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A trip back to 1991 for the full two hours tonight, with a hefty dose of golden age hip-hop for our Sampled funk & soul weekly (with some early acid jazz & a couple of commercial smashers for good measure), then Dan Lloyd joins us to take us through some huge rock tunes & personal favorites to finish season 5 of The Drop.
"The Drop with Danno" on GFN 광주영어방송 98.7FM in Gwangju & 93.7FM in Yeosu, Korea. An eclectic radio curation of all things musical spanning the spectrum every week. Broadcasting 8-10pm KST nightly.
Sept 23, 2021
The Drop with Danno
Part I & II
Public Enemy – Shut Em Down
Black Sheep – The Choice Is Yours
A Tribe Called Quest – Check The Rhime
Massive Attack – Blue Lines
D-Influence – I’m The One
Ace of Clubs – Everything’s Going To The Beat
NWA – Alwayz Into Somethin’
Massive Attack – Five Man Army
Cypress Hill – Latin Lingo (Spanish version)
Gang Starr – Lovesick
Main Source – Looking At My Front Door
Lenny Kravitz – It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over
Deee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart (The Reflex Bootsy & Q-Tip Revision)
I.
It is 20 hours past midnight on the first day after a splendid Chuseok Holiday, and it’s time for our final get down of the season here on The Drop before season 6 ker-thunks on Monday. And what better way to send it off than with our Sampled & AMPED funk punk soul rock Thursday explosion, and tonight is reflected in the 30 year old mirror as September 16, 1991…I mean, 2021. This is Danno apologies for the misstep there on the date, but please do forgive as tonight we go back 30 years to a fantastic year in music for the full two hours this evening. 1991 was the year the world discovered grunge and was probably the strongest year in rock since, but there was some amazing stuff going on in all types of genres especially hip-hop, and we plan to represent all of that tonight in both hours with myself here in the sampled funk & soul portion of the show, and of course Dan Lloyd will be joining us after 9pm. So, let’s get right to it and start the boom, and we’re gonna go with Apocalypse 91 as The Enemy Strikes Black to begin things. THIS is The Drop.
Public Enemy – Shut Em Down
The Drop has commenced the boom bap with emphasis on the former with that opener. What’s the deal, Drop Tops? Danno here mic spittin from studio 2, grateful as always to have you getting with the program tonight, broadcasting from downtown Gwangju studio 2, GFN HQ in the heart of all things Jeolla-dazzles.
That was our TIGHT (or) feature to begin the trip back to 1991 for the full two hours tonight, that was Chuck D & company in Public Enemy from Apocalypse 91 The Enemy Strikes Black, and that weapons-grade beat was Shut Em Down.
Released on September 24, 1991 the album will be celebrating its 30th anniversary since release tomorrow. This was the controversial paramilitary black consciousness outfit’s 4th studio album. While not as critically acclaimed as Fear of A Black Planet, it was generally very well received, even rated as the #2 LP of the year in The Village Voice’s critics poll at the time, and is often cited as a major piece of the so-called Golden Era of hip-hop by critics retrospectively.
For real lovers of the album, Chuck D is releasing a graphic novel Apocalypse 91: Revolution Never Sleeps, which is available for pre-order and should be out in November.
#9870 (50/100)…SM…podcast.
Moving ahead or I guess I should say back further, we’ll keep in the hip-hop motif for most of our Sampled funk & soul first hour tonight, and we got three big hitters from 91 up next in The Black Sheep, Tribe & Massive Attack to get things really rolling. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday back in 1991.
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Back at it and still back in time on The Drop as we stretch towards the finality of part 1 for tonight on this final Sampled & AMPED Thursday of Season 5. We are celebrating some of the incredible foundational music that dropped in 1991 tonight for the full two hours, and we are getting down with a pretty hip-hop heavy motif for the Sampled funk & soul portion of the show, as would be reflective of the year that was in music 30 years ago. Dan Lloyd will of course be doing the same for our AMPED rock feature in hour 2 this evening. Let’s run down those three cuts right there...
