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Dam Fam, I'm just finding the 20th anniversary video 5 years too late and now 1st comment is telling me Tame1 left us too soon? RIP big part of my hs years discovering Artifacts wrong side of the tracks video on Video Music Box. Combining hip hop and graffiti was perfect to me at that time.
I probably haven’t heard this song in almost 20 years but I still remembered every single word, every single scratch and every ad lib. I was so devoted to this this music and with good reason! Brought back a lot of memories
Rest in Peace to the great DJ Kaos! The underground heads know your contribution to the culture is cemented! Let this track (and album) be a reminder of what this culture is supposed to sound like.
Ok so we driving down Broadway in North Newark in 1994, I'm driving, my man Neps is riding shotgun and we on the way to pick up our brothers Rave and Baye. I had a brand new copy of Between a Rock and a Hard Place but haven't out it on yet til I get everyone. I pick up Rave at Bloomfield Ave & Clifton Ave, get Baye at the Victoria Street projects. The first track comes on...Mortal Kombat fucking almost made me drive up the curb and straight into the liquor store on 7th and Baye almost fell out the car! Before C'mon wit tha Git Down even came on, I got onto 280, slammed the car into park on the shoulder, opened my trunk, grabbed 6 cans of Ultra Flat Black and some NY fat caps and just started doing throwers back to back to back. Everyone else follows me, grabs cans out my trunk and before we know it, we have already ran over to the middle columns and killed like a 1/4 mile of 280 West... we were maybe even in Irvington at this point we killed so much and it took about 40 seconds running at top speed to make it back to the car! This all took place at around 1 or 2 in the afternoon! True story. This album was the soundtrack of Newark and every writer, every crew in this city was fucking proud to call ourselves Newark writers. And we knew everyone, most rappers, most writers and rolled to Das Efx and Chief Rocka and Tonight's tha Night but what Tame and Sensei did on Between a Rock... has just never been equaled! Not by a long shot! It was so fucking pure Newark. We did our best burners when we had this album on at the Pit. Still in my top 5 records of all time. I'm still in Newark, on Chadwick and Clinton Ave and Everytime I see a new Tame tag on Lyons Ave or whenever, it just makes me smile and think of that day running through traffic in Rt 280 because of an instrumental! I didn't even hear any lyrics yet! That's how inspiring that album was for us. Zew1 FR.OUT.SGK.666 Newark, NJ 👑💪✌️
I played this 💿 to death so much that I had to buy multiple copies and then save it to my NAS device because I kept scratching it. I just bought the vinyl release a year ago. Still playing this today.
Loved the Ultimate (both versions), but always felt this should have been the first video single. The lyrics are a 10 and the beat is one of the greatest in hip hop history. Glad they revisited and put this out.
ah man i used to rock this in my headphones while i bomb and hit the windows in the bus here in mexico city respect for all graff writers rapers and breakdancers that still use your weapons after all this decades... it aint trend .. just nothings better than it
