I Might Stutta But I'm Still Crazy Butta

A little while ago I got lost in some boxes of old flicks and archived efforts that haven't seen light in at least 12 years. Whilst my minds eye connected all the dots over the fly-ass collection of pictures, tapes and promo nonsense that once consumed any sense of a 13-year old's reality, my old school brain exchange had plugged in the nostalgia cables and amped that shit up!

Then just last night as I was wading through some old record lists, the BBC broadcast a documentary about New York City and the youth culture the monster spawned during the golden era. It was a predictable Auntie affair - put Richard O'Brien on narration, consult Nelson George and draft in stock material that debuted in Dick Fontaine's 1984 Arena special. Criticisms aside, interviews with DJ Kool Herc are always welcome and credit is due for including DJ AJ's short tour of some BX landmarks. Typically, it had me yearning for the bygone era and all that's unobtainable...

Anyway, before I write a mountain of drivel, here's one of the few radio sessions I could find from the illmatic climatic years that encompasses all that's dope about the rapper called Nas. After he was done putting The Bridge housing development into perspective and explaining to Westwood his introduction to the science of Supreme Mathematics, he rocked this piece of chemistry over the London airwaves. Like the NY documentary and all the shared memorabilia that now rests in closets and cyberspace limbo, Nas's effort resonates all that once was for the hip-hop state of mind. Recorded Friday 6 May 1994.

























For more clarity, check out one of the better interviews with Nas from the first issue of Ego trip magazine by editor Sacha Jenkins from the summer of '94.