Artifacts – Heavy Ammunition

By admin | October 27, 2021 |

Artifacts – Heavy Ammunition

Artifacts are a now-defunct hip hop duo consisting of El Da Sensei and Tame One. They hail from Newark, New Jersey and made underground music that paid homage to the four elements of hip hop. The Artifacts’ most popular single “Wrong Side of Da Tracks” paid special homage to graffiti art, as they were graffiti artists themselves.
They released their first album, Between a Rock and a Hard Place on October 27, 1994. Well received by underground hip hop audiences, it featured intelligent lyrics, as well as b-boy and graffiti themes. The album’s hard-hitting, funky beats were produced by Buckwild (from the DITC crew) and T-Ray (from the Soul Assassins crew). The Artifacts’ second album, That’s Them was released on April 15, 1997. It featured similar material, but it did not receive as much recognition as their debut effort. The Artifacts split soon after the release of this second album.

Tame One and El Da Sensei have both continued to release music as solo artists. In 2003, Tame One joined the Weathermen, an underground rap group including Cage Kennylz, Camu Tao, Aesop Rock, and El-P. Soon after joining the Weathermen, Tame One and Cage released the album Waterworld under the name Leak Bros. True to their name, the duo held the theme of PCP consumption central to their work. In 2009, Tame ONe collaborated with another member of the Definitive Jux label, releasing the album Parallel Uni-Verses with Del the Funky Homosapien. El Da Sensei has released a number of solo albums and collaborated with the Polish rap group The Returners in 2008.

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43 Comments

  1. David Bone on October 27, 2021 at 5:23 pm

    shaolin monk



  2. G-Ammo on October 27, 2021 at 5:27 pm

    Hahaha i love that beginning! WHATSUPPP……… modafokkas…
    I always bump this song! one of my favs of artifacts



  3. CroBrains16 on October 27, 2021 at 5:29 pm

    Hardest muthafckn song !!! Foreallll !! Jerzzz bbby!!!



  4. ICBM on October 27, 2021 at 5:29 pm

    cant stopp bobbin my head. WTF! lol



  5. Strabo on October 27, 2021 at 5:31 pm

    Their best song



  6. Genki on October 27, 2021 at 5:34 pm

    Haha, funny to see you commenting on an Artifacts track.



  7. OmniversoSinDios on October 27, 2021 at 5:35 pm

    real hip hop shit! saludos desde Argentina!



  8. adas shambala on October 27, 2021 at 5:35 pm

    probably the best bass line in hip hop to day



  9. Yotipo on October 27, 2021 at 5:35 pm

    Sound Burgler – Venetian Snares

    B)



  10. EGstill85 on October 27, 2021 at 5:36 pm

    Buckwild gets nowhere near enough props as other ditc beat makers and engineers …shouldn’t have to mention Black Rob for someone to recognize. No disrespect to Black Rob



  11. Profound Beats on October 27, 2021 at 5:37 pm

    ok why havent i heard this before? very well made beat matey!!



  12. METTI1986LA on October 27, 2021 at 5:38 pm

    first of all im a big fan from the artifacts (have seen them 3 times live altough im from austria) and second this isnt chopped and skrewed – my comment was a respone to some guy who said that he chopped and skrewed this song! hope you understand what i am saying!!!! peace



  13. salvatoregungrave on October 27, 2021 at 5:40 pm

    HEAVY AMMUNITION



  14. amellsj80 on October 27, 2021 at 5:40 pm

    Rap these days suck, no talent, same talk about drugs, sluts, guns and all that bull that I don’t want to hear, brainwashing minds with garbage, makes me sick, now excuse me as I vomit



  15. Adam Henry on October 27, 2021 at 5:40 pm

    This is Kool.



  16. Rod Savoyivok on October 27, 2021 at 5:41 pm

    head bobbin beat but the flow is the icing on the cake. the hook is tight too.



