A few months ago, I was asked to share my memories and stories as a part of TDK’s “Life On Record” project. I didn’t get the video treatment Nas got but I feel completely honored to be involved and had a great time reminiscing about pushing ‘boxes together to make tapes, my thought processes as a young yardie/wannabe DJ and all of the aspects of what music once was to me.
Why did you make it/who was it for?
Any tape I made was always for me. In that aspect, that’s also how I know I could never be a real DJ because I’ve never picked popular tracks. As long as I can remember, my goal was always to find overlooked shit I thought was dope and, if my tape was playing it for someone else, it was to put them on to whatever song or artist I’d found. “Yo, this shit’s hot & you gotta understand it” lol. I’d sit there & nod regardless if the other person was nodding with me or not. In my mind, they’d catch on later.
And when I really started thinking back, TDK’s 90 minute tapes were my weapon of choice for a certain period so this is brand synergy coming full circle. What tape manufacturers did you rock with?
Check the full article @ TDK’s “Life on Record Chronicles.”
Thanks: TDK
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Man, this guy Gotty is slowly becoming a star lol
stfu you putz lol.
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Man, this guy Gotty is slowly becoming a star lol
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He is this close too being a panelist on one of those VH-1 shows on hip hop or I love the 90′s.
Give me the second option. The people on those panels are usually corny lol.
LOL @ Meka’s reaction. Where is that Sean P gif from anyways?
Give me the second option. The people on those panels are usually corny lol.
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Yeah they usually are; but you will bring some coolness to the proceedings.
I really only remember TDK & Maxwell tapes. I always took a few of my Dad’s blanks or one I hadn’t seen him use in awhile & record over it.
I think I taped over every available cassette tape in the house – If I needed one quickly I’d even stoop so low as getting out the sellotape, covering the record inhibit and taping over my mum’s audiobooks….
But that exact TDK tape pictured forms the vast majority of my cassette collection, I’ve got fond memories of the white and blue packaging and writing very tiny letters trying to get everything to fit on the label. It never did.
I dubbed over my mom’s Bobby Blue Bland tape. not good.
I’m still salty as hell that the dudes who stole my Delta 88 back in the day left only the official tapes. Dudes got me for all of my personal mixes, but left the likes of Illmatic, Hell on Earth and OB4CL. Bastards.
And the only tapes I’d use were the grey Maxell joints. I always liked that you could write on them a bit easier since they were solid in color.
Maxells ALL DAY HOMIE!!!! The clear two hour ones for a while then i stopped trying to get more tape for my buck and went with the good ol’ quality grey’s
I had a Japanese exchange student come and stay with my fam back in ’97. He was one of the only cats at his school that was into hip hop, and I was in the same boat at my school. He also happened to be a DJ and he made me a mixtape as a gift. The first joint on the mixtape was Akinyele “Put It In Your Mouth”. To this day I wonder if he knew what that song was about.
lmao @ Che’s last line.
TDK man over here.
Any tape I made was always for me. In that aspect, that’s also how I know I could never be a real DJ because I’ve never picked popular tracks. As long as I can remember, my goal was always to find overlooked shit I thought was dope and, if my tape was playing it for someone else, it was to put them on to whatever song or artist I’d found. “Yo, this shit’s hot & you gotta understand it” lol.
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I’m still this guy right here lol.
Fucking Meka and his GIFS LOL. I’m too young to know of the tape days, but I’ll be here hanging on to every word you guys say, cuz that’s what the Young G(ods) are supposed to do.
Carry on.
Maxell XL-II 90 Minute High Bias Cassettes. Also know in the southern hip hop lexicon as the “gray tapes”.
I rocked the Maxell low bias cassettes too. Clear with the green lettering.
Man I remember using any and all kinds of blank cassettes back in the day, recording songs off the radio, copying song from other tapes. Shit, we used to record ourselves on them cassettes and just bug out listening to them.
“Yo cuz ‘member this!”
“oh shit, where u find that at!”
So many memories just from using cassettes, and I’m in my mid 20s lol
I used to rock with Maxwell’s; but as Pinero said any and every tape you had in the house could and would be used. I taped over my Pop’s Mighty Sparrow tapes, my Mother’s Kenny Rogers and Loretta Lynn tapes. The whoopings I got for that were tough but worth it. lol
I still have a lot of my tapes from my youngin days……I just dont have anything to play them on now!
Geesh……
And Id take the 5 pound Metal tapes all day long!!! 120 min! Those were some expensive tapes back then.
“Maxell XL-II 90 Minute High Bias Cassettes. Also know in the southern hip hop lexicon as the “gray tapes”.”
Didn’t know it was a southern thing but I’m from the south and that Maxell was definitely my tape of choice. The TDK one above I remember being much cheaper than the Maxell XL’s so I’d use them to tape things I’d more than likely end up taping over anyway.