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Article Feb 10 2017

Indie’s Most Celebrated: The Twentieth Anniversary Of Funcrusher Plus

…influential underground label Rawkus Records. Brooding yet intelligent, dark yet conscious, Funcrusher Plus was as hardcore as it was experimental. It was somewhat of a dichotomy but in brilliant form….
New Music May 3 2017

MC Eiht f/ WC & DJ Premier “Represent Like This”

…classic. Similarly, Eiht also contributed vital components and compositions to genre-defining movies, offering the chilling “Growin’ Up In The Hood” to Boyz N The Hood and following up Music To…
Daily Video Aug 4 2017

Method Man “Release Yo’ Delf” (1994)

“Release Yo’ Delf” is the second single from Tical, the debut solo album by Wu-Tang Clan member Method Man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZlhbx3yGkQ Tical was released November 15, 1994, by Def Jam Records….
Article Sep 15 2015

Outwit. Outlyric. OutKast.

…the time and residing in East Point, Atlanta, Georgia would later form the hugely successful rap group OutKast. Signed with LaFace records, the rap duos first single, “Player’s Ball” from…
Hip Hop Books Oct 11 2015

Suggested Reading: The Big Payback

…New York to the multi-million-dollar sales of the Phat Farm and Roc-a-Wear clothing companies in 2004 and 2007. On this four-decade-long journey from the studios where the first rap records…
artist Jul 27 2015

Nas

…he was soon signed to Columbia records. Nas 1994. Photo by Danny Clinch / Courtesy of Sony Legacy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5PnuIRnJW8 In 1994, Nas’s first record, Illmatic, was released, and it landed…
artist Jul 27 2015

Gang Starr

…Records, but only on the condition he lost his original rapper. The label put him in touch with Guru instead, who had chanced upon one of Premier’s demo tapes in…
artist Jul 28 2015

Kurtis Blow

In 1979, Kurtis Blow signed a deal with Mercury Records, making him the first rapper signed by a major label. His debut album Kurtis Blow sold more than 400,000 copies….
artist Jul 29 2015

Eazy E

…on the streets. He took a portion of his earnings and formed a rap label, called Ruthless Records. The attempt to start his rap empire didn’t prove fruitful until up…
artist Jul 29 2015

Kool Keith

…to record several tracks later featured on The Cenobites LP. After Ultramagnetic broke up for good in 1994, he moved to California and landed a deal with Capitol Records for…
artist Jul 29 2015

Geto Boys

…label, Rap-A-Lot Records struck a deal with producer Rick Rubin, who arranged another distributor for the album, released on his own Def American label. The controversy, which occurred two years…
artist Jul 29 2015

RZA

…Cigarettes, American Gangster, Gospel Hill, Life Is Hot in Cracktown, Ghost Dog, Funny People, Repo Men. About.com named him 3rd on their list of best Hip Hop producers of all…