those youtube clips reminds me of early 90s Brooklyn.
My brother had all those Earth Ruler and Stone Love dub tapes from Flatbush.
Nuff Respect
My brother had all those Earth Ruler and Stone Love dub tapes from Flatbush.
Nuff Respect
You know bout the MIGHTY MIGHTY EARTH RULER!?!!?!?!
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Gun shots Gun shots
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The Real War between Ninja Man and Vybz Kartel - Sting 2003 - must see! - YouTube
maaaaaan...those EARTH RULER vs. KING ADDIES clash tapes...are LEGENDARY!!!!!......
Them boys held it down against the "Billboard Killing Machine" known as King Addies....
Earth Ruler had a mean Mic Man named LEE MAJOR back in the 90's.........
that dude could talk some shyt on that mic ...
i remember Earth Ruler was clashing a sound out of Miami and it was quite clear even in the early rounds that Earth Ruler was gonna be victorious.....
Lee Major decided to mek a likkle speech addressing the SLAUGHTER taking place by saying...
"and to my COMPETITION...WELCOME TO NEW YORK..where EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO MAKE A FOOL OF THEMSELVES!!!"
I couldn't stop laughing , because it was so true as well...thier musical selection was just as vicious as the "speeches/shyt talking"...which is what defines a good soundsystem as well as a good clash..
and that is what you had when Earth Ruler met Addies on numerous occasions GREAT CLASHES to see who would rule Brooklyn!....
Earth Ruler had to be on thier toes....cause Addies "star power" was nutting to fukk wit
What other sound than Addies had dubplates from not only reggae legends ...but american icons such as WU-TANG CLAN, LAURYN HILL , TONI BRAXTON and even the late great LUTHER VANDROSS!!!!...........
So it took creativity and timing for Lee Majors and the Earth Ruler crew.....like the time they pulled out a "secret weapon" during a clash with Addies by dropping for the first time canadian dancehall artist SNOW on dubplate doing "INFORMER" over the legendary Sleng Teng riddem (beat)...
All you heard on that tape was Gunshots (blanks) being fired all over that venue....
cause the shyt was just so gangsta
and suprising cause no other sound at that time had Snow on dubplate considering he was such a pop star at that time....and Earth Ruler wasn't considered a sound with deep pockets (money) to pull that off..
by the time the tape finished...Earth Ruler had pulled off an upset
and Addies was
but that's the great thing about clashes....the Art of Suprise
ahhhh the memories.......
"killing people is FUN, especially when nah use no gun"
!!!!!
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....next thing you know i'm 
dancehall tapes on the reg..and when i got old enough started attending dancehall sessions myself....
his gun that was the SUPER POWER store.....yeah the whole Stereomarrs crew and Spangler Posse was thick up in thier....Church Ave. was were my aunt stayed at.....that shyt had more jamaicans than jamaica itself 
Your fam raised you well my yute!!!...big up!
Yeah i was TOO YOUNG as well to attend...but it was those WICKED DANCEHALL TAPES that my uncle use to give me which got me hyped as fukk.....
the shyts were SO LIVE that you felt like as if you were thier!!
it had all the energy of hip hop, and then some, because these dancehall artists really perfected thier craft live on stage or in a session....
and being that most of these clashes took place in the brooklyn streets at these venues (starlight, biltmore) you could feel the energy litearly as the mic men shouted out the various posses and dons who really "ran tings" in NYC and abroad ...such as Barry G. and the schenectedy crew, fadda eaton, the moscow posse, spanglers, jungle, and the legendary 90's crews.
its funny cause when i got introduced to dancehall via listening to the Red Alert rap show on KISS FM, i really wasn't feeling the culture even as a child of a west indian mother, because i was so "americanized" but after that exposure to dancehall on red alert hearing some shabba, sanchez and louie rankin...
it was my UNCLE a dread fresh from the carribean who introduced me to that REAL SHYT!!
I'm talkin real GANGSTA HARDCORE DANCEHALL CLASH TAPES from sounds such as Bass Odyseyy, Kilamanjaro, Earth Ruler, Saxon, Tec-9 and often mentioned King Addies....
i was good
i tell ya ain't nothing like eating a nice pot of rice and beans and listening to the rumbling sounds of the bass going thru the speakers while drunk off a Red Stripe singing at the top of your lungs with the rest of the crowd to a wicked tune at 2 in the morning!
yeah i remember the Gun Salutes and PRAM PRAM blank shots going off during those clashes...Fortunatly i was never thier at one that had that shyt going on
cause shyt was grimey...gotta keep in mind this was NYC in the 90's..and as KRS ONE said..."The DREADS IN BROOKLYN WAS CRAZY!!!"
