Basehead - 2000 B.C.

[LifeInTheLastFane]

Holy crap...one of my favorite songs and I'd never seen the video. Yay! This post is proof that audio quality doesn't matter...'cause it still took me on an emotional trip. Basehead was the best.

[wayneisone2]

i traded this tape 4 sum weed back in the day..was well worth it.

[spyda7591]

this look like it was made in 2000 b.c. lol

[mansonvil]

Hardly hip-hop



[pyenapple]

@mansonvil He's one of those rare artists who doesn't see the boundary between genres as something to be afraid of. Yes this song certainly is hip-hop, but it's also lo-fi alternative rock, soul, funk. What's wrong with you, you can't hear the hip-hop in it? Open your ears and enjoy it.

[mansonvil]

@pyenapple : )

[clash5j]

Such a great album and as an added bonus the little breaks between song are actually funny

[gorillasaurusrex]

You cannot listen to this song and not wanna get high.

[galaxyuno1]

Picked this up at the old Tracks Music back in May of '92 the day it was released.

[howmanyuwanna]

I smoked soooooo much weed back in the day with this album smoothed out in the background. Downstairs to the half pipe for a stoned skate session and then back to the room for another J. Good times.

[ImSoOffended]

This isn't rap... IT"S A TRAAAAAAAAP

[xtinacox]

Straight Outta Kansas!

[livingonradio13]

did they ever make a video for "ode to my favorite beer"? that song is funny and I would love to see what the video would look like. This album (Play With Toys) rules!

[Fuckinletmeinyoushit]

I never considered basehead rap really. It was always more of a groove, trip hop, bristle house, jazz hybrid or something. When I listen to them its like hearing "Portishead" and "Nice and Smoothe" at the same time. I liked them, but only by mood.

[facesquid]

basehead was different even at the time. give them the credit they deserve instead of throwing the blanket "rap was different back then" crap on it.

[bluntedbear]

I love Basehead! Thanks for posting this!

[BadComrade]

I own 2 versions of the 1st Basehead CD. The first one was on Emigre.  When it was re-released on Imago, they had to switch some of the samples on a song or two, because they were unauthorized. There's a Not Over You single, a 2000 BC single, The Emigre music sampler vol 2 with an unplugged version of Not Over You. A clean version of the 2nd CD, a Do You Wanna Fuck Or What single, The Imago Traveling Road Show CD with I Need a Joint on it, and the Split Personality single.

[pyenapple]

Yeah the original version's better. I dig the "Split Personality" and "2000 BC" singles too.

[chunklover76]

Took me ages to find a copy of this album after hearing them on Amazon... Really original sound and only 1800 hits... doesn't seem right.

[zdorama]

THANKS! I've been waiting for someone to upload this one.. Used to love it when they showed it on "120 Minutes" back in the day (Yes, 120 Minutes!!)

[bolderr]

i was never into hip hop. but basehead were ultra-groovy... more, more from basehead, please...

[thexists]

what the f**ck happen to them way beyond there time

[thexists]

would love to see more loved them than. love them now.

[Bleoo]

Oh man this shit was the JAM back in the day!! I've been looking for this for sooooo long and everyone I asked, "You remember that 2000 brain cells ago song?" just gave me weird looks.

Thanks a ton man.  GREAT stuff. They don't make shit like this anymore mainstream.

[pbase36]

And the true irony here is that 2000 B.C. is all about trying to remember the past. And now, nobody remembers Mike and his unique stuff.

It's for cats like you that I dig in my archives trying to find stuff like this. Now instead of asking "do you remember that brain cells song," you can show your friends this vid, and give 'em a taste of how good it used to be!

[Bleoo]

I transcribed the lyrics and can post them if you'd like, I have a couple of areas I can't quite get but got them about 98% correct.

This song, "Ditty", "back to the Hotel", anything from Digital Underground from Sex Packets.. Them were the days. It's a shame mainstream radio only plays the more hardcore rap nowadays with little deviance for hip hop along these lines.

[foxykitty50]

Sex Packets is a monumental record. I still pump it. I've noticed that the song with Raw Fusion isn't on the record anymore. Do you know what I'm talking about?

[pyenapple]

It's on the cassette version only, not the CD. There were four tracks that were on the tape but not the CD version.

[IamJenwren]

@pbase36 I bought this when it came out...I still play it loads..

[pbase36]

Sure, Elszpeth. It's available at Amazon. Just search for Basehead. It's about $9.00.

[ecpeter]

Thanks for posting brings back memories. Never thought I'd see this video again.

[Jet206]

Great song. Thanks for posting!

[stephendedlus]

luv the song and vid.... many thanks for the post (ihaveitontape,myself) where is mike ivy nowadays?

[pbase36]

I wish I knew, stephen. Especially now, when rap could use his unique style, ya know?

[pyenapple]

He's put out four or five albums, it's just he sort of dropped off the map when he went super-Christian with his message. The first album's where it's at, really. But I love "Split Personality" off the second album, too.

[uselessinventions]

I never knew there was a video for this. His first two albums and B.Y.O.B are amazing.

[pbase36]

Yo, all my hip hop jazzcats, lets hop in my time machine and spin back to '89-'93, and revisit a time when rap was actually worthy of your head.

Like Basehead, here. Frontman Mike Ivey, the Black Slacker. 2000 BC is about salvaging memories from a booze-addled brain. A lesson.

Enjoy.

[pyenapple]

This one and "Daydreaming" by Massive Attack hit the same buttons in my brain. If you don't remember "Daydreaming", go check it out. Tricky was in Massive Attack back then, too. Awesome.