What song was this?

February 2, 2009 11:37 AM

Looking for the title/artist of a conspiratorial hip-hop track from the mid-90s.

I had a collection of mid-90s hip hop b-sides a while back, and it contained one cut that was all about wild conspiracy business - the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Group, water flouridation, alien invasion, the whole nine. The music was kind of a playful yet ominous loop, I think it was string instruments or something like. It definitely wasn't Immortal Technique, altho I know he gets pretty conspiratorial at times. I believe there were three or four different lyricists throughout the song. Anyone have any ideas? I'd most likely recognize the artist/song name if I saw it, but for the life of me I cannot remember.

posted by FatherDagon to media & arts (7 comments total)

Non Phixion? Their whole jam is about that kinda stuff.

Also Jedi Mind Tricks.
posted by orville sash at 11:52 AM on February 2

Blood of Abraham? Killah Priest?

Do you remember anything about this compilation--title, label, other artists that appeared on it, anything like that? Was it literally a b-sides comp?
posted by box at 12:27 PM on February 2

I believe that you are talking about Presage's album, The Outer Perimeter.

I LOVE that album.
posted by cimbrog at 1:10 PM on February 2 [1 favorite]

Actually, on second thought, that probably isn't it. I missed the "several lyricists" on one track part - this album is mostly samples with only one track having a lyricist, being a sort of spoken-word head trip. Everything else matches your description exactly, though!
posted by cimbrog at 2:00 PM on February 2

Unfortunately the collection itself won't help much - it wasn't an official release, but a big lump of digital rips from vinyl cuts and 12"s, so some of it might not even be on CD. It had lots of J-Zone and Blackmoon and such, stuff from Hexstatic, all over the place.
posted by FatherDagon at 2:27 PM on February 2

Do you remember any phrases from the lyrics, or samples or anything? If so, sites like ohhla.com and the-breaks.com might be helpful.
posted by box at 3:05 PM on February 2

Found it - it was J-Zone after all, I could just never track down the cut - "Candy Razors". Nice!
posted by FatherDagon at 10:52 PM on February 3 [1 favorite]