Malcolm X, "No Sell Out"

KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are in the New York City of 1983 for the Keith LeBlanc produced Malcolm X "No Sell Out", first released on Tommy Boy...

"By 1983, I was spending as much time in the U.S. (mostly NYC) as I was in England, and when this hit the streets of New York, it hit big. Keith LeBlanc was a white drummer for Sugar Hill Records playing on many of their hits, but a dispute with the label led this to be released on the rival Tommy Boy Records. The record, which includes samples from Malcolm X's recorded speeches, was sanctioned by Malcom's wife Betty Shabazz, and the family received royalties from its sale.

It was one of the first records with a spoken word sample over a beat to reach a wider audience than the then regular Hip Hop crowd." - KV