Just becareful with this track, I had an actual convo with Akro about releasing this track to the public... he did not want this out there... I Still Love it!!!

Tapestry

This was one of those odd tenuous connections that came and went in the Boston-area hip-hop scene.  Curtiss Robinson was an old friend from high school, with whom I'd already recorded many songs, both as part of his dance/R&B troupe Act One, and solo as "Main Squeeze".  Jared Bridgeman was a rapper from Dorchester who'd been in touch with us for a long time, inquiring about production and the possibility of getting Charlie (KooKoo) Murphy to DJ for him at live shows.  Eventually we all became friends through convoluted connections, though most of it was probably through the unofficial talent-matchmaking agency that was Tracey Ivester's presence in the Boston hip-hop/R&B music scene.

Curtiss and Jared came over and we banged this out in a day, helped by the simple but catchy production and both MCs' familiarity with the lyrics and comfort performing with each other on the mic.  Everyone seemed to like the song, but as always there really wasn't any business side to World One, to promote it to whatever the next level would be.  This ended up being the only song I recorded with the two of them together, though we all continued separately with the music; Curtiss as rapper/DJ Clashious Clay, and Jared finding a bit more widespread success after adopting the name Akrobatik.

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Brothers

"Brothers" by Stud B & Main Squeeze

Open Doors

In the Spring of 2019, I made this audio documentary for a hip-hop literature class taught by Professor Cameron Leader-Picone. The documentary dives into "Lecco's Lemma," a show which began on MIT's college radio station, WMBR 88.1 FM, in the mid 80s and was hosted by Magnus Johnstone. The show became widely influential in the Boston hip-hop scene and has since become a significant part of the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

For my research, I conducted interviews with Dr. Pacey Foster, the archivist who runs the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive, and with Matt Reyes, a Boston native who grew up listening to and performing on "Lecco's Lemma." With permission from Pacey, I also scoured through the archive, and pulled a lot of audio materials from it to give listeners of my documentary a chance to hear "Lecco's Lemma" in its original form. 

This documentary won an Award of Excellence from the Broadcast Education Association and was a finalist for Best Documentary at the 2020 Intercollegiate Broadcast System Conference. 

Painting Credit to Magnus Johnstone

Boston, Hip-Hop, and its Home: The Story of Lecco's Lemma

I'll be using this page to showcase the hip-hop & R&B songs recorded on analog 4-track cassette at World One from its inception in 1985 up through 1993, when the studio was updated to 16-track digital ADATs. Stay tuned for songs from The Diamond 2, The C.O.D. Crew, Maine T, Act 1, Poetic Soldiers, Justice C.D.C., Kingsmythe, Raw Field, The sHaPeShIfTeRs and more!

"Brothers" by Stud B & Main Squeeze

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