Unknown Souljah - Fat Mix #3
I'm not sure if the state university in my home town attracted them or what, but there were always some interesting characters around. I didn't know him well, but Jeremy Kadinger seemed like one of those characters (though I believe he was a local). He was a few years older than me and my group of friends and our paths never really crossed in high school. But when I started going to school at Stout (the aforementioned state university), he opened a record store. I can't even remember what it was called. But it was at his store that I discovered that he was a deejay. And, to my surprise, he was a hip hop deejay.
Ack and I went in there a couple of times, and I have a couple of memories. I remember Jeremy having turntables in the store and flipping doubles of Steve Miller Band's "Fly Like an Eagle" (at least, that's how I remember it -- could have been another song, I guess). I remember (for a fact) having Jeremy order me double copies of The Fab Five's "Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka" 12 inch when it came out. And Ack somehow got this tape (not sure if it was at the store, or somewhere else). Anyways, Jeremy went by the name "Unknown Souljah" at some point, and he had a series of mixtapes called "Fat Mix". Fat Mix #3 won't blow your mind any more than the title will, but it does have some quality 90s cuts on it. Plus, it just takes me back to that time. It's interesting to think that there were multiple kids in my small town doing this in the middle of Wisconsin in the early/mid 90s.
I recently looked Jeremy up on Google, and it looks like he still lives in that part of the state, but now he's a Christian DJ and plays music on a religious radio station. Oh well.
Thanks to Ack for delivering this one.
Labels: mixtapes
posted by Sheldiack at 11:53 AM
4 Comments:
This is terrific. Ack used to do his best Jeremy impression with the duling Fly Like and Eagles. Didn't Z-Trip do that bit as well?
Anyway, fresh!
Ha ha, yeah sometimes it's weird to see how progressive Menomonie actually was compared to other little towns. My first concert I ever went to was De La Soul in 1989, at Stout. Holla!
The record shop was "Underground CDs, Tapes and Records" (it was in the basement of Menomonie's Masonic Temple - Acoustic Cafe is there now). Jeremy worked for Bob Saxomire (sp?) and both were Menomonie locals. Bob DJ'd Junior High dances for years. Jeremy was THE Menomonie DJ for years and was on the tables for "The Posse" (Stout band). I went to a show at the Stout Student Union in '91 (or so).
I was at the De La show, too. 45 min set - it took 5 years for me to be satisfied at a hip hop show. Even then, they were mostly poor until I was the J5 tour in 2001 (or so).
Kadinger is a master and still rocks shit all over the place...he's got sweet hook ups with Volume One magazine (does Chalk Fest every year) and the Tea Party Express (yep). Those tapes were the shit...one quick verse and on to the next track. I give him Hell every time I see him that he didn't make like 45 more of these. I'm gonna show him this for sure. Valley of the Skins...that shit wasn't even on BET!
DJ Funky Bob Sachsenmeier sold me MC Hammer's "Dancin' Machine" on 12" when I was in 7th grade. I remember him holding the 12"s he had upright on the counter so I could flip through them almost like there was a real crate in Menomonie! I really don't think he liked me.
Jeremy was not the original DJ of the Posse. He was with them when they opened for Mint Condition but a dude named Ant opened for De La Soul with them. That concert was shortly after the whole Public Enemy break-up Professor Griff controversy when they came back with Fear of a Black Planet, and also shortly after Ice Cube left NWA, so the best part of the show I remember was hearing "Burn Hollywood Burn" in the Nelson Feildhouse and being blown away Ice Cube was on a P.E. song.
I used to go to Underground every Saturday morning in my junior and senior years of high school and pontificate with Jeremy about how awesome Rap-A-Lot production was despite the hilarious raps.
"I mean this group...TMT. What is it they're trying to say? what is the subject of this shit? BUCKO!..ucko!..ucko!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrBvlZ8jeUU
Nowadays Mike Dean is like a God of hip hop production. Go figure.
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