Name: The sHaPeShIfTeRs - "A Violent Reaction" by World One
Duration: 6 min 20 s
Description: Horrorcore track produced & recorded at World One in Boston's South End in the summer of 1994. Included on The sHaPeShIfTeRs album "Every Body Dies".

Horrorcore track produced & recorded at World One in Boston's South End in the summer of 1994. Included on The sHaPeShIfTeRs album "Every Body Dies".

Every Body Dies

The sHaPeShIfTeRs - "A Violent Reaction"

Tapestry

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!

The sHaPeShIfTeRs - "A Violent Reaction"

World One

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