After reading through the thousands hundreds handful of entries we received for the “Are You Hip-Hop’s Biggest Stan?” contest, a clear winner has been decided. While there were some great stories, including a drunken attempt to scoop Jean Grae, a D-Nice look-a-like and pretending to be a fan of Dice Raw, the $20 record voucher…
Author: Robbie Ettelson
Greatest Rap Albums Ever
I just got an email from a reader named Lily who commented: i have only recently realized that hip hop (and soul and funk and jazz and so on) is the only thing worth listening to in this day and age. rock music is so fucking tired and i’ve been listening to it for too…
Early Pete Rock – 1991 Source Interview
This really takes me back…this piece dropped just before Pete began his reign as the most in-demand producer/remixer of the moment, not to mention the impact of the Mecca & The Soul Brother LP. I wonder what happened to that D-Nice, Heavy D and Ice Cube posse cut that he mentions?
Bud Bundy – Top 5 Dead Or Alive
In terms of “white guys from sitcoms who also rap”, then David Faustino is clearly king of the heap. While he lacks the distinction of having been dissed by the Metal-Faced Villian, he was part of one of the greatest TV shows ever,1 and his one and only rap release contained such gems as: “I…
Stick-N-Move
Remember this post about Freddie Foxxx and Ultramagnetic? I finally dug-up the Source article about the First1 Annual Rappers Boxing Match. 1. Sadly, it was also the last. [↩]
Mobb Deep and Wu-Tang CD-ROM action
There was a brief period where Loud records wasted a bunch of cash putting out Enhanced CD’s back in 1996, when the internets was still really shitty and Quicktime and Flash had recently come out. Xzibit‘s first album, Mobb Deep‘s Hell On Earth and the Wu-Tang Forever double album all got “special treatment”, but the…
Ultramagnetic Demos
A little something passed on to me from Ross F: I was just reading you’re Ultra reunion post and thought you might be interested in something I acquired from eBay recently: A demo EP with the four tracks “(NYC Critic) Mix It Down”, “Baby I’m Mad”, “Make It Rain” and “Who I Am”. The seller…
What’s Next On The Menu?
Before he was hangin’ with Ron Jeremy, DJ Polo was pushing this personalized Benz around the “Streets of New York”. So I finally took the plunge and upgraded to WordPress 2. If you don’t run your own blog, that’s pretty meaningless but for those who do it’s worth the jump just for the built-in spam…
The Hitman Double J
One of the early members of the Flavor Unit, Double J doesn’t feature on much of their output other than his spot on “The Flavor Unit Assination Squad” and a couple of 12″s. He mentions how it all started in an old Hip Hop Connection piece: “We used to do block parties in Jersey City…
Why Return of The Funky Man Rules
I have to admit that I was shocked to read a few comments in my last post that a few people feel that Return of The Funky Man isn’t that great of an album. This is complete madness. As great as Funky Technician was, Finesse’s second album is my shit. This may be partly because…
Lord Finesse ’92 Hip Hop Connection Interview
If you’re a true rap magazine junkie then you’ve no doubt got some old issues of Hip Hop Connection stashed somewhere. This rag has been doing it’s thing since 1988 over in not-so-sunny England, and while it’s always had it’s fair share of crap articles over the years, it was also the only place you…
New Marley Marl – A Double Dose
It seems Marley Marl has been busy lately, and while there are plenty of stories about credit disputes / ghost producing floating around these days, you can’t deny that after all these years he’s still bringing that gritty “project sound” to everything he touches.