Product placements are nothing new, especially in hip-hop. Heads like myself often like to gripe about how commercial things have gotten, but we often overlook the overt, almost insulting product placements of the 90’s. This week we’ll chat...
I’m a junky for original versions. It’s not often that you find a classic hip-hop record that didn’t have an alternate version – for a multitude of reasons. It could be that once they had money they could...
January 20th was a big day – and not just because it was my birthday. While a lot of heads were busy checking for the new Lupe and Joey Bada$$ albums, I was checking for my pre-order of...
We were saddened to hear about the closure of the legendary D&D studios, which was the creative lair of the iconic producer DJ Premier. Countless (seminal) albums were recorded there. So on that train-of-thought, we though we’d start...
Hip-Hop Twitter was a buzz this weekend over a rant that Hot 97 DJ Funkmaster Flex unleashed upon Jay-Z and his Life + Times web team/writers. His beef arose when a rep from Life + Times, who flex...
Welcome to part 2 of Tale Of The Demo. This week we’re going to feature One Leg Up Records, who have pressed some amazing demo releases. What makes these releases even more awesome are the limited nature of...
What makes a great producer and/or mc? In my opinion, it’s someone who loves/respects the culture and knows the history of it – and let’s not forget they gotta be nice with it. J57 checks off all those...
Sex sells and compelling/shocking visuals hold your attention – if you can also get some bars out of it, well that’s just a bonus. What do I mean by that? Remember Yonkers? Remember Eminem’s debut album? When it’s...