So to this day i am SOOOOOOOOO THANKFUL for those tapes....
yeah i remember that spot, i think you talking about "Ethopian Taste" in brooklyn..if that location is correct in flatbush..i could be wrong..it's been soooo long
yeah BK did have many shops that one could pass thru and see artists come in..and usually they had turntables set up with mic booths in the back to cut "dubplates" on sight for the various soundsystems that populated BK...
as far as the record shop that Supercat had
but i loved that area and i loved the history it gave me....even down here in the south when i munch on a beef patty or crack open a crisp Red Stripe i get kinda tearyeyed thinking of those days long gone....ahh the memories
SHABBA CAREER been got BODIED back in JAMAICA he was seen as a TOO COMMERCIAL once the YANKEES (american rap crowd) was cosiging him after he got his deal with CBS
It wasn't politics perse..although his FAILURE TO "REBUKE" buju for his comments did hurt him INTERNATIONALLY...but back in jamaica..in 1990..HE LOST THE "BATTLE OF ALL BATTLES" when he clashed NINJAMAN in the STING COMPETION...
and in the words of NINJA..."mi ago MURDER HIM..MURDER HIM...inna competition I GO MURDER HIM!!!"
And unfortunatly that's what happened that night...SHABBA was "food" to Ninja
Clash Webisodes : Ninja vs Shabba (SUBTITLED) - YouTube
I'm a dancehall veteran fan...and just being honest..I AIN'T NEVER SEEN NOR HEARD A "MURKING" like that........Ninja earned stripes that night as the "42 gun badbwoi"....
shabba didn't have a chance..and it wasn't really his fault..Ninja violent themed tunes were the anthems in this era (early 1990s) where GUN TALK rulenobody was really trying to check for SHABBA's "girl/lovers" tunes in an age when the Showa posse and political violence was everywhere....basically NINJA ran SHABBA off to AMERICA....
And to add insult to injury his fabolous home in Olympic Gardens in jamaica...got ROBBED 2 night later.....
Your fam raised you well my yute!!!...big up!
Yeah i was TOO YOUNG as well to attend...but it was those WICKED DANCEHALL TAPES that my uncle use to give me which got me hyped as fukk.....
the shyts were SO LIVE that you felt like as if you were thier!!
it had all the energy of hip hop, and then some, because these dancehall artists really perfected thier craft live on stage or in a session....
and being that most of these clashes took place in the brooklyn streets at these venues (starlight, biltmore) you could feel the energy litearly as the mic men shouted out the various posses and dons who really "ran tings" in NYC and abroad ...such as Barry G. and the schenectedy crew, fadda eaton, the moscow posse, spanglers, jungle, and the legendary 90's crews.
its funny cause when i got introduced to dancehall via listening to the Red Alert rap show on KISS FM, i really wasn't feeling the culture even as a child of a west indian mother, because i was so "americanized" but after that exposure to dancehall on red alert hearing some shabba, sanchez and louie rankin...
it was my UNCLE a dread fresh from the carribean who introduced me to that REAL SHYT!!
I'm talkin real GANGSTA HARDCORE DANCEHALL CLASH TAPES from sounds such as Bass Odyseyy, Kilamanjaro, Earth Ruler, Saxon, Tec-9 and often mentioned King Addies....
i was good
i tell ya ain't nothing like eating a nice pot of rice and beans and listening to the rumbling sounds of the bass going thru the speakers while drunk off a Red Stripe singing at the top of your lungs with the rest of the crowd to a wicked tune at 2 in the morning!
yeah i remember the Gun Salutes and PRAM PRAM blank shots going off during those clashes...Fortunatly i was never thier at one that had that shyt going on
cause shyt was grimey...gotta keep in mind this was NYC in the 90's..and as KRS ONE said..."The DREADS IN BROOKLYN WAS CRAZY!!!"
So to this day i am SOOOOOOOOO THANKFUL for those tapes....
yeah i remember that spot, i think you talking about "Ethopian Taste" in brooklyn..if that location is correct in flatbush..i could be wrong..it's been soooo long
yeah BK did have many shops that one could pass thru and see artists come in..and usually they had turntables set up with mic booths in the back to cut "dubplates" on sight for the various soundsystems that populated BK...
as far as the record shop that Supercat had
but i loved that area and i loved the history it gave me....even down here in the south when i munch on a beef patty or crack open a crisp Red Stripe i get kinda tearyeyed thinking of those days long gone....ahh the memories
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