Hauls of Shame - Who is Peter Nash?

[Bpm0014]

Jeru the Damaja! That's a blast from the past. Unbelievable first album, then fell off the face of the earth. How can nobody mention Keith Murray, Geto Boys, Tribe Called Quest, Shabba Ranks, or Nas???? I'm pretty sure Mc Serch from 3rd Bass discovered Nas....

This suddenly became one of the greatest threads ever!

[MattyC]

I remember when Jeru first came off on COME CLEAN-- I heard it on a late night radio mix. It was the bomb. He'd earlier made a brief appearance on Gang Starr's Daily Operation, on the cut I'm The Man.

Very slept on one hit wonder cut that still gets play is TOP BILLIN by Audio 2.

Yes Wu coming up was a huge event on the timeline: I had the single to Protect Ya Neck with METHOD MAN on the B side.

I also vividly recall when Black Moon first hit with WHO GOT DA PROPS; that first album ENTA DA STAGE was sonically fresh.

Was a place called Bondi's on Park Row by J&R Music World in downtown manhattan where you could always cop a big anticipated release a week early.

In terms of combo of quality and output, KRS/BDP was a real standout with Gang Starr-- so many good whole albums. Who could forget LOVES GONNA GET YA from the former and DWYCK from the latter!

"I got more props and stunts than Bruce Willis..."
"Leaving the bodega I say, 'suave.'"

Tribe was of course awesome and Native Tongues was like its own little sub genre with De La and Black Sheep (anyone remember Chi Ali?).

After I did PAID IN FULL I was working on the sequel for Total Recall for Miramax, and my office was next to one Tip had in the TriBeCa film center. We became quite friendly when we'd see each other out and about, and he was always a really nice, chill guy. Many of those cats are incredibly warm people.

Beastie Boys were always special; also fantastic cats. A life highlight for me was hooping on two occasions with Yauch and Mike D and my buddy-- just running two on twos in the park.

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I always thought Jeru should have been bigger than he was. Seemed like he could never follow up the debut album, and he tried for years.

[MattyC]

Interesting thing is he's put out some material-- very indie label stuff, some of it good. I will check but I'm pretty sure some is on iTunes.
Incubating lots of underground artists. Afu-Ra was one of his guys who has a great single from some years back called MIC STANCE.

I remember Jeru did have some pretty good cuts on Wrath Of The Math. But yeah he definitely went deep, deep underground after that.

Ultimately I think he really, genuinely shunned the Bigtime or mainstream and made a conscious career choice to do more indie underground stuff. His strengths and natural style and observations would be like jamming a square peg into a round hole, if he wanted to widen out or up sales. He is kind of a counter weight to the Diddy Cristal Maybach bulls1t materialism that chatacterizes so much rap today.

Same can be said to some extent for Talib Kweli I think.

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by Bpm0014

Jeru the Damaja! That's a blast from the past. Unbelievable first album, then fell off the face of the earth. How can nobody mention Keith Murray, Geto Boys, Tribe Called Quest, Shabba Ranks, or Nas???? I'm pretty sure Mc Serch from 3rd Bass discovered Nas....

This suddenly became one of the greatest threads ever!

Nas made his debut on Back to the Grill, great song.

Never liked Geto Boys except for the song from Office Space and a couple Scarface singles. It always sounded like they wouldn't lower the mic for Bushwick Bill, so he had to yell into it.

Keith Murray was up there for me, Redman is an all-time favorite and I'll admit that I really liked Das Efx and still listed to them quite often.

Tribe is good and Scenario is one of my favorite songs because I liked them and LONS.

I listened to a lot of Lords of the Underground, mostly their earlier stuff, same for Fu-Shnickens.

The line about Bruce Willis in DWYCK is good, but the line before it is even better, "lemonade is a popular drink and it still is"

Whoever said D-Nice brought up a good one. Anyone ever listen to Nine? He didn't have his name in lights for long...

[MattyC]

Nine is a very deep call-- playing WATCHAWANT right now; that's one of my main running cuts.

Call Me D-Nice is a favorite. Anyone remember the cut with D-Nice and Treach? TIME TO FLOW? That was fire.

Sleeper cut on that Das EfX album is CLAP YA HANDS. Sick beat.

And how can we forget all those amazing Pete Rock Remixes? Shut Em Down Remix? Even Jump Around Remix. Too many. And all those cuts on Mecca & The Soul Brother-- Skinz? The Creator? T.R.O.Y?! That isht was volcanic. Straight magma.

Edit to add:

So here I am listening to JUSSUMMEN (Pete Rock Remix), and what is the lyric I hear?

This just goes to show how even back in 1992, just like now, everyone gives a certain player props...

"I kills'em when I gamble... And when I swings my thing I take a swing like...

[97manoftroy]

Wow you guys have me going way back!

"Damaging your medulla, cerebrum and cerebellum, you got a crew you better
tell em!"-Keith Murray

[Bpm0014]

Just call me D-Nice... One of my top 5's of all time!