Listening to this album again reminds me of a few important facts. For starters, certified mentalist The Jaz aka Jaz-O was making some great beats in the late nineties. Secondly, apparently Avirex still held some weight in certain sections of Brooklyn in 1998. Thirdly, this vaulted LP from the guys who would later put out…
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 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…
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…
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.
I like to think that Jane somehow snuck in to the photoshoot for the ‘Golddigger’ single. The Jane saga is the longest running series in rap, and also the most confusing. It’s almost as if Erick and Parrish have completely forgotten what happened in each previous episode, as there is very little continuity between each…
The good news is that Harvard University will be honouring a minimum of ten hip-hop classics every year for future study and appreciation. The bad news, it seems, is that they’ve put 9th Wonder in charge of curating it and notate everything with links to Rap Dummy. I’m assuming that the enormous importance of pioneering…
Every other week some bullshit blogger ranks Kanye West albums, so here’s a ranking that’s actually worth a damn. I stopped after 1997 because I haven’t enjoyed any of them enough to remember much about them after point.
Could this be a triumphant final roll of the dice or a case of too little, too late? No Country for Old (Rap) Men: A Tribe Called Quest’s Last Hurrah
Prince Be of PM Dawn passed away on 17 June, 2016. While best remembered for Whisper Rapping over a Spandau Ballet loop by most music fans in the nineties, rap fanatics most commonly associate him as the victim of KRS-One being pushed too far by the disrespect of his peers. He was also an avid…
What. The. Actual. Fuck? Mr. Freeze is able to get not one but two verses out of Mr. Maxwell in 1993 for what I can only assume was a giant truck full of loot. Fortunately he refused to don a cowboy hat, ride a horse or carry a pitchfork around, unlike the rest of the…