THIS IS THE LIFE - Goodlife Cafe LA Documentary

human? · Post by **human?** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:01 pm

http://goodlifelove.ning.com/

awesome documentary about the Goodlife Cafe in LA.

saw it last night on Showtime... i may be biased, these are some of my favorite rappers ever, but this docu is awesome... put together by Omid, so its a insider take on the time...

if you dont know, Goodlife Cafe was a open mic in los angeles that spawned Freestyle Fellowship, CVE, Abstract Tribe Unique, Jurassic 5, Volume 10, Medusa, Pigeon John, Ganjah K and many more, and eventually evolved into the Project Blowed & is the foundation for the LA Underground.....

and since it seems like alot of people are into more the Instrumental Hiphop side of things here, you can directly trace everything goin down at a spot like Low End Theory to the Goodlife imho...

this is a must watch... and well worth every second...

human? · Post by **human?** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:28 pm

please dont sleep on this.

human? · Post by **human?** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:24 am

lol, if NOBODY here watches this, finds it interesting, or at least worth commenting on, this forum is waste.

constrobuz · Post by **constrobuz** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:36 am

if it "spawned" lame shit like jurassic 5, i dont want to watch a documentary about it.

human? · Post by **human?** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:44 am

Constrobuz wrote:if it "spawned" lame shit like jurassic 5, i dont want to watch a documentary about it.

lol... first J5 release is dope...

more importantly, Goodlife was the Freestyle Fellowships stomping grounds... also people like Ellay Khule, CVE (Fish & Riddlore), Of Mexican Descent, Abstract Rude, Medusa, The Nonce... even people like Pharcyde, Ahmad & Kurrupt...

imho, it where Hiphop broke out of its 80's mold, styles were the focus, and def laid the foundation for any sort of abstract Hiphop today...

Pallms · Post by **Pallms** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:57 am

human? wrote:more importantly, Goodlife was the Freestyle Fellowships stomping grounds... also people like Ellay Khule, CVE (Fish & Riddlore), Of Mexican Descent, Abstract Rude, Medusa, The Nonce... even people like Pharcyde, Ahmad & Kurrupt...

Does the documentary have any footage of Kurupt? (Only 1 "r"

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human? · Post by **human?** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 1:15 am

Samuel Sifter wrote:
human? wrote:more importantly, Goodlife was the Freestyle Fellowships stomping grounds... also people like Ellay Khule, CVE (Fish & Riddlore), Of Mexican Descent, Abstract Rude, Medusa, The Nonce... even people like Pharcyde, Ahmad & Kurrupt...
Does the documentary have any footage of Kurupt? (Only 1 "r" )

nah, but the footage they do have is amazing to me... ive seen bits and pieces before, the documentary Freestyle had a little, but this has some serious serious stuff... mad well put together... & the sounds were selected by Omid aka OD, who also talks a bit in it... and if heads here dont know about Omid they should get on that real quick too... mad insight in this flick about alot of these characters whose music ive enjoyed for years but bein in NYC rarely get to see perform & hardly get any press at all... oh and they DO have the infamous audio of Fat Joe getting boooed off stage lol.. & all kinds of people talkin about things, Mikah 9, PEACE, 2mex, Bus Driver even like B+ & Mear etc...

i dunno, i feel like anybody diggin any of this abstract Hiphop out of LA NEEDS to be up on the Goodlife....

godflesh fiend · Post by **godflesh fiend** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:00 am

Constrobuz wrote:if it "spawned" lame shit like jurassic 5, i dont want to watch a documentary about it.

It "spawned" Freestyle Fellowship & Aceyalone not to mention the Nonce........ so as a result it shits over the rest of the Hip Hop world end of story.

Thanks for the heads up about the documentary. I'd heard about it a while back and forgot about it.

2tall · Post by **2tall** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 1:16 pm

human? wrote:lol, if NOBODY here watches this, finds it interesting, or at least worth commenting on, this forum is waste.

well, i think you'll find most people come to this forum to check out tunes rather than watch films. you can't expect people to reply to your post then say its waste because you arent getting a response..

well you can i spose but i think its a waste of time and energy!

hey, i think its a positive story anyway, thanks for posting.

diasporah · Post by **diasporah** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 1:46 pm

Man...I grew up on the Nonce ,Aceyalone, Ellay Khule and shit like that...Would love to hit up Leimert at least once in my life..Thanks for the link Human forgot about it and I love Project Blowed...Time to burn the morning spliff and watch it.

