Downtown Science Radioactive


     Downtown Science was MC Boscoe Money and white guy DJ Sam Sever who was the DJ for 3rd Bass' before Daddy Rich took over. I don't know the deal with that. 

    What I do know is that when I was that I loved this song to death.Still do. It's all high tech and stuff. It sounds dated today but has that cool quality of Science Fiction from the past. The past's version of the future. 

    I remember, and this was kind of funny. Every saturday they would do a YO! MTV RAPS countdown which Dowtown Science was never on. They prolly played the video like one time. Ever. So anyway, they did the countdown and it was all like, MC REN and Ice Cube and whoever and when they came to number one they had some sort of technical glitch and played Radioactive for like fifteen seconds. I jumped up and screamed that justice had finally been served and the H.N.I.Cs at MTV finally recognized Downtown Science as awsome. But then it cut to The Fresh Prince's Summertime or whatever the proper winner was and I fell to the ground crushed. I was really involved in Hip Hop at the time.

    D.S only recorded the one record here but it produced a couple of good tunes like this and Room To Breathe. You can see that video HERE!!!!!. It's OK. As I understand it Bosco Money did all the production work so I don't know what Sam did besides hang around in the music videos. Maybe he was the token white guy. Could be that's why he left 3rd Bass. They didn't need a token white. They needed the other kind and got put with Daddy Rich. I wonder if that's true.It may be.

    This is another tape that was hard to come by. I had it on my list for our nect run to Amobea in Berkeley. When we got there one Saturday they totally didn't have the Cassingle or the album. I was bummed but my man Jesse said that his friend Mack who lived in Richmond had bought it and didn't like it so he'd let me have it for 5 bucks if we drove over there to get it. Jesse wanted an additional five bucks gas money. He drove this big ass yellow Caddy at the time. It got maybe, 3 miles to the gallon. At thispoint I was so close but realized that ten bucks was too much to spend on a tape of Bosco Money rapping. No offense Bosco. Jesse told Mac that and he said "fuck it. I don't like it anyway so you can just have it if you come and get it". We went. I got it and actually have it to this day. Mementos. 

    I don't know too much about Sam's later doings. I found him on Myspace and it looks like he does club dates and DJs here and there. That's cool. He's still getting paid for making music. Can't beat that. 

    Bosco Money continued on in the game as Ken Omega and recorded a few records. I have to admit that I haven't heard them or actually knew about them up til now. Sorry again Bosco,  I mean Ken. I'll cop em and let you guys know what I think. If you care to know.  He also flys HELICOPTERS! I'm gonna finish this with a picture of him sitting in one. Just for Shits and gigs.. 


 

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