In this episode of PoPolitickin, we politick with El Da Sensei of the Artifacts. El Da Sensei stepped onto the hip-hop scene as one half of the Newark, NJ, duo, the Artifacts. The Artifacts first rose to fame with the hit “Wrong Side of the Tracks.” After El Da Sensei and his partner Tame-One where invited to the Stretch and Bobbito show at WKCR in New York, the group was signed to Big Beat/Atlantic Records. They released their debut album, Between a Rock & a Hard Place, in 1994 with “Wrong Side of the Tracks” as the lead single and video. After that initial hit, the Artifacts splashed the world with joints like “Come on With the Get Down” and “Dynamite Soul and went on to tour the U.S. as well as Europe and Japan. They had developed a fan base of hardcore hip-hoppers, being graffiti artists and hip-hop purists themselves; they sparked a new sub-culture in hip-hop called “backpackers.”
[Podcast] Episode 417 – El Da Sensei – Artifacts @eldasensei
