v/a – the bassments of bad men (1996)

various artists – the bassments of bad men
(1996, hand’solo records)

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1. intro – witchdoc jorun
2. forever real – nathan the alien
3. open letter to hip hip – sixtoo
4. success without college – buck 65 feat. stinkin’ rich
5. test yo skillz (live edit) – skillz, nathan the alien, sixtoo, cheklove, fiz
6. how sweet it is – the nexxxt stage feat. karen corbin
7. the future of elevator music – witchdoc jorun
8. shit can be shit – classified
9. tyrone’s freestyle – little t
10. my life in the sunshine – witchdoc jorun & flexman w/ cheklove
11. memories of the passed – buck 65 feat. stinkin’ rich
12. drunken preying d.j. style – gordski
13. look to the skyy – flexman, witchdoc jorun, skillz, nathan the alien, little t, papagrand
14. searchin’ for the (spyderman) funk (live) – fiz (of universal soul) & skillz
15. the 4th line – sixtoo
16. phat like that – nathan the alien
17. papa’s groove – papagrand
18. sucker salad – hip club groove
19. shakenawakenabreakenemup – withdoc jorun, nathan the alien, sixtoo, flexman, papagrand
20. yuckmouth – gordski
21. wanna do it? – sixtoo

all songs produced by withdoc jorun
at jorun’s bedroom studio,
halifax, ns, except:
3, 15 produced by sixtoo
4, 11 produced by buck 65
6 produced by the nexxxt stage
12, 20 produced by gordski
18 produced by dj moves
5, 9, 14, 21 recorded live
at cafe ole, halifax, summer of ‘95
with witchdoc jorun on the wheels of steel

electronically compiled by ph. factor@halla.musict.o.
special thanks to mima and kristine

cover photos: dan macdonald
logo design: kharlo tawatao
all other grafitti: sixtoo
graphic design: paul virostek

(c) 1996 hand’solo records

before i moved to toronto in 1996, i knew next to nothing about the halifax hip-hop scene. my exposure was limited to a couple of videos i’d seen on muchmusic (hip club groove, mc j and cool g), and a stinkin’ rich cassette a nova scotian flatmate of mine had given me. in toronto, i hooked up with mackenzie (from hip club), who had recently relocated from the east coast. fast friends, he introduced me to the east coast scene… and tom quinlan, another east coast-toronto transplant (from fredericton, i believe), who had just released this compilation of halifax hip-hop. ten years later, it serves as a pretty good time capsule of the scene in it’s infancy…

-fritz tha cat