At the cat that said "if it spawned J5 and shit like that" Hahahahaha

And yes..Any blowdian will shit all over your favorite rapper...Cant wait for daddy kev to quit bullshittin and release that Beond album

"I USED TO SELL MIXTAPES, BUT NOW IM A EMCEEEEEE!"

tacospheros · Post by **tacospheros** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:58 pm

2tall wrote:
well, i think you'll find most people come to this forum to check out tunes rather than watch films. you can't expect people to reply to your post then say its waste because you arent getting a response..

check tunes, watch films, download mixtapes, i come to forums for all of these things

human? · Post by **human?** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:27 pm

word, lol, i was in a grumpy mood yesterday...

when i first heard aceyalone, i was like a freshman in high school.. all balls dont bounce had just came out.. i didnt fully get it then, but i knew i should.. a couple years later, i finally listened to Freestyle Fellowship's Inner City Griots and honestly the world of what Hiphop COULD be just cascaded open to me.. since then ive been a bit obsessive about obtaining all fellowship & project blowed material, which back then wasnt easy, copin TAPES & cds &
vinyl through the mail and directly off dudes whenever and whoever even loosely associated came to do shows in NYC...

listening to project blowdians for years, watching how things grow (for example daddy kev & dj hive running konkrete jungle LA, and then daddy kev doin low end theory, and all the colaborations & projects in those timeframes), and being a part of NYC's Hiphop electronic culture, this whole new wave of Hiphop, whatever the fuck you wanna call it subgenre, comes not only as no surprise, but as the obvious evolution & development of the music & culture ive been a part of for time...

and yo, in my brain, this creative force comes from the good life. not ONLY the good life, but the story of the good life is absolutely fundamental to this forums existence, period. so thats why i got upset i think yesterday, when it seemed as if nobody was checking this...

i feel like theres a tendency here to roll with the hype, some of which is well deserved. but do yourselves a favor, check for the good life, and then the project blowed, explore the sounds & styles, theres a vast amount of material just waiting for yall to listen...

dead-o · Post by **dead-o** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:35 am

here is link for huge collection of good life/blowed/la ug video footage... mostly early 90's.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=dstzero&view=videos

2tall · Post by **2tall** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:39 am

human? wrote:word, lol, i was in a grumpy mood yesterday...

when i first heard aceyalone, i was like a freshman in high school.. all balls dont bounce had just came out.. i didnt fully get it then, but i knew i should.. a couple years later, i finally listened to Freestyle Fellowship's Inner City Griots and honestly the world of what Hiphop COULD be just cascaded open to me.. since then ive been a bit obsessive about obtaining all fellowship & project blowed material, which back then wasnt easy, copin TAPES & cds &
vinyl through the mail and directly off dudes whenever and whoever even loosely associated came to do shows in NYC...

listening to project blowdians for years, watching how things grow (for example daddy kev & dj hive running konkrete jungle LA, and then daddy kev doin low end theory, and all the colaborations & projects in those timeframes), and being a part of NYC's Hiphop electronic culture, this whole new wave of Hiphop, whatever the fuck you wanna call it subgenre, comes not only as no surprise, but as the obvious evolution & development of the music & culture ive been a part of for time...

and yo, in my brain, this creative force comes from the good life. not ONLY the good life, but the story of the good life is absolutely fundamental to this forums existence, period. so thats why i got upset i think yesterday, when it seemed as if nobody was checking this...

i feel like theres a tendency here to roll with the hype, some of which is well deserved. but do yourselves a favor, check for the good life, and then the project blowed, explore the sounds & styles, theres a vast amount of material just waiting for yall to listen...

much appreciated, and big up to daddy kev.

my roots were influenced by people like q-bert and z trip "back in the day" also, not to mention more recently ricci rucker and mike boo who both were no doubt helped along by kev..

if you have a lot of material to share you should get in touch with laurent at rhythm-incursions.com, this is just the kind of thing he'd like you to cover as a news piece!

godflesh fiend · Post by **godflesh fiend** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 1:30 pm

My brother hated Hip Hop.....I put him onto Aceyalone's "A Book Of Human Language" and he hasn't looked back.

"A Book Of Human Language" is the greatest album ever as far as I'm concerned period. Then you have albums like Freestyle Fellowships debut "To Whom It May Concern" and The Nonce's "World Ultimate"....the list goes on and on.

I'm not a huge Hip Hop fan.......but the genre has some absolute gems.

tacospheros · Post by **tacospheros** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:00 pm

this shit is on tv right now , bout halfway thru. if you got iO its channel 328. im bout to burn and watch the 2nd half

tacospheros · Post by **tacospheros** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:36 pm

yep, that was really good

THIS IS THE LIFE - Goodlife Cafe LA Documentary

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