Capital AK has always been an elusive character to us mostly because there is very little information on him. One of the first time we heard him was on an unknown song on the soundtrack for This is the Life. slowly but surely we started to gather information on him like that he was a part of the First Brigade along with Ganjah-K and Meen Green. Next thing we found of AK was really unexpected. We were listening to the Hip-hop Halloween show and realized that AK performed with the Fellowship that night and Maaaan he fucking ripped it.
Of course, when Capital AK is brought up someone always mentions the beef he had with Ellay Khule. Shit, were the same but what we wonder is what lead to all this. I say it was just an old school battle going back and fourth with songs but my cousin thinks it was something more than that. Maybe we will never know but one thing’s for sure and that’s that they were friends before according to the Hip-hop Kclan chant on Narcolepsy and this still-shot from a video:
This song is the third and title track off an album entitled Zero or just 0. At first we just had this track and thought it was just a single. Recently someone, although I can’t remember who, over at the Phila Flava forums posted up the whole album which featured classic cuts like ‘Decimal 7‘, ‘Space Junk’, and ‘What Is?’ which Hymnal mentions in his verse.
On June 10th, 1999 at Seattle’s 700 Club, the winds of fate and Funky Joint Entertainment formed Chef Salad & the Crew Tones for an exciting, one night only performance. With members: Abstract Rude (ATU), Michael Shrieve (Santana), Lonnie Marshall (Weapon of Chaos), Reggie Watts (Maktub), Zac Hendrix and Leland Jones (Insult 2 Injury), and Dread Eye. The Chef Salad brought something special to the table by showcasing the different styles of it’s talented players. With impressively versatile Ab Rude at the helm, the Salad moved effortlessly through funky upbeat hip-hop, intense soul, reggae, and more. This recording captures the moments from that special evening, from new versions of ATU favorites like “The Renaissance” and “Them That’s Got”, to the gut-wrenching “You’ll Eat Those Words”. Chef Salad & The Crew Tones will have you doing the “Lion Shank” at the dinner table!
Here we have some classic cuts off of the True Sound Sampler. For a while we thought the sampler was only on vinyl and had just a few tracks but we we’re all wrong, very wrong. We recently received a tape from Danny Holloway which turned out to be the full version of the True Sound Sampler with 12 tracks on it! Full of cuts from Vooodu! and the Western Hemisfear crew along with others such as Unit One Poetry and Super Natural Thang…Here’s a little snippet of the tape.
P.S. Bird’s Eye View is Meen Green’s proffesional debut…
