Stretch and Bobbito Re-Unite on WKCR for One Last Show

[aleph]

Speechless right now. Without speech. A lotta grog tho.

[gimantalon]

LISTEN DOWNLOAD HERE

http://www.altrap.com/write/?p=2101



Funny I hear my tweaked version from various sources (incl here) of the big l jay z freestyle.......

[TheBigSleep]

Thanks for the link gim.

Here's a few alternatives:

http://thediggersunion.com/?p=12728

http://rapradar.com/2010/10/22/stretch- ... how-audio/

[Philaflava]

Around what time was the shout out? I'll just peep the stream.

[TheBigSleep]

Mentions start about an hour and twenty five minutes into the show (first half).

Shout Out:

http://www.divshare.com/download/12937359-fdd

or

http://www.multiupload.com/BD9JBCQS0Z

Extended with Jokes:

http://www.divshare.com/download/12937361-860

or

http://www.multiupload.com/SUV9WDE5TH

[Philaflava]

Fucking Bobbito, all the times I've spoken to him he can't get the name right. I'm glad Stretch corrected him. Huge props to both you and Verge btw. You guys deserve it.

[TheBigSleep]

Hahah, I knew that'd get to you. Bob mispronounces actual words all the time though (this show included). It almost plays like a typical Stretch and Bob-esque promo, like they planned it or somethin'.

Thanks man.

[-SyLar-]

those links encoded at 320kbs? i doubt it but have to ask

[TheBigSleep]

128 CBR, webrip, you're gonna have to wait a little bit for a cassette version and / or the official one on Squeeze Radio's site.

[stype_ones]

Wow, I tried to stay up man, I really did. I was out cold by from what I remember 1:25. I'm up every day at 6:30 and have responsibilities that really prevented me from staying up.

Shouts to Philaflava, Verge, Nes, Sleep, Hectic and all of us. I'm glad you guys got the props you deserved.

Can't wait to listen to this when it finishes downloading.

Sleep, is the link you posted the full show?

[HecticEclectic]

Here is my recording from last night..straight off the radio in mono..recorded on my Harmon Kardon CDR 20..Missed some minutes when changing CD's, especially around 3:40am-3:50am when I was half asleep..Got till about 5:20am with three 80 minute discs..Hopefully the whole six hours is posted in it's entirety uninterrupted as rumored..I must say it was an out of body experience hearing the Big L/Jay-Z freestyle that was ripped from my tape played as part of the intro to the show..I'm on cloud 9 today..but crazy tired..Peace to the entire Philaflava massive!

Pt. 1 http://www.sendspace.com/file/zgns0l
Pt. 2 http://www.sendspace.com/file/ymlkfz
Pt. 3 http://www.sendspace.com/file/eaam9w

[-SyLar-]

128 CBR, webrip, you're gonna have to wait a little bit for a cassette version and / or the official one on Squeeze Radio's site.

okay as i thought. i recorded the whole 5 hours myself but the the 320kbs file is 662mb thats why i was wondering what the bit rate was of those much smaller files.

[aleph]

Fucking Bobbito, all the times I've spoken to him he can't get the name right. I'm glad Stretch corrected him. Huge props to both you and Verge btw. You guys deserve it.

That was iller than ill hearing the sites get their due. Verge must be shellshocked. Peace to you guys.

[TheBigSleep]

Shouts to Philaflava, Verge, Nes, Sleep, Hectic and all of us. I'm glad you guys got the props you deserved.

Can't wait to listen to this when it finishes downloading.

Sleep, is the link you posted the full show?

Thanks man. I linked to a couple places that have the full show up (all the same rip except for this new one by Hectic) as well as a quick snippet of our shout outs.

Here's the full show for all those who still need to check it:

One part:

http://hotfile.com/dl/77599003/4aff899/ ... 0.mp3.html

Or two parts:

http://www.multiupload.com/GOT0CVVHF6
http://www.multiupload.com/V7LAH9EYJ2

Peace to http://www.altrap.com/write/?p=2101

128 CBR, webrip, you're gonna have to wait a little bit for a cassette version and / or the official one on Squeeze Radio's site.

Okay as I thought. I recorded the whole five hours myself but the the 320 file is 662 megs that's why I was wondering what the bitrate was of those much smaller files.

Yeah, file size has a direct correlation to bitrate (and vice versa). There's no way a five hour segment of audio is that small a file and 320 CBR.

It's typical for widespread files to be lowered in quality to increase download speed and preserve space and it's common for streams to max out at 128 CBR, along with radio feed broadcasts and most webrips in general, so it's to be expected.

Feel free to up a better version if it's truly the full show, I'm sure that'd be appreciated.

[Verge]

all around to everybody. Everybody deserved it for all the work they put in. All the hours of taping, all the years of preserving the tapes, all the work in digitizing them, all the love for sharing them, all the work in organizing them, and all the time, work, money and love involved in hosting a site like this..
I'll tell you, I've been having a bad couple of days, but this just sparked me back up. That's a part of what the show did for a lot of us back in the day, growing up in rough areas, through tough times, you always knew you had Thursday nights to look forward to. And trees and alcohol. Lol.. Not speaking for others, just sayin.

I suck. I fell asleep somewhere after midnight, with the radio on and ready to tape. I only had two 90 minute tapes anyway, though. I guess out of habit from back then, I would usually use two 90 minute tapes so I never had any actual full shows.
I do have reasons for falling asleep though. I'm just disappointed that I missed it live, but I will listen tonight.

[gimantalon]

the 128 cbr rip is actually 24kb/sec mono tweaked. crazy but true, i also ripped the stream. it's the maximum bitrate you can get from it... never saw something that low though :D. you guys deserved the shout out!

