The Boot Camp Clik really made an impact on Hip-Hop music in the nineties and after two great albums from Black Moon and Smif-N-Wessun, Heltah Skeltah followed these classic LPs with one of their own. “Nocturnal” was the first release from the B.C.C. that featured outside production (as […]
Takin Mine is an extremely underrated album that is rarely mentioned when people discuss mid-nineties Hip-Hop music. That’s pretty odd because Heather B’s first LP is one of the strongest début albums I’ve ever heard and its rugged sound fitted perfectly into 1996 where an abundance of hardcore […]
Bishop Nehru is known for his golden era sound, and with one of the all-time greats Nas signing him to his label Mass Appeal Records, there’s high hopes for this 19 year old rapper from New York. Before he drops his first full-length studio album, Nehru has released […]
Spotlight is a true story about a small team of journalists working for the Spotlight column in the Boston Globe newspaper who exposed the cover-up of widespread sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. This is a film which was highly praised when it was released and it also […]
There was an abundance of credible Hip-Hop being created in the UK during the mid-to-late nineties but unfortunately most of it was relegated to the underground. Case in point; Pure Genius, a group from Nottingham consisting of DJ Fever and Big Trev, in my opinion they were like […]
Koyaanisqatsi is a great film that’s like nothing else you’ve ever seen, it is usually labelled a documentary for easy categorisation, but it’s anything but. To call it a documentary is a misnomer, the film is free from narration, it’s almost devoid of narrative, and it could even […]
Mobb Deep’s début album Juvenile Hell was nothing special and it didn’t make much of an impact, but when the Queensbridge duo regrouped after being dropped by their label, they came back hard with their second LP “The Infamous”, in fact the word ‘hard’ is probably an understatement […]
During the late eighties and early nineties Hip-Hop was beginning to splinter into various sub-genres; we had Gangsta Rap (Ice Cube), Conscious Rap (Public Enemy), Alternative Hip-Hop (A Tribe Called West), and Hip-Pop (MC Hammer). Amongst this varied musical landscape, certain artists began to juxtapose rap with outside […]
It’s been a long time since someone created credible and original Hip-Hop with meaningful lyrics, so lost is mainstream Rap music that most people these days associate Balmain and Rolls-Royce with Hip-Hop instead of beats and rhymes. This is true no matter where you reside, from the states […]
In the mid-to-late nineties a Rapper from New Jersey named Fierce was making some noise in the underground, he was featured in The Source’s Unsigned Hype column, he was also mentioned in Vibe Magazine’s Notes From The Underground, by all accounts his career was about to take off. […]
Mitch Hedberg was a great stand-up comedian and he possessed an unconventional style that can only be described as Steven Wright channelling Snoop Dogg. Despite his onstage persona being the result of stage fright, his look (which consisted of wearing sunglasses and keeping his head down with his […]
The Flatbush Zombies are somewhat undefinable, their music is a heady mix of horrorcore Hip-Hop, some East Coast golden era sounds, a little Southern influence, a little Trap, a lot of drug references, and even some serial-killer-cum-hippy content, all rolled up to make one of the most unique […]
Bill Hicks was without a doubt one of the all-time great stand-up comedians, and although this has become a popular opinion to have since his untimely death, I was one of the people who thought the same way during his lifetime. Posthumously, Hicks is now held in high […]
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