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Expert: Matt Maguire Date: 8/19/2008 Subject: bumS lie
Question On the bumS lie album, Bradley has the DJ who's interviewing him put on a Just-Ice record (instead of his own) I believe the song is called "Na Touch Da Jus" .. but my question is do you have any idea what Just-Ice album that song is off of, it has to be from something. Thanks!
Answer Hello, um, Cheese --
Yes, the song is called "Na Touch Da Just" and it's the 5th track off of the 1989 LP "The Desolate One" which was produced by KRS-ONE.
A former bouncer at punk clubs, Joseph Williams, Jr. was the first of the New York rappers to embrace gangsta rap, and when he burst out of Ft. Greene, Brooklyn as Just-Ice, he gained instant notoriety. Muscle-bound, tattooed, aggressive -- he resembled Mike Tyson in more than just looks, and with a mouthful of gold teeth, he certainly stood out. His debut album "Back to the Old School" proved he was more than just a pretty face. It came out on the independent New York label Sleeping Bag, and certainly sounded like no other Hip Hop album, thanks to his fast, forceful rhymes, DMX's humanbeatbox as well as the distinctive production of Mantronix's Kurtis Mantronik.
When he was held by Washington, D.C., police regarding the murder of a drug dealer in 1987 ("Murder, Drugs, and the Rap Star" read a Washington Post headline), it gave him an even greater notoriety (he was never charged with the murder). Declaring war on D.C.'s go-go scene and loudly criticizing Run D.M.C. (then the ruling New York rap outfit), Just-Ice set a pattern for many a future Hip Hop feud. Little could halt Just-Ice's ascension to hip-hop stardom, though the departure of Mantronik from Sleeping Bag was the start of a new era. KRS-One stepped in to produce 1987's "Kool & Deadly" and 1989's "The Desolate One", swapping out Mantronik's hi-tech skills for raw, elemental beats and rhymes, reminicent of the original Boogie Down Productions set and sound. A must have CD for Hip Hop heads and Old School afficionados alike... Includes the incredible "Na Touch Da Just" and reggae influenced "Ram Dance Hall Session" featuring an up and coming Heavy D.
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