Organized Konfusion & O.C. Promos & Demos

(Organized in Japan circa 1995, photo courtesy of D.I.T.C. affiliate Marquee.)

Roy Johnson has been trying to track down a complete copy of this ’91 / ’92 era O.C. demo called I Kick a Rhyme for the Record for years now. After aleph had posted these:

Organized Konfusion – Why [Buckwild Original Mix] (1994?)

“Premiered on KCR sometime before Stress dropped.”

O.C. & MC Serch – WKCR & Awesome 2 Promos (1994)

Page the Hand Grenade ft. O.C. – Untitled Demo (1994?)

Roy thought to ask aleph directly, who responded that he thought he had it “on a tape of a Riz / Eclipse show” and a couple days later a full version of the track was here:

O.C. – I Kick a Rhyme for the Record (1992?)

Props to aleph, Marquee and Roy Johnson.

-- The Big Sleep

Frankenstein “Live From New York (The Remixx Album)” (1996)

One of my favorite pieces from my vinyl collection. I picked this up back in 1996 just for Method Man's "P.L.O. Style" remix and I was pleasantly surprised with all the other tracks. In the last few years I've tracked down audio for just about everything that Frankenstein has ever done. I sure wish he'd come out from wherever he's hiding (a teacher in Canada?) and bless us with some new material.

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--dirt_dog

Raekwon The Chef “Latest & Greatest Hits [Promo Cassette]” (1995)

I had mentioned in the forum a few days ago that I stumbled across a box of old tapes in my basement. Some mixtapes, some promo samplers, some custom tapes from the days of trading. After posting a short list, it looks like the people have spoken and they want to hear just about all of them. So first up is Raekwon's 1995 promo cassette sampler for the upcoming release of "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx." Nothing mind blowing here, but an exclusive freestyle and (at the time) an advance opportunity to hear a couple album cuts. NOTE: all scans are included in the .rar file as well as a full scan of the sleeve.

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--dirt_dog

Tony Touch “The Sunz Of Man Mixtape” (1998)

Back in the day, I was a crazy Wu-Tang collector. That meant picking up anything and everything I could get my hands on, including any Wu-Fam releases. Here is the promo mixtape sampler for Sunz Of Man's first album “The Last Shall Be First” mixed by none other than Tony Touch. To me, this is exactly how you promote your upcoming album (in 1998 at least): get a very well known DJ, put on some album tracks, add some exclusives, throw in some freestyles and hand out this promo cassette to everyone you can.

Note: Side 2 is exactly the same as Side 1, so I didn't bother uploading it. But I did include a full scan of the sleeve and both sides of the cassette.

01. Inmates To The Fire

02. We Can't Be Touched (featuring Makeeba)

03. Israeli News

04. The Saga (featuring IAM)

05. No Love Without Hate

06. 50 MC's Part 2 (Freestyle)

07. Tribulations

08. I Can See You

09. 50 MC's Part 1 (Freestyle)

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--dirt_dog

Gang Starr - Moment Of Truth (Sampler) Promo Cassette 1998

Here's the sampler promo tape of Moment of Truth. You won't see any unreleased cuts that didn't make the album on there but the great thing about it is that you hear DJ Premier & Guru talking & presenting in-between each tracks. Don't forget that Moment of Truth ended up as being the T.R.O.Y. readers' favorite Gang Starr album. Now, enjoy this collectible and be ready for some more Gang Starr related material to hit up the T.R.O.Y. blog!

Side A (Side B Repeats Side A)
1. Intro
2. You Know My Steez
3. Royalty
4. Work
5. What I'm Here
6. B.I. Vs. Friendship
7. Next Time
8. New York Strait Talk
9. Outro

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-- Thomas V

Poops Spotlight Pt.2 (WKCR,WNYU Demos)

A couple of months ago, we re-introduced you to the incredible emcee who fell off the face of the rap game before he even really got started, Poops. Refer to this link, you won't be disappointed - Part 1

This time around we bring you four more ill appearances from the god; including cuts with Pumpkinhead, A Butta[Natural Elements], Automatic, and a freestyle session from an episode of the legendary Stretch & Bobbito show.

The first cut is a promo called Flushed that was a collaborative effort with Pumpkinhead and most likely produced by FB. This was originally aired on Stretch & Bobbito but re-aired on the 10th Planet radio show[co hosted by yours truly] on WPRB. I no longer have any of the original tapes of the 10th Planet, but am in the process of regaining a good amount of them on mp3 through a follower of the T.R.O.Y. blog. Sean g. responded in the comments of the original Poops post and we've been corresponding since. So, you can thank him for coming through with this one. Peep his blog out here, it's a pretty interesting hodge podge of cool shit worth checking out.

The second joint is a freestyle with Pumpkinhead live on the Stretch & Bobbito show. They go back and forth for few dope verses over some pretty ill beats that I still haven't identified. Unfortunately it's not the entire session, but it's a solid couple of verses you should enjoy. Thanks to Roy Johnson for uploading this at the T.R.O.Y. forum.

The last two joints were re-discovered by Nes over at the Dirtywaters blog. The first one is another solo banger of a demo called Suckas. I had this one on tape years ago and lost the tape within a week of having it. The other track, Lyrics, is another collabo featuring Automatic, A Butta, and once again Pumpkinhead. I believe this was originally aired on WNYU.

Do yourself a favor and don't sleep on any of these tracks. Poops was a goat in the making, in my opinion. It's a shame that he gave up so soon.

Previews:

Download these four gems here.

--Verge