If you think the title of this DVD sounds like a struggling foreigner's attempt to describe his trip to New York City during the formative years of a cultural revolution, you would be pretty much spot on in your assessment. Filmed in New York City in 1986, 'Big Fun in the Big Town' chronicles [...]
House Shoes is getting down for his right now. His debut album Let It Go is due June 19th, after spending a couple decades DJing, producing, and pressing releases for Detroit-area heavyweights. It's a debut album, but not by a new jack trying to make a name for himself. Featuring artists like Big Tone, Moe Dirdee, [...]
ANOTHER sad day in Hip-Hop, and in music as a whole. Cancer is a motherfucker.
Our best wishes go out to the Yauch family as Adam announced that he has been diagnosed with Cancer. Get Well Soon!!!
The sophmore album from The Beastie Boys, Paul's Boutique, turned 20 on July 25th.
psychology celebrates with the millions of Beastie [...]
I had to do a mega post here of one of my favorite new artists/MCs Shaz Illyork. Hailing from Queens, New York, Shaz has dropped 4 mixtapes in the past year, and has just dropped another for 2012. Dude is puttin’ in major work.
Analog Burners – Roy Ayers Stoned Soul Picnic RMX
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Yes, so glad this finally arrived. I had been hitting up (unsuccessfully) @questlove and @theroots since the December "Full LP Stream" hit the NPR music pages. If the label calls something an "LP Stream", I'm going to assume that you're actually pressing an LP, but I guess that's not always true.
Undun was met with some critical [...]
Action Bronson – Blue Chips
"We didn't over-think it, we just had fun making music with no pressures of making a 'hit song,' clearing of samples or sales expectations."
The beats, the rhymes, everything is on point. Peep the new mixtape from one of the leaders of the Queens Revival.
Listen/Download.
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This is going to be the 3rd group of Hip-Hoppers that I know of going to Uganda in the past 3 years in a cultural exchange.
The first group was Crazy Legs, (Los Angelino) Ervin Arana & Ynot from the Rock Steady Crew. They met with Abramz from Breakdance Project Uganda and did a week's worth [...]
Strictly Cassette is a new website/blog that's been collected, compiled and presented as a cassette archive.
Seeing it all come together and on display is pretty mindblowing. Some of these I had when I was younger, so there's the nostalgia factor, but then a lot of them I had never seen or even thought that they [...]
L-Fudge – Liquid – What If – Show Me Your Gratitude 12"
Great moments in Hip-Hop 12"s – L-Fudge, Mike Zoot, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Skam & Kweli – "What If". Produced by DJ Spinna.
This was a classic Rawkus posse cut. Spinna had released his Heavy Beats LP, Skam (Skam2) dropped a 12" w/ Eminem (he also did [...]
