Home Taping Is Killing Music Month Presents : Funkmaster Flex Live on Hot 97 (April 16, 1993)
Another from the Depth Charge double tape pile, this one came alongside a Stretch & Bobbito tape that I’ll toss up later this month.
Everyone is down on Flex these days… if its not for the whole payola cloud that continues to hover over him or his penchant for beating up women, then its the fact that he can’t mix cement or how he uses his position to whip up beef (say “Hi”, Curtis.)
Let me take you back to a happier time, when Flex wasn’t doing that fake laugh he does at rappers’ wack jokes in interviews… well not quite as much. Back when the man had some decent skills on the 1’s and 2’s, laziness had not set in, and he was packing The Tunnel every week, his Friday Night Street Jams show was ruling the airwaves – mainly because of his selections, which weren’t walking the commercial line the way they do now. Back before the wack shoe deals, the car stuff, the fawning over every rapper who has one hit… you know what I’m saying.
Here he does a decent R’n’B and Reggae set sandwiched between joints from Redman, Onyx, Run DMC and a shitload of others…
We love you old Funkmaster Flex. Please come back.
Funkmaster Flex Live on Hot 97 (April 16, 1993)
Thanks for sharing this!
here’s a rough tracklist I put together as I was listening:
real love rmx/scenario mashup
redman- tonights the night
onyx- throw your gunz
lords of the underground- here come the lords
funk flex- dope on plastic mashup
double x posse- freestyle (put your boots on)
michael jackson- remember the time new jack rmx
showbiz & ag- party groove
???- (get down)
9 double m- go bang (funk flex remix)
double x posse- not gonna be able to do it
third eye- ease up
cutty ranks- wait in mind
pliers- bam bam
chaka demus- murda she wrote
buju banton- wicked dickie
papa bear- cool breeze
brand nubian- punks jump up to get beat down
9 double m- six million ways to die
black moon- who got the props (mw smooth vocal remix)
???- (something for the blunted)
naughty by nature- hip hop horray
???
run dmc- down with the king
wu tang- protect ya neck
flavor unit mc’s- roll with the flava
mesanjarz of funk- flip da script
dre & snoop- nuthin but a “g” thing
there was this ill song that flex was playin’ on saturday night fat joe was on the track but i ain’t catch the name anybody know it lemme know
there was this ill song that flex was playin’ on saturday night (7/21) fat joe was on the track and flex was maad hype about it but i ain’t catch the name anybody know it lemme know
i have an ieda that would change the car game for eva . egt back at me and tell me wat you think .