By Odeisel

Brooklyn is Coney Island.  The sandy beaches the waves crashing into the shore.  The boardwalk.  The Wonder Wheel and the Cyclone.  Brooklyn is Fulton Street.  Junior’s Cheesecake, week early Jordans and Africans selling mixtapes for five dollars on a sheet they can wrap up when the cops come.  Brooklyn is Crown Heights, where Hasidim has bars on the terrace on the 7th floor like the Amazing Spider-man can rob your house.  Brooklyn is Brownsville where bodegas sell 50 cent sodas, three dollar heroes, 99 cent Steel Reserve, and blunt wrap comes in grape and strawberry flavor.

Brooklyn is Do The Right Thing, with Radio Raheem blasting “Fight The Power,”Smilie selling pictures of M-M-M- Malcolm, and the aroma of Sal’s Famous Pizza (who was getting $ 2.50 for a slice with extra cheese in ‘89, no wonder they burned him down).  Brooklyn is Duck Down Records, one of the last truly thriving independent labels.  Their 2009 output impossibly surpasses any year of their previous classic mid 90’s run in content and quality. If you missed it, and I’m sure some of you have, they have put together a sampler of all that fire.  Trust me, you need this in your life, especially if you are one of those cats always bitching about “real Hip-Hop.”

The cover, a brilliant adaptation of the Spike Lee classic film is dope in it’s own right.  Featuring label heads Dru Ha and Buckshot as Sal and Mookie, its totally appropriate at this stage in the label’s history as an enduring piece of Brooklyn and Hip-Hop.  No more words, come get some of this wholesome goodness.  Word to Tina’s ta tas. Peace.

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