Music critic Robert Christgau is technically a former colleague of mine, in that we both wrote for Cuepoint in 2015. Obviously I never actual contacted him, since I don’t generally make a habit of writing to creepy old white guys on the internets. For reasons I can no longer recal I stumbled upon Mr. Christgau’s…
Reviews of the new G Rap, MC Eiht and KRS-One albums, aka the Blastmasta forgets which Beastie Boy died. No Country for Old (Rap) Men: When Middle Aged Rappers Attack
Joe Budden may be a little too crotchety for even the CRC. No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Get off my lawn and back onto your yacht
Rap old timers are having a bumper month if you’re idea of fun is listening to eighties and nineties favorites have another stab at making records, with the release of Positive K and Greg Nice’s Gr8te Mindz and a new Group Home LP titled Forever. The realist in me is none too keen in hearing…
It’s been announced that there is to be a new album from everybody’s favorite nineties nostalgia collective, A Tribe Called Quest. Granted, their second and third albums were brilliant, but the idea of listening to Q-Tip, Jarobi, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and the late Phife perform new material leaves me cold. I liked Tip’s last solo…
A lot of the best rap music was made in the eighties and nineties, but some folks just get away with those rose-tinted Cazals. No Country For Old (Rap) Men: Lies That Old Rap Fans Tell You
Andrew Emery (aka Drew Huge of Fatlace) penned a piece on 50 Cent’s recent fiscal hiccups/tactics for The Guardian this week, and as one might imagine the comment section was chock-full of outraged rap haters. The real keepers, of course, are the contributions from annoyed backpackers and Defenders Of The True School. These type of…
The Wu-Tang Clan have been through more than share of ups and downs over the years, but there’s no denying that they brought back a much needed grit to rap music when they hit the scene in in 1992 with their self-released ‘Protect Ya Neck’/’After The Laughter Comes Tears’ single. RZA’s master plan to get…
Is reality TV the only answer for aging rapper dudes? No Country For Old (Rap) Men: Since The Face Got Revealed, Game Got Real…
A decade ago, the magic of the Blogger platform allowed many an aspiring rap message board warrior step into the big leagues and pull themselves up by their bootstraps to become the media big dogs that they are today. The characters covered here have risen to the ranks of published authors, college professors, internets celebrities,…
Highlight’s of the Big Daddy Kane park jam, including performances of “Set It Off”, “The Symphony”, “Wrath of Kane”, “Raw”, “Ain’t No Half Steppin’” and a cameo from Dres. Kane lived up to his reputation as live performer and kept the old heads hyped. Shouts to Dallas Penn for rolling through with me despite near…
While waiting for Big Daddy Kane to hit the stage, I spent some “quality” time with Brooklyn’s very own Spike Lee, with fairly predictable results.