Hauls of Shame - Who is Peter Nash?

[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.