Porn Star Rap Music: Cash On Delivery

Porn Star Rap Music
Cash On Delivery (C.O.D.)
Timeframe: 1992

Tracks:

1: What Do I Have To Do?
2: I'm On It
3: Telephone Song
4: 3 Score 6
5: Lore Song
6: The Porno Lounge

These were the first "real" rap music tracks that we produced, in the Summer of 1992. P-Dog and Dr. Jako had become disillusioned with the garage band scene (The Aaron Stryker Quartet), so DJ ZuLu suggested recording some rap music. He drew up a prototype logo (based on the Converse All-Star), and we began.

P-Dog borrowed a Farfisa Mini Combo Organ from Tom G. Fields III at Telstar Studios. The drum loops were picked by DJ ZuLu and P-Dog and sampled with the Akai S900 sampler at Telstar. The tracks were recorded onto a Tascam Porta-05 4-track cassette multi-tracker. The instrumentation consisted of the Farfisa Organ, the Drum Loops, a Vocal track, and a misc track for samples or other noises.

These tracks were heavily influenced by The Beastie Boys third album, Check Your Head. The album title is a reference to the lyric "Cash on Delivery, like a C.O.D." from the Beastie Boys first album.

Various cassette duplicates were created, ranging from black clone tones with a "star" sticker on them, to transparent clone tones with gold or silver paint pen writing, to cassettes with actual printed labels.

Because the vocals were recorded to one track, P-Dog and Dr. Jako had to record their lyrics in the same pass, using one microphone. They taped their handwritten lyrics to the wall in front of the microphone stand. D.J. ZuLu says "Porn Star, 92 ... 92" at the end of the album.

Various Bitties were recorded calling up the P-Dog answering machine, but the Bittie at the start of the album is SarahT.

Two tracks from this album were performed live at the East High Rap Show, twice, during both lunch breaks. In theory, IcePick still has a video copy of one of these two performances.