Billy Jam’s HipHopSlam YouTube page has got more gems than a sunken ship. Best of all, there’s the time Mac Dre & Khayree turned up at Billy’s KUSF radio show in 1991 and performed an acoustic version of Times R Gettin’ Crazy with Dre in Furly Guthrie mode and Khayree pulling strings (no A-Wax.) Forget drumless boom-bap, it’s all about drumless mob-slap:
Billy’s also uploaded a handful of electronic press kits Noo Trybe Records sent out in 1994 to promote The Bounce Squad, Diezzle Don & Tha Govenor, and The Luniz. The latter’s epk is somewhat infamous because it’s where they first dissed Too $hort:
Billy later broke the news to Too $hort during an interview with the Dangerous Crew and was the first to glean a response from $hort before the beef went to record:
There’s a Black Artists Against Drugs PSA by Public Enemy with Chuck D in the Minor Threat t-shirt Glen E. Friedman gave him and the hilarious spectacle of Flava Flav warning da kidz not to get high:
There’s even rare videos like this sweet lil’ single from O.G TRU member Chilee Powdah:
(From Way Too Real album; 1996)
Lots of other good stuff on there and very active recently, so one to keep an eye on.
