Cold Crush Brothers

The Cool Crush Brothers were among the first rap crews to emerge through the Bronx immediately after hip-hop’s birth in the mid-’70s. Along with Grandmaster Display & the Furious Five, Grand Wizard Theodore & the great 5 MCs, as well as the Funky Four AND SOMETHING, these four NYC natives had been already well-established a long time before the Sugarhill Gang produced rap children word using their multi-platinum-selling 12″ “Rapper’s Joy.” Actually, as legend provides it, it had been a Cool Crush Brothers tape a pizza-shop employee (and soon-to-be Sugarhill Gang member Big Lender Hank) was rapping to when Sugarhill Information owner Sylvia Robinson noticed him in 1979. Rather than informing Robinson who the true artists around the tape had been, he collected some close friends who quickly became area of the much more effective and well-known Sugarhill Gang. Founding users Grandmaster Caz, the Almighty KG, Tony Firmness, JDL, Easy Advertisement, and DJ Charlie Run after had been showmen and a experienced tag group of rappers. They used and perfected their routines for over a 12 months from 1978 and started performing live, specifically at several “MC fights” that occurred in those days. Among these fights was captured on tape in 1981 and released in 1991 on the CD entitled Afrika Bambaataa Presents Hip-Hop Funk Dance Classics, Vol. 1. It, combined with the Chilly Crush Brothers’ Reside in 82 recording, epitomizes hip-hop before it became the industrial monster it had been in the 1990s. The easy party-flavored rhymes hark back again to a far more innocent period when MC stood for Grasp of Ceremonies, DJs in fact did something apart from scratch more than a DAT tape, as well as the just references to eliminating had been metaphors. In 1982 they made an appearance in the famous hip-hop film Crazy Style aswell as released the wonderful 12″ “The Weekend.” The Chilly Crush Brothers by no means released an effective full-length recording but did to push out a number of important singles for the Tuff Town label, including “New, Wild, Travel and Daring.” Many of these singles are gathered on 1995’s New, Wild, Travel & Bold. They split up in 1986, but reappeared on Terminator X’s second single recording, Super Bad.