Day late and a dollar short with the posting but it’s well worth the wait. Following up on my REWIND THAT BACK mix on the previous post here’s some more hip hop for that ass, this time a tidbit more underground. 

Actually I just recently discovered these two neck nodders they were so undergound. No bones about it this is hip hop at its purest boom bappedist level. Just raw 88 bpm beats and a couple MC’s slinging verbals in your mouth.

The Nonce were pretty much The Cool Kids but a decade earlier. They were a duo from here in L.A. that were active in the 1990s. As part of the Project Blowed collective, working withAceyalone, amongst others, they developed a reputation for smooth, jazzy, classy production, complimented by laid-back, smart rhymes (paying homage to the Old School Rappers they grew up off of in the mid-80′s). 

East Flatbush Project is actually just one dude. Spencer “4 Hire” Bellamy. Here’s how he got things rolling…”Well I started out as a dj at the age of 9..at 11 I met legendary producer Howie Tee (Special Ed/Chubb Rock) who was also a dj at the time and I became a member of his crew Count Disco out of East Flatbush. I continued to spin up until 17… at this time I was spinning with DJ Dice(Das Efx) and DJ Scratchator (Busta Rhymes)… I didn’t have an interest in producing until I heard LL Cool J’s “Jack The Ripper.” I remember sitting on the floor in my living room staring at the radio saying “This is what I want to do.” 

Annnddd…Here’s what he has to say about how “the project” came to be…”I had beats and I knew a few mc’s so I came up with the idea of using various mc’s on my beats and calling it The East Flatbush Project. In 96, I hooked up with an artist by the name of Des and we made “Tried By 12″ which became a classic.”

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