These Are The Breaks

Remember when hip hop was party music? Remember when those deliciously funky undercurrents and fat James Brown hooks got you onto the floor? Remember throwing your wigger-boy set in the air, and shouting YEEEEEEAH BOYEEEE! in the ear of any chump fooly enough to ask you what time it was?

Sure you do. It was last night. The neighbours were banging on the walls and that really big police dog was eyeing your leg like it was gonna hump it or eat it, or both.

In case you’re still drawing a blank, perhaps this set-list will pump hot memory juice through that war-torn cerebral cortex. Where Digital Lukie took care of basslines, this one’s all about the beats. Well, maybe the basslines too, as there is some overlap, but you know, when needs must, and all that.

Think of this as music to drive by by. Get in the hoochie ride, drop the rag-top, and find some ass in which to bust a cap.

Digital Underground Return of the crazy one
Dynamic Syncopation 2 tha left
T Love QMS
Original Flavor Can I get open
Diamond D Fuck what you heard
Masterminds Bring it back
DJ Fase + Abdominal Fly antics
De La Soul All good
Pharcyde Officer
Krown Rulers Paper chase
3rd Bass Word to the third
Eric B + Rakim Don’t sweat the technique
RZA La Rhumba
Beatnuts No escaping this
Lords of the Underground Chief rocka
KRS One Mortal thought
Q-Tip Vivrant thing
NWA Express yourself
Public Enemy Rightstarter