The group Fila Fresh Crew is formed by Fresh K, Cleo "Dr. Rock" Turner and Tracy "Doc-T" Curry. Dr. Rock is a DJ during the World Class Wreckin' Cru period when he knows Dr. Dre, that helped land the group a spot on the compilation "N.W.A. and the Posse" by NWA, released in 1987. The next year the group release a vinyl that stands on the cuts extracted from NWA debut.
Here The D.O.C. is the MC who drags his crew while listening, Dr. Rock and Fresh K are little more than gregarious, ended up in the background. Dr. Rock, Rickie Rich and Dr. Dre behind the keys. Four other cuts are added to the originals, several pretty mediocre songs: the group founded in Dallas sounds West Coast thanks to a successful production, but the lyrics aren't particularly relevant.
The only annotation that comes to mind is the following: "I Hate to Go to Work" is one of the first hip hop tracks, I dare say the first in terms of time, which samples "Friends and Strangers" by Ronnie Laws, who's a 1977 jazz classic incredibly underused in hip hop. At the time of this writing, only a couple of underground artists and the omnipresent MF DOOM have been using it, when it should have the same prominence as Cortex's "Chanson D'un Jour D'hiver"!
Published by Macola Records and Dr. Rock's label Get Live Records, this LP is recommended for fans of The D.O.C., but if you blow it you won't miss anything. Fila Fresh Crew releases a couple of singles with Macola / Get Live, beyond "Dunk The Funk", produced for Comptown Records, sublabel of Eazy-E's Ruthless created for less explicit content. In the same season the group is disbanded, Doc-T changes his moniker in The D.O.C. and move to LA, becoming crucial for Eazy-E debut album "Eazy-Duz-It" and for NWA.
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