Comments on: UMC’S – Hip-Hop Sucks Because of You!

By: Maturesun

Maturesun — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:24:50 +0000

I by no means think that the UMC’s made hip-hop suck. To me you made it fun and worth listening to. We have the different types of music in hip-hop and the “happy rap” was and is something that is needed. One of my all time favorite performances I ever saw on Soul Train is of the UMC’s just wilding out on stage TWICE!!! Truly wished you guys had stayed in the game even if you switched up from “happy rap” to something more edgy because your flow alone would have taken you through that “Oh they trying to be hard now” phase especially if you are battling the likes of WU and Hit Squad.

By: NYOIL aka KOOL KIM

NYOIL aka KOOL KIM — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:16:25 +0000

It’s been a long time.. i shouldn’t have left you.. lol

just ran across this article again via a facebook friend. The post themselves brought up as many memories of where i was mentally at that time as the story itself.

It also makes me happy to know that the things i’ve gone on to do in the now .. are positive things.

maybe it’s time to resurrect this column

By: Misseda Flow

Misseda Flow — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:39:34 +0000

I see these post were added some time ago, but still paint a vivid portrait of days past. Thank you Kool Kim for all of that history. I can relate to you focusing on raising your children, I decided to do the same once my daughter was born.. After reading all of this, it had me thinking back to a 12″ single you dropped. I can’t remember the name (It’s in my crates)..I loved it though,had a female on it as well..I think it was around 1997?? Much Love,,, Peace

By: ForceofNature

ForceofNature — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:02:02 +0000

“Ain’t nobody ba-ad like me,
ain’t that the way it all styarted G?
You say men call me He-Man,
Some call me super
Robo-Cop couldn’t stop the super trooper”

“I got a million in the bank and it’s all mine,
a third of it invested in salt mines
Material wealth may be the least in a girl’s eye
Searching for a man with charisma”

Word up I used to love that song ‘Jive Talk’. RNS killed that track too.

By: rashid.bk

rashid.bk — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:19:27 +0000

Dayaaamn, this is crazy. I’ve been downloading all my cd’s 2 my ipod… and run across the “Fruits..” cd, and that shit brings me back to the old clubbinn’ days in ny. No one can understand how big house music was and all the new dances every week. That fruits.. album is on constant rotation in my car and UMC’s were way ahead of they’re time as far as rhyme patterns and beats. It’s a shame all those old school ny cats who took rap to another level are all broke, even though you can’t say rap w/out mentioning, ATCQ, PE, EPMD, Chubb Rock, LOTUG etc,etc. It’s nice 2 know you’re still around involved in hip hop Kool Kim n thanx for the flashback, ya’ll niggas was the shit back then and you can catch me bumping “swing it to the area” as I drive 2 work on hiway 400 in atl… the beat switch is sick ’till this day. Peace.

By: Jon Wrath

Jon Wrath — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:27:17 +0000

hEY WHAT’S THE DEAL POP.mY NAME IS jON WRATH FROM A GROUP CALLED lntg.i GREW UP IN STATEN ISLAND AND REMEMBER WATCHING YOU IN ST MARKS DOING YOUR THING IN THE PARK.i USE TO CHILL AT 165 AT MY COUSINS KIYA AND NONAS HOUSE AND WOULD OFTEN CHECK YOU CHILLING BY THE BARS EITHER TALKING ABOUT MUSIC DOING CRAZY FLIPS AND SPITTING FIRE and was excited for you when you were in ms melodies video “Live on Stage”.EVEN THOUGH i WAS A LITTLE SHORTY THAN, i DEFINITELY THOUGHT YOU WERE THE MAN, not to mention , you had the illest flat top and sharp style around.I remember when Blue cheese came out.I was living in savannah GA at the time , but when the video came on rap city I was like OOOOHHHHHHHH SSSHHHHHHIIITTTTT I know this cat, I was like that’s my man pop o( though none of the country boys believed me.Man I just want to say even though the fame and the dough never came ,in my eyes you are a great success.Me and my boys from the marks, Tyriq, Meach, Jarren, tyrell,freddy, alexian, and felipe thought you were the man and still do.
You can check my group out at Myspace.com/lethalnation ( we’re definitely on some diferent shit by I think an artistic brother like you will be able to appreciate what I’m trying to do) Peace my brother

