Just-Ice – Back To The Old School (CD Reissue) (1986-2005) (FLAC + 320 kbps)

Back to the Old School is the debut album by old school/hardcore emcee Just-Ice. It was released in 1986, and was produced by Kurtis Mantronik. The album has been described as a classic early hip-hop album and revolutionary for its time by Allmusic.

It’s impossible to describe how fresh this album sounded when first released — producer Kurtis Mantronik utilizes the Roland 606 drum machine more potently than any producer before and as its huge beats kick holes beneath Just-Ice’s gold-toothed mumble of rhymes, curses, boasts, and yelps, the party gets underway. Back in 1986, this album burned eardrums and if now it sounds less revolutionary it remains a classic early hip-hop album, one that appeared as radical back then as the RZA’s production of Wu-Tang Clan did in the late ’90s. Neither Mantronik nor Just-Ice were to match it in their subsequent and separate solo work — it’s worth reflecting on what might have been created if their partnership had endured. Opening track “Cold Gettin’ Dumb” remains one of the most exhilarating tracks from an era when hip-hop was inventing itself day by day. The chauvinistic “Latoya” booms with block-rockin’ beats. “Gangster of Hip Hop” and “Little Bad Johnny” lay the seeds for many an ominous rapper to come.

Tracklist:

01. Cold Gettin Dumb
02. Love Story
03. Back To The Old School
04. Latoya
05. Gangster Of Hip Hop
06. Little Bad Johnny
07. Put That Record Back On
08. Turbo Charged
09. Cold Gettin Dumb II
10. That Girl Is A Slut

Download:

FLAC – Wayshare

320 kbps – Wayshare