Kool G Rap & DJ Polo’s Road to the Riches from 1989 is definitely one of the best hiphop albums of the 80’s (one of the best albums ever if you ask me). In contrast to later recordings, Kool G Rap doesn’t always try to rap all fast with as a few pauses for breathing as possible. Instead he makes it sound real simple, but with a rhythm in his rhyming that puts him among the best rappers of all time.

While newer hiphop generally tries to sound more improvised and spontaneous, Kool G Rap leaves nothing for chance. Road to the Riches gives the impression that every word on the album is pronounced with full certainty and with absolutely perfect timing, like the verses are calculated mathematically and planned to result in the maximum effect. Marley Marl stands for the surprisingly varied production, and DJ Polo makes some really nice cuts.

Especially listen to She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not, Road to the Riches and Cars, available on Youtube. In fact the whole album can be found in this youtube playlist.

Road to the Riches by Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, 1989.

Funk Valley mix, old school edition.
A sweet mix with some of the freshest MC’s of the 80’s.

Playlist:
Funk Valley Spotify Mix #2 - June 2009

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PH3, som består Eye N’I, Profilen, Nils Wallfält, Salem Al Fakir och Jacob Birgersson, bjuder Funk Valley Records och resten av världen på ett litet smak prov från deras album som kommer nån gång höst. Låten heter “Telefon“.

Lyssna och ladda ner låten nedan. Glöm inte att kolla deras nykokta blogg på ph3.se

PH3 - Telefon.mp3

Want to kick some fat old school drum machine sounds? Some guys att HEXAWE has upload alot drum machine sounds on their FTP server. To be precise its a 302mb zip file with samples from 200 different drum machines. And If you’re also into that whole bit-music thing you should head over to thier site because they have alot of downloadable songs there.

Drums.zip (from HEXAWE)

If you’re not totaly satisfied with the electronic drums and want something more organic, dont for get to check out Funk Valley Rcords own drum sound collection, which can also be found in the “Samples & Beats”-section.

Toad Drum Samples (release1).rar (FVR)

Nixon ( aka Natural Intelligence of an Xplicit & Original Negro), our latest feature on the site. He’s a french rapper who found his passion for Hip Hop at the age of 10.

NIXON’s debut album The Magnificent Way has a nice jazzy and funky vibe through most of the songs. None Of Hozz features on track number 6.

Download “The Magnificent Way”

Also check the music video for Sickle Cell: