Something was lost when ‘Hundred Dollar Bill’ was re-recorded as ‘Ijustwannachill’ for The LP. This first take is a little bit faster than the album version (enough to shave half a minute off the run time), which seems to spark-up the artist formerly known as Paul Juice to rap with a little more vigor. This…
I’ll let T-Ray and this On The Go magazine review sum this one up… T-Ray sez: I’ll tell you something I did for G Rap back in the day – I think Stretch Armstrong actually bootlegged it – it later got called ‘Hey Mr. Mr.’, but it was originally called ‘Don’t Interrupt Me When I’m…
Steve Powers and Max Glazer kicked it with Havoc, Prodigy, Big Noyd, Godfather Part III and a dude named Money No. Important topics covered include shouting out Bob from Queensbridge, the Mobb Bunnies and whether or not you should tip your bar tender.
From rap blog Detox to knocken’ em out the box like Johnny The Fox, I’m pleased to announce that Past The Margin: A Decade of Unkut Interviews is complete and ready to send to the printer this month. Ironically, it feels like I announced this effin’ tome almost ten years ago, but better late than…
Allow me to introduce a rag-tag bunch of rappers delivering parodies of well-known rap songs, piss-takes of ‘gangster’ rap and even taking the mickey out of their own image. 01. J.O.B. – Prince Paul The only P.S.K. remake worth it’s salt. 02. U Mean I’m Not – Black Sheep Sounds like Dres is having a…
Before Akinyele made a name for himself on ‘Live At The BBQ’ and the incredible Vagina Diner album, he was down with a dude named Amazin’. The duo apparently went by the name of – you guessed it – Akinyele and Amazin’, as Joe Fatal explained to me back in 2007: ‘Akinyele had a group…
Here’s an interesting snapshot of how some rap fanatics reacted to the first Nas album (myself included) – it delivered nine amazing rap songs, featuring state-of-the-art rhymes over the some of the finest producers to ever do it. And yet…it just didn’t deliver the knock-out blow that Criminal Minded, It Takes A Nation Of Millions…
One of the staples in the increasingly competitive world of music magazines was sticking some extra crap on the cover – be it a CD, mixtape or a min-mag supplement. In 1999, Jeremy Miller assembled ’32 of Hip-Hop’s Best Verses’ as a pocket-sized pal, perfect for train rides, BBQ’s and…rap karaoke? While you might be…
You know you’ve made it when you can afford to pay the best rappers of the era to make songs advertising your shit. There was that Biggie verse which later turned up as a song with Black Rob with the store name references muted (‘Jeans and Sneakers’), and of course this pristine snippet of prime-time…
Finally got my hands on a bootleg of this masterpiece, yet another casualty of the ‘Cop Killer’ fallout which resulted in any rap lyrics involving shooting police being either censored or the whole song getting pulled. DJ Premier really went all-in with that demented horn loop that recalls a squeaky screen door swinging in the…
This is a weird one. The cynical part of my brain tells me that Marley Marl is deliberately messing with Ced-Gee and the crew here, as he acts as if he’s never heard an Ultramagnetic record before in his life – despite the fact that they’ve been making some serious noise since 1986 with ‘Ego…
As the ancient philosophers’ once told us: ‘Sometimes you’re DJ Crazy Cortez, and sometimes your Jiggy’. Salutes to Noah Callahan-Bever, who drew this strip when he started out at ego trip before holding it down at Blaze, Vibe and Complex.