Back in 1994, a rapper named Ras Kass made a little buzz in the underground. With his contribution to the group Western HemisFear, his verse on the “Wake Up Show Anthem”, and his single “Remain Anonymous”/“Won’t Catch Me Runnin’”, he became known for his anti-mainstream sentiments and his […]
Devised as a two-part album to mark two decades since the release of his classic début “Soul On Ice”, “Intellectual Property” is the first slice of Ras Kass’ crowd-funded vision. Since this offering is supposed to invoke Ras’ original masterpiece it’s hard not to compare it with his […]
The DJ known as P.F. Cuttin’ and the MC known as Outloud, collectively known as Blahzay Blahzay dropped a fantastic single called “Danger” in 1995 but it took the pair a whole year to give us their one and only album titled “Blah Blah Blah”. This LP is […]
I always write reviews and mention who’s underrated, who’s underexposed, and who’s relegated to the underground, but when it comes to K-Rino all these descriptions would be an understatement. K-Rino is probably the most underrated and underexposed Rapper of all time, in fact he’s so underground that he’s […]
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 […]
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. […]
Spiz The Prophet, a young MC from Philadelphia is as underexposed as he is underrated and to me an artist like Spiz going unnoticed for around three years whilst some of the lamest Rappers have risen to the top is tantamount to criminal. It’s a sad state of […]
Eddie Pepitone is a hugely underrated stand-up comedian and it’s strange that this Brooklynite is rarely mentioned when people speak of contemporary stand-up comedy. This is probably because Pepitone isn’t marketed the same way other comedians are and this underexposure is both a gift and a curse. The […]
Camouflage Large Clique could have been big. Hailing from Brooklyn, the members (as far as I’m aware) were Razen Kane, Four Fif, Nine Lives, White Al, The Assassin, and 21 Gunz, at the time of their release there wasn’t much information about them, but when you heard their […]
Ever since the Hip-Hop genre began, Rap collectives have been an integral part of the art-form. Hip-Hop groups such as The Furious Five and The Juice Crew in the 80’s and the Boot Camp Clik and Wu-Tang Clan in the 90’s showed that a varied mix of skills […]
Back in the early nineties, West Coast Gangsta Rap ruled Hip-Hop music, but once the sub-genre began to feel stagnant, Hip-Hop required some new blood and an injection of new ideas. In 1993 that’s just what it got; along with the Wu-Tang Clan, the Boot Camp Clik’s lead […]
Those who’ve heard Que Hampton on various collabos with Bishop Nehru, have been waiting patiently for a solo effort, and although the album “The Chosen One” hasn’t yet dropped, thankfully a mixtape titled “A Piece Of BLAKK” has been released. The mixtape has a distinctly early-to-mid nineties vibe, […]
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