“Foul Child: The Legend of Big L incorporates rare archival interviews and performance footage of Big L alongside exclusive interviews with cultural consiglieres of Hip Hop and Harlem including RZA, Buckwild, A$AP Ferg, Dave East, A$AP Twelvyy, Stretch Armstrong, Bobbito Garcia and Peter Rosenberg.” You wot, mate? Buckwild/Stretch and Bob are clearly qualified to talk…
Category: Rap Mysteries
Which Cold Chillin’ Record Did Newman Grab from The Old Man?
So the other night I was watching a Seinfeld re-run to grab some more essential fashion tips from CRC style icon George Costanza, and lo and behold – the next thing I see is America’s Greatest Postal Delivery Guy aka Newman bagging up a stack of wax at an old fella’s apartment with a Cold…
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,…
Awesome Dre > Eminem
I always wondered why Detroit’s Awesome Dre had a song going at Kool Moe Dee on his highly enjoyable 1989 album, You Can’t Hold Me Back. Now that I’ve heard his second single, it makes a little more sense. It appears that Dre took it upon himself to fire shots at both LL Cool J…
Missing In Action: Lazy aka Laze Mic
Stumbled upon this nugget of rap trivia during a follow-up interview with Dr. Butcher earlier this year – the brief story of a New York MC named Lazy who was carving out quite the name for himself on the street level in the late nineties before some he vanished from the music game altogether. These…
No Country For Old (Rap) Men: The Selective Memory of Rap Fans
A.K.A. Where were the celebrations and think-pieces for the twentieth anniversary of To The East, Blackwards? No Country For Old (Rap) Men: The Selective Memory of Rap Fans
Did Schoolly-D Really Bite Spoonie Gee’s Style?
Pic courtesy of Fat Lace. Back in 2006 I wondered why Schoolly-D never responded to Spoonie Gee’s ‘That’s My Style‘, included lines such as ‘Come in here from where ever you came/tryin’ to steal my style and plus my name.’ As was pointed out in the comments section, Schoolly fired back with a couple of…
Rap Mysteries: The Lost Track From the Liquid Swords Advance Cassette
Just saw this advertised on Facebook. Does anybody know what the final track titled ‘Unexplained’ is? I’ve read elsewhere that this was the alternative name for ‘Swordsman,’ but since that’s listed as well it must be a totally different song…