Another day, another fallen soldier. KL aka Kamakazee from Screwball, one of our favourite NY crews, has passed away after an asthma attack. We’d like to send our condolences to his family and friends. Big up to Flow for upping a couple of KL classics, including his Hydra records solo sureshot ‘Snakes’, on youtube. Pour out a little liquor.
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15 responses so far ↓
1 Give Thizz To Yo Kidz // Mar 28, 2008 at 7:39 pm
RIP
Always been a big fan of Screwball.
2 Koaste // Mar 28, 2008 at 10:05 pm
RIP… Was bumping that Screwball LP today…
3 Jaz // Mar 29, 2008 at 12:20 am
RIP KL, I have always been a Screwball fan, man there must be an ill super group up there now.
4 Robbie Coltrane aka Cracker // Mar 29, 2008 at 5:54 am
No way. I’m gonna blast some Screwball too. Snakes sure is a classic. RIP Kamakazee.
5 brian beck from wisconsin // Mar 29, 2008 at 8:41 am
R.I.P indeed.
Screwball were one of my fav’ groups of the late 90s and we also gotta mention the earlier Kamakazee joints like On The Real and Bridge 95 too.
6 Antonio // Mar 29, 2008 at 10:10 am
Snakes was produced by Marley Marl, apparently…
7 Aisle 12 // Mar 29, 2008 at 2:50 pm
RIP KL. You will be missed.
8 Fred Fence // Mar 29, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Why ‘apparently’? It was produced by Marley.
9 lace da booze // Mar 29, 2008 at 8:58 pm
‘Spread It’ and ‘On The Real’ are classics – Rest in peace
10 Antonio // Mar 30, 2008 at 9:05 am
“Apparently”, because I didn’t know for sure. Now I know.
11 Fred Fence // Mar 30, 2008 at 9:41 am
OK! Someone told me they read an interview with Marley that said that he has a team of people that find samples and chop them into parts for him or summin, kind of help him produce, so thought you might be hinting at that when you said ‘alegedly’! Marley’s produced some ill underground tunes in the last decade, his beats are darker and harder than they were during his late 80’s phase, proper rugged ass Hip Hop. He’s put out some nice remix EP’s and also played stuff on radio that I’ve never heard anywhere, there’s a DOPE Pete Rock special I got on tape where Marley does the first beat (killer!) and then it drops into an exclusive Pete Rock beat (also killer!). Marley must have track after track after track of unreleased gems.
12 brian beck from wisconsin // Mar 30, 2008 at 10:05 am
K. Def alledgedly ghost-produced the bulk of Marley’s 90s output.
13 The Funkologist // Mar 30, 2008 at 10:33 am
Marley said it himself in the Scratch Mag interview, he got people who chop for him. 1
14 barryx // Jun 11, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Marley Marl is not the only major producer who has people “working” for him or doing ghost production. Regardless of that he’s down by law.
And just so you know, Kamakazee is actually a duo comprised of KL and Solo. Both MC’s are part of Screwball, where Solo became known as Kyron.
15 E. Geeziss // Jun 26, 2008 at 4:10 pm
RIP comrade. Big up Screwball & NYG’z – 1 — E. Gee, Bpt.CT
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