The RIP thread...

Rest in power Biz,
loved your live set at Brixton Academy Cold Chillin’ Tour with Big Daddy Kane back in 1988, where you human beat boxed on the mic and Cool V did a twenty minute live cut, scratched, transformed with finesse, peace

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_VuOShZDRH0

1 Attachment

Nobody Beats The Biz

Pickin’ Boogers

Benny and the jets

RIP Biz. Legend of the game.

https://youtu.be/Cv3sAFe1FCM

I played a lot of Biz Markie tracks yesterday, his generation switched me on to forgotten grooves that were sampled by hip hop back in the 80s. My record collection is stronger, for that I give thanks, such pioneers with vision. Tracks like Isaac Hayes piano loop @1.44min at the original speed, sampled in ‘making music with your mouth’, springs to mind.

https://youtu.be/1DS5D6cYQhA

And this sampled in Vapors

https://youtu.be/T0QQUps8954

Marley Marl here with THE GREATEST SAMPLE OF ALL TIME for “Something for the radio”- Biz Markie

https://youtu.be/7SXTfHsh37M

Ace, thanks for sharing @dubtap

Props to Marley Marl for putting Biz Markie out there beyond supporting Roxanne Shante with human beat box duties. Diabolical from Brooklyn’s finest

https://youtu.be/5T2VEfL8-ds

Master Hashishin Frenchy Cannoli

https://hightimes.com/culture/paying-our-respects-hashmaker-frenchy-cannoli/?fbclid=IwAR2anuK87XlcOwFVrq8mKn4GCEfIa8uMtiEBWzonH8HJIIV_R3VaG3ZhTwE

Jerry Granelli.

Peter Rehberg, musician and founder of the absolutely seminal labels Mego and Editions Mego. Thanks for all the music Peter.

Was just about to post myself! Still can't quite believe it. Was listening to Get Out (really loudly..) just 2 days ago. Really sad and shocking.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jul/23/peter-rehberg-underground-music-editions-mego

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jul/25/us-standup-comedian-jackie-mason-dies-in-new-york-aged-93

Jackie Mason

Felder, his longtime friend, said Mason had a Talmudic outlook on life: “That whatever you would say to him, he would start an argument with you.”

Wonderful. RIP.

“I very rarely write anything down. I just think about life a lot and try to put it into phrases that will get a joke,” he said. “I never do a joke that has a point that I don’t believe in. To me, the message and the joke is the same.”

Brilliant!! RIP.

During the OJ Simpson murder trial, the BBC’s Scottish service hired Mason as a weekly commentator.

Oh, boy. That must have been good.

Oh, boy. That must have been good.

Not necessarily. Shouldn't speak ill of the dead and all that, but I went to see him (I think at one of the theatres on the Strand) a few years ago, and he was shit.

More charitably, maybe the friend I'd gone with and I just didn't get his style, and we left at the interval so maybe the second half was blinding, but we were really disappointed.

The tickets had been freebies, but frankly it didn't even repay the effort of having gone.

You misunderstand me. Mason had form for cheap racism towards African Americans. I thought that was well known.

Racist, pro-Trump, banned a Palestinian from appearing on the same bill, argued for driving all Palestinians out of Israel. Fuck Jackie Mason.

Don't do that now.

Why not? Because it offends? Every time someone with form dies we have to put up with obits that gloss over this kind of shit. Act like a cunt when you’re alive, you don’t get a pass when you die.

I didn't know any of that about him, shame.

Getting Mason to do commentary on the O.J. Simpson trial was so spectacularly tone deaf, when Giuliani's racist mayoral campaign was still well remembered, yet it is cited in his obit without comment. Needs comment.

Hugo Millan, 14.

Young motorbike racer died on the track.
Absolutely tragic.