All jokes aside, EPMD are effin’ legends who had an incredible run of four classic albums. Here’s a collection of slightly tweaked ‘Club Mixes’ and complete remixes from when twelve inch singles ruled the world but were usually a luxury beyond what I could afford as a young bloke. Download: A Salute To EPMD Remixes…
There continues to be a fair amount of confusion as to the official position of the Conservative Rap Coalition in regards to new music, so I clearly need to address some of the misinformation that seems to pollute the comment section here whenever feelings are hurt. Here are a few of the basics:
Still waiting for the Kid Cudi to attempt a Ziggy Stardust remake album, but not in a good way. The pros and cons of rap concept albums
Six years ago I asked who was New York’s most boring rapper, but never got around to polling the results. Following on from my piece about Common – and the fact that there are a number of new contenders for the throne – I’ve assembled a list of twelve candidates based on previous responses and…
Remember the three volumes of Rare Stacks mix CD’s that Showbiz hosted, where he played an hours worth of dope, and largely unused, breaks? Apparently Molecules from The Legion does, since he snatched up some of the finest moments from those compilations and rapped over them on this new EP, with a few new tracks…
No prizes for guessing the first prize winner. Common, the second most boring man in rap
After spending the best part of two days looking for R&B songs with Biz rapping on them (and almost buying that Aja jam from iTunes because it’s nowhere else on the internets but stopping myself just in time because I was slipping into some kind of madness), I wound up with around forty guest spots…
I went on a bit of a Biz bender the other night and this was the result. No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Biz Markie, the voice of a generation
It appears that Kool G Rap beat Sadat X by at least decade in terms of stepping into the Rapper Wine game, as we see here in the video for ‘Can’t Stop The Shine’ from the Roots Of Evil album. You can’t knock the hustle when the great man has clearly figured out that video…
Reviews of the new G Rap, MC Eiht and KRS-One albums, aka the Blastmasta forgets which Beastie Boy died. No Country for Old (Rap) Men: When Middle Aged Rappers Attack
When Shock G and co. combined the drums from Parliament’s ‘Theme From The Black Hole‘ and Sly and the Family Stone’s ‘Sing A Sample Song‘ to create the dancefloor genius that is ‘The Humpty Dance’ beat, little did they know that inspired piece of sampling would be jacked by no less than 125 other rap…
This one passed me by when it first came out, even though I used to play the shit out of Spoonie Gee’s The Godfather of Hip-Hop LP. The weird thing about that album is I only bought it after a friend of mine asked me to replace his copy which he left on the train,…