King Tee will always be a firm favourite at CRC HQ, on account of having Act A Fool stuck in my Walkman for months when I was in high school. If I recall correctly, it was one of those metal TDK tapes that weighed as much as a can of 7Up, and I had Def…
Tarrie B was signed to Eazy-E’s Comptown Records imprint, where she was marketed as the Madonna of Rap and recorded ‘Ruthless Bitch’, where she calls out Dr. Dre for punching her in the face at the Grammys (?!). After the standard stuff about his old Wrecking Cru outfits, Tarrie delivered the hardest diss Andre ever…
Hip Hop Connection magazine, August ’90, proving once again why it was Rap’s Greatest Magazine via the Hall of Fame column with reader’s pics of them mugging with rappers.
Listening to the 2LP reissue of No More Mr Nice Guy from last year, I noticed that one of the bonus cuts was the dub version of ‘So What’, which I’ve never heard of (there’s also the unheard ‘Return of the Bass’ mix of the title track, which sounds better than the normal one just…
Going to try and knock these one-take vinyl mixes out once a week, since this is the closest I think I’ll ever get to podcasting or whatever you want to call it. Here’s an hour of unauthorised Mobb remixes, white labels and guest appearances with rapper dudes who wanted some of that magic thun dust…
Update: I lost the first version of this so here’s a new comp, plus a bonus quote from AG: ‘I definitely didn’t like Showbiz featuring AG, that little tape that they put out. I don’t know what PayDay was doing at the time, but it’s all good. We gotta lotta songs like ‘Ain’t No Fun’…
This isn’t all that different from the mix we heard on the official release in 2009, but the ‘down the dial’ radio intro and amusing ad-libs on the fade-out make it the better option for all the ‘funk bitches’ out there.
So I picked-up the 2015 edition 2LP of Peoples Instinctive Travels And The Paths of Rhythm, mainly in the hope of getting a nice loud version of ‘Footprints’. This was a dummy move, as it turns out it actually sounds worse than my single vinyl version. Blame not-so-great modern re-mastering, maybe? At least I finally…
A salute to a classic rap chart. Illustration by Aeon Hand. Download: Harry Allen’s 12 All-Time Favourite Underacknowledged Hip-Hop Cuts
One of the highlights of old J-Love CD’s was when he would flaunt his extensive collection of weapons – both medieval and modern. Pictured on the inner sleeves of these two albums we see a variety of maces, flails, clubs and axes. Were these close-combat instruments passed down through generations or is there a spot…
White labels rule the world. Download: Nas remixes and bootlegs radio mix
I’ll be withdrawing remaining stock of the book from sale in 48 hours to reserve them for a new bundle pack. If you want to buy this hardcover edition by itself, now’s your last chance! If you’ve already bought the book, the bundle pack (t-shirt, CD and 7″) will be available without the book as…