Needles » dusty demos http://needlesdj.com yo it's the N. E. double, push a Lex bubble in the winter... Tue, 04 May 2010 05:29:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 The Artifacts – Wrong Side of da Tracks [demo] http://needlesdj.com/2009/08/the-artifacts-wrong-side-of-da-tracks-demo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-artifacts-wrong-side-of-da-tracks-demo http://needlesdj.com/2009/08/the-artifacts-wrong-side-of-da-tracks-demo/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:23:46 +0000 needles http://needlesdj.com/?p=606 The ArtifactsBack in 1993, Tame One and El da Sensei burst onto the scene with their classic ode to graf-writing, “Wrong Side of da Tracks”. The beat hit hard, the rhymes were fresh and the imagery, especially in their video, was something that rap fans hadn’t seen before. At the same time, New Jeruz (New Jersey) was entering it’s own rap Golden Age with Redman, Naughty by Nature, Lords of the Underground, half of das EFX and The Fugees. A few years ago, I got my hands on this demo version of The Artifacts’ first single, probably recorded around 1992. The delivery is a little bit different, and their rhymes lay on top of a Quincy Jones “Ironside”-based beat. Listen for yourself to hear the difference from the T-Ray-produced studio track:

The Artifacts – Wrong Side of da Tracks | demo

]]> http://needlesdj.com/2009/08/the-artifacts-wrong-side-of-da-tracks-demo/feed/ 0 Nas – Déjà Vu [demo] http://needlesdj.com/2009/08/nas-deja-vu/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nas-deja-vu http://needlesdj.com/2009/08/nas-deja-vu/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:46:25 +0000 needles http://needlesdj.com/?p=581 Nasty Nas - demo tapeBack before he was The N, before he was Nas Escobar, before he was just plain Nas, he was Nasty. I got my hands on a few of his demo tracks recently so I thought I would share one. Most of them seem to come off of a 1997 J Love mixtape which I assume was made by mixing some actual cassettes. “Déjà Vu” sounds more refined than some of the other joints on the demo tape, so it might be just be an unreleased track from 1994 or so. You will notice a chunk of Nas’ “Verbal Intercourse” verse in this track as well. I have a bunch of other demos (Biggie Smalls, Artifacts, Common…) I promise to put more up if you want to hear them. Enjoy the nastiness:

Nas – Déjà Vu | demo

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