Category: STONES THROW

Eazy-E, Peanut Butter Wolf style

EAZY DUZ ITIn an incredible bit of DIY hip-hop history, Stones Throw Records honcho and all round good-guy Peanut Butter Wolf has unearthed this from his personal archives – a cover of Eazy-E single Boyz N The Hood, with the brilliantly-named local artist Spunky Spunk Dogg on vocals, and PBW on the wheels of steel. A few years later he would go on to link with Charizma, and the rest is history. As for the collaboration with Spunk D-O Double Gizzy, this was their first and only live performance. Listen below, and read the backstory from the man himself further down.

“This recording is the only one I have with him from back then and we performed outside at the backyard of a BBQ on a Sunday afternoon for an audience of around 15-20 people. We did around 5 or 6 original songs we had made and 1 cover and for the cover, we chose the biggest rap song in LA at the time. My turntable kept skipping as it wasn’t a 1200 and nobody even really cheered. I don’t even recall people really paying attention, but we were having fun and it was our first and last show together as a group. This was in the summer of ’88, and soon after, I moved back to San Jose, where I eventually met Charizma and started all over again.”

Here’s why the Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito Kickstarter is worthy of your money

STRETCH AND BOB POSTERHip-hop radio icons Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia have launched a Kickstarter campaign for contributions towards the launch of their anticipated documentary film, Stretch & Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives. Its a project worthy of your cash, and here’s why.

Goofy, sometimes ridiculously immature, but always bringing the freshest music from new hip-hop artists, the Stretch & Bobbito show on Columbia University’s WKCR radio station ran for the best part of the 90s.

Much has been made about how the show was influential in helping to launch the careers of many who would go on to be huge, most notably Jay-Z, Nas, Biggie Smalls and the Wu-Tang Clan.

More importantly, at least in our eyes, the show also supported independent and alternative hip-hop artists, championing the likes of Kool Keith when he reinvented himself as Dr. Octagon, and showing much love to groups like Company Flow, Juggaknots, J Treds, Godfather Don and countless more.

Bobbito even founded his own label to release a lot of the underground material that was appearing on the show. The much-missed Fondle’em Records helped to introduce the world to MF Doom, and laid the foundation for labels of a similar vein, including Rawkus, Stones Throw and Def Jux.

It’s therefore no exaggeration to say that Stretch and Bob played perhaps the most important role in creating that classic mid-late 90s indy boom of creativity that many of us are still stuck on today. And that is surely reason enough to throw some money their way.

Donate here, and read more about the documentary here, including upcoming screenings.