Wee Bee Foolish "This Kid" (12", 2001)

Wee Bee Foolish are an alternative hip hop group with members Ken Boogaloo, Yeshua DapoED, DJ Bless and semi-official member producer Xtraordinaire. All four members hail from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn in New York. All of their releases have been on the Head Bop music label. They have cited other New York artists such as the Native Tongues Posse, Boogie Down Productions and Juice Crew as influences. To date they have released albums in 2002, "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and 2007's Underdog. Arguably my favorite song from Brighton Beach Memoirs, "This Kid," was released as a 12" in 2001 with distribution through Fat Beats. It's an underground favorite and did well in stores like Fat Beats during that independent run in NYC. Yesh released "Into Fresh Things" on Ill Boogie Records a year later and has remained a popular figure in the underground since back in 1996 with Fondle 'Em. Peace to the good brother Pocho, too. Revisit the underground gem, "This Kid," below...

DJ Adlib "Tales From The Tablist" (Mixtape, 2002)

I was originally planning to do a separate post to cover an MC out of Cincinnati, OH named BJ Digby aka Holmskillit, but the track I was gonna post ("Surrender") wasn't released on an official album or 12" by BJ Digby himself, it floats around on compilations and 12" releases with other artists on B.U.K.A. Entertainment, so my thought instead was to post up this fresh mixtape by DJ Adlib. The mix kicks off after the intro with "Surrender" and then covers tracks by Dave Ghetto, Planet Asia, Geology, Kan Kick, Mr. Complex, Lone Catalysts, Wee Bee Foolish, Declaime, Kazi & Oh No, Quasimoto, Lord Finesse, O.C., INI, Thurst and more. As a whole, a more enjoyable listen throughout. I do wish, however, that BJ Digby would have released a full LP at the time (if he did and I'm wrong, please correct me?), because "Surrender" is a really dope track (prod. by Usef Dinero) from '02. In 2007, he released a project with J. Rawls as Holmskillit that's worth checking out too. Peep the mix below...