Falcon Friday

If you ever wanted to lean how to talk jive just listen to this record over and over.

Lightnin’ Rod’s “Hustler’s Convention” (United Artists Records – 1973) is the ultimate.

Lightnin’ Rod (aka Alafia Pudim, aka Jalaludin M. Nuriddin, aka The Grandfather of Rap) was a member of the ogest of ogs The Last Poets and he had a story to tell. So he called up  Tina Turner and the Ikettes, Bernard Purdie, Billy Preston, Colonel Dupree and Kool and The Gang had them lay down some of their badasssssssest shit ever and he went to work rapping about the biggest shindig to ever go down above 110th street. . . . The Hustlers Convention. What we get is a record that runs like a blackexplotation radio play. Your ears will feel cooler just for being in the same room with these sounds.

(Not to mention the air brush work on the cover by Disney artiest and over spray master David Willerdson that would make every dude making custom hats at the swap meet put their guns down and swear allegiance. Is it me or does the fist full of $ on his pin look like California?)

Enjoy mothafucka!

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