Not sure how I missed the debut last week, but I just caught the second episode of The Combat Jack Radio Show with Dallas Penn on PNC Radio, and I think it’s safe to say we’ve got a keeper on our hands. The Combat Jack Radio Show feat. Dallas Penn – ‘Episode 2’
Category: In The Trenches
Dres Attempts To Remember The Scenario Session
A Dres-free picture from the session… Here’s another piece to the ‘Scenario’ demo, taken from an interview that Phillip ‘Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa’ Mlynar did last week: Here’s the the non-speaking half-Puerto Rican brother from New York on a session that apparently they were all too high and drunk to remember properly: Dres:…
Keith Shocklee Discusses ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions…’
Some bonus material from my interview with Bomb Squad co-founder Keith Shocklee which covers their seminal work with Public Enemy: Keith Shocklee: ‘We’d done records before, but we’d never been totally left alone to do an album. Hank and Chuck and my cousin Eric did like 98% of the ‘Yo! Bumrush The Show’ album –…
More Backstage Thievery Down-Under
Just because Australia was once filled with the crooks that England didn’t want doesn’t mean that it’s a nation of ‘tea-leafs’, right? Here’s the latest installment of people stealing shit from Americans On Rap Tours. While Talib Kweli was able to get his laptop back (but not his fitted), it seems that this story has…
Grand Daddy I.U. = The King of Twitter
I.U. can still kill it on the mic, as he demonstrated on ‘Da Veteran’ (available soon Marco Polo‘s The Stupendous Adventures Of Marco Polo LP). ((1. 90’s Babies Note: You would have heard Grand Daddy I.U. on Big L‘s ‘Da Graveyard’ with Jay-Z.)) But don’t sleep on the man’s Twitter game – your man is…
Aaron Fuchs Responds To Funkmaster Wizard Wiz
Photo courtesy of Fat Lace. I just received this letter from the CEO of Tuff City, in response to some comments Funkmaster Wizard Wiz made about him in this interview: February 1, 2010 I’m sorry that it has taken so long, but I don’t troll the net obsessively and there were some remarks by Funkmaster…
DJ Phantom Discusses Killa Sha’s Career
Late last week I was contacted by DJ Phantom – who it turns out was Sha Lumi’s right-hand man in the music game – and I was fortunate enough to have him share some stories about Sha. For those of you not familiar with Phantom’s resume, he’s been involved in the mixtape game heavily for…
Remembering Killa Sha, Part 1
Photo: Alexander Richter In case you’re not familiar with Killa Sha‘s legacy for some reason, here’s a quick run-down of his history in the rap game: Prince A.D. was a true student of the rap game. When he was eleven, he was down with The Super Kids – a group of young upstarts put together…
How Not To Attend An M.O.P. Show
I remember seeing the posters a couple of months ago and bugging out. Mash Out Posse coming through my town? Nah, right? But it they were. As a huge supporter/fan/Stan of the Brownsville crew, I knew this was gonna be a night to remember. Turns out it was, only not exactly the way I’d imagined…
Tony Bones Recalls R.A. The Rugged Man’s Time At Jive
Tony ‘Bones’ Harrison recalls his first memory of R.A. The Rugged Man:
eskay [NahRight] – The Unkut Interview, Part 2
Photo: Alexander Richter Concluding my talk with eskay, we cover his time at XXL, the Nah Right comment crew, why his detractors just don’t get it and future plans for the site. Robbie: So how was your time XXL? Was it a 9-5 kinda role? eskay: I was gonna run the content on the Scratch…
eskay [NahRight] – The Unkut Interview, Part 1
Photo: Alexander Richter If you want to check the newest/latest in the rap world, you’re first stop on the intehnets is probably gonna be Nah Right. As the originator of aggregate-style content back when your average hip-hop blog was usually an article with a couple of mp3’s at the end, eskay has carved-out his own…