee was also an actor and was in some soap opera called Coronation Avenue )or something like that) as a character called El-Cee Tanner
Anyone confirm or deny this?
3 Drew Huge // Oct 22, 2007 at 11:32 am
Yep, the same Bastone who did the Pablo Toto stuff – on tuff city, right?
4 whut // Oct 22, 2007 at 3:11 pm
on the Smokin’ label which was part of Tuff City I think. Do you have the pablo toto LP? When I get my scanner up and running I’ll put up a pic of the photo from the back of the sleeve, it shows toto tucking into a plate of food that has cleverly (this is before photo shop don’t forget) had the ‘chocha’ from the LP title (a fanny) superimposed on it. I saw that Love Master Ace 12″ on ebay once, but it’s not THE master ace…biters.
5 whut // Oct 22, 2007 at 3:14 pm
ps. I heard El-Cee was originally called El-Cee-Threepio but he changed his name when Luke (Sykyywalker) the inventor of Miami Bass got a rollicking from George Lucas back in the day (as did Lucas from the crew Lucas With The Lid Off)
6 whut // Oct 23, 2007 at 11:52 am
pps. ‘We have risen’ is my second fave Hip Hop tune about rising after ‘risin’ to the top’ by doug fresh.
7 Augusto // Oct 26, 2007 at 7:15 pm
School’s out shows much resemblance to mantronix’s “who is it”
8 country bumpkin // Oct 28, 2007 at 4:38 pm
I used to think ‘who is it’ was ‘the wizard’ before I knew wot it was called. Mantronix was a wizard in my opinion.
9 Eps // Dec 19, 2007 at 4:00 am
Was’nt Almighty el-cee in the group The Ultimate 3….
10 Eps // Dec 19, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Just checked the names on both labels and i think i got muddled up with Mighty Mike from Ultimate 3 – Don’t know why but i always thought it was the same person.. – Think the “Mighty” bit confused me..
11 c-larock // Dec 15, 2008 at 11:26 am
we all need a change i our life special our country lets get this economy back on the tract
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