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R.I.P. Hitman Howie Tee

Golden era hip-hop producer Hitman Howie Tee passed on August 2nd at the age of 61. Tee was responsible for some of the most remembered songs of the '80s and '90s. Special Ed's "I Got It Made," "The Magnificent," Chubb Rock (who is his first cousin)'s "Treat Em Right," and Color Me Badd's "I Wanna Sex You Up" are some of the songs from Tee's catalog. He was born in England but raised in Brooklyn. It was 1985 when he collaborated with the late Kangol Kid of UTFO to write and produce "(Nothing Serious ) Just Buggin" for the R&B group Whistle. This connection to Select Records because of Whistle expanded, and Tee became the in-house producer for the label and went on to produce music for The Real Roxanne, Little Shawn, and E.S.P. Howie Tee's output went beyond Select, and he worked with Father MC, Kashif, Full Force, Heavy D, Patra, Maxi Priest, and Madonna. He was another creative architect known more for his sound than his name. Tee was also an innovative DJ who created the Joe Cooley scratch. 

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  A bit of old school rap from Chubb Rock. This track came out in 1988 and samples one of my favorite James Brown songs, “I Don’t Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I’ll Get It Myself)”.

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27 Days of Old School: #9 "I Got It Made" (by Special Ed)

“I talk sense condensed into the form of a poem Full of knowledge from my toes to the top of my dome”

It was 1989 and MTV was already something I was watching on a daily basis, but there was something missing from their daily music video rotation. They were criminally lacking with hip-hop videos. So, into the void was BET.

Where MTV was more about dance, pop and rock music videos, BET was all…

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Chubb Rock's "And the Winner Is..." in 50 Words

Chubb Rock’s “And the Winner Is…” in 50 Words

    Chubb Rock And the Winner Is… Select Records

  j3 says:

Chubbed up for the budget-saavy head! This is too long for its own good. While Chubb holds his own lyrically, the album is mad inconsistent and dripping with regrettable dance-y whackness. Unmistakably, Chubb is a force on the mic and his performance partnered with Howie Tee make for decent listening.

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25 Years Later: Special Ed's "Youngest In Charge" Reviewed

25 Years Later: Special Ed’s “Youngest In Charge” Reviewed

Special Ed Youngest in Charge Profile Records

j3 says:

Never listened to this record in its entirety until this week. Spent some good time with it and it, without a doubt, grew on me. It’s an album of cheap thrills and sureshot singles. But it also is riddled by inconsistency, laughable house tracks and this presumed self-importance that permeates the entire record. First off, I think of what I…

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