…era, if not ever. Those of us that bought that first album back in August, 2009 had sky-high expectations and thought they’d be together thirty years later, but rather than…
…in Ontario in 1991, and would later gain fame as a marijuana activist. Later hard-rock band Van Halen sued over an uncleared sample of their song “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love”…
…Rakeem, aka the RZA) and his cousins Gary Grice (the Genius/GZA), and Russell Jones (Ol’ Dirty Bastard). Years later, after Prince Rakeem and the Genius had suffered setbacks in the…
…Nas’ lyricism. On January 17, 1996, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, and on December 11, 2001, it earned a platinum certification after shipping…
…“Hot Boyz” remix, (which spent a record-setting nearly 4 months at Number 1 on the Hot Rap Singles Chart, a record which still stands 20 years later). It was her…
…tracks here, and his lyrical content does not differ from that of Buckshot’s. Unlike later work by New York City peers like Nas, the lyrical content found here does not…
Twenty years ago this week, we lost a genius. A prophet. An icon. Tupac Amaru Shakur was gunned down on September 6th in Las Vegas after a fight at the…
…make his official debut just a year later (in ’93) and prove that at just 20 years old, just starting out, he could go head to head with the veterans…
…May 18, 2009 and was scheduled to appear in a fall 2009 episode of VH1’s Behind the Music. On September 3, 2009 Jackson posted a video for the Soundkillers’ Phoenix-produced…
…efficient cutting over a brass-decorated roots rhythm. Thirty years later and that first EP is still a head-nodder, even if ‘We Luv…’ states ‘it’s a demo / so wait you…
…numerous notable rappers, but Rakim was noticeably absent from the proceedings. He told HalftimeOnline.net years later, “I don’t think they hollered at me or they hollered at Eric B. and…
…1995 debut album, later scoring hits with the tracks “Ghetto Supastar” and the remix of Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy.” After many arrests, the rapper was placed into rehab and later prison….