Main Source – Just Hangin’ Out / Live At The Barbeque (Reissue VLS) (1991-1998) (FLAC + 320 kbps)

Extremely significant for 1991’s “Breaking Atoms” alone, Main Source’s effect on hip-hop is nearly impossible to gauge, especially when considering Large Professor and K-Cut’s contributions outside of the group. Consisting of MC/producer Large Professor (born Paul Mitchell) and twin DJs/producers K-Cut (born Kevin McKenzie) and Sir Scratch, the New York group came together in 1989 and debuted on Wild Pitch with “Breaking Atoms” – an undeniably classic album, regardless of its field – two years later.

The group’s production work, combined with Large Professor’s masterful wordplay (from the brilliant baseball analogies drawn throughout the police brutality-themed “Just A Friendly Game of Baseball”, to the disheartening romantic strife depicted in ‘Looking At The Front Door’), set a standard. While Gang Starr’s DJ Premier is commonly heralded as a groundbreaking sampler and beatmaker, it was Large Professor and K-Cut who schooled him on how to master the SP1200. Not only that, but “Breaking Atoms” “Live At The Barbeque” helped establish the careers of both Akinyele and Nas.

Tracklist:

A1. Just Hangin’ Out (Original)
A2. Just Hangin’ Out (Remix)
A3. Just Hangin’ Out (Instrumental)
B1. Live At The Barbeque (Original) (Feat. Akinyele, Joe Fatal & Nas)
B2. Live At The Barbeque (Remix) (Feat. Akinyele, Joe Fatal & Nas)
B3. Live At The Barbeque (Instrumental)

Download:

FLAC – Wayshare

320 kbps – Wayshare