(2)Deep: Natural Resource


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Years before Jean Grae gave us underground gems like Attack of the Attacking Things, This Week, Hurricane Jean or her genius collaboration with 9th Wonder, she was making a name for herself with her mid 90′s crew, Natural Resource along with Ocean and DJ Aggie. During this era, she went by What What and at times, by her government, Tsidi Ibrahim. Some of y’all may remember their strongest cut, (Negro League) Baseball put out independently on a 12″ by Ekapa RPM Records in 1996, which, interestingly enough, was a label owned by Jean’s father, Abdullah Ibrahim, a legendary South African jazz musician. Natural Resource followed the Negro League Baseball single with 1997′s I Love This World which also contained a remix to Bum Deal, released on Makin’ Records. Unfortunately for the group, this was the last 12″ they put out, altogether, only two singles were ever released.

Despite the slim pickings from this unexplored crew, they’re a great time capsule for underground heads and Jean Grae fans alike, where til this day, Jean continues to destroy mics, “bubbling undergound like a soda beneath some broken rubble.” Props to TwelveInchers for the original uploads.


DOWNLOAD: Negro League Baseball


DOWNLOAD: Bum Deal (rmx)


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DOWNLOAD: I Love This World


DOWNLOAD: They Lied (rmx)

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~ by Justice Equality Supreme on April 16, 2011.

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14 Responses to “(2)Deep: Natural Resource”

  1. Justice Equality Supreme FTW. Dope post. Thanks, fam

    Real HipHopHead said this on April 16th, 2011 at 8:07 pm

  2. Nice, Justice. We need to see more posts like this.

    slim said this on April 16th, 2011 at 8:18 pm

  3. good looks, remember when I ran across these last year when I was trying to find the Jane Doe album ( which i finally did). This time I’ll save these for my collection.. props

    xastey said this on April 16th, 2011 at 9:04 pm

  4. Props on this post! Anybody got the “Hands on Experience Part 2″ with What What, Kool Keith, High & Mighty and Bobbito? Or the original Bum Deal track?

    Tim C said this on April 16th, 2011 at 10:54 pm

  5. Haha just about to mention “Hands on Experience Part 2″!

    I’m sure if you google it you’ll find a link somewhere, if not cop the High & Mighty album, you should have that one anyways.

    js said this on April 16th, 2011 at 11:25 pm

  6. I got this on Wax!…

    DuNsWeRth said this on April 16th, 2011 at 11:26 pm

  7. Bum Deal original: http://hulkshare.com/fwwnaem5v4og

    Justice Equality Supreme (KNOWxONE) said this on April 16th, 2011 at 11:42 pm

  8. dope post KnowxOne. jean is always on point…its dope how ocean and jean switch verses on bum deal and the remix. good stuff.

    Sylver21 said this on April 17th, 2011 at 3:38 am

  9. stuff like this is why i still come to this site..dope

    james said this on April 17th, 2011 at 9:11 am

  10. Ah yes. Dope material. Thank you for this and the Finsta Bundy posts. What What. Natural Resource was that group. Makin records stand up. I remember those orange vinyl sleeves.

    jubei208 said this on April 17th, 2011 at 1:28 pm

  11. they got about 12 songs overall

    they got more sngs said this on April 17th, 2011 at 2:17 pm

  12. They released another song called…I can’t remember, This Shit Is Hot, or something like that. It had someone doing a Beavis and Butthead impression on the chorus. Anyone remember that joint?

    timm2014 said this on April 17th, 2011 at 5:28 pm

  13. DELM THIS TAKES ME BACK IM PRETTY SURE EVERYONE THAT COMMENT ON THIS HERE IS 30 AND UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    382 said this on April 18th, 2011 at 12:33 am

  14. Sho Nuff 30+…This was a hard record to find back in ’96. Finally found the original press @ Footwork in Philly. Actual diggin’ beats digital diggin’ – hands down!

    Benn Rymon said this on April 18th, 2011 at 12:55 am

 

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