Ahhhh yes 1992 will always be fondly remembered as one of the illest years in rap music for myself personally, there was just an incredible abundance of raw talent and creativity, diversity, pure skills, personalities and singles and albums and a hell of a lot of "just drop the one album" crews and MC's who just vanished off the Hip Hop radar...
Rough House Survivers (note that there is no "O" in Survivers I was guilty of spelling it that way myself) were one of those crews...well what can I tell you about these kids...
NYC's DJ Swinn and MC's Dread One, Kev, and Roberto?...well not a great deal to be honest, but this album was packed thick with horns, fat drums and deep bass lines provided by Tony Dofat and 1 joint produced by Grand Puba plus guests such as CL Smooth, Sadat-X and Grand Puba.
Straight From The Soul was released on Relativity records in 1992 with "Check The Backpack" as the debut single, the legendary Pete Rock did a superb remix for the B-Side
track "Rough House" in 1993...
Straight From The Soul was chock full of that signature 90's sound and that is why we come back to it so many years later, it's a shame they only had the one album and it didn't get the push it should have, this was the case with a lot of artists in the 90's sadly.
RHS also dropped a 12" in 1997 titled "You Got It" and later re-released in 1998 with a dope remix from Knobody
01 Take A Trip
02 Can U Dig It?
03 So! Survivors, We Can Rhyme
04 Straight From The Soul
05 On The Flex
06 We Come To Get Wreck (feat. Sadat X)
07 Rough House
08 Check Da Back Pack
09 Once Again
10 Stick Da Butt Out (feat. Grand Puba)
Big props to JUICY and Respecta for the 320 rip.
Jaz
7 comments:
you my friend are the man for this one!!!!!! this was my joint... I have it on vinyl in storage but cant get to it!!!! Not many people were up on these dudes!!!
Hey no problem boo, thanks for checking the blog..I am finding it hard tracking down the Pete Rock remix of Rough House though.
Just picked this up yesterday on one of my used CD shopping sprees and let me tell you, I was doing cartwheels out of the shop
Dope album..I bought this on vinyl when it came out in 92..Really like this..
My dude... O my God. I got these kats on tape. But, the "ish" got wrecked so good lookin' on sharin' this music B. "88-95" is when what we call HipHop Today was golden. Once again GL STRONG.. I'm G(Gone)
i LOVE this album. i bought the tape when i first came out and still rock it to this day. nothing really stands out about these guys, but it's one of those things where the sum is greater than all of the parts... it's just that FEEL to it...
anyway, i was surprised a few years later to see an ad in a rap magazine for a SECOND rough house album... which, i'm pretty sure, never actually materialized...
anybody know anything about it? i've been searching for it FOREVER...
thanks.
yo, thats really a pretty dope album. i recently purchased the vinyl.
i also got the rough house 12'' with the dope-ass pete rock remix on the b-side as mp3 rip. do u guys want me to post a link here?
there really was supposed to be a second album, i recently stumbled across a full page ad in the may 1998 source mag. but as far as i know only the 2 singles "you got it" and "bad luck/new york to la" got released.
peace out
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