…Magnum Force, none of this mattered. The album did poorly, as did the Boot Camp’s record label, Duck Down Records. Priority Records dropped Duck Down from its distribution deal in…
…label after Universal Music Group acquired Rawkus Records from Priority. Rawkus, as well as its then-parent label MCA Records, were later folded by the Universal Music Group into Geffen Records….
…www.heavyrecords.net on July 15! Denson was born and raised in Detroit, where an eclectic taste for hip hop in the 80s and 90s lit a fire of passion to become…
…OaTie Kato (James D’Angelo), Madd (a.k.a. “the M-A-the-double-D”, Maxx Stoyanoff Williams), and Swayzack (Patrick Shupe). The group recorded on Columbia Records / Ruffhouse Records, and their first album, Tricks of the Shade (1992),…
…and RCA Records, although it appeared as a Dangerous Music/RCA Records release until Jive Records logos appeared on the release on October 25, 1989, after it became successful. It is…
…Towards the end of the 1980s, Virgin Records signed Frost. In 1990, Kid Frost released La Raza, which features on his debut album Hispanic Causing Panic. The song was very…
…influenced album. The psychedelic sound of this album is heavily drawn from rare acid influenced records from New Zealand’s 60’s and 70’s, carefully selected, picked and sampled by musical multi-talent…
…abrasive sounds. Its controversial cover art, depicting a Sambo character being lynched, led to the group being dropped by Elektra Records before the album could be released. Shortly after this,…
…cuts sharp, and the vibe bristles with teenage defiance. It ignited the Roxanne Wars—dozens of response records—and put Cold Chillin’ Records, run by Tyrone Williams, on the map. From there,…
…was still in its infancy, and artists and producers were constantly figuring out what rap records could be. From the pioneering sampling techniques of Marley Marl to the experimental production…
…of it…NONE. I digress. Here’s the issue: the older cats don’t respect the current generation of rappers, and today’s generation don’t respect or even give props to the earlier generations…
…conversation. We don’t have enough of it anymore, especially concerning good Hip Hop (notice I said GOOD. I may make a list of wack/disappointing albums in the future). A guy…
