Jorun Bombay (also DJ & Producer of "FIRST WORDS")
Influences
Lightnin' Rod Beatnuts Prince Paul Pete Rock Primo 45 king UTFO DJ Jazzy Jeff DJ Cash Money D.I.T.C. KRS-ONE Jurassic 5 Grandmaster Flash & Furious 5 Grandmaster Caz & CC4 Cool DJ Red Alert & Chuck Chillout Crash Crew Funky 4 plus one more Lisa Lee & Sha Rock Jazzy Joyce Marley Marl & MC Shan The Juice Crew (including Mr. Magic) Run-DMC & JMJ (r.i.p.) Afrika Islam Van Silk Busy B Starski Fantastic Romantic 5 MC's Donald D & Brother B (the b-boys) Fabulous 5 mc's The World Famous Supreme Team (WHBI w/ Jus Allah Superstar & Cee Divine the mastermind) Rock Steady Crew Rammelle Z & K-rob DJ AJ, DJ Bobcat LL Cool J (Circa 85-95) P.E. Audio 2 & MC Lyte beat diggers like Cut Chemist Shadow Diamond D Afrika Bambaatta (& the Zulu Nation) Kool Herc Jazzy Jay Soulman
.....just to name a few.
And those real artists from the old school battle tapes.. all of them!!
Needless to say, i'm a big fan of the funk/soul/roller boogie era as well. Everything from Kool & Gang (live version of summer madness is my joint!!!!!) Cymande (huge huge fan) Fred Wesley and the JB's, Roy Ayers, Pleasure (fantasy records), Trouble Funk, Vaughn Mason, One way, Keni Burke.. so many names.. this list can go for awhile. Kudu + CTI artists as well. (Bob James, Grover Washington Jr., Ron Carter, Idris Mohammad..etc) Blaxploitation funk like Johnny Pate, Edwin Starr, JJ Johnson, Barry White (R.I.P.) I was also raised on Latin/Brazillian/Portuguese music (Jorun is Portuguese so ..the titles are endless)
Sounds Like
...the complete opposite of that B.S. you hear on daytime radio nowadays.
From age 1 to 7, i was surrounded by portuguese + brazillian music like Jorge Ben Jor, Tom Ze, Nilton Cesar and everything in between.. at age 8, my family moved to the north end Halifax in the mid/late 70's and my musical surroundings drastically changed. I had been exposed to rick james, chic, kc & sunshine band, jackson 5 & Sugarhill gang for the first time. the story begins right here..
Although i'd been listening to hip hop since the start of the whole sugarhill era in '79, wanting to be part of all this started for me after hearing WHBI tapes in 1984 and Red Alert/Chuck Chillout/Mr. Magic & Marley Marl tapes in 1985. Started a crew in 1986 and made demos.. opened for Run-DMC, Michie Mee, Public Enemy during the later half of the 80's. (we had more of a COLD CRUSH Bros. meets EMPD & SHAN sound back then. Half singin on the mic ...half rappin')
After some locals on my block got signed to a major deal in 1989 (MCJ & Cool G on capitol records) they left town and the scene here in Halifax pretty much died out altogether.. except for my crew who kept doing out thing but it became boring cause no other hip hop groups were around except us so I took a bunch of friends in 1992.. called ourselves "Haltown Projex" and recorded them for almost no fee and did shows with them as their producer/DJ just so there would be a scene here. Our scene blew up a year later.
Those other 'friends' i brought in included Buck 65 (who was called "haslam" back then), Sixtoo (who was called C.L. Scarr back then) , Classified (same name) and pretty much anyone who was someone in Halifax hip hop from 1993-2001. (literally +100 MC's and DJ's from the east coast of canada)
I've released and/or appeared on 60+ albums/CD's/7 inch-12 inch singles either by myself or with others in the span of 15 years. (check my "Discography" blog for titles) My 10th complilation was released in 2005 entitled "Joruns Way".
I was (and still am) the deepest crate digger on the east coast of Canada... supplying/trading breaks and old school joints to many a beathead. (with thanks to people like Soulman, Mike V and DustyKid for the knowledge) I am also an archivist and have OG reels and unreleased gems in my vault by some of the ppl i've recorded in the past who later got signed. Currently recording w/ my group "First Words" along with various other projects including Ghettosocks, Monark, Extremedies, Wordburglar, Pip Skid, Phillmost the Soulman, Buck 65 and various others.
I'm always DJing here locally and have one of the biggest and most successful old school funk/soul/roller boogie nights at a club called Tribeca (downtown Halifax) The event is called "ALL CITY" and i DJ there w/ my homies Gordski and Double A! Come peep us out if you're passing through.
All U suckaz out there makin your shitty ass mixtapes need to check this tape out....I Can Make your dog famous Excellent Work Bombay & G socks they cant fuk wit JO RUN.....
good day Mr. run...and how is you? just messin' around with ppls tunes online..thought u might get a kick out of the beat up on my page...lol....OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD school vibe...lol....gimmie a shout back..it 'd be good to hear from ya......cheers.....Matt
He's a MAD MAN!!!!!!!!!! Dope cutz every single time on a Jorun track! A message to all the wack catz out there! Step your game up suckazzzzz!!!!!!! Get at me homie when ya can...i'm outty... peace to the middle east and all that good stuff. HOLLA!!!
Hope you have a great day JORUN! Yer gettin' up there! Just remember, I have an extra leg incase one of yours falls off... I hear that happens to older folks! You rule dank daddy and happy b-day! Oodles of O's, Peggy
AYO Bombay!!!! Can't wait to see the goodz when you come down! Shit iz gonna be fire when you get here. Putting in mad work! But what else is new with dudes like us. Anyways homie stay in touch...peaz Monark
Yeah ive been trying to get to freddy...so maybe june will be the time. Im either working or i have my mini me's
but i think a freddy visit is long over due.
