Aeon Hand, who was responsible for many classic Combat Jack Show handbills and the covers of Bol’s books, not to mention the superb illustrations in Past The Margin and the official Conservative Rap Coalition logo, released a book in September last year. Equal parts hilarious and disturbing over 140 pages, I highly recommend this to…
This song was my first introduction to the talents of Large Professor as a rapper, and remains a firm favourite to this day. In 2006, P-Vine records from Japan pressed-up the alternative ‘Uncut’ mix on a 12″ in Japan, providing some extra lyrics and scratching, which was good times. Then yesterday I heard a radio…
First we got ‘Bait’ on the first Red Alert album, and then on his next compilation he gave us an alternative version of ‘Funky’ with a new intro, different Ced verse and an extra Keith rap at the end! Was this recorded as a promo for Red a year after the 12″ mix was released,…
There’s been a lot of Melle Mel talk the past couple of days, so it seemed like a good opportunity to share some choice quotes that others have made about the legend himself – as found in the printed pages of A Decade of Unkut Interviews. Mikey D: I’d already won the belt, now they’re…
Good news if you’re living in the UK – Rarekind Records in East Sussex are now taking pre-orders for the book.
Another day, another white label remix bootleg. Not that I’m complaining, I love this crap! The off-brand Marley Marl cartoon, the unfulfilled promise of future volumes that never arrived and the fact that only one of the three tracks is from the FF crew really seals the deal as well. There’s also a 50% chance…
Here I was, this whole time thinking that I needed to get this Marley Marl remix of the ode to Dapper Dan’s favourite pugilist, when the real knock-out was Teddy Riley’s dub work on the flip. Ted was in the midst of his proto-New Jack Swing era, delivering dancefloor-ready rap jams for Moe Dee, the…
If you’ve been holding off grabbing a copy of the book because of the postage cost and live in the USA, I’ve got some good news! Boston reissue label Get On Down are now taking pre-orders for domestic distribution. Hopefully I can get somewhere in the UK or Europe to do the same. If anyone…
Is this an answer record to Akinyele’s ‘Thug Shit’? Because that hook has me catching a flashback to 1997. History shows that neither of these songs reached the level of ‘Whomp (There It Is)’ / ‘Whoot, There It Is’ confusion that Tag Team and 95 South endured. This sounds like the kind of late nineties…
In other news, ‘Past The Margin: A Decade of Unkut Interviews’ is around the size of a hotel bible. Perfect for old people bus rides! Also great to make yourself seem intelligent at dive bars.
The first run of the Past The Margin: A Decade of Unkut Interviews hardcover book has finally arrived and is available to order here: Past The Margin: A Decade of Unkut Interviews hardcover book Including a mix of material originally published on unkut.com, previously unseen follow-up sessions and six brand new conversations that are exclusive…
DJ Premier and GURU’s third LP isn’t the most stripped-down rap album you’ll ever hear – it’s a veritable smorgasbord of sounds in comparison to the likes of the first Schoolly-D album or anything from Rick Rubin era Def Jam – but considering the technology and resources that they had available to them, Daily Operation…