Artwork by Tony Bones Last week I threw together this compilation focusing on the best uses of Bob James’ ‘Nautilus’, which I consider to be the greatest break ever. Just to make shit official, I called upon Elliott Wilson (who’s currently preparing to launch his Rap Radar site on Jan. 20 of next year) to…
You know how there’s always those dream team-ups that never seem to happen? “Imagine if so and so did an whole album with whatshisname!” That’s actually become a reality with the arrival of The Gas. Roc Marciano, Boss Money & Milano killing shit over hard-as-nails P Brothers beats? On paper, you can’t go wrong. After…
Everyone’s favorite baldhead returns with his first LP since his ‘extended vacation’. ‘Now’ feat. Twan The first of a bunch of 80’s beat reinterpretations, album producer Will Tell flips ‘The Pee Wee Herman’ for Dat’s tales of chasing broads. ‘This Is Your Life’ Over some dope horns Sadat details the history of his time with…
The internets have decided – with a whopping 43% of the votes cast in the last week, the term ‘swagger’ has been cast into the wastelands of abandoned slang. While the Unkut Dot Com massive will be doing our part to stamp out use of this shitty terminology, we can’t do it alone. Next time…
KRS-One – ‘Outta Here (Mr. Magic Diss Version)’ Here’s the version where The Blastmasta really ethers murks Sir Juice. The album version and it’s cheesy video below:
Based on highly-scientific research, our team of slang editorialists was able to compile the four most unpopular terms that have been nominated for dismissal. Now we face the difficult part – determining which ones to dead…and enforcing it! Hall of Fame: Dope Wack Ill Fresh [poll id=”28″]
When Rick Rubin broke north of Def Jam and started a new label in 1988, it was initially titled ‘Def American’, but when he saw the word ‘def’ in the dictionary five years later he decided that it was now “against the anti-establishment image that he was trying to project for the company” and proceeded…
NAME: The Rap Bandit. AFFILIATIONS: Grew up with The Source founder Jon Schecter in Philly. Part of the original Mind Squad at The Source magazine, where he also penned the ‘Media Watch’ section under the name Pistol Pete. Later moved the column to Vibe magazine. CLAIM TO FAME: Pioneered the art of making fun of…
This is pretty epic…first of all Bol passed on this link to the audio of Q-Tip on Juan Epstein, which features Tip discussing the two demo versions and doing a hilarious impersonation of Busta: Q-Tip: “It was just too many people. I called niggas back, told niggas to come back the next day. Nobody came…
Most people who buy breaks make tapes out of there finds just for shit ‘n gigs, so the idea of having one that Showbiz put together is ‘nothing less than ill’. 45 minutes of dusty shit from this D.I.T.C. legend is an essential purchase for anyone with even the slightest idea about what good music…
Having retired from solo projects, Master Ace was touring with his EMC crew when I caught up with him at the end of 2007. While he waited for his meal he held court at the hotel bar and gave me the chance to pick his brain on a number of topics, both relevant and trivial….
Recently I highlighted a clearly embellished Wikipedia entry about Eric B. The thing is, I was pretty sure that at least some of it was based on reality (‘vehicular menagerie’ excepted). Part of that stemmed from Dr. Butcher‘s comments: Is Eric still involved in music? Eric is always involved with something! [chuckles] Eric is a…