Another tragic chapter in the story of Queens super group Screwball this week, as news spread that Hostyle has passed away. Fondly remembered for his energetic delivery and stream-of-consciousness flow, the ‘One Eyed Maniac’ made his mark on a number of guest shots in the 00’s, and most recently returned in 2015 with a song…
A true CRC stalwart, Milano has dealt with all manner of setbacks in the music biz and yet still prevails. To whet your appetite before his Boulevard Author album with Showbiz is released on 19th July, please enjoy fifteen great songs from the big fella, who premiered a rough cut of his vaulted The Believers…
The original ‘Best Producer On The Mic’ is showing no signs of slowing down in 2019 with the release of The Diem Piece 2, so I thought it was about time to showcase those rare moments when he takes centre stage. Grown Man Talk and The Diamond Mine from the early 00’s had some great…
Five and half months late, here are the forty best rap songs from 2018 according to the Conservative Rap Coalition. Due to a recent influx in the Drum Free Rap genre and the sheer number of releases from many CRC stalwarts, we’ve really been spoil for choice. I’ll always choose a great beat before anything…
Aretha Franklin passed away last Thursday at the age of 76, with a catalog of forty-two studio albums under her belt. Here are fifteen seventeen rap songs that made good use of the Queen of Soul’s music (not to be confused with Mary J. Blige – the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, Roxanne Shante – the…
Courtesy of the comment section of the last post, here are twenty rap soundtrack songs that never got commercially released as singles at the time…with a limit of one track per movie. Download: A Salute To Soundtrack Songs That Weren’t Singles Track listing:
Here’s a long-overdue tribute to Craig Mack, who left this mortal coil back in March at age 47. The Mack Attack has the distinction of being the only rapper dude to release music on both the legendary FRESH/Sleepi8ng Bag label and The House That Puff Built while never having to adjust his rhyme style too…
One thing that really used to scrape my avocado as a rap fan was when many of the jerk-faced record labels tried to play possum by introducing certain ‘incentives’ to buy more CD’s and tapes – namely throwing on bonus tracks which weren’t available anywhere else. In some cases, like with G-Rap’s Live and Let…
Wastelandz, Queens legend Chyskillz passed away on 13 February 2018. Growing-up around the likes of Royal Flush, Neek The Exotic and Large Professor, Chy is said to have first gotten to play around with some SL-1200’s at the age of ten and never looked back. Looking through my interview archives, here are three quotes discussing…
Here are the forty best rap songs according to the Conservative Rap Coalition. Limit of one song per album/EP/mixtape. Looking back, it was a pretty good year for non-trap rap. Enjoy it, screwheads! Download: The Unkut 40 Oz. 2017 [re-upped May 2019] Track listing:
When I heard that sickle cell had finally claimed the life of the H.N.I.C. himself, Prodigy, my immediate response was to go to the pub and get black-out drunk in honour of his memory. I’m working on a suitable written dedication to P’s enormous contributions to Strong Island/Queensbridge rap, but in the meantime here is…
All jokes aside, EPMD are effin’ legends who had an incredible run of four classic albums. Here’s a collection of slightly tweaked ‘Club Mixes’ and complete remixes from when twelve inch singles ruled the world but were usually a luxury beyond what I could afford as a young bloke. Download: A Salute To EPMD Remixes…