As the ancient philosophers’ once told us: ‘Sometimes you’re DJ Crazy Cortez, and sometimes your Jiggy’. Salutes to Noah Callahan-Bever, who drew this strip when he started out at ego trip before holding it down at Blaze, Vibe and Complex.
Category: Magazine Vaults
The finest in ripped and creased rap mag memories.
Bronx Bombers: Ultramagnetic MC’s interview with The Source, June 1992
Click for full size scan Click for full size scan The world would be a far better place if Kool Keith’s Straight Outta Bellvue Into Creedmore album actually existed.
Looking back at the first hundred issues of The Source magazine
Issue #62 of The Source (with a cover date of November 1994) marked the point that co-founder Dave Mays said ‘fuck it’ and threw-in a four page special on the group he was managing at the time just before the issue went to press. As a result, Jon ‘J. The Sultan’ Shecter, James Bernard, Reginald…
Wonder if anyone caught an angry two-way page over this?
Before rap blogging, print magazines dipped their toes into the wacky world of making fun of rappers. More often than not, this led to someone getting put into a yoke at an open bar even the following week. Let’s hope that no interns were harmed following the release of the 5th anniversary issue of XXL…
The Source magazine’s Ear To The Street, May 1990
Sheck meets Ced Now this is the kind of rap news I can get behind! A summary of Biz Markie’s Mom Jokes and news about a Kool Keith solo album produced by Ced Gee that never saw the light of the day. [pdf-embedder url=”http://www.unkut.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Pages-from-9-The-Source-May-1990.pdf” title=”Pages from 9 The Source – May 1990″]
The Face magazine: New York Gangs Article [1990]
Here’s a classic article from the UK’s The Face magazine in 1990 documenting The Decepticons and the Lo Lifes back in the day.
Crap Review, Great Hat
New Musical Express was, at one point, my only source of (somewhat) reliable rap news. Sure, most of the time they approached it with a confused British journalistic approach (‘hang about, you can’t call women skeezers AND rap politics…can you?’), but to their credit they let Westwood compile his Future Rap chart every week. Here’s…
The 1995 Source System – The Best Albums Of The Year
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….
The Source System 1994: Best Records of the Year
Couldn’t find the original mag although I’m sure I have it somewhere so enjoy the world’s smallest JPEG. November 1993 to October 1994: 01) The Beatnuts – Street Level 02) Nas – Illmatic 03) A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders 04) Organized Konfusion – Stress: The Extinction Agenda 05) Notorious B.I.G. – Ready to…
’92 Source System – The Best Records of the Year
Although the editorial crew didn’t bother ranking these fifteen, here’s my top fifteen for ninety two…
The Source Mind Squad’s Top Ten Rap Albums of 1990
Click for full-size image. Unlike The Source’s 1991 list, which I just re-ordered, this one is not something I can co-sign at all. Even if we allow for the weird November 1989 – October 1990 time frame they seem to use, the lack of Funky Technician and Fear of A Black Planet alone is mind-boggling….
The Source magazine’s Top 15 rap albums of 1991 revisited
Click for full-size scan Quite the line-up there, huh? With the benefit of twenty-seven years hindsight, I would have ranked them as follows: