KD-046/KD-049 Mad Lion x4 45 Power Pack

Description

Hip-hops Jamaican roots reach back to the moment JA expat Clive Kool Herc Campbell dropped a few break laden big tunes in his Morris Heights, BX high rises community room back in the summer of 73. But as formal fusions of rap and dancehall go few recordings have set NYCs streets alight like those that commenced in 1993 via Boogie Down Productions tcha in residence KRS-One and his gruff-voiced bad man discovery Mad Lion. A gun-talk anthem equally infectious as reckless, Shoot to Kill set the template for this inspired team, Lion roaring affections to his firearms in a Mary J. Blige cadence over BDPs Black Cop instrumental. Its KRS-produced 94 follow-up Take It Easy was more slyly menacing, Lions rude bwoy stance abetted by ghostly chorus vocals digitally darting around a Yami Bolo sample freed from its original Stalag rhythm. Double Trouble and Carpenter were similarly bad to di bone, while Real Lover (another Mary homage) found Lion briefly breaking from the glock talk, going Uptown (Records) in a rub-a-dub style. Taken together these tracks remain vital both as everlasting party grooves and documents of a standard setting era for dancehalls boom-baptism.