LD022 - Uh Oh (featuring KRS-ONE)

💿 Lost Dubs 022 – Uh Oh! (1998)

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Anyone who’s spent any real time with me has probably heard my origin story with hip hop. I didn’t just listen to it — I lived in it. For more than a decade, hip hop was the centre of my musical universe. My record collection and knowledge run deep, as they tend to when you come up in a culture where knowledge reigns supreme over nearly everybody.

The next chapter of that story began late at night in Toronto, tuning into underground radio on 88.1 and 89.5 FM after midnight. I remember hearing jungle and drum & bass for the first time and genuinely thinking it was just really good hip hop. That discovery cracked everything open and eventually led me down the paths that shaped the rest of my musical life.

Uh Oh! is a hype, ghetto-tech remix of KRS-ONE’s Uh Oh from his 1993 album Return of the Boom Bap. I made this track in 1998, fueled by reverence for one of my all-time favourite artists — a larger-than-life hip hop prophet whose voice, presence, and message helped shape how I understood music and culture.

At the time, this track didn’t really fit into what I was playing out. It sat in the margins — too hip hop for one room, too electronic for another. So it stayed unreleased, living quietly in the archives.

Fast-forward to now: I’ve fully embraced being a genre slut, and this track finally gets to exist on its own terms. No boxes. No apologies.

This one is pure energy.
A party track.
A nod to my roots.
A reminder that all roads lead somewhere.

You can also hear Uh Oh! as track 45 on Late Night Booty Call 005 — exactly where it belongs.