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Topic subjectDUST IT OFF: Digital Underground's SEX PACKETS... 25 years later
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2925350, DUST IT OFF: Digital Underground's SEX PACKETS... 25 years later
Posted by johnbook, Fri Mar-27-15 12:27 AM
March 27th is the 25th anniversary of the debut album by Digital Underground called SEX PACKETS, released on that unknown Tuesday in 1990. I wrote my memories about the album in my column DUST IT OFF, have a look when you can:
http://www.thisisbooksmusic.com/2015/03/26/dust-it-off-digital-underground-sex-packets-25-years-later/

I still feel it is one of the best hip-hop albums ever made and holds up brilliantly.






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2925359, an absolute classic.
Posted by shockzilla, Fri Mar-27-15 05:43 AM
on the short list for my favorite album of all time.

(which shouldn't come as a surprise, given my handle).
2925361, One of my favorites
Posted by Mack, Fri Mar-27-15 07:40 AM
Still pissed that I lost my tape and when I got it on CD, Hip-Hop Doll wasn't on there. This needs to be reissued with all the songs/b-sides/etc.
2925391, Thanks! Reading your piece made me cop Sex Packets and...
Posted by Creole, Fri Mar-27-15 12:00 PM
RE: DUST IT OFF: Digital Underground's SEX PACKETS... 25 years later

Sons of the P. I had them back in the day when I had a nice sized cassette and cd collection. All of my vinyl is from before '90. Anyway, I plan to rock out with both of them all weekend.

2925419, fantastic album with incredible production
Posted by , Fri Mar-27-15 02:27 PM

werd.
2925440, great write up; lots of memories
Posted by cbk, Fri Mar-27-15 03:51 PM
I bought my cassette at Sam Goody the mall in Pleasanton.

My mind was BLOWN as soon as I pressed play on my Walkman.

Wish I still had that tape. Got the CD, but it's not the same.

2925649, damn i think i got that tape still
Posted by no great pretender, Sun Mar-29-15 11:53 PM
gonna have to dig for it.

sick album.

I always liked arguin on the funk too, the way Shock laid down both parts of that whole argument is fuckin genius.

Arguin' on the Funk
https://youtu.be/hui3ecC4Nbw
2925451, This album is still fantastic
Posted by spenzalii, Fri Mar-27-15 04:39 PM
Yet another album where the tape is better than the CD
2925508, Last Week I had one of the most frustrating conversations of my life...
Posted by Nate Geezie, Sat Mar-28-15 10:02 AM
Teacher at my school....mid 40's...from NYC...used dance in the Juice Crew era...


She told me Digital Underground wasn't real hip-hop...lol

She couldn't name a geto boys song, a scarface song, the west coast and south pretty much do not exist in her mind.

I spent 10 minutes tryna explain Digital Underground...the funk...parliament...

It was like talking to Box of empty boxes....

I just stopped...



I Grew Up On Booty Shake...We Did Not Know No Betta Thangs...

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2925576, Shock G is so underrated
Posted by mistermaxxx08, Sun Mar-29-15 05:24 AM
dug how that album felt and its own freshness. they brought P Funk to the Mainstream and were part of it and it felt truly real.

Shock G paved that door for Dr Dre and DJ Quik,

the humor and the multi personalitys and characters.

dug the balance of the album then and now.
2925671, digital underground felt like they really were making p-funk
Posted by shockzilla, Mon Mar-30-15 09:41 AM
much more so than dre and his cohorts who were borrowing from the same well.
2925651, underrated standard set in production imo
Posted by zaire, Mon Mar-30-15 12:24 AM
shock g minted something there
2925684, those Pfunk handclaps on Humpty alone sold me
Posted by revolution75, Mon Mar-30-15 11:02 AM
Like Shock said...they were really the sons of the p
Those first 2 records come straight from the mothership