  17. Dado Ortographia on October 27, 2021 at 5:41 pm

    Yeeee brotha! im artifacts fanatic my self 😀



  18. MIX MAESTRO on October 27, 2021 at 5:42 pm

    CLASSIC NO DOUBT TAME ONE AND EL DA SENSEI 2 COOL BROTHERS –ONE



  19. arise07 on October 27, 2021 at 5:43 pm

    Crazy how I was hearing this and thought: "this shit sounds like a BlackMoon record". Come to figure Buckshot had production credits on this album



  20. Jeumz on October 27, 2021 at 5:46 pm

    Hoi oskar



  21. JJ305 on October 27, 2021 at 5:48 pm

    @METTI1986LA your a hater bruah. there is always something to appreciate in all types of music. even country…



  22. fleshnbone187 on October 27, 2021 at 5:53 pm

    @METTI1986LA Well, be open minded. I love boom bap with banging drums (like this song right here and Premo’s 90s stuff) as much as I love smooth funky grooves like most g-funk and southern stuff.

    Let’s compare Onyx "Slam" to Compton’s Most Wanted "Late Night Hype". One is completely hype and makes you wanna jump, the latter is smoothed out and makes you wanna chill out after a party with a fly broad. I love them both equally.



  23. SupremeSoulstice on October 27, 2021 at 5:53 pm

    Respect to all the real hip-hop heads. To bad the states don’t show love to our veterans like y’all cats overseas do!



  24. Mark Radewagen on October 27, 2021 at 5:54 pm

    I remember when I bought this I was mildly disappointed. But now listening back to this is one of the best hiphop albums of that time period. This is BANGIN



  25. Filip Fundament on October 27, 2021 at 5:54 pm

    @ProfoundUK haha i didn’t make this bro i just like the song and when i uploaded it it wasn’t on youtube… so .. 😀



  26. theflexitech on October 27, 2021 at 5:54 pm

    Love it. No music anywhere close to this in a lomg time.



  27. David Bone on October 27, 2021 at 6:02 pm

    no se cuantos años llevaba sin escuchar esto, creo que mas de 10



  28. METTI1986LA on October 27, 2021 at 6:02 pm

    haha, why so angry man? calm down!!!



  29. jasonsheil on October 27, 2021 at 6:03 pm

    fuck…yes…



  30. r3doctober on October 27, 2021 at 6:03 pm

    dammed good song…love it



  31. EGstill85 on October 27, 2021 at 6:04 pm

    Buckwild gets nowhere near enough props as other ditc beat makers and engineers …shouldn’t have to mention Black Rob for someone to recognize. No disrespect to Black Rob



  32. SuperNoX86 on October 27, 2021 at 6:08 pm

    Fuck headnoddin..I’m headbangin to this.



  33. METTI1986LA on October 27, 2021 at 6:11 pm

    @s950abuser thats not the kinda hip hop i want to listen to – i need the boom bap



  34. Carlos Villalobos on October 27, 2021 at 6:11 pm

    Now this is real Hip Hop 🔊🔊🔊



  35. Kick Back on October 27, 2021 at 6:13 pm

    would you please take 2 seconds to check our boom bap shit?… trust me you wont be disappointed… search Flabbergasted – Da Shogunz… peace!



  36. Mackenzie Jefferson on October 27, 2021 at 6:14 pm

    Every time I get depressed (every day) I listen to the Artifacts and life starts to feel like there’s something worth living for besides working for pennies, false materialism and indiffierent women



  37. milentci on October 27, 2021 at 6:15 pm

    milenci likez



  38. METTI1986LA on October 27, 2021 at 6:15 pm

    @ca187hustla i like all kinds of music for example foo fighters and rage against the machine or curtis mayfield, charlie parker even jack johnson but i dont like this chopped/skrewed or crunk i just dont feel it



  39. Dustin Ware on October 27, 2021 at 6:17 pm

    I remember spinin this shit back in the day. #da soundtrack



  40. METTI1986LA on October 27, 2021 at 6:17 pm

    chopped & skrewed is something for punk asses



  41. hayato JAP on October 27, 2021 at 6:18 pm

    Pack Pistol Posse !!!
    Flow some mo’ pro SHIT ! ! !



  42. jham4745 on October 27, 2021 at 6:19 pm

    Classic album great duo



  43. bruce johnson on October 27, 2021 at 6:19 pm

    Someone has not been listening to K Rino