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Daily Video May 21 2025

The Goats “Typical American” (1992)

…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),…
Daily Video Aug 25 2017

Too Short “I Ain’t Trippin'” (1988)

…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…
Article Sep 17 2019

Everything You Need To Know About Kid Frost

…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…
New Music Jan 31 2020

Out Now: The Leonard Simpson Duo (Guilty Simpson & Leonard Charles) – LSD

…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…
Article Jun 8 2025

MF DOOM: A Journey Through Masks, Rhymes, And Reinvention

…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,…
Retrospective Feb 23 2025

“Juice Crew Allstars”: A Golden Age Anthem And The Legacy Of Marley Marl’s Juice Crew

…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,…
Article Apr 10 2016

The Beef Between 90s Hip Hop & Millennium Hip Hop

…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…
list Feb 23 2016

Top 20 Midwest Albums… Of All Time

…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…
Article Jul 24 2016

AZ: The Most Underrated MC Of All Time?

…Tribe Called Quest, Big L, and Lauryn Hill. Never have I ever heard anyone throw out the name AZ and to this day I don’t know why. AZ is most…
Article Jun 27 2019

The Most Perfect Rap Song Ever Written: One Love

…time for lookin’ back, it’s done Plus, congratulations, you know you got a son I heard he looks like ya, why don’t your lady write ya? Told her she should…
Article Apr 8 2018

[Extra]Ordinary: James Brown

…DJ” — Talib Kweli ft. Bilal Most Popular? “Groove Me” — Guy The Pay Back “I don’t know karate, but I know ka-razy!” Finally, one of the seminal JB tracks….
Article May 12 2018

WWYWTLTT? I’m Your Pusher

WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO THAT? Songs that people, mainly non-rap fans miss the meaning of – they don’t listen to what the song is actually about they…