"Hip Hop Fever" (Freestyle artist related)

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Did anyone else pick up the "Hip Hop Fever" cd that came out with the "Fever Divas" cd last year? I just got it through Amazon a few days ago. It was okay. I love hip hop & freestyle and old school so with that combo I may have been expecting too much. Not too bad though, it didn't suck. It's got some good stand outs:

"Heartbeat Rap" Anything that samples "Heartbeat" is gonna be dope!

"Games People Play" which was and still is bangin'! With that infamous piano break that's been sampled by just about everybody.

"You've Gotta Believe" Lovebug "Starski": Classic!

"Calm Down" 3 Most Wanted: One of those good & hard to find hip hop tracks! Parts of "Funk Boutique" sound exactly like it but I dont recall any credits so not sure.

"All Night Long" Nayobe & Rayvon: IF NOTHING ELSE, IT'S WORTH IT FOR THIS ONE TRACK!!! Nayobe is one of freestyle's best and Rayvon is one of reggae's best so its just no way the combination could fail! Got a nice ghetto hip hop/reggae vibe! This is the Bobby Konders (dancehall d.j.) version and it sounds straight off his mixshows. Its that raw! straight up no polishing or glazing over. I counted like 5 samples that are all workin' at the same time! It's krazy!

"Sukiyaki" The Cover Girls: Another DOPE cover from them! They put a nice laid back dancehall spin on the record. I think it was originally done by Taste Of Honey but I think this is one of the case where new school defeats old school!

"I Am Woman" The Cover Girls w/Redman & Method Man: NICE! Sounds kinda like a "Goody Goody" immitation but it's all good. I like the Cover Girls a lot as well as Red & Meth but it wasn't really a collabo more like some sampled voice overs. Don't recognize the voice though. Doesn't sound like the Cover Girls but they're credited clear as day! Whoever it was singing LAID IT DOWN though!

This accompanied with the divas cd is definitely a good old school flashback! That was a good idea to release them together, though I didnt get them together😛
 
Actually this cd is dope! The only things that I didn't like were the sound quality, though I know a lot of these old school comps are taken str8 from lp to cd. And some of the older rap tracks. Most of the rap tracks came out between 81 and 83 and I was still a little rugrat then so I guess thats why none were familiar. Sal Abbatiello (Spellcheck!) is a really good producer! Hip Hop or Freestyle, I didn't realize how much he's done and ho long he's been around releasing good stuff! Anybody know if there's any upcoming Fever releases coming?
 
Personally, I would love to see Fever release FREESTYLE LIVES, VOL. 2 or that unreleased Tomax album!!!
 
"Freestyle Lives" They already pretty much got all the artists for the first one! lol! Who would be on the 2nd?

Maybe Cynthia but she pretty much release stuff on her own.
 
KENNY GUIDO said:
I love watchin "KRUSH GROOVE" and seeing sal in the movie!!

My favorite part is all the fellas sweatin' Nayobe at her audition! Then Ll Cool J. justs busts in and doesn't take no for an answer! "BOX!!!" lol
 
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