Holding it down for angry loners & the unemployable
Following on from Kane and Biz hanging out with Paul Simon in 1987, Quincy Jones’ all-star ‘Back On The Block‘ and Rick James’ ‘Loosey’s Rap‘ with Kane and Shante, Paul Shaffer (David Letterman’s band leader and the author of ‘It’s Raining Men‘), decided to blend doo-wop and hip-hop a full two years before Easy Moe…
Spoonie Gee isn’t talked about enough in terms of the greatest rappers ever. The popular dialogue will sometimes include Caz, Mel or Moe Dee as the token old schooler, but I still put Spoonie in my personal top ten to this day. Just taking a look at some of his achievements should really set the…
While many people think of Run-DMC as being the epitome of 1986 rap with the dominating force of the Raising Hell album – which was an undeniable cultural and musical testament to the power of rap music – it’s also worth noting that the next generation of rappers has already moved on from the Shout…
The original ‘Best Producer On The Mic’ is showing no signs of slowing down in 2019 with the release of The Diem Piece 2, so I thought it was about time to showcase those rare moments when he takes centre stage. Grown Man Talk and The Diamond Mine from the early 00’s had some great…
Five and half months late, here are the forty best rap songs from 2018 according to the Conservative Rap Coalition. Due to a recent influx in the Drum Free Rap genre and the sheer number of releases from many CRC stalwarts, we’ve really been spoil for choice. I’ll always choose a great beat before anything…
#Wow I just came across the original print in a crate… pic.twitter.com/son1vRMJHn — Curt Cazal (@curt_cazal) September 29, 2018 All these years I could’ve sworn that the line was ‘Like a video game, in Elenor’s computer’… I also thought that Schoolly-D’s DJ was called ‘Cold Money’ at one stage. What’s the worst line you mis-heard…
Aretha Franklin passed away last Thursday at the age of 76, with a catalog of forty-two studio albums under her belt. Here are fifteen seventeen rap songs that made good use of the Queen of Soul’s music (not to be confused with Mary J. Blige – the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, Roxanne Shante – the…
This edition is a lot better than the last one in terms of the track listing… Reezy Rez sez:
This old November 1994 to October 1995 bullshit really makes this more difficult than it should be. GZA’s album might be on the border who cares at this stage. The Meth, Redman and Keith Murray albums were all enjoyable enough back then but I’d rather revisit these fifteen long players if I had the choice….
Courtesy of the comment section of the last post, here are twenty rap soundtrack songs that never got commercially released as singles at the time…with a limit of one track per movie. Download: A Salute To Soundtrack Songs That Weren’t Singles Track listing:
Reezy Re just can’t seem to hold it back, much like a young Kevin Madison.
No idea how this one slipped past me for the twenty two years. Produced by Jae Supreme.