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Artist | VA
Title | The High & Mighty Presents Eastern Conference All Stars II
Genre | Hip-Hop Format | Album
Source | CD Time | 73:48
Label | Eastern Conference Records Store | 2001
Catalog | LSR 9206 Rip | 2020
Bitrate | 858 kbps Size | 477.08 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
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01. Copywrite - Leading Off (Intro) (Prod. DJ Mighty Mi) 1:30
02. Smut Peddlers - The Red Light (Prod. The Alchemist) 4:05
03. Royce Da 5'9" - Nickel Nine Is (Prod. Reef) 4:22
04. Skillz - Pressure Time (Prod. DJ Mighty Mi) 4:08
05. The High & Mighty - Tonight's The Night (Prod. DJ Mighty 3:40
Mi)
06. Cage - Crowd Killa (Prod. DJ Mighty Mi) 3:08
07. Chali 2na - The Bread Winner (Prod. DJ Mighty Mi) 4:17
08. Tame One - The Moment I Feared (Prod. DJ Mighty Mi) 3:46
09. Tame One, Copywrite, J-Zone, Cage, Mr. Eon, Skillz & Camu 4:16
Tao - Eastern Conference All Stars (Prod. Camu Tao)
10. Copywrite - F*ck Soundcheck (Prod. RJD2) 4:18
11. R.A. The Rugged Man & Mr. Eon - Homecoming Queen (Prod. DJ 4:05
Mighty Mi)
12. Pacewon - All Get By (Prod. Reef) 2:54
13. Evidence - Emergency (Prod. Camu Tao & DJ Mighty Mi) 3:21
14. The Last Emperor & Mr. Eon - That's What's Up (Prod. DJ 3:54
Mighty Mi & Reef)
15. The High & Mighty & Lord Sear - Fake Thug Theme (Prod. DJ 3:34
Mighty Mi)
16. Big Daddy Kane - The Jump Off (Feat. Princess Superstar & 3:37
Little Daddy Shane) (Prod. DJ Mighty Mi)
17. Kool Keith - Thug Or What? (Prod. DJ Mighty Mi) 3:27
18. Pretty Ugly - The Struggle (Prod. Reef) 3:41
19. Defari - Look Into My Eyes (Prod. DJ Mighty Mi) 3:53
20. Tame One, Copywrite, J-Zone, Cage, Mr. Eon, Skillz & Camu 3:52
Tao - Eastern Conference All Stars (Mighty Mi Remix)
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Eastern Conference Records is an independent record label based in New York
City. It is owned and operated by DJ Mighty Mi, the DJ/producer for the
High & Mighty. During the label's brief heyday, it represented underground
rappers such as Cage, Tame One (one-half of the duo The Artifacts), R.A.
the Rugged Man, and The Weathermen, a supergroup composed of Cage, Aesop
Rock, Copywrite, Tame One, Breeze Brewin of the Juggaknots, El-P, Camu Tao,
and Yak Ballz.
Mr. Eon established the Eastern Conference imprint in 1996, in the midst of
the late nineties indie boom of rap. During this epoch, which spanned from
roughly 1996 to 2002, a renewed interest in vinyl records provided a niche
market for many smaller record labels and fiercely independent rappers. In
addition to Eastern Conference, Rawkus Records, Fondle 'Em Records,
Solesides, and Stones Throw Records were established during this time
period. The former two were based in New York alongside Eastern Conference,
and the latter two in California.
Similar to both Fondle 'Em and Rawkus, Eastern Conference was initially a
vinyl-only imprint. Critical response to the label's early output was
positive, and the first Eastern Conference single, The High & Mighty's
"It's All Good / Hands On Experience (feat. Bobbito the Barber & El-P) /
Cranial Lumps" quickly reached cult status on the strength of "Hands On
Experience", a whimsical ode to masturbation.
During its first three years of existence, Eastern Conference continued to
release successful twelve-inch singles from the Smut Peddlers, Jurassic 5's
Chali 2na, The High & Mighty, and Mad Skillz. The label's eye for new
talent steadily built its reputation as an up-and-coming imprint in the
contemporary rap scene.
In 1998, Eastern Conference released its first compilation, Eastern
Conference All-Stars. This release was essentially a collection of the
first eight or so vinyl singles, drawing comparisons to Rawkus Records'
Soundbombing.
In 1999, Eastern Conference Records began distributing through Rawkus
Records, which had become an extremely successful label in its own right.
This began what could arguably be called Eastern Conference's most
successful period. During this time, two relatively successful albums were
released: The High & Mighty's Home Field Advantage and the Smut Peddlers'
Porn Again. Both cracked the Billboard Top 200 (the former at #193 and the
latter at #184), and had strong supporting singles: "B-Boy Document '99
(featuring Mad Skillz & Mos Def)" and "That Smut", respectively. Amidst
these successes, the label continued to release positively received
twelve-inch singles, including Mad Skillz' "Ghostwriter" and Cage's
"Suicidal Failure".
When Eastern Conference's two-year contract to Rawkus was up, Mighty Mi
made the decision to sever ties with Rawkus and continue to "build
independently", without releasing records under a major label. He soon
found a distributor (Landspeed Records, who had released the first Eastern
Conference All-Stars), and quickly began releasing material. The first
release under Landspeed was, fittingly, Eastern Conference All Stars II, an
all-new compilation featuring music from Jurassic 5, Big Daddy Kane, Reef
the Lost Cauze, Tame 1, and The Last Emperor.
During the next three years, however, Eastern Conference experienced a
dramatic decline in interest and support from rap fans. One speculated
reason for this is that since the label no longer enjoyed major label
backing, as it had through Rawkus, it became harder to distribute their
projects as widely and promote them as heavily. However, many hip-hop fans
claim that Eastern Conference's output simply suffered from a lack of
overall quality.
Additionally, the label was dealt a harsh blow when Cage, along with his
group the Weathermen, the label's biggest selling act, moved to the
Definitive Jux label. When asked about the move in a HipHopSite.com
interview, Cage replied:
"I hit a ceiling with E.C., period. That was it. I wasn't making money. The
amount of money I made with them, I could have made myself. But then again,
in doing it myself, how many more pieces would I have sold? I'd be kind of
doing the same thing, just not splitting the money so many different ways.
But it was about expansion, about growth. It's what artists do."
However, Cage later stated that another reason for his leaving the label
was financial mismanagement and lack of proper marketing and promotion for
his albums. Instead, he claimed that Mighty Mi (and, to an extent, Mr. Eon)
were funneling the label's money into their own projects. Encouraged by
Cage, other artists who had formerly recorded for EC and supported his
claims of Mighty Mi's sloppy business dealings. This created a storm of bad
publicity for Eastern Conference Records & Mighty Mi, and were nearly as
damaging as Cage's departure itself. Shortly after, other Weathermen, Yak
Ballz and Tame One followed Cage and moved to other labels.
Whether caused by the artists' claims or not, Eastern Conference's output
was drastically reduced from 2005 onward; the label released four albums in
2005, one album in 2006, and by June 2007 had only released one album.
Last track exact title is "Eastern Conference All Stars (Mighty Mi Air Max
'95 Remix)" but was too long to fully tag. Of course, it's also produced by
DJ Mighty Mi.
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