Rhyme Va-Lor - Holiday Boogie

You're hanging out, spinning records, soul joints mostly, shoulder moving stuff, and there's a mic just lying there. Nobody seems to notice but you. You imagine you're not DJing and subtly nod toward the mic as if to say to yourself, "Oh, you've got something? Well," and though it's been a while, it's also the holidays, and you're feeling right so you do what needs doing, a verse here and a couple more over there, just hanging out, spinning records, doing your thing.

 

Poetic & Rhyme Va-Lor - "Plain 2 Plane (Sharp Shooters)"

Taken from the VerseAtility II: In Stereo compilation released by HorrorCity.biz and Frequency2 Magazine in 2007, "Plain 2 Plane (Sharp Shooters)" is a lesser known song from the catalog of the late Anthony Berkeley a.k.a. Poetic. Here, Poetic rhymes back-to-back with Amityville's Rhyme Va-Lor, in effect (re)uniting Gravediggaz and Horror City, two of the seminal horrorcore projects of the 1990s. The song title, however, seems to reference another collective, known as the Sharpshooters Regime, which was fronted by Poetic and included his brothers Brainstorm and E-Sharp, as well as Rhyme Va-Lor and Shabazz the Disciple among others. Supposedly the Regime put together an album, but it hasn't been released. For now, the closest you'll get is this song and the compilation from which its taken, which also features Horror City member Lenni 2 Tymes and Freeport MC Truth Enola (best known for his work with De La Soul). Stream the compilation above via YouTube and download it for $9.99 from CD Baby or iTunes.

Prince Paul Presents Horror City

A Prince Among Thieves likely still holds the title as hip-hop's greatest album-form narrative, even 16 years after its release. And as undeniable of a force as that album's lead MC Breez Brewin was and is, equal credit is due his foil, Big Sha, whose rhymes on a shelved Prince Paul-produced Horror City album laid some of the groundwork upon which APAT was built. That Prince Paul himself freely admits, "to be honest, I always liked these originals better" says more about this lost album than any review ever could. If you already have this, you know what time it is. If not, you're missing from your library a critical piece of the Long Island hip-hop canon and thus, a true LIRB essential. For the love of God, download Prince Paul Presents Horror City now.

1) war party Intro

2) Play it close

3) Pain 

4) you got flow 

5) Take it how you want it

6) Big Sha

7) Tattles Tale 

8) Horror City Terrorists ( freestyle ) 

9) MC Hustler ( original ) 

10) Headbounty 

11) War party Outro 

"I carry the weight of a whole Island while you reppin just one section of one borough."

DJ Stitches & Rhyme Valore - "Another Sleepless Night" EP

This EP collects the vocal tracks from DJ Stitches and Rhyme Va-Lor's long out-of-print "These Are The Dayz" / "Top Emcee" 12-inch, as well as five previously unreleased artifacts of early-mid '90s Long Island hip-hop, each of which evoke a particular kind of creepiness, perhaps presaging Rhyme Va-Lor's coming work with Prince Paul and Superstar in Horror City.

This Dope Folks Records release is "limited to 300 copies and will never be repressed," so give it a listen below and get it here while you still can.