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Peace, Frosty Freeze


April 04, 2008 | Tags: Frosty Freeze, Rock Steady Crew

I was exploring my daily line-up of sites that I tell myself that I should peep out at least once a day if possible, and I noticed in very small print a little bit of information about Rock Steady’s Frosty Freeze.

Man…another one lost. As if it isn’t disturbing enough to see people that haven’t even hit 40 yet end up meeting their demise due to things like drug overdoses and gunshots, it’s such a weird feeling to start to see some of the people that paved the way for hip hop start to leave us due to natural causes. At first I said to myself the same thing that I’ve said damn near every day this week – “man…I’m getting old!”

But then I realized that I’m not really that old, but that unfortunate things are happening to people far too early in their lives. The news story here on DX says that Frosty Freeze died of an undisclosed illness. Now, I’m not really concerned with what he had, but what amazes me is that we’re living in such a technologically advanced society and yet there are still diseases that we can’t cure. AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, herpes, and the list goes on…

That’s all a little scary to think about. We can (allegedly) send ships to Mars, but we can’t even guarantee that a cancer patient will be able to be cured. Insane.

Anyway, I’ll save my ranting for another day, but I realized that hip hop has been around now for so long that some of the kids out there may not even recognize Frosty Freeze’s name. I mean shit, how many times do you hear about Rock Steady on the radio, or on TV? Even on the internet for that matter, unless you’re specifically looking for it? Exactly. Rather than just spit out a history of the crew, and of Frosty Freeze in particular, I figure I’ll cater to the YouTube addiction of the “90’s baby” crowd. I hope any of you that didn’t know very much about him can learn a little bit through these videos. Some may be semi-abstract cameos, but try to read into the context of it all a bit. And for all you older heads, or old souls trapped in young bodies such as myself, take a minute to reminisce about how things used to be.

 

Music video for Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock", with Soulsonic Force. 

This isn’t a “video” per se, but you may recognize this song from the documentary “The Freshest Kids”, that the Rock Steady Crew appeared in. It’s an undeniably dope song. Bump this one loud today, DX.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/44524758bb79e9/


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