The Deadly Scribes - The Situation

Pretty much from 10th or 11th grade until a few months ago I had been working at Head Board Shop, a skate shop in Pittsburgh. I must admit it was a pretty perfect job for a full time slacker like myself. Watch skate videos during the day shifts, drink beer during the night shifts, and although I'm not much of a smoker, smoke in the basement after I closed just because I could.

During the last winter I worked there business had been pretty slow. To the point where I decided to take the initiative upon myself to sort through the clutter of former employee's left behind cds, and promotional cds people had dropped off over the years and sell them to The Record Exchange to make a little bit of extra revenue for the store. I was carefully sifting out the promo cds where the bar codes had been punched out, when I stumbled across this gem, The Deadly Scribes release The Situation.

The cd had come out long before I had started getting my feet wet in the Pittsburgh rap scene, but I knew of the legacy Dos Noun and any of his work had left behind. So needless to say this cd didn't go to the the pile to sell, nor did it stay in the store copy pile, instead I nonchalantly slid it into my back pack, and totally forgot about the project I started. As I always did at the skate shop while trying to do a good deed.

A few weeks later I saw Dos at a show and in a drunken state of excitement I was able to walk directly up to him, interrupting the conversation he was having with his girlfriend, and told him about my find. He casually congratulated me on my discovery and told me, "...that cd and 5 bucks might get you a beer..." I'm still not certain what this expression meant. Especially considering I won't but a beer if it costs over $2.50(unless it's a 24 ounce). After all how could I afford to while working at a skate shop since 2004.

The Deadly Scribes - The Situation

MC Homeless - Still Trapped

Youngstown, Ohio's MC Homeless released Still Trapped independently in 2009 as a follow up to his first full length Trapped Under An Ohio Sky on DIY Bandits. Still Trapped, featuring Riddlore, Richard Benjamen, Swordplay, and more, is a compilation of rad lo-fi songs Homeless recorded and released with pretty much no intention of ever playing live. For instance I've requested the song, Opposite of Happy at more than one show but to no avail(once he caved in and said he'd do it over another beat because he didn't have the original but neither of us could remember how it started). When I saw Homeless the only time he had Still Trapped it was at Most Wanted, and it was just a burnt cdr with a hand written track listing. This was just something he put out to hold people over from when he ran out of copies of Trapped Under An Ohio Sky until 27 came out on Milled Pavement. I think I spent all my money buying 6 packs at the bar up the street and couldn't afford his cd and/or was to drunk to remember to buy it. Now it's free, turns out being an irresponsible drunk worked in my favor.

Pretty certain this was the show he had Still Trapped. It wasn't May 6th though, it was March 6th. Maybe I was drunk when I made the flier too. Actually Jack from Worn Out Tigers made the flyer but I'll take the heat for him.

The first time I saw MC Homeless he was on tour with Brandon Miles(now CrunkWitch) at The Smiling Moose and had Lord Grunge(of Grand Buffet) and myself(Stealboner Inflammatory) as local support. During his set I'm pretty certain he was wearing either a Teeth or Annihilation Time t-shirt, did his interpretation of a Crass cover which ended in him dry humping the pa monitor until he fell off stage and the monitor landed on him(sound guy was pissed and brought it up months later when he played The Smiling Moose again), sampled Smiths song How Soon Is Now for Champagne Wishes, and ended with an acapella about an aspiring pedophile in his hometown named Kev-Dawg. I was a fan.

Still Trapped for free
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