Forgotten Treasure: Lone Catalysts “Due Process” (2002)

Back in my skater days I used to love watching skateboard videos and listening to the accompanying tracks. I actually got into hip-hop because I heard some Nas instrumentals on a Girl skateboards video called ‘Yeah Right’. These songs used to stick in my head so much that I was enticed into loving the genre.

I heard the instrumental to Due Process by the Lone Catalysts probably 6 or 7 years ago on a Rodney Mullen v Daewon Song video. The piano melody got stuck in my head to such an extent that I woke up in the middle of the night a couple of years ago and was compelled to track down and buy the track. The rap version proved to be even better than the instrumental. It’s got a great drum beat, incredible bass line and has some brilliant rapping from J Sands. It also features Talib Kweli before he was well known as one half of Black Star.

It’s no wonder that J Rawls, the producer from the Lone Catalysts went on to produce for Black Star, The Beastie Boys, Slum Village, El Da Sensei and many more.

Simon Hilder

An amateur DJ and music lover who hails from the English countryside. I first fell in love with music via hip-hop (thanks Nas) and have since branched out into all types of electronic/dance music, whilst maintaining my rap roots. Anyone who I can bore with nerdy music talk is a friend of mine.