Video Killed The Radio Star?
It’s times like this that I’m glad I’ve still kept the lights on at Unkut Dot Com these past twenty years, if only to provide a valuable resource for YouTube screenshots in 2024. We get to relive the hilarious era of when everyone was going hell for leather in the comment sections – except now…
Sylvia really went outchea and pretended to be The Sequence.
Finally, some DJ’s remember how great old Mantronik beats are and proceed to cut the living Christ outta those shits. Sadly they then move onto some non-Mantronik music but it’s still good times if you like a good beat juggle. This looks like it was worth the price of entry to the Fat Beats 25th…
As much as I enjoyed Black Thought’s incredible performance on Hot 97 a few weeks back, the star of the show was Funkmaster Flex’s reactions, as he had the best day at work…ever.
Here’s a priceeless TV spot showing the late Combat Jack in his prime as a Rap Lawyer. The highlight for me is watching Combat smiling while the Problem Children are rapping in the parking lot at 4:29 – you just know he’s thinking ‘These guys are hot trash’. Fritz Celestin sez: ‘Reggie was my cousin…
What. The. Actual. Fuck? Mr. Freeze is able to get not one but two verses out of Mr. Maxwell in 1993 for what I can only assume was a giant truck full of loot. Fortunately he refused to don a cowboy hat, ride a horse or carry a pitchfork around, unlike the rest of the…
All of these clips are equal parts bizarre and amazing. The first features interviews with Schoolly-D and Mantronix while they were on tour in the UK, while overlaying ‘witty’ comments and alleged statistics about violence at rap shows in a manner which suggests that the producers of the segment were either taking the piss or…
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…
Forgive me if this is common knowledge, but I only just realized that the group Whistle, best known for their 1985 hit ‘(Nothing Serious) Just Buggin,’ released four albums on the Select label. Jazzy Jazz, Kool Doobie and DJ Silver Spinner were the original line-up, with Kraze and Terk joining in ’90 after Jazzy Jazz…
Ouch. Let’s give them four minutes each over ‘Impeach’ to settle this.
When Pretty Tone Capone went for delf and landed a deal with Def American subsidiary Ill Labels imprint, he unloaded the excellent ‘Case Dismissed’/’Kidnapped’ single and the slightly less amazing ‘Across 110th Street’ before Rick Rubin presumably decided he was bored with rap. Tone’s Mob Style crew were infamous for being gangsters who rapped as…
Four of Jazzy Jay‘s Strong City groups released an album during the Uni Records distribution deal – Ice Cream Tee, Busy Bee, Don Baron and Nu Sounds. I vaguely remember owning the Mackin’ album at some stage but not really enjoying anything off it, and listening back now it’s clear that these guys were totally…