While clicking around the web yesterday, I came across a very cool music conversation if you will between Seattle hip-hop producer Jake One and Mike Clark, a local hip-hop scholar of sorts and former cohost of KCMU’s Rap Attack. They’ve been walking back through the history of the city’s rap scene and posting some rare old school songs that were instrumental to the development of what the genre looks like today.They start out talking about the city’s pioneers like Nasty Nes and Sir Mix-A-Lot (pictured above) and some of their more comical moments as radio jocks on K-FOX 1250 AM. They move on to more lesser known groups like the Union St. Hustlers, LSR, the Emerald Street Boys, etc., and what’s best is that they’ve got audio for all of these groups. They’re dropping stuff that a lot of people who were born in Seattle might not have heard yet. I don’t want to give it all away, but if you want to see two dinosaurs (kidding!) from Seattle’s rap foundation playfully archiving the early days with songs like “Let’s G” and the “High Powered Hip-Hop” (picture a young Mr. Supreme) from the ’80s, check this out. And if you want to know about the way Seattle’s rap scene morphed in the ’90s, as groups like Vitamin D’s Ghetto Children started making noise and Sinsemilla were putting out tapes, then you’ll want to check this out as well. Let the arguments begin if it’s definitive or not. DJ B-Mello is already not feeling it. But that’s the joy of taking a look back.