Just-Ice - Back To The Old School (Audio CD - 1/1/1986) [Explicit Lyrics]

It's impossible to describe how fresh this album sounded when first released -- producer Kurtis Mantronik utilizes the Roland 606 drum machine more potently than any producer before and as its huge beats kick holes beneath Just-Ice's gold-toothed mumble of rhymes, curses, boasts, and yelps, the party gets underway. Back in 1986, this album burned eardrums and if now it sounds less revolutionary it remains a classic early hip-hop album, one that appeared as radical back then as the RZA's production of Wu-Tang Clan did in the late '90s. Neither Mantronik nor Just-Ice were to match it in their subsequent and separate solo work -- it's worth reflecting on what might have been created if their partnership had endured. Opening track "Cold Gettin' Dumb" remains one of the most exhilarating tracks from an era when hip-hop was inventing itself day by day. The chauvinistic "Latoya" booms with block-rockin' beats. "Gangster of Hip Hop" and "Little Bad Johnny" lay the seeds for many an ominous rapper to come.

Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed

TRACK LISTINGS

Disc 1

1 Cold Gettin' Dumb (4:32)
2 Love Story (4:54)
3 Back to the Old School (4:50)
4 Latoya (4:12)
5 Gangster of Hip Hop (5:09)
6 Little Bad Johnny (3:32)
7 Put That Record Back On (3:51)
8 Turbo Charged (5:11)
9 Cold Gettin' Dumb II (6:33)
10 That Girl Is a Slut (5:16)