…The BET Awards were still six years away and VH1 Hip Hop Honors wouldn’t start for another nine years, so The Source Awards were the Hip Hop version of the…
…from. Cancer, Lupus, heart failure. They’ve taken some of the best in the last 20 years, from J Dilla and Poetic, to Sean Price and Pumpkinhead. And now, with great…
…beginning of the Native Tongues collective, which later featured popular artists such as De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and Black Sheep. https://youtu.be/K0wVNPWWZIw In 1998, the album was selected…
…the heartbeat of The Roots, thumping just as steadily as a metronome the past 30 years. No matter how much the band has chosen to experiment over the years, we’ve…
…did this so well that 25 years later, fans and critics consider their work to be classic and just as influential as the day it was released. QUEBEC CITY, QC…
…1992. The album features some of the earliest appearances from Diamond’s later D.I.T.C. partners Big L and Fat Joe, as well as his crew the Psychotic Neurotics. Although Diamond D…
…Legion, Freddie Foxxx, Fat Joe, Kid Capri and Lord Finesse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P38MLq53JM Producer Showbiz makes frequent rapping appearance on the album, unlike later releases, where he left the rhyming to A.G….
…promote black entertainment, anyway. In fact, MTV launched in 1981, and did not show music videos of Black artists until several years later. Much of this change was due to…
…started to come out in the early 90’s. Much like later releases from groups like The Pharcyde and Souls Of Mischief, this crew was creative, eloquent, lyrical & funky; something…
…on both the Billboard 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop charts. Four of the album’s tracks had already or would later become singles, although some were limited (promotional) releases and not…
…as well as several affiliates who would later appear on future group projects. The album’s title “Tical” is a slang term for a blunt that has been laced with an…
…a platinum certification for shipping one million copies in the United States by February 9, 2004. Many music critics have praised the album for Ghostface Killah’s imaginative lyricism and RZA’s…