[serch4beatz]

well you cant turn shit into something good when the source is shit to begin with hehe

[clark bent]

i normally start a thread on the board every year or two asking this question but this thread is as good a place as any to ask again

what is the beat that starts at 2:38


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lHwQa68HIo

[serch4beatz]

i think it was established that this was a beat from stretch

[fatboybrandon]

I fell asleep too last night, but I knew somebody online would have the show recorded and save me the trouble. It's good to hear them reminisce and having a good time, it makes me appreciate life more to hear what they made out of so little resources and good friendships.

with the radio on and ready to tape. I only had two 90 minute tapes

90 minute tapes? You need to try one of these, for about $100 it can save you alot of getting up to press record or flip a tape due to the mad amount of recording time. Once I got one of these I haven't looked back to cassettes since:



Or you could just download some freeware audio recording app like Cacophony and record to your hard drive. I use these techniques for Halftime Show and Underground Railroad

[clark bent]

i think it was established that this was a beat from stretch

oh it was....like confirmed for real?

damn shame that it didnt get more shine...its one of the greatest beats ive ever heard

[serch4beatz]

yeah i think they even talked about it on the reunion show before they played the nas freestyles

[TheBigSleep]

The 128 CBR rip is actually 24 mono tweaked. Crazy but true, I also ripped the stream. It's the maximum bitrate you can get from it...never saw something that low though. You guys deserved the shout out!

Thanks man. Yeah I figured that was at best. It was broadcast at 128 but actually was lower than that due to funding and server issues I'm sure.

Oh it was...like confirmed for real?

He mentioned it on his blog:

http://konstantkontakt.blogspot.com/200 ... 02893.html

There was a thread that led to this write up:

http://www.thetroyblog.com/2008/10/02/a ... at-reborn/

Stretch even commented on it originally, when it was the T.R.O.Y. Blogger:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... =firefox-a

The Nas freestyle was from the Stretch Armstrong Show. The CM Fam Show became the name of the show after I decided to not do KCR anymore in the ate 90's. And yes, the beat in question is something that I had cookied up earlier that day on my Casio FZ-1. When Nas and I were looking through my crate to figure out what he would rock over, I put the headphones on him and asked him what he thought. He dug it, not just because it was his flavor, but because it wasn't from a record. After reading the threads from various forums on this highly esoteric topic, I wondered, and still wonder, why nobody just straight up asked me what the beat was.

[gimantalon]

squeez radio putted out their version on them site... guess what... shit is 64kbs sec... once again H E version, best version?

[Chris_the_vinylist]

squeez radio putted out their version on them site... guess what... shit is 64kbs sec... once again H E version, best version?

OK I've recorded the 5 hours directly from the WKCR real audio stereo stream into wav. It had a better quality here in old Europe than the "normal" mp3 mono stream. After about 30 minutes, I had a short interruption of about 30 seconds due to connection problems of my internet provider. After that, the last 4 and a half hours were working without interruptions. I splittet it into 3 parts. For me the sound quality is ok. There are only 30 seconds missing.
I gonna convert the wav file into mp3 128 kbps and upload it. So we can compare which is the better version. But I hope that somebody in NYC recorded it directly from FM stereo into 128 or higher kbps mp3 ;)

[t-rock]

Sound quality aside, this is the definition of dope!

This is making my all day marking session rather enjoyable.

[Teddy C.D.]

all around to everybody. Everybody deserved it for all the work they put in. All the hours of taping, all the years of preserving the tapes, all the work in digitizing them, all the love for sharing them, all the work in organizing them, and all the time, work, money and love involved in hosting a site like this..
I'll tell you, I've been having a bad couple of days, but this just sparked me back up. That's a part of what the show did for a lot of us back in the day, growing up in rough areas, through tough times, you always knew you had Thursday nights to look forward to. And trees and alcohol. Lol.. Not speaking for others, just sayin.

I suck. I fell asleep somewhere after midnight, with the radio on and ready to tape. I only had two 90 minute tapes anyway, though. I guess out of habit from back then, I would usually use two 90 minute tapes so I never had any actual full shows.
I do have reasons for falling asleep though. I'm just disappointed that I missed it live, but I will listen tonight.

Congrats on the shoutout, Sleep, Verge and everyone else! Ya'll deserve it like crazy though, with all the work you've put into preserving this show.

[serch4beatz]

squeez radio putted out their version on them site... guess what... shit is 64kbs sec... once again H E version, best version?

OK I've recorded the 5 hours directly from the WKCR real audio stereo stream into wav. It had a better quality here in old Europe than the "normal" mp3 mono stream. After about 30 minutes, I had a short interruption of about 30 seconds due to connection problems of my internet provider. After that, the last 4 and a half hours were working without interruptions. I splittet it into 3 parts. For me the sound quality is ok. There are only 30 seconds missing.
I gonna convert the wav file into mp3 128 kbps and upload it. So we can compare which is the better version. But I hope that somebody in NYC recorded it directly from FM stereo into 128 or higher kbps mp3 ;)

hmm i saved it as a 24bit/44.1khz wav and encoding it in lame v0 would bring it up to 220-260kpbs/vbr ..but yeah just high quality shitty recording

[Chris_the_vinylist]

hmm i saved it as a 24bit/44.1khz wav and encoding it in lame v0 would bring it up to 220-260kpbs/vbr ..but yeah just high quality shitty recording

No matter if the record session has 260 or 128 kbps if the stream is lower than that. Did you also use the real audio stream? I was surprised that this was working very well here in Europe for about 5 hours. That made this S&B reunion day more than perfect.

[serch4beatz]

nah i used the mp3 stream and had no interruption whatsoever..but yeah i went to sleep when they announced another hour lol