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Since I finally got around to hooking up my cassette deck to rip in that set from Funkmaster Flex, I thought I might as well convert a few more of my favorite radio shows. For today's post, I've got an appearance that the entire Boot Camp Clik made on Tony Touch's show, back when Toca was deejaying for Hot 97 (this specific recording is from 1996).
As I've mentioned before, I used to be a huge fan of Boot Camp Clik back in the day. I had a subscription to the BCC newsletter that Dru Ha used to type up and mail out by himself, copped every one of the DJ Logik mixtapes that he put together for Duck Down, and even bought a pair of those bootleg dog tags that Buckshot used to advertise in the back of The Source. There was a period during my freshman year of college when I wore Duck Down-related t-shirts almost exclusively - I remember frequently showing up to class wearing them, which always led to looks of abject horror from my professors, shocked as they were by the egregious misspelling of virtually every group's name within Boot Camp ("Originoo Gunn Clappaz", "Heltah Skeltah", etc.). Years later, Boot Camp even helped me reconnect with one of my friends from school, after I saw a picture of her with Sean Price making the rounds on the internet (the infamous Kill Whitey photo).
Sadly, I've misplaced most of my Duck Down tapes, and the majority of my Boot Camp t-shirts are little more than rags at this point, but I did manage to recover the following set from Tony Touch. It's a six minute recording of the Boot Camp Clik, including a young Ruc and Roc, doing freestyles that they would eventually reuse for their compilation album For The People. As with yesterday's recording, the audio on this one is about as good as you'd expect from a twelve year old cassette:
Boot Camp Click - Tony Touch freestyle session Part 1
I put the final part of the freestyle session into it's own file, because it is by far the highlight of the show. Featuring Ruc a.k.a. Sean Price kicking a verse over the beat from Jay-Z's Ain't No (which had just come out a couple of months prior to this), it opens up with Sean dropping knowledge from everyone's favorite Chinese philosopher with the line, "Confucius say: 'If you're feet hurting, your ass dirty.'" To this day, it remains a bit of wisdom whose true meaning still eludes me:
Boot Camp Click - Tony Touch freestyle session Part 2
7/8/2007 08:10:01 PM posted by Fresh