Holding it down for angry loners & the unemployable
Here are the forty best rap songs according to the Conservative Rap Coalition. Limit of one song per album/EP/mixtape. Looking back, it was a pretty good year for non-trap rap. Enjoy it, screwheads! Download: The Unkut 40 Oz. 2017 [re-upped May 2019] Track listing:
After upsetting a number of diehard Chip-Fu fans, it’s only right that I shed some light on the gimmick groups from that era that managed to nail it…at least for a while. Nineties gimmick rap groups that won
For all the great rap that the nineties gave us, there was thousands more CD’s that were nothing more than hot audio garbage. 1987 > 1994. The curse of nineties gimmick rap
When I heard that sickle cell had finally claimed the life of the H.N.I.C. himself, Prodigy, my immediate response was to go to the pub and get black-out drunk in honour of his memory. I’m working on a suitable written dedication to P’s enormous contributions to Strong Island/Queensbridge rap, but in the meantime here is…
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…
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,…
At some point in every rap fan’s life, there comes the day when you have pretty much every album worth owning but realize that all those late eighties and early ninties albums that were designed to fill up a 74 minute compact disc were doomed to whisper-quiet single vinyl pressings that you could only hear…
From MC Jade to the Super Kids to MC Percy to Tragedy to Intelligent Hoodlum to Tragedy Khadafi, this guy has seen some shit in the evolution and gradual rotting away of this thing known as Queensbridge Rap. There may be a follow-up focusing on his work with Capone-N-Noreaga, Killa Sha and others, since Trag…
Twenty-three years after the ‘Stress’ single came out, the world has finally been blessed with the instrumental version of Large Professor’s supreme remix, courtesy of Slice of Spice records.
If the YouTube comment section is to be believed (which it is, natch), this is a tape rip of a party on Feb 14, 1986 at Central High School in Philly where DJ Cash Money and DJ Jazzy Jeff first publicly unleashed the infamous ‘Transformer’ scratch. It also featured Kool Breeze Steve, who rolled with…
Granted, a few of these songs aren’t exactly Atlantis-level deepest of the deep cuts, but the whole idea was to make a compilation of Corona’s finest that avoids the usual ‘Watch Out Now,’ ‘Off The Books’ and ‘Props Over Here’ Bermuda Triangle. Download: A Salute To Beatnuts Deep Cuts Track listing: