(The Thursday Shocker is a new series by none other than Tunawax’s own Benzito. By now everyone should be familliar with “the shocker“and know that sometimes the third is good… sometimes it’s not, it’s always a surprise. -Ed.)

Its the dawning of an age and for a plethora of reasons I missed the boat. At the point my lunch $$$ had to pay bills not new albums, my ears never stopped listening, my collection of music just ceased growing. Alas!!! Welcome to this century caveman. Needless to say I’ve been playing a bit of catch up these days. Old school jimmies thought to be forgotten, some new dopeness and all the slippages threw the preverbal crackages…

L.A.’s Styles of Beyond, MC’s Ryu & Tak, DJ Cheapshot & Producer VinScully make up the crew. First heard’em on the last House of Pain album, which is actually really good. More recently they worked on the Fort Minor (of Linkin Park) album, before that an album entitled “Razor Tag” was a DJ Green Lantern mixtape. In 2003 “MegaDef” was a metal sample filled release, but way back in 2000 they dropped “2000 Fold” & its filled with hot lava…

Pink: Styles Of Beyond – Skullyanamayshun

The Brooklyn super group Boot Cam Clik is still doing work and doing good work.
Buckshot, Smif-N-Wessun’s Tek & Steele & Heltah Skeltah’s Ruk & Rock hold down the majority of the framework now a days. Some good, some alright stuff, but it might be just me (which it’s not) I’ve always dug this camp. Rok, who has one of the sickest voices in all of Hip-Hop isn’t on this track but I’ve been bumpin to this beat for a couple days now…

Pink: Boot Camp Clik – The Hustle

Back in 05 when I was wasted at a bar watching the Brewers, when they really sucked!! The GZA & Muggs put out Grandmasters. I’ll be honest, I was disappointed when I stole this whole album from the Ole Glory Hole a.k.a. the World Wide Web for free. I had to delete most of the tracks cuz they weren’t up to snuff for my little hard drive and my expectations. I dig this shit…

Stink: Dj Muggs Vs Gza – Smothered Mate (remix)

2 in the pink, 1 in the stink… PoppaDop