This song will be played in Boston until leprechauns take over the Earth. Admittedly, Everlast’s rapping is largely forgettable, but Muggs’ blend of Bob & Earl’s ‘Harlem Shuffle’ with Johnny Cash’s ‘Daddy Sung Bass’ and a sax squeal courtesy of Jr. Laugh all you want about the absurdity of a bunch of ersatz Boston white rappers, Muggs probably made more money off this one song than most producers make in their lifetime. So, consider Muggs’ appearance Wednesday night at the Low End Theory both a co-sign from the legendary producer and a tacit nod at how much of an influence he’s had on the last 20 years of production. Choc, spent much of the two-hour session praising their contemporaries for the way they’ve expanded the genre’s aesthetic. Admittedly, the artists that frequent the weekly club at the Airliner in Lincoln Heights incorporate a vast array of influences, but their DNA reveals a hip-hop influence in spirit if not sound.Īccordingly, when Gaslamp, Nobody and Daddy Kev recently took over DJ Muggs’ ‘Soul Assassins’ radio show on Shade 45 (download link available here), Muggs and his co-host, the venerable local DJ Mr. The roots of Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer and the rest of the Low End Theory crew are often glossed over in the rush to annoint them as vanguards of an avant-garde beat generation. MP3: The Hedrush – Episode #43 (LA Hip Hop Appreciation Vol.This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. Tracklist below the jump, complete with many of the essential obscurities of the period. On the latest Hedrush podcast, Luv guests and drops knowledge for anyone curious about that period in Los Angeles hip hop. Mark Luv was one of the seminal figures between the last throes of the KDAY era and the delusional epoch when executives brazenly figured J5 could go platinum strictly off the Birkenstock crowd.
Less celebrated but significantly more interesting was the period that preceded it, a scene that coalesced around Project Blowed, the Unity party run by Bigga B, and dozens of other parties that never got equal notoriety. When people invoke the history of the Los Angeles underground, they usually reference the late 90s iteration, the capital letter Underground that produced Dilated Peoples, Jurassic 5, and People Under the Stairs.
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