Skip, Adrian and the Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.

[Ras Berry]

Did we know about this already?





Found at the end of a Mojo piece on Little Axe circa 1995

[Charlie]

From a 1994 article in the Independent.

"In the Boo-Yaas' case, of course, putting down the rag was made easier by the shooting of brother Fawesome, after which the whole crew upped and emigrated to Japan to make money rapping while the yen was bullish. On returning, they signed to Island, who put out the New Funky Nation album - a super-heavy slab of gangsta funk-metal-rap - in 1990, but rejected the follow-up, Good Times, Bad Times, despite an all-star guest-list that included Ice-T, Ice Cube, Living Colour and the funk pioneers George Clinton and Sly Stone. Island was at that point merging with Phonogram, and the Tribe was simply economised off the label. Then again, Island might have baulked at releasing a track called 'Millions of Dead Cops'. 'If Ice-T had never given up 'Cop Killer',' notes R?dd ruefully, 'a lot of rappers would still be going. But when he gave that up, that gave the labels the power to make everyone else take songs off their albums."

Looks like "Good Times, Bad Times" only made it as far as the promo cassette stage, if we go by the entry on Discogs.

[Jethro]

Well there's something I didn't know.

[Ras Berry]

That Andy Gill gets about!