Lord Finesse/Large Professor

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Listening to a Showbiz and AG album last night, I realized that thus far I have gotten Lord Finesse and Large Professor mixed up without even thinking about it. Which is which, did Large Professor rap as well as produce? Did Lord Finesse produce as well as rap? Were they both in DITC? Which one was in Main Source?

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Large Professor raps, album on Matador and was in Main Source.

― paul c (paul c), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

the new Lord finnesse track on the paul nice mixtape that antitode are releasing (journey to the centre of the beat) is an old school familiar James Brown loop track .. but damn it sounds great.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

and he gives a list of his alter-ego names and LP aint one of them ..

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Lord Finesse produces as well....He was a part of DITC. I don't think Large Prof/Main Source were in DITC technically.

DITC (as far as I remember):

Showbiz/AG
Lord Finesse
Diamond D
Percy Pee
Fat Joe
OC
(then there was Children of the Corn w/Cam and Ma$e but I think they were related to DITC the same way, say, Diplomats are related to Roc-A-Fella)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Big L (and maybe even Big Pun) was in DITC as well, I believe, or was closely affiliated somehow. Main Source was definitely not.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Big L (and maybe even Big Pun) was in DITC as well

doh sorry left that out! good catch (i guess i just imagined i typed him because's he's kinda their defining mc)....I'm not sure about Big Pun though...I can't remember him guesting on anything back in the heyday...(Although if you can fucking get AMG to work for you please prove me wrong...i'd be curious to know)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

haha I just notice i had Children of the Corn and not Big L

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha okay I can't find anything to connect Pun with them other than the Fat Joe connection on AMG, so maybe I was just confused.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a very helpful thread. While we're at it:

what does DITC stand for (if anything)?
what does OC stand for and does he have a back story? I vaguely remember an argument on ILM about him which i didn't understand because I didn't know the facts.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

DITC - Diggin' In The Crates
OC - Omar Credle (i think)

― sherm, Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Welcome to the OC, Bitch!

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure Pun reps DITC on his first album, and Showbiz did the 'Parental Discretion' track

― scg, Thursday, 22 July 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Lord Finesse, also of the "funk soul brother" sample in Fatboy Slim's "Rockafella Skank."

― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 22 July 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

O.C. is great, see if you can find Word...Life which is an amazing debut. You've probably heard the (amazing) single "Time's Up" but its one of the most consistent and underrated early 90s hip-hop albums, an all-time favorite of mine.

Lord Finesse is a producer and rapper.
Large Professor is a producer and rapper.

Lord Finesse is in DITC.

Large Professor produced for Main Source, had his own solo album which is pretty terrific (low key and evocative for an early 90s release, very subdued and chill - highlights: "IJUSWANNACHILL," "Dancing Girl," "Spacey") and produced for a variety of other artists - Nas on Illmatic, Tribe Called Quest on Midnight Mauraders and the entirety of Akinyele's terrific (also highly underrated) solo debut.

There's a live album of DITC stuff out there somewhere, a double-disc set that's supposed to be pretty hype. I haven't heard it.

― djdee2005, Friday, 23 July 2004 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Large Pro (aka Extra P) also released an album back in '02 that was pretty decent although not overwhelmingly so. Think it was called "First class". There was a Lord Finesse retrospective 2xLP a couple years back with some non-DITC branded Big L collabs on it that were pretty hot.

― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 23 July 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought First Class was pretty awful myself.

― djdee2005, Friday, 23 July 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a retrospective judgement - not listened to it in over a year, so it's hardly a classic, but I liked it at the time. "Keep it chiseled" was decent.

It suffers from burden of expectation.

― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 23 July 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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