Plan B

Over the summer holidays I got into the rythm of watching 90s skateboard videos and of course that will you lead you to Plan B videos at one point. Before streaming was a thing, skateboard videos could get away with taking the biggest and best songs out there without having to worry about music rights. Some labels, notably Epitaph and Dischord, used skate videos to actively promote their bands and didn’t charge for music rights or only very little if they did. Skateboard videos were such an important source of music for me, be it hardcore, punk, hip hop or whatever. 

After watching some of the classic videos from that time on repeat, I felt the urge to buy some of the music on vinyl. Del Tha Funkeé Homosapien is featured with two songs on Plan B’s legendary video Questionable. For those not into skateboarding, think of Questionable as equivalent to Gorilla Biscuits’ Start Today LP. Sal Barbier skates to Ahonetwo, Ahonetwo and one of Mike Carrol’s songs is Burnt. Buying a record for just one song you know is maybe a little weird, but if you already like two songs, well, that’s a different story. 

Here’s where things get a little tricky. Ahonetwo, Ahonetwo is featured on the debut LP by Del Tha Funkée Homosapien, but Burnt isn’t. Luckily, I found a 12” EP which has both songs on it on the B-Side. One of the big differences between hardcore and hip hop 12”s is that the former like to put on as many different songs as possible, whereas the latter love putting remixes of the same song on them, which makes them not that fun to listen to, at least for someone not use to that. But hey, at least I finally had the songs I really loved on vinyl. 

Well, here’s where it gets tricky again. I bought this record and another one from the same seller on Discogs and received them pretty quickly. And then I must have thrown them out by accident when I threw out the mailer I got them in. I think I took them out of the parcel, checked them quickly because I was in a hurry to get somewhere, put them back in the mailer for some reason and then didn’t check again when I got rid off the mailer. Financially, it wasn’t a huge loss as both record combined didn’t even cost 20€, including shipping, and as you can see I was able to replace the record quickly, but I’m still pretty mad at myself for being such an idiot. 

1st Press on Black on Elektra /???