R.I.P Tommy Hill (RAM Squad)

We was talking about this at work on Saturday but I didn't know the name of the guy shot up at Rubens. Then yesterday I heard it was Tommy Hill aka Tommy Butta from the Ram Squad. I read a few stories on some of the other sites but some of the opinions were very negative. Tommy was arrested a while back for selling drugs and had strong ties will Joey Melino of the Philadelphia MOB who was arrested as well. Tommy gave up the tapes on just about everything he knew, when he was released a couple years ago he apparently moved and wanted to help youngsters coming up, seems like he got in some trouble out in Atlanta. My honest opinion is that he had no business in Philly what so ever. Rubens is in the Mt Airy section of the city a descent area that has had it share of increased crime over the years but nothing like the hood. Rubens is a pretty respectable spot.

RAM Squad repped North Phila since they were straight out of the once Notorious Richard Allen Projects. Tommy had the best flow and notoriety of the group members in fact they once challenged Mase when he was here in town check out that Cory AK joint I posted a while back and you can check that battle out. If you slept on RAM Squad check out their 1st album and Streets of Rage will might help you get familiar. Any how I want to offer condolensces to Tommy's family. R.I.P TOMMY HILL

Happy Fathers Day

To all the Fathers of the World
HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!!
OF COURSE I MEAN ONLY IF YOU ARE DOING THE DAMN THING!!!

Welcome 2010

What's up gang I am almost ready to start posting again been a bit busy and side tracked as of late. Things should start to settle down soon and the journey will begin, so stay thirsty!!!

DJ Rahdu - Total Wreck - The Encyclopedia of Bahamadia

HAPPY NEW YEARS !! Well it's 2010 and here we go again a few months back I was still searching for Bahamadias first cut Funk Vibe and I wound up finding DJ Rahdu on Bama Love Soul and found this mixtape and a few other tasty mixes. He has a nice site and podcast and some creative mixes so if you haven't been down go check em out!! This mix was so nice I had to ask to post this one!! Thanks DJ Rahdu

Words from the man himself:

Here it is y'all, my homage to the BB Queen. Please feel free to tell your friends, post on your blog, facebook and twitter pages, and bump in the home & ride. Any feedback is welcome and appreciated. I wasnt able to use all of the tracks I have of Bahamadia for this mix so there may be a part 2. If anyone has Han Soul - Imagination, please hit me up. PEACE & Download HERE
BTW if anyone is interested in a tracked version or tracklist, hit me up
Podcast also available HERE

1. Intro
2. Bahamadia - Funk Vibe
3. Bahamadia - 3 the Hard Way
4. Bahamadia - Special Forces
5. The Boogiemonsters;Bahamadia - Say Word
6. Bahamadia - Uknowhowwedu
7. Bahamadia - Uknowhowwedu (Ski remix)
8. The Roots; Bahamadia - Proceed III
9. Bahamadia; Dwele - Philadelphia
10. Spacek; Black Thought; Bahamadia - Countdown
11. Erykah Badu; Bahamadia - Funk U Up (Love of My Life Remix)
12. Reflection Eternal; Bahamadia - Chaos
13. Bahamadia - Commonwealth (Cheap Chicks)
14. Bahamadia - Total Wreck
15. Bahamadia; Slum Village - One 4 Teen (Jay Dee Remix)
16. King Britt; Bahamadia - Transcend
17. Funk Times Three
18. Bahamadia - Word Play
19. Big Kap - Da Ladies
20. Sweetback; Bahamadia - Au Natural
21. Bahamadia - I Confess (The Roots Remix)
22. Bahamadia; Dwele - Beautiful Things
23. Don't Fight My Love
24. Bahamadia - True Honey Buns
25. Ursula Rucker; Bahamadia - Path to Rhythm
26. The Herbaliser; Bahamadia - When I Shine
27. The Roots; Bahamadia - Push Up Ya Lighter
28. Mr.Lif; Bahamadia - Breathe
29. Bahamadia - Spontaneity
30. Mathematik; Bahamadia - Following Goals
31. Bahamadia; Rah Digga - Be OK
32. Dwele; Bahamadia - High
33. Bahamadia - Good Rap Music
34. Bahamadia; The Roots - Da Jawn
35. Maiysha; Bahamadia - Celebrity
36. Chops; Bahamadia - B-Girl Session
37. Guru; Bahamadia - Respect the Architect
38. Hezekiah; Bahamadia - Gypsy Slang
39. Bahamadia - Paper ThinBonus: Bahamadia - BB Queen (Unreleased) LIVE

Cutmaster C - Fortune 500

And I say!! Yo know two things here either I am the only one with tons of Cutmaster C joints or you cats just aint feelin him! Ha! Ha! This guy kept up with his share of tapes that had good titles and similar track lists as the others of his time, in fact, I usually copped Cutmaster C joints before Clue or tony touch tapes would come out and they did the do most of the time the thing is most hip hop mixtape DJ's were trying to keep up with Clue so they often sounded alike, yet there was something about a Clue tape that no matter what tape was circulating before hand, when Clues dropped it was money!! Cutmaster C had some heated up big time around the early 2000's and implainted his name for a brief moment and through out my posting of these tpes and CD's you will be hearing some Cutmaster C.

DJ Cory AK - The AK Father 2000

What's up gang my scanner couldn't much with this for the tracklisting but I will list it shortly!! This was a compilation mixtape by Cory AK that they hooked me up with down at uptown Flava it's about a 60 min tape with some nice stuff on it, I expected more but at that time everybody was trying to get a mixtape out in the mainstream!! Once Flex and Clue did their thing it set the tone!!!

DJ Kay Slay - R&B World pt 11

I surely hope this wasn't posted already I have seen a few around not sure if it's this one though!! Kay Slay puttin on that R&B sh** yeah the R&B World series wasn't too bad and the music circulating at the time was hot!!

G-Force Sexcapades Body Bumpin pt 3

This is one of the first RnB joints I bought if not the first I played it a lot since it was going down at the time!! Sorry I couldn't do anything with the tracklist Uptown Flava did a number on them things plus I played it a lot since 10.00 was deep in the pockets for an Rn B tape for me. I copped this for my lady and it didn't dissapoint as not many did back then!! I never heard of G-Force but he had a radio voice 4sure you can tell he was used to them ladies night joints!! Well another one in the collection from me to you for my hip hop headz hold on for a minute got some more on the way, it's quiet storm time!!

Dj Wreck - Let's Have it pt 2 tape 2

Here is the second tape!!

Dj Wreck - Let's Have it pt 2 tape 1

And oh yeah there will be mixtapes!! Back to that Philly cat who put out a ton of tapes and CD's DJ Wreck again nothing special but had a sh** load of exclusives at the time!!Check out the 2000 50 opposed to the 50 now at a time when Kay Slay had raised the bar from the average 1 tape or CD campaign to 2 or more DJ Wreck came with several double joints of his own. So feast on tape 1 until tape 2 comes around!!!