EPMD Week Part 4 x Obsolete Formats #2: The Longbox
The last time we saw EPMD live, it was at London Docklands Arena, November 1990. We can’t really remember their show too well, as the whole event was somewhat overshadowed by the hail of coins that met the Young Black Teenagers when they sauntered out on stage. We were still picking up 2p coins long after they – and the Afros, Masta Ace, Tragedy and others – had departed the stage. And back then, you could still go over to the USA and buy CD longboxes. We didn’t really bother then, we were (are) vinyl nerds, and they seemed to be a bit big and clunky and silly. They died a death for reasons that are probably environmental/logistical/space-based, or a combo of the three. With real estate square footage off the richter in Manhattan, Disc-o-rama and such didn’t need to be filling their shelves with these big clunky cardboard boxes.
But over time, we’ve grown to love the Longbox, as you often come to love someone you had no time for during their life. You know, Pol Pot, people like that. In fact, both Dan Large and Drew Huge are now filling their marital homes and chagrinning their wives on the daily with moderately extensive Longbox collections. We’ll probably share a lot more of these with you – the Showbiz & AG Soul Clap EP, the UBC LP, Kill at Will, De La Soul is Dead, these are things of beauty in Longbox format – but for today an EPMD ‘Unfinished Business’ Longbox will suffice.
Our search for Longboxes continues, and we won’t rest until we’ve copped such classics as ‘Longbox Live the Kane’, Taking Your Business’ ‘Longbox Live Hip-Hop’ and the collected works of Shorty Longbox.
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Your Arm’s Too Short To Longbox With God.
Freddie LongFoxxx
Hits From The Bongbox
Mr Lawngebox
“It’s been a longbox time, I shouldn’t have left you”
Potholes In My Lawnbox
Speakerlongboxxx
Da Mystery of Longboxin’
Longbox in Hand
Hits from the Longbox
Jack N The Longbox
Long live the longbox!!!
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I have one longbox still sealed…… it’s this one
Great Moments in Longbox History: When Wesley Snipes, flirting with Cynda Williams in Mo Better Blues, tries to cop a fat stack of jazz longboxes only to have her tell him his Gold Card has been declined.
Jesus, that Docklands show was somethin else, Ace had his tramp-related openin routine, and that coining, YBT took some shit that night
I recall one of the 2nd hand stores in Berwick Street during the mid90s stocking tons of the EPMD boxes, I remember seein them on distributor lists for next to nothing the fortnight previous, and NOT buyin them for stock in fear they wouldnt sell, oh the folly…
Fat Boys – Longbox is Rockin
Run DMC – Longbox
School of Hard Longbox
Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – Jeff Waz on the Long Box
Cannibal Longbox
LBC – Longbox Crips
JVC Force – Longbox Island
Artifacts – Longbox side of the Tracks
Bravehearts – Oochie Wally “Take a look, yer hypnotized
on how my longbox stretch your insides”
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Good call Rich. There must be some longbox scenes in House Party 2 or maybe Juice too but not on the same level as the Mo Better Blues scene.
I also remember that docklands show, master ace with the tramp thing, YBT getting a less than welcoming reception, although as it was a PE show the crowd also consisted of a lot of middle class white drips who quite liked YBT, I know because I was with some of them and they liked them. YBT redeemed themselves with Tap The Bottle a couple of years later, which got played in the more thugged out clubs, but that first lot of records sucked and they should have got coined off for that alone regardless of whether their name was offensive or not.
“Brothers From Brentwood Longbox Island”
You got Longbox, we got longbox
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“‘Cos they sing like Rodney King, ‘Can’t we all just get a longbox?’”
“Grand Puba is the one who makes they longbox wet”
Kurious: Fresh Out The Longbox
Tony Touch: Out Da Longbox
EPMD: Boon Longbox
Main Source: Step up to the batter’s longbox
Them longboxes were the shit. I used to raid HMV in Bond Street, they always used to have loads, I still have quite a few of the covers, mail me if you want a scan or two. My personal favorite was the Ultramagnetic MC’s Funk Your Head Up
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