Outlaw Posse

But, um, you know, get to this album, and, uh, from the artwork onwards, you know you're-- you know he's trying to do something here.

Um, God, there's a lot of comparisons to last episode [laughs] for us, where again, obviously it's like, you know, you, you, you're shown, you're shown a piece of artwork, and you see it, and you're like, "That's cool," right? Outlaw Posse from last week obviously having that second album but not quite, you know, getting that, uh, getting that, uh, overall aesthetic across into the music and the content itself.

Um, this one I guess, um, achieves it a little bit better, I guess.

Um, you know, you have, uh, something like X Versus the World, uh, with that, uh, Isaac Hayes sample.

I feel like there's even more samples that haven't been identified yet lurking in the mix.

Planet Hackney is a gem of a track.

It's interesting that we've gotten two Hackney acts in two weeks in a row because Outlaw Posse were rapping about Hackney in their career too.

This track definitely has the British accent on it.

There's probably a couple of others I'm not thinking of at the moment, but yeah, man, he's checking off the list of, you know, just... dream dream collaborate collab albums uh for for a hip-hop artist such as himself um so yeah shout out to him we continue on with

our uk black history month uh celebrations our retrospectives on uh uk hip-hop artists uh from yesteryear um and uh yeah we get into outlaw posse which is a duo from the early 90s and only the early 90s as i well as one of us will uh hopefully mention nearer to the end but yeah they are still going not to ruin the ending but they are still going over on their band camp so if you want to go support them feel free to do so although you know they're trafficking in AI artwork unfortunately but you know nobody's perfect um but yeah uh we have their most of their works from the 90s all of their works from the 90s especially the albums that we're going to get into and uh yeah the story behind everything so with that said Ben what have you got for us

Yeah, there's not a lot of information out there about Outlaw Posse.

They have a well-sourced Wikipedia page, but most of the interviews I could find were from KG of Naughty by Nature, not KG of Outlaw Posse.

So the UK duo, which you might not know if you spun their music before because they have perfect American accents on their music.

uh it's bello b and kg now kg grew up listening to reggae from his father's side and like many artists we've covered was inspired to pursue hip-hop when he heard the message by grandmaster flash this led to him becoming a dj and drummer of some note He was a drummer in the school band and actually held a residency as a DJ in London.

The duo met in school over their shared love of hip-hop music and began recording soon after.

Both of them were rapping at the earliest stage, although KG was clearly the more accomplished early on, being part of the school band and a local DJ of some note.