Worthwhile Unions #1

Worthwhile Unions is a radio series by Anna Clegg with a focus on meeting points. Often collaborative and pulling heavily from online sources, the series works to extract a kind of cinema of feeling, contradicting and evasive, from dense combinations of music, sound and samples.

Episode 1 was recorded with haptictape labs_2046 and focuses on the twilit, grinning spectre of 1990s Memphis Rap.

Through found footage, field recording and tape rips, this episode traces the scene through its local-distribution cassette origins, later commercial success, and internet renaissance as it shape-shifts seamlessly between horror-film nightmare, biographical realism and sonic fantasy.

Tracklist

Gangsta Boo - Mask 2 My Face (RAFATAK instrumental remake)
Kingpin Skinny Pimp ft. Three 6 Mafia - One Life To Live
Gangsta Black - Don’t Trust ‘Em
Koopsta Knicca - Shout Outs
Tommy Wright III ft. Princess Loko - Still Pimpin’
DJ Paul - Sweet Robbery
Shawty Pimp ft. Reddog - BREAK YOU OFF
Lady Bee - Jealous Hoes
MC Mack - All About My Hustle
Lord Infamous Freestyle for Mad Dog Magazine
Three 6 Mafia - Blow A N****’s Ass Off
MC Mack - Northside
Koopsta Knicca - Crucifix
Project Pat - Ooh Nuthin’ (Instrumental)
Juicy J - Shout Outs
DJ Spanish Fly - Get Buck And Shit (Shout Outs)
Juicy J Ft. Project Pat - Name It After Me (from YouTube Video user Cino ‘old school gangsta walk wit a different style to it)
Three 6 mafia - North Memphis Area
Buckshot - OMG Radio (Interlude)
Buckshot - Supa Straight
Gimisum Family - Fear No Evil
Kingpin Skinny Pimp - Give Me Some
Juicy J - Anna Got Me Clickin’
Shawty Pimp - Mix
Dj Paul and Juicy J - Hotline (skit)
Tommy Wright - Runnin’ While I’m Gunnin’ (Live @ Crypt in Olympia, Washington 2019)
Tommy Wright ft. Evil Son - We Creep