Thursday, August 24, 2006

Weare(penomenom)1e continued

More birthday joy to share with you today. A little something that I culled from the DHR boards not long ago, and just had to spread the love. A nice mini-documentary about Daddy Freddy and his appearance on record breakers back in 'the day', going for the 'World's fastest rapper' title.

Theres loads of great footage in there, and I think I might actually have seen
this at the time, as its certainly from the era when I would have been watching - have to say though, when I encountered Daddy Freddy again through his mid-90's collaboration with ragga-junglist Marvellous Cain, I had completely forgotten this ever happened - or in fact that he even existed! All I need now is that Fast Chat competition that was shown on 'The Word' in the early 90s and Ill be a happy robot!

Needless to say, he ranks amongst my favourite MC's now amongst the likes of Major Mackerel, Ninjaman, Admiral Bailey and the Saxon fast chatters - maybe someone out there with a good knowledge of the UK soundsystem era could provide some more info on him?

Heres the vid - reasonable quality Windows Media Video - 24mb.

Enjoy.

2 Comments:

Blogger John Eden said...

oh mi gosh! Legendary footage you got there mate! Not too much to add to what he said in the clip really - his Fashion 12" Baba Loo Baba La Baba Loo Baba Laba (Them No Bad Like Me) is wicked (as is probably the other stuff on Fashion).

http://www.daddyfreddy.com/ is pretty good...

don't forget the collab with Rootsman/The Bug...

8:15 PM  
Blogger adam said...

what a lovely, well spoken young chap he was! great vid.

3:36 AM  

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