Finally got around to transcribing my talk with Sha Money XL the other day. Between his work with G-Unit, his One Stop Shop Producers Conference and his Money Management Group, dude doesn’t eff around. I can’t drop the whole thing right now, but there were a few quotes that were worth putting up in light…
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Prince Po Isn’t Mad At Nas, May Record New Organized Konfusion Songs
I’ve had this long-standing theory that Organized Konfusion felt some kind of way about Nas “taking inspiration” from their ‘Stray Bullet’ track for It Was Written‘s ‘I Gave You Power’. Robbie: When Nas did ‘I Gave You Power’ did you take that as a compliment to ‘Stray Bullet’, or were you like, ‘Hang on a…
Ghostface Explains Why His Next Record Is Straight R&B
Robbie: Can you tell me about this R & B album? Are there a lot of collaborations? Ghostface: Like when I did ‘Ice Cream’ and all the stuff like that. Remember ‘Ice Cream’? An album like that. A mixture of things, like you know how I did that Ne-Yo joint and ‘All That I Got…
Philadelphia – Home of The Greatest DJ Songs Ever
Nobody is messing with Philly when it comes to DJ’s…well at least they weren’t in the late 80’s. Here are nine examples of exactly why I’m obsessed with this here rap shit. It wasn’t the rhymes or the beats that first got me hooked – it was the cuts! Actual DJ tracks > songs about…
Chinese Food Scares The Mess Outta Singing MC Breeze
MC Breeze aka Joey B Ellis, Sage (Stallones son), Sylvester Stallone and Tynetta Hare at the premiere of Rocky V If only every local legend 80’s rapper was considerate enough to have a website with a decent bio, I’d never have to do more than recording some vinyl and cut ‘n paste some text… “How…
Three Times Dope – Something For Your Bonkey
Original Stylin’ stands as one of the great forgotten albums of it’s era…actually forget that – it’s not forgotten, but it’s fair to say that EST was one of the most original and under-appreciated MC’s of his day. Remember how they had a falling out with Steady B and Cool C after the first album?…
Steady B – The Pop Art Era
To begin the Hilltop Hustlers story, you need to go back to Steady B. After his uncle Lawrence “LG” Goodman lost his New York talent thanks to most of the Juice Crew signing with Cold Chillin’, he set out to form his own local all-star team to keep his Pop Art label buzzing, and MC…
The 90’s Files: The Mighty V.I.C.
Name: The Mighty V.I.C. Affiliations: A member of The Beatnuts until the Stone Crazy album, worked with Godfather Don as the Groove Merchantz and later formed Ghetto Pros with Mike Heron. Claim to Fame: “G Rap used to live around my block, and I gave him the loop for ‘Truly Yours’. I remember playing the…
Lord Finesse Live In Tokyo + Vintage Press Kit
Sure, I’m a Finesse fan. He’s the only rapper I ever asked to sign anything, so when I had a chance to get my hands on the original press kit for his seminal Return of the Funkyman, best believe I went in.
The 90’s Files – Kool Kim of UMC’s
“We used to all work at the Statue Of Liberty – it was me, U-God, Method Man, Deck and Hass – and that’s where I met Hass. Me and Meth used to go to public school together, back when he was just Clifford Smith and I was just Kim Sharpton. Me and him used to…
Dante Ross – The Unkut Interview Part 3: The SD-50’s
The other aspect of Dante Ross’ career that’s noteworthy to rap fiends are the classic tracks he produced with John Gamble under the Stimulated Dummies banner. Providing beats for acts such as 3rd Bass, Hard 2 Obtain, Shazzy, Del, Grand Puba, KMD, Casual and Kurious Jorge to name a few, producing provided yet another outlet…
Dante Ross – The Unkut Interview Part 2: The Elektra Era
Following on from Part One, we move onto Dante’s time at Elektra Records, where assembled an all-star cast of artists, including Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Brand Nubian, KMD and Busta Rhymes. Robbie: What was your process for finding groups to sign? Dante Ross: I met every group I ever knew from…