There’s nothing like pretending to rap like it’s 1985 (or better yet, 1977) well after the fact, or recruiting some veteran MC’s to kick some old styles. While some of these attempts have fallen flat (Ugly Duckling and People Under The Stairs being two examples that spring to mind), others have made an entire career…
The Australian chapter of Complex just launched last week, so I penned a little something something about the once fly gear known as Country Road for all you outfit architects. Why Country Road Crew Wear is Australia’s Polo
What with recent technological advancements where you can now cut one-off vinyl records in real time at places that make personalized t-shirts, it got me to thinking what songs I would throw on if I was to make a bootleg of CD and digital only rap songs from recent years. My first one would probably…
This makes Star Trek II: The Search For Spock look like a walk in the park. No Country For Old (Rap) Men: The Search For Fake Hip-Hop
To complete the theme that I’ve running with these past few weeks, here are fifteen rap songs which were either scrapped altogether, released as promo only or re-recorded for the album. It’s limited to one pick per artist, otherwise this would have ended up as yet another compilation of Ghostface and Nas songs that couldn’t…
Following on from last week’s Demo Versions comp, this is a collection of original versions of rap songs which had their beat completely changed for the album. Unlike tracks which have to get redone because of sample clearance problems, these tracks all seem to have been decided not to be musically strong enough and were…
Big Daddy Kane is one of the best to ever do it, and can still tear a stage up to this day. So why did his solo recording career end in the ninwties? No Country For (Old) Rap Men: Too Smooth, Too Soon
Cole James Cash was cleaning up his mom’s basement last week and found this old record which features not one but two rhymes which are ripped off word-for-word from other rappers. Apparently Lo Down had some connection with the Wu-Tang, with Islord from Killarmy contributing the final verse which is actually the Raekown’s rap from…
Pretty Tone Capone in the studio with Real Live, 2004. Photo: richdirection The infamous Pretty Tone Capone from Harlem’s Mob Style is about to return to the rap game. While I haven’t heard his new material yet, his work with the group and as a soloist has given us some of the most authentic street…
MF Doom is one of the few rapper’s who releases different vocal takes of his songs. It’s a great idea… No Country For Old (Rap) Men: DOOM and the art of rap re-recordings
Shouts to ego trip for this classic cover which I’ve destroyed with my Extra Abstract Photoshop skills. Here’s last Friday’s episode of Abstract Radio, where Large and Pete join Tip in the studio to rap, play classic funk records and call up D’Angelo and Andre 3000. Grab it before it gets C&D’d.
Please head over to the CRC site to vote on the future of Kool G Rap as a Conservative Rap Coaliton approved rapper. These are dark days indeed, my friends.