Black Sheep – The Choice Is Yours (…)
A Tribe Called Quest – Check The Rhime* (…a little highlight from a pair of great albums & Native Tongues crew affiliates right there. We started with Black Sheep off A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing, that was The Choice Is Yours, which was definitely lighting up the boards and dancefloors of the time, but after that was the real heavy swinger. Hard to describe the revolutionary impact of ATCQ’s Low End Theory, that was Check The Rhime. Released as the lead single & mostly produced by Q-Tip, many industry insiders & critics doubted the commercial potential of the album, but after gold certification at the time nobody could argue with the minimalist approach on the LP. Low End Theory is now cited as a milestone in hip-hop and popular music by fans & critics alike.)
Massive Attack – Blue Lines (…the title track from the Bristol crew’s absolutely legendary, multigenre debut LP which shocked the world and is undoubtedly a milestone in music history. We’ll talk more about this LP in part 2 after we rock another joint to start the 2nd quarter with it, cuz it is that good.)
Moving along, we have got to get in a couple of early acid jazz & new jack swing nuggets before the end of part 1. Up next we have D-Influence with I’m The One, featuring the mighty vox of Sarah Ann Webb. After that we’ll finish with Ace of Clubs and Everything’s Going to the Beat, which’ll take us to halftime. THIS is The Drop on your 1991 Sampled funk & soul Thursday.
D’Influence – I’m The One
Ace of Clubs – Everything Is Going To The Beat
II.
The Drop is always into something and tonight we continue with our focus on 1991 for the full two hours this evening, and we just started with Dr. Dre & company in NWA with Always Into Somethin’, and after that we rocked another Massive Attack cut off their Blue Lines LP, so let’s discuss further...
NWA – Alwayz Into Somethin’ (…from the group’s most controversial & final LP from 1991. Interestingly, both Massive Attack’s song Blue Lines & this cut sample Tom Scott & The LA Express “Sneakin’ In The Back,” the former much more obviously than that Dr. Dre heater. )
Massive Attack – Five Man Army (…another great sample right here from the group’s Blue Lines LP, the main beat being lifted from Al Green’s I’m So Glad You’re Mine. For those that don’t know, this album is pretty much the foundation of the trip-hop genre that would emerge later in the 1990’s.)
Now we’ll keep it a bit low key to continue the funk tonight, and stay in the hip-hop rubric. Up next we got Cypress Hill, Gang Starr and Main Source to bump, and we’ll let you know a bit about it but not en espanol side opposite the smoothery. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday evening back in time.
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The Drop as we inch ever closer to the halftime buzzer but travel back in time on this evening’s game of audio mirrors. Danno here, going through some 1991 favorites for the full two hours tonight, and our AMPED feature with Dan Lloyd starts shortly to continue with the same. To the recap for now though, we just heard…
Cypress Hill – Latin Lingo (Spanish version)* (…from the LA-based Afro-Latin hip-hop outfit’s self-titled debut, this is a very early of Latin & Spanish culture being reflected in the music. Of course, there are more popular singles from this LP, but Latin Lingo was truly an introduction to the world of LA’s latin funk, soul & hip-hop low rider scene which has been a thing for decades & decades.)
Gang Starr – Lovesick* (…another group making their name in 1991 was the duo of Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal aka GURU & DJ Premier. Step Into The Arena is the name of that album, listed by the industry as a 1990 release, but not put out until January of 91. Great album if you haven’t checked in full.)
Main Source – Looking At The Front Door* (…this tune dropped on the trio’s Breaking Atoms LP, and the group is an interesting collab with two beat producers working out of Toronto and Large Professor introducing himself to the wider hip-hop world, who was based in Queens.)
Now to finish the first half with a bit of a commercial bent but keeping it quality nonetheless, we got Lenny Kravitz with It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over, which indeed was Lenny’s first breakout hit, and I’m gonna leave you to guess what I’m gonna play to finish, as it was probably the biggest dance tune of 1991. Can you guesss? You’ve got about 4 minutes. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled & AMPED Thursday night and it’s halftime.
Lenny Kravitz – It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over
Deee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart (The Reflex Bootsy & Q-Tip Revision)
Part III & IV AMPED
Nirvana – In Bloom
Pearl Jam – Alive
Guns n Roses – You Could Be Mine
Pixies – Head On
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Breaking the Girl
Queen – Headlong
Smashing Pumpkins – Siva
My Bloody Valentine – Only Shallow
Leatherface – I Want the Moon
Screeching Weasel – The Science of Myth
R.E.M. – Losing My Religion