Salutes to Richie1250 for spreading the good word of the Conservative Rap Coalition and playing some of my CRC remixes on his long-running PBS-FM radio show last Friday, you can catch the audio here: A handful of copies of the first Summer of Stout 7″ are still available from Big Cartel and Bandcamp.
“You’re three feet and sinking/The tribes are lost and everyone’s breath stinkin’” – Kool Keith on Ultramagnetic MCs ‘Pluckin’ Cards’, 1992. As pointed out in Angus Batey’s revisit of Funk Your Head Up in 2012, Keith continued the Ultramag party line – first witnessed on Tim Dog’s ‘I Ain’t Takin’ No Shorts’ – that the…
Now that we’re halfway through 2025 and I’m still standing firm on my refusal to start a podcast or any other form of multi-media ‘content creation’, but I still wanted to try something new (no, not effin’ IPA). Rather than actually push myself to learn something new – because who has time for that crap,…
While reading Decoded, I was often thinking, ‘Hold-up a minute – if Jay-Z doesn’t even write down his rhymes on paper, how has he got time to write a cot damn BOOK?’ Then on page 309, after it’s all said and done, he reveals the plot twist – ‘First and foremost I’d like to acknowledge…