The movie stars Poitier along with Bill Cosby, and the pair’s other two films “Let’s Do It Again” and “A Piece Of The Action” were also borrowed by Camp Lo for the title to their second album and a song from their demo tape respectively. “Uptown Saturday Night” borrows its title from the 1974 Action Comedy directed by Sidney Poitier.
This album made it as high as number 27 in the US charts but that wasn’t anything compared to other rappers who seemed to effortlessly crossover during that time. But, like many other superb albums from that era, surprise, surprise, the mainstream didn’t take to the group all that much. Fusing the old with the new made Camp Lo stand out from the crowd they weren’t Mafioso gangsters and they weren’t street thugs, they rhymed about sex, drugs, and diamond heists, mixing topics and making for some very surreal, sometimes nonsensical, yet brilliantly delivered lyrics. The group’s impressive début album “Uptown Saturday Night” was released in 1997 and it introduced us to the pair’s unique style juxtaposing elements from the 70s with 90s East Coast Hip-Hop. The self-produced album featured verses from Curren$y, Jim Jones, Ras Kaas, Jay Electronica, the Cool Kids, and others.By What Went Wrong Or Right With.? on JanuĬamp Lo, a Hip-Hop duo consisting of rappers Geechi Suede and Sonny Cheeba epitomised the slick, multisyllabic lyricism of mid-nineties rap music. Ski Beatz made his solo debut in 2010 with 24 Hour Karate School. He also began a fruitful creative collaboration with New Orleans rapper Curren$y, producing all but three songs on his Pilot Talk. Since the foundation of the studio enclave, Ski Beatz has worked with Mos Def, Jay-Z, Electronica, Jean Grae, and others. After several years apart, Ski Beatz rejuvenated his creative relationship with Dash, joining his DD172 collective, subsequently nicknamed "the 24-Hour Karate School". He also continued to produce the bulk of Camp Lo's subsequent albums Let's Do It Again and Black Hollywood. Meanwhile, Ski Beatz continued to work with Jay-Z on his sophomore album, In My Lifetime, producing stand-out singles "Who You Wit II" and "Streets Is Watching." Roc-A-Blok Productions folded soon thereafter, but Ski Beatz stayed active in music, producing for artists such as Nature, members of the New Jersey crew the Outsidaz, Lil' Kim, Foxy Brown, Ras Kass, and Proof. It became one of the most instantly recognizable and celebrated beats from that era.
He crafted most of Camp Lo's debut album, Uptown Saturday Night, which dropped in 1997 and featured the hit single "Luchini aka This Is It." The song, looking to build on Camp Lo's '70s-style gimmick, featured blaxpoloitation-esque horns thanks to the sampled intro of "Adventures in the Land of Music" by Dynasty. After the critical success of Reasonable Doubt, Ski Beatz formed Roc-A-Blok Productions in affiliation with Jay-Z and Dash's label, Roc-A-Fella Records, working with Camp Lo and Sporty Thievz. His connection to Damon Dash (who managed Original Flavor) bore fruit when Dash hired him in to work on the debut album of his own artist, Jay-Z, whose Reasonable Doubt album was released in 1996, marking Ski Beatz's first major production, including the album's first major single "Dead Presidents." The lead single, along with Ski Beatz's production on "Feelin' It" and " Politics as Usual," featured similar jazzy ("Feelin' It" used an Ahmad Jamal sample) and old-soul ("Politics" featured a recognizable Stylistics sample) vibes that characterized much of Ski Beatz's mid- to late-'90s work. Ski Beatz also known as DJ Ski and originally MC Will-Ski, is a hip-hop producer and former member of 1990s rap group Original Flavor.