By: C.Hall

C.Hall — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:31:04 +0000

kool kim. i see the posts about you being an ill battle rapper. can you please bless us with some old joints you might have on tape. or any unreleased joints of your albums. both your albums were hot. one
http://www.getfam.com

By: alley al

alley al — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:33:58 +0000

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nice post.
thank you, kool kim!

me n some friends recently saw umcs
and blacksheep and a gang of others rock
@ bb king’s in nyc, and it was a great time.
i was smashed and all over the place..
but apparently the umcs have been producing HITS
for top artists in the last coupla years.
nice!
stay up!!
it’s cool to see these newer cats
give the older ones some respect-
like kwame doing g-unit joints etc..
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By: Mike Nice A.A.

Mike Nice A.A. — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:24:27 +0000

That was an inspiring piece. I just broke out my “One To Grow On” single the other day, by request, and listened to it. THAT WAS DOPE! As a matter of fact the whole first album pretty much was. I just wanted to say no matter how things turned out your group did put out good music, and are not the reason HIP HOP sucks!

By: K.ARNOLD

K.ARNOLD — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:52:46 +0000

oh yeah…by the way…

I was 14 when the UMC’s dropped “blue cheese” and I saw the same thing that happened to them happened to Kwame; first rap fans loved them, then they started hating them…the entertainment industry can be a cut-throat business.

By: K.ARNOLD

K.ARNOLD — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:43:47 +0000

It’s good you survived the music industry of that era with your mind and body still functioning…love your inside stories and I’m looking forward to read more of them.
I always trip out when I see that UMC’s poster on the wall on “MARTIN”.

By: Shadow

Shadow — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:02:48 +0000

Man, Good article

Nigga’s got a slave mentality

By: DanjaMania

DanjaMania — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:52:46 +0000

ayyyyyyyy… where’s the new articles at? This shit’s been too good to stop here- there’s gotta be more.

By: bse

bse — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:07:01 +0000

The cuts on “One to grow on” are all-time favourites up there with Scratch on “Rampage” and Too Tuff on “Nut”. That whole tune is certified.

I’m really enjoying the old-industry shit. Seems like at the time our whole knowledge of the hiphop industry, as fans, came from the outro to Paid In Full. Now it gets padded out a little some 16 years later. Nice one.

Robbie, dope as ever and Kim; keep it coming.

By: DanjaMania

DanjaMania — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:58:36 +0000

Real fukkin’ Talk right there, and I couldn’t put it any other way. I cant front, I was one of a legion of young niggas who shook their heads when I saw the UMC’s… the fuckin’ UMC’s… rockin’ Carhartt, cursin’, and talkin’ about hard shit in ’93. But again, as a 14-year-old, I simply thought “maaan, these niggas are just jumpin’ on the bandwagon”. Although I could’ve easily thought the same of Brand Nubian and others who went thru dramatic changes around that time as well- but it seemed like TOO much of a stretch for the UMC’s, who’d previously danced with a puppet.

Now that I’m older, I know exactly how real life could make a nigga flip and be on some “new shit”. I used to be the human equivalent to ‘Fruits of Nature’… no homo… and life has dealt me all kinds of bullshit. And now, I’ve become the equivalent of ‘Unleashed’- as if to say ‘THIS is what happens when you get fucked over repeatedly’. I can totally understand why certain conditions and things that happen can change a man’s mentality and take away that big cheesy 32-tooth smile. Like that one you had on that album cover (lol).

And fukkit, Martin Payne had y’all chillin’ on his wall for two seasons, so y’all couldn’t have been that bad.