Thank you, The Rub! Brooklyn heavyweight DJs Ayres, Cosmo Baker & Eleven, collectively known as The Rub, have recently created an eleven part mix series for BrooklynRadio.net that blends the bestest and most favoritest hip-hop tracks from each year; 1979 to 1889!
Let’s start at the top of the list. For your listening pleasure: Rub Radio History of Hip-Hop: Volume 1: 1979 (and only 1979!):
Tracklist:
- Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – Superappin’
- The Younger Generation – We Rap More Mellow
- Kurtis Blow – Christmas Rap
- Sequence – Funk You Up
- Funky 4 + 1 – Rapping and Rocking the House
- Lady D – Lady D
- Ron Hunt – Spiderap
- Fatback Band – King Tim III (Personality Jock)
- Sugarhill Gang – Rapper’s Delight
- Lady B – To the Beat Y’all
- Paulette & Tanya Winley – Rhymin’ and Rappin’
- Jazzy 4 MCs – MC Rock
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MP3: The Rub – Brooklyn Radio Hip Hop History Vol. 1 1979 (02-05-2007) [45:53 / 42MB]
You can (and should!) stream/download the other 10 mixes for years 1980-1989 (as well as many other mixes) from The Rub’s page on BrooklynRadio.net and grab the tracklist for each mix from this Low-Bee forum post. These mixes should be in some expensive legacy box set—but they’re not! They’re free so grab them now! And The Rub promises to tackle years 1990 and beyond this summer so stay tuned.
Visit The Rub at MySpace and stream more tracks. Visit their online store and buy their remix albums, mix albums or the ‘Sunglasses is a Must’ double-disc album they cut with A-Trak.
