Straight outta the Tuff City vaults: Undefeated Three
Those of with you with an unbashed fetish for those red and yellow Tuff City 12″ sleeves will be more than familiar with the works of Funkmaster Wizard Wiz. Who can forget the Moments & Whatnauts sampling ‘Girls’ or ‘Crack It Up’ – the crack anthems of all crack anthems. But before the Bellevue Patient went solo he was part of of the Undefeated Three. To our knowledge only one of their tracks appeared on wax previously, the awesome ‘U-N-D-E-F-E-A-T-E-D’ on the Smokin Raps compilation and before that they appeared on the seminal ‘Unity Rap’. Fast forward to, err, just last week, Tuff City dropped an EP of rare Undefeated Three joints including this banger. So we urge you to head over to Tuff City and grab a copy for yourself in the hope they dig deeper into these reels and unearth more gems for us.
In fact, we’re feeling generous today and have a spare copy of The Undefeated EP to give away so tell us in the comments section your top three Tuff City joints and we’ll pick the selection we’re feeling the most.
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Spoonie’s Sex off Smokin’ Raps is my shit.
Top 3 Tuff City jams :
Spoonie Gee – Street Girl
Davy DMX – One For The Treble
Coldcrush Brothers – Fresh, Wild, Fly And Bold/45 King ft. Lakim Shabazz – We Got The Funk
Awesome label, hard to pick a top 3 but…
Priority One – I Can’t go for that \ Showin my Stuff 12″
Grandmaster Caz – The Grandest of them all LP
PHD – Without Warning LP
So hard to narrow down their entire catalog to three, but I think I’d have to go with these.
Lakim Shanazz – Black Is Back
Flavor Unit – Flavor Unit Assassination Squad
YZ – In Control of Things
Here’s my 3:
Lakim Shabazz – Black Is Back
Papa Austin and Great Peso – Wring Girls to Play With
Davy DMX – One for the Treble
lakim shabazz – sample the dope noise
45 king and markey fresh – the king is here
priority one – lp
davy dmx – one for the treble
cold crush brothers – heartbreakers party
freddy b & the mighty mic masters – coolin’ on the ave.
Fearless Four – dedication
YZ – Thinking of a masterplan
Ultramagnetic MC’s ‘I’m Flippin’”
Grandmaster Caz – Get down Grandmaster
Anttex – tiger stripes and palm trees
45 King – 900 number
Fuck how can you only choose 3?! It’s like asking for your favourite Clyde Stubblefield break
oops, that’s ‘I’m fu**in flippin” by ultra, was getting confused with the PHD tune, but that is also a killer. Too many tunes to mention.
Shit, this is going to get repetitive, but…
Lakim Shabazz – Black Is Back. The X-Clan HAD to take notes from this dude’s stuff. One of the greatest voices ever in Hip Hop. Too bad he disappeared from the game…
Cold Crush Brothers – Punk Rock Rap. Ah man, this STILL hits all the spots. Can fit under “Electro” as easily as Hip Hop, and it still makes ya sing along.
The Fearless Four – Dedication. C’mon, this sounds like the soundtrack to every 80s movie that took place in the city! Imagine it playing as Charles Bronson is smoking gang members in Death Wish III!
HONORABLE MENTION: PHD – Without Warning. At the time, it was SLAMMIN’, but in retrospect it is sorta East Coast gangsta-style by the numbers. I put it on the other day and it couldn’t make me nod my head like in high school.
Now I was just gonna go to their website and order a copy… But seeing as you can’t find any new undefeated release on there yet. I may as well think of 3 joints. For me off the top..
1) Freddie b and the mighty mic masters-the main event(PUMPKIN!)
2) Spoonie Gee-Take it off(Marley on the boards, the single says “on the punch MC Shan”. Maybe he was the one triggering the” ta-ta-ta-take it off!” sample?”
3) Davy DMX-One for the treble(One of the first hip hop records I bought back in the day)
Old man raps…
The Undefeated 3 record is now up for sale at http://www.tuffcity.com!!!
18 bucks for 2 unreleased songs and 2 song I already have?
Killin me
did we get a winner?
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