Above, enjoy "The Remixes - A Midas Era Retrospective" which features some remixes of songs from "Return Of The Funky Man" plus the instrumentals.
Take a trip back to the early 90's as radio host Billy Jam dedicates himself to Hip Hop culture. The West Coast vet has uploaded his interview and freestyle collection for us to enjoy on YouTube. This set of 20 is some of the best from his channel, including classic moments from The Guru, Eazy E, Black Moon, Ice Cube, The Pharcyde, KAM, L.O.N.S. and others.
I've featured Billy Jam's audio here at the blog before, so if you enjoy check the archives. He also has an extensive archive of his radio over at WFMU which dates back years.
The year is 1993: Clinton had just taken office, Dr Dre's G Thang single was brand new, The Hiero crew was on the come-up and weed wasn't as near legal or acceptable in Hip Hop media as it is now. Del The Funky Homosapien, B-Real, C-Funk, Mozilla and Funkyman light up Billy Jam's KUSF radio with marijuana-based raps and share their opinion about how the culture of this drug is beginning to become more mainstream.
The bulk of the interview segment centers around B-Real, one of the leaders of the 1993 weed renaissance in Hip Hop who shares an in-depth look into the culture he is helping to create with his group Cypress Hill. The interview begins around the 1:19:00 mark in the audio.
20 years since their debut, The Wu still bring the ruckus to your airwaves as shown with the raw energy and distinctive posse cut style of "B-Minor". In 2014 the crew rock out on the David Letterman show to a live band re-recording of the song and in 1993 RZA leads an interview with Billy Jam on KUSF San Francisco.
"Today's "flashback" show features many other guests on that radio show from almost 20 years ago in February 1993 I did on KUSF during the (radio industry magazine) Gavin Convention - a time when record companies would bring artists to San Francisco to perform at showcases and do radio spots like this one. In addition to Charizma and PBW, for this one 3 hour KUSF show my guests included Masta Ace, Diamond D, The Pharcyde, Da King & I, Y'all So Stupid, Funkdoobiest, Nasty Nas, Freestyle Fellowship, and The Goats.
On this edited down WFMU flashback show I include interviews with all but the latter four acts (they were on tape one of the two 90 minute tapes of the show I recently uncovered. Note that the original tape with the Pharcyde cut off/cut short their interview - hence why it ends abruptly - sorry). In the house at the time as well as the guests were producer KC, photographer Timi D…, and friend of the show Big O from Master P's The Real Untouchables (aka TRU) outta Richmond."
Moving forward to 2014, Diamond D returns to bless the culture with his signature sound as he joins some of Hip Hop's strongest talents on "The Diam Piece". Enjoy the album stream courtesy of Empire Distribution.
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