Lost & Found: Hip Hop Underground Soul Classics

Lost & Found: Hip Hop Underground Soul Classics is a double-disc album featuring previously shelved albums Center of Attention by INI and The Original Baby Pa by Deda. Both albums were recorded in 1995 and produced entirely by Pete Rock except for five overall tracks produced either by Grap Luva or Spunk Bigga; Neither album had been officially released until this compilation came out.

Both albums were recorded in 1995, and were scheduled to be released through Pete Rock's Soul Brother Records label. The INI single, "Fakin' Jax", was released in that year and performed fairly well. Deda's song "Blah Uno" originally appeared on a live compilation released by Elektra which also gave a catalog number for the album which was then to be called "Every Man For Himself". Unfortunately, Rock's distribution deal with Elektra Records fell through, and plans to release the albums were subsequently cancelled because of issues over ownership of the masters. Center Of Attention did, however, find its way onto the underground market through bootlegging.

In a 2006 interview, Pete Rock stated that BBE Records released this compilation without his permission.^[1]

INI Center of Attention

Samples

• "Intro"
  • "Midnight Ravers" by Bob Marley & the Wailers
• "No More Words"
  • "Morning" by Cal Tjader
• "Step Up"
  • "Fool Yourself" by Little Feat
  • "Bumpin' Bus Stop" by Thunder & Lightning
  • "It's Too Late To Turn Back" by Jackie Mittoo
  • "Save Yourself" by Soft Machine
• "Think Twice"
  • "Holy Thursday" by David Axelrod
• "Square One"
  • "Smokin' Cheeba Cheeba" by Harlem Underground Band
  • "A Secret" by Billy Taylor
• "The Life I Live"
  • "Memory Band" by Rotary Connection
  • "Free Soul" by John Klemmer
• "Kross Roads"
  • "Hope We Can Be Together Soon" by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
• "To Each His Own"
  • "Leyte" by Cal Tjader
• "Fakin' Jax"
  • "Impeach the President" by The Honeydrippers
  • "Cause I Need It" by Dorothy Ashby
• "What You Say"
  • "Lay Lady Lay" by David T. Walker
• "Props"
  • "Turista" by Howard Roberts
• "Center of Attention"
  • "Come Dancing" by Jeff Beck
  • "Summer of '42" by Monty Alexander
• "Grown Man Sport"
  • "Water No Get Enemy" by Fela Kuti
• "Mind Over Matter"
  • "Dedicate All My Love" by Raw Soul Express
• "Don't You Love It"
  • "Don't Cha Love It" by The Miracles
• "Microphonist Wonderlust"
  • "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Kenny Burrell

Deda The Original Baby Pa

Samples

• "Everyman"
  • "Down On The Avenue" by Fat Larry's Band
  • "Enchanted Lady" by Milt Jackson
  • "Cymbaline" by Hubert Laws
• "Baby Pa"
  • "Shape Of Things To Come" by George Benson
  • "Summer Song" by John Klemmer
• "How I'm Living"
  • "Heartbeat" by The Dazz Band
• "Blah Uno"
  • "Free Soul" by John Klemmer
  • "Trackin Shoes" by A.B. Skhy
• "Can't Wait"
  • "Why Can't People Be Colors Too?" by The Whatnauts
  • "Dolphin Dance" by Ahmad Jamal
  • "Black Cat" by Motherlode
• "I Originate"
  • "Cymbaline" by Hubert Laws
  • "Wee Tina" by Donald Byrd and Booker Little
• "Markd4death"
  • "Butterfly Dreams" by Norman Connors
• "Nasty Scene"
  • "Holy Thursday" by David Axelrod
  • "Night On Bald Mountain" by Bob James
• "Nothing More"
  • "Suite Sioux" by Freddie Hubbard
• "Press Rewind"
  • "Anticipation" by Les McCann
  • "Why Can't People Be Colors Too?" by The Whatnauts
• "Rhyme Writer"
  • "Love and Happiness" by Monty Alexander
• "Too Close"
  • "Cymbaline" by Hubert Laws
• "Understand?"
  • "Soft Winds" by Dorothy Ashby
  • "Tensity" by The Cannonball Adderley Quintet

References