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Tha Northwest

“While the outreach of the average music release never bounds past city limits even in today’s day and age, imagine the nineties. Now considered history those who lived it are able to re-tell and look back on a time that really wasn’t long ago. While its probably no different in the eyes of today’s youth…” (read more)

Swan Lake 

 “The “Intro 2 The Central” album is one of the most complete Seattle releases ever, in a way that most albums are no longer. With no distraction from spin-a-wheel-find-a-rapper feature appearances (other than Tribal mainstay and legendary God emcee Infinite) and a consistent vibe provided by Vitamin D and Topspin “Intro 2 The Central” packed 9 concise tracks worth of dope into it’s cassette tape only format…” (read more)

Bring That Beat Back 

Maybe the most criminally hard-to-find record to ever come out of the Northwest, this is Narcotik’s “Intro 2 the Central” tape from ‘95. With nocturnal, soul-inflected beats and flat, emotionless delivery, C-Note and Tizzy T may seem on paper like Seattle’s answer to EPMD… (read more)

#TRIBALLEGACY #RIPTIZZYT 

hey: all you Seattle skyline picture reblogging, 206-chanting newbooties…