DOWNLOAD: Freestyle Demo Tape – Tribal Productions

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This post simply echoes Larry Mizell’s Stranger missive from last Friday.

Tribal Productions was a collective of immensely talented/influential hip-hop artists active in the Puget Sound throughout the mid-90s. I was neither present nor learned on the scene’s happenings at that time, so I leave it to the authoritative voices of Deven Morgan and Jack Devo — two precious resources for telling what Seattle rap life was like before the teeny-boppers started caring — to drop knowledge.

I don’t know much, but I do know this: If you care to think of yourself as a Seattle hip-hop head, it’s best not to believe that this shit begins and ends with “Thrift Shop.”

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DOWNLOAD: “Full Circle” (12″ single) – Source Of Labor

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Hip-hop historian and forever Seattle rap stan Jack Devo shared this on his excellent blog, Bring That Beat Back, about a week ago. “Full Circle” was the first single from Source of Labor’s (Word Sayer, Negus I and Vitamin D) only LP, Stolen Lives (2001). Click on over to BtBB for a lesson in Town rap genealogy and click here to download the single.

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