Hustlers Convention
Label : Celluloid
Catalogue No: CELL 6107, CEL 6107
A1. Sport 2:36
A2. Spoon 1:14
A3. The Cafe Black Rose 1:47
A4. Brother Hominy Grit 2:43
A5. Coppin' Some Fronts For The Set 2:24
A6. Hamhock's Hall Was Big (And There Was A Whole Lot To Dig!) 4:09
B1. The Bones Fly From Spoon's Hand 2:59
B2. The Break Was So Loud, It Hushed The Crowd 3:12
B3. Four Bitches Is What I Got 3:44
B4. Grit's Den 1:34
B5. The Shit Hits The Fan Again 3:35
B6. Sentenced To The Chair 1:38
Media Condition : Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition : Mint (M)
Fantastic stuff – incredibly hard and incredibly funky, and a masterpiece all the way through! Long before there was any talk of gangster rap, Jalal of the Last Poets recorded this album of gamblin', pimpin', and hard double dealin'. It's a fantastic album-long ride through the dark side of the black underworld, and is the aural equivalent of a blacksploitation flick. Kool & The Gang provided the music – and Jalal tells the whole story throughout, in the same hard rappin' style he used with the Last Poets!
The record's an undisputed classic, and includes the sample classic "Sport", plus loads of other righteous funky cuts like "Spoon", "Grit's Den", and "Sentenced To The Chair"!
