Little is known about the legendary drummer/producer behind classic rap jams from Enjoy, Profile and Tuff City, so when his nephew Koolie Kookoo hit me up this past December I jumped at the chance to find out more about the great man. Here are some of Koolie’s favourite memories and anecdotes of his uncle. Robbie:…
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Download: The Unkut 40 Oz. 2015
So here we are, at the cusp of another year, looking back at which rap songs still resonate with us up to twelve months later. If anyone is foolish enough to release an incredible song in the next three says, I’d like to extend my apologies. Otherwise, sit back and enjoy forty Conservative Rap Coalition…
No Country For Old (Rap) Men: A Salute to Bootleg Vinyl
Toasting a glass to white labels and unofficial compilations… No Country For Old (Rap) Men: A Salute to Bootleg Vinyl
No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Why did the women of rap get sidelined?
As the soon to be cancelled The Soup would say…’Chicks, man.’ No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Why did the women of rap get sidelined?
Rapper Report Card – CRC Edition
[pdf-embedder url=”http://www.unkut.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/CRC-Rapper-Report-Card.pdf”] Link to full size version After last week’s Jadakiss impromptu grading as a rapper, I got to thinking about how other rappers might fare if I scored them using Kool Moe Dee‘s patented Rapper Report Card system. For the purposes of this test, I simply plucked a name out of mid-air and scored…
No Country For Old (Rap) Men: Why producer albums are almost never worthwhile
Anyone want to hear a twenty track album with six random rappers crammed onto every song? Nah, didn’t think so. No Country For Old (Rap) Men: Why producer albums are almost never worthwhile
Do you need to have made a classic album to be considered one of the greatest?
While I was trolling Jadakiss apologists today for calling his new album Top Five Dead or Alive, lamenting his complete inability to ever make an official album with more than three good songs, a thought struck me – maybe you don’t actually need a certified classic album to be considered one of the best of…
No Country For Old (Rap) Men: Little records? Big deal!
The rap 7″ scene is outta control and I’m calling shenanigans. No Country For Old (Rap) Men: Little records? Big deal!
DJ Pizzo [HipHopSite.com] – The Unkut Interview
I did some work with DJ Pizzo this year over at Cuepoint, but previous to that I’d been a loyal customer of the main mail-order hip-hop stores, one of which was HipHopSite, which was founded by Pizzo and Warren Peace in 1996. He explained how the wild west that was the early internet allowed their…
No Country For Old (Rap) Men: Mourning The Death of the B-Side
Records are the bane of my existance, as they’re an absolute bitch to transport when you move, are highly susceptible to flood damage and take up far too much space around the house. The one thing they do have going for them, however, is the b-side. http://www.acclaimmag.com/music/country-old-rap-men-mourning-death-b-side/
Searching For Subliminals – A masterclass in paranoia
The sad truth is that there are legions of unpaid interns working for ‘culture’ websites whose prime objective is to scour the lyrics of Drake/Kanye/Jay-Z for anything even vaguely resembling a subliminal diss. While a lot of late eighties rap could be relied on for rival MCs to straight-up call out the competition by name,…
No Country For Old (Rap) Men: Advertising’s Huge Crush on 90s Rap
Selling stuff to aging rap fans is like shooting fish in a barrel, or so most ad execs would have us believe. No Country For Old (Rap) Men: Advertising’s Huge Crush on 90s Rap