Microphone Mathematics

“I get paid out my backbone – meaning my rectum”

Can a grim album without any strong lyrical content – other than weed, guns, and violence – be the best rap album of 1993? I can’t give you an answer to that but I can say it was my favorite album of the year (until Buhloone Mind State dropped late in the year). It was my senior year of high school when this came out and I remember it was all over NYC and blaring out of every jeep (I know that sounds cliché but it was true). Anyways, this album has a great sound to it and excellent production. I don’t think I’ve updated my links on the sidebar of the blog since I started this but one of em’ is for DJ Evil Dee (who DJ’d for Black Moon and has my man Ben as a big fan) and he pulled some awesome shit from the stacks to create the beats on this album. If you’ve got a system that handles the bass then dig on this album as it just sounds so much better in the car. Classic NY album. Some albums immediately take me back to NYC and this is one of em’.

As an added bonus some of the better original samples pulled for the album are also below. One I posted a ways back from 10 Wheel Drive and probably my favorite but all of them are awesome!

Album:

Black Moon Enta Da Stage – HERE

Samples:

Ten Wheel Drive “Come Live with Me” [sampled on Got Cha Opin'] – HERE

9th Creation “Rule of Mind” [sampled on Slave] – HERE

John Klemmer “Love Song for Katherine” [sampled on Shit Iz Real] – HERE

Donald Byrd “Wind Parade” [sampled on Buck Em Down] – HERE

One more additional note. Black Moon’s Buckshot (also a Crooklyn Dodger) went on to form the larger rap conglomerate Boot Camp Click which spawned Heltah Skeltah. I just wanted an excuse to play this video by Heltah Skeltah as I loved this back in the day. It was always being played on The Box (Do other folks remember The Box?). Sweet beat for this song