rip season continues, call me rip hamilton (because yes i'm still wearing a mask). this time we have another pair of 90s rap radio mixes but from the opposite coast, two october 1992 dubs of kid capri's afternoon show on 107.5 wbls. the kid should need no introduction so i'm not going to bother to introduce him even if the worst reddit users of all time (seemingly the last people left on the dead internet) might now only know him for "ruining" some kendrick lamar songs (its apart of the art meathead....)

there are already a decent number of his mixes floating around online, ripped both from his bls show and his iconic mixtape run but i like how workaday these two short ones feel. and if whoever scrawled the dates on the labels is to be believed, these were dubbed on back to back weekdays - tuesday 10/6 and wednesday 10/7 - which gives us a nice little coherent chronology that the under annotated youtube loosie network could never (asher roth voice i love context). 

late 92 is an interesting liminal moment for the genre too, with the first wave of the golden era being just old enough to already feel old school but the full splinter that would come with the chronic and 36 chambers still on the horizon. so you get a much funkier/poppier production palette beyond the narrow jazzy swing (natives) -> dark plod (wu) spectrum that history now casts on boom bap rap - lots of hit squad, lench mob, ditc, an equal ratio of looped breaks to programmed drums, more chunky meters type samples than warm rhodes and filtered basslines.

links below, youtube for the stream, internet archive for the download, full tracklists available on both links.

10-6-92 (Youtube / Internet Archive)

10-7-92 (Youtube / Internet Archive)

the best new-to-me track here (which of course is not new to big money random rap collectors and certainly not to the great youtuber ogdonninja) comes from bronx crew another smooth alliance, who do a sort of pete & cl lite thing over a big deniece williams loop. though it was also nice to be reminded of king sun's single-only drunk-ass "blind alley" flip "sippin brandy".