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…
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:
A counter-point to the thing I wrote about why young rap fans shouldn’t care about the history of the music. A quick guide to rap history that all young rap fans should know
This was a terrible idea… Migos vs Jameson
Devil’s advocate and all that. Why rap history doesn’t matter
After upsetting a number of diehard Chip-Fu fans, it’s only right that I shed some light on the gimmick groups from that era that managed to nail it…at least for a while. Nineties gimmick rap groups that won
When you’re on top,everyone wants a shot at the title. It happened to Run-DMC, it happened to LL and it happened to NWA. It just so happens that most of the songs shitting on Compton’s favourite sons are hilarious and seem surprisingly consistent in the accusations of the crew being a pack of fake sissies…
For all the great rap that the nineties gave us, there was thousands more CD’s that were nothing more than hot audio garbage. 1987 > 1994. The curse of nineties gimmick rap
That chip on S. Carter’s shoulder just keeps growing… When creative freedom isn’t freedom at all
Limited to one release per group, with the the exception of any solo work. The Unkut guide to essential Queensbridge rap albums
Rest in peace, thun. A Salute To Prodigy aka Veteran’s Memorial Pt 3.
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…