This week we had our friend Jason Lee from Transworld Skateboarding pick a couple of his favorite hip-hop tracks.

“So I was asked to put some hip-hop into these Wednesdays On Wax articles, to put some variety into all that old timer shit that goes up.

These two records were released in the late 90s, just as I was getting into back-packer rap. I was going into high school and the underground rap scene was on a steady rise in opposition to all the commercial crap that was being played on the radio.

This kid in my class (who was a grade older than me) put me onto Cage. He was an emerging MC as well who went by the name Yak Ballz, and was down with Cage, along with all the other dudes under Bobbito’s label, Fondle ‘Em Records. Radio Head was the single I chose. Cage looks and sounds a little different lately…

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Next is MF Doom‘s debut album Operation Dooms Day. Gas Drawls was the single Doom put out prior to the album debut, under the same label as Cage. If you can’t guess the song that was sampled, it’s a Steely Dan song.

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Fondle ‘Em Records had my favorite rappers and started a long tradition of going to Fat Beats every weekend to buy new records.”

-jlee

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Tags: Brixton, Cage, MF Doom, Vinyl

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