Here’s a long-overdue tribute to Craig Mack, who left this mortal coil back in March at age 47. The Mack Attack has the distinction of being the only rapper dude to release music on both the legendary FRESH/Sleepi8ng Bag label and The House That Puff Built while never having to adjust his rhyme style too…
One thing that really used to scrape my avocado as a rap fan was when many of the jerk-faced record labels tried to play possum by introducing certain ‘incentives’ to buy more CD’s and tapes – namely throwing on bonus tracks which weren’t available anywhere else. In some cases, like with G-Rap’s Live and Let…
Wastelandz, Queens legend Chyskillz passed away on 13 February 2018. Growing-up around the likes of Royal Flush, Neek The Exotic and Large Professor, Chy is said to have first gotten to play around with some SL-1200’s at the age of ten and never looked back. Looking through my interview archives, here are three quotes discussing…
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:
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…
All jokes aside, EPMD are effin’ legends who had an incredible run of four classic albums. Here’s a collection of slightly tweaked ‘Club Mixes’ and complete remixes from when twelve inch singles ruled the world but were usually a luxury beyond what I could afford as a young bloke. Download: A Salute To EPMD Remixes…
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…
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:
After realising that I’d left the original, superior version of Pete Rock’s ‘Strange Fruit’ off the first volume, it was only right that I put together a follow-up to the Axelrod samples compilation, this time mainly focusing on his work as a producer for other artists. And no, I did not forget about Dre –…
Jazz fusion pioneer David Axelrod passed away today, leaving behind a legacy of incredible music and a wealth of eerie, atmospheric material for people to rap over. For the sake of keeping this to twenty tracks, I’ve only included his work with the Electric Prunes and his solo albums, rather than covering his equally extensive…
Bronx bomber extraordinaire Minnesota has provided the Money Boss Player crew with many a superb beat over the years, as well as contributing classic tracks for the likes of Sadat X, Big Pun and Ghostface. I don’t know much about him beyond his discography, so let’s just let the music speak for itself. Download: A…
Here’s a follow up to the 2015 compilation, focusing on artists that went on to do something else rather than just gather dust in an A&R’s desk drawer who aren’t named Nas, Biggie or Mobb Deep. Download: A Salute To Rap Demos, Volume Two Track list: