Kennt jemand noch Joe und Rod?
Ist ziemlich geiler oldschool rap den sie gemacht haben.
Schade das sie nie den wirklichen durchbruch geschafft haben.
When Rodney O. & Joe Cooley's first full-length album, Me & Joe, came out in 1988, many hip-hoppers were re-evaluating the Los Angeles rap scene. In the early to mid-'80s, L.A. wasn't famous for hardcore rap; many people associated Southern California with the high-tech, synthesizer-driven electro-hop sounds of the Egyptian Lover, the Arabian Prince, Uncle Jam's Army, and the World Class Wreckin' Cru (the group that Dr. Dre belonged to before N.W.A.). But in 1987 and 1988, the disturbing gangsta rap of Ice-T and N.W.A. was giving people a different impression of L.A. rap -- and all of a sudden, hip-hoppers were expecting hardcore rap to come from Southern California. Although Rodney and Cooley both had electro-hop credentials, Me & Joe is essentially a hardcore rap effort. The LP isn't gangsta rap -- Rodney doesn't rap in the first person about gang fights or drive-by shootings -- but even so, it sent out a message that South-Central L.A. could provide aggressive hip-hop (as opposed to crossover stuff).
1989
Moving from Egyptian E. to Atlantic, Rodney-O Joe Cooley tried again for hip-hop stardom with this 1990 album. It again mostly avoided gangsta-style material, although "Three the Hard Way" did try to tap into the "hood" ethic.
1990
Rodney O & Joe Cooley made some noteworthy contributions to L.A.'s rap scene in the 1980s, when they embraced hardcore rap as well as high-tech, dance-oriented sounds influenced by Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock." When hardcore rappers on the West Coast starting selling millions of albums, the duo gave up "tech-rap" and went hardcore all the way. Recorded for Seattle's Nastymix label in 1991, Get Ready to Roll was their hardest album up to that point. This CD wasn't the big commercial breakthrough they were hoping for, although most of the material is decent. "Of Funky Stories" provides some anecdotes about life in the inner city, while "Nutty Block" is a sobering commentary on gang violence in South Central L.A. (Nutty Block, in fact, was the name of an L.A. gang faction). After Get Ready to Roll, Rodney & Cooley continued to focus on hardcore rap, and commercial success continued to elude them.
1991
1993 (EP)
1995 (Wohl der Klassiker schlechthin)
1995
1997
1998
1999
2001 (der perfekte einstieg um sich mit dem sound vertraut zu machen)
2002
bin wohl grad wieder auf son oldschool trip
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die me & joe ist eine meiner lieblings kindheitserinnerungen. 
