At age 17, Leroy Watson better known as Aasim D’Xplicit (sometimes spelled Aäsim D’Xplicit) signed to legendary Hip-Hop label Loud Records thanks to their A&R Schott Free. Working with the likes of Big Punisher and dead prez, Aasim recorded a couple of songs that golden era heads may […]
In 1993, after two young boys murdered a toddler named Jamie Bulger, the mainstream media were in a fervent rush to label the entire generation as “evil”. Even though there were similar killers such as Mary Bell in the ’60s, in the ’90s people began demonising the tail-end […]
The internet is supposed to be a wealth of knowledge, right? So is it possible for there to be almost zero information about something, let’s say a musician or group? Well, surprisingly yes. I was recently organising my music collection and I realised that I know almost nothing […]
Remember The Edge? No, not the guitarist from U2, the Hip-Hop group from the golden era. Information on The Edge is scant, as far as I can deduce, the group consisted of rappers P-Lyve (or Pee-Lyve) and Ken-Du and their name was taken from the Edgemere Housing Project […]
Remember a rapper named Panama P.I.? Discogs lists his real name as Teddy Cubia and as far as I know he’s from Queens New York but the rest is a mystery. If you don’t recall, Panama was an East Coast rapper who, during the late ’90s helped a […]
Back in 1994, I heard a song called “4 My Click” on a pirate radio station, then later I saw the accompanying music video on Yo! MTV Raps. Like many other mid-90s Hip-Hop tracks, “4 My Click” was catchy and credible in equal measures, yes it contained a […]
From the opening song where Havoc declares “You know how we did on The Infamous album, right? Aight, we gonna do it again son”, you know you’re in for a Hardcore Hip-Hop treat. Hell On Earth, the third album by Queensbridge duo Mobb Deep, was another instant classic […]
Noreaga (now known as N.O.R.E.) from LeFrak City and Capone from Queensbridge formed the Hip-Hop duo Capone-N-Noreaga (sometimes shortened to C-N-N or C.N.N.). The pair released their début album The War Report in 1997 and it was a refreshing listen during a time filled with Pop music sampling […]
Derelect Camp (spelled with a “e” instead of an “i”) was a Hip-Hop collective from Queens, New York who made some noise in the underground during the mid-nineties. Unfortunately, like many other talented groups from that time, they dropped a few impressive singles but no album. At a […]
Royal Flush is known for combining lyrics about crime, drug-dealing, money-making, and family life, and this Q-Borough native made some noise during Hip-Hop’s golden era with these various topics. Flush released a few 12” singles during 1996 and a year later he dropped his début album “Ghetto Millionaire” […]
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 […]
Longevity in the music business is rare, it’s especially rare in the Hip-Hop genre, so it’s great to hear someone from the old-school still sounding fresh and relevant. Whereas certain Rappers from the nineties have sounded stale for the last decade or so, and with certain new Rappers […]
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