24 Oct 09

— Wrapping Up: A genre ages out.

The New Yorker’s review of Jay-Z’s latest album combined with a riff on the end of hip-hop. “If you want to be conservative and decide that mainstream cultural relevance kicked in toward the end of the eighties, with New York’s golden age and the quick follow-up of gangsta rap, the wildly popular genre from Los Angeles, that still leaves twenty years of cultural impact. This may be a fine time for hip-hop to atomize. The original form has done an awful lot of work.”


24 Sep 09

— Hova didn't want 'em, but I do.

Alex Goose has posted the tracks he created for Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 album. All instrumental, all nice, all downloaded. [via]


24 Sep 09

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Son of Byford by Run-DMC. From a selection of songs all less than a minute long.

14 Aug 09

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De La Soul – In The Woods from Buhloone Mindstate. [via]

31 Jul 09

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LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out. I wore this cassette out in the nine oh! [via]

24 Jul 09

— A movie for the blind.

City of God’s Son is a mix-tape, an opera, a book on tape (sans book), and kind of undefinable.

It mashes up music and audio clips from Nas, Jay-Z, Ghost Face Killa; along with 3-D sounds; and pieces from movies starring Laurence Fishburne, Delroy Lindo, and Samuel L. Jackson to tell a coming of age story about young NYC gangstas.

Got that? Oh, and it’s available for free download via Creative Commons License.


30 Jun 09

It’s good to see Chubb Rock coming out with a new album. For old times sake here is a really low quality You Tube video of a Chubbster classic: Just the Two of Us.


27 Jun 09

On the way to work the other day I heard Them Girls, a Run DMC song featuring Fred Durst, and I couldn’t help thinking how effective Durst was with his fifteen minutes. That guy was everywhere and still fit in a cameo rapping with the Kings of Rock. Then I got to thinking who else got to dine at the lyrical buffet with Jam-Master Jay (RIP), DJ Run, and D.M.C.? The obvious was the duet (wait, scratch that; Kenny Rogers and Dolly Pardon do duets, Run DMC does collaborations) with Aerosmith for the cover of Walk this Way. But Stephen Tyler wasn’t the only rocker to share a mic with the trio from Hollis, Queens. They also did a song with Living Colour for the Judgment Night Soundtrack. As far as fellow rappers they have done the rhyming deed with everyone from Q-Tip to Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth. Despite the fun that a collaboration is (especially in the realm of hip-hop) my all time favorites from Run DMC are still the classics like Run’s House and Peter Piper. Listen and enjoy. Photo by Ari Marcopoulos. Run DMC, Hollis, Queens. 1984.

On the way to work the other day I heard Them Girls, a Run DMC song featuring Fred Durst, and I couldn’t help thinking how effective Durst was with his fifteen minutes. That guy was everywhere and still fit in a cameo rapping with the Kings of Rock. Then I got to thinking who else got to dine at the lyrical buffet with Jam-Master Jay (RIP), DJ Run, and D.M.C.?

The obvious was the duet (wait, scratch that; Kenny Rogers and Dolly Pardon do duets, Run DMC does collaborations) with Aerosmith for the cover of Walk this Way. But Stephen Tyler wasn’t the only rocker to share a mic with the trio from Hollis, Queens. They also did a song with Living Colour for the Judgment Night Soundtrack. As far as fellow rappers they have done the rhyming deed with everyone from Q-Tip to Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.

Despite the fun that a collaboration is (especially in the realm of hip-hop) my all time favorites from Run DMC are still the classics like Run’s House and Peter Piper. Listen and enjoy.

Photo by Ari Marcopoulos. Run DMC, Hollis, Queens. 1984.


11 Jun 09

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What (Tribute Remix) - Skillz, ?uestlove & Randy Watson from J. Period’s Q-Tip tribute album.

10 Jun 09

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Buggin’ Out ‘09 – Consequence featuring KiD CuDi. Here is the original Bugging Out from Tribe, it starts about 3:30 into that link. [via].

12 May 09

Maseo of De La Soul by D-Nice, who not only produces some excellent videos, but also takes great photos.

Maseo of De La Soul by D-Nice, who not only produces some excellent videos, but also takes great photos.

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