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Daily Video Oct 12 2020

KRS One “Sound Of The Police” (1993)

“Sound of da Police” is the second and final single from KRS-One’s first solo album, Return of the Boom Bap. The song is produced by Showbiz from DITC. Sound Of The Police begins with KRS-One whooping twice to evoke a police siren (the “sound of the police”); this recurs several times throughout the song. Sound Of The […]
Daily Video Sep 24 2020

Kool G Rap & DJ Polo “Streets Of New York” (1990)

“Streets of New York” is the first single from Kool G Rap & DJ Polo’s second album Wanted: Dead or Alive. It was released as a single with “Poison” as a B-side and later also featured on the compilation albums Killer Kuts (1994), The Best of Cold Chillin’ (2000), Greatest Hits (2002), and Street Stories: The Best of Kool G Rap & DJ Polo (2013). Driven by the piano […]
Daily Video Sep 7 2020

The Roots “What They Do” (1996)

Taken from The Roots‘ classic third album Illadelph Halflife, this video (with its subtitles) sarcastically critiques the ‘bling bling’ cliches that already started dominating Hip Hop videos back in the mid-1990’s.
Daily Video Aug 24 2020

Xzibit “Paparazzi” (1996)

“Paparazzi” is a song by Xzibit, issued as the lead single from his debut album At the Speed of Life (1996). The song’s official music video was directed by Michael Lucero. The song samples Barbra Streisand’s “Pavane (Vocalise)”, itself a version of Gabriel Fauré’s Pavane.