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As soon as the synth melody hits, it s shutdown. Big Poppa, off of Ready To Die, is Biggie s first Top 10 hit as the late BK legend s stylistic shift (according to Chucky Thompson, Ice Cube s It Was a Good Day was an inspiration for the song) really struck a chord w…
Virtually every track the casual Biggie fan could ask for. This one has it all – Big Poppa, Hypnotize, Warning, Who Shot Ya, 10 Crack Commandments … can I stop yet? Junior M.A.F.I.A. s Get Money Remix and F-ing You Tonight with Kells are on here too, as well as the Jazze Pha-produced remix of…
So the story goes, that Pete Rock is responsible for doing the original beat for Juicy but didn t get credit for it, as Puffy heard it playing from the legendary producer s drum machine and tapped The Trackmasters to recreate it. This sucks because Juicy is that GOAT tune. How Biggie—and hip-hop s—rags-to-riches story has…
Pharcyde fans remain divided over whether or not Labcabincalifornia is an underappreciated album or the reason why the group fell off. Either way, both sides can agree that it was no Bizarre Ryde II, lacking their debut s creative brilliance. Many years later though, don t you think it s time to be more generous to Labcabin?…
I shall… proceed! Deadstock 1995 copies of The Roots x Roy Ayers collab. This single came out after the original Proceed single as a part of the Red Hot and Blue compilation. Released on the Impulse Jazz label, the Red and Hot Blue series teamed up hip-hop acts with well-known jazz musicians. In this case, the collaboration features…
THE LEGENDARY ROOTS CREW. Meet Redford Stephens, a fictional character who meets a tragic end to his life in the opening seconds of Undun. Black Thought and guests tell a poignant story of the circumstances and choices that lead to his demise over neo soul, funk, & indie-influenced production (handled mostly by QuestLove), and the…
There was a time when EVERYONE was wondering who the hell The Weeknd was. Here is what we knew. His take on R&B was pretty unique, or at least from The-Dream s school of dark and moody. He wasn t signed. Dude wouldn t do interviews. He had a killer track with a Beach House…
2011 was huge for The Weeknd. He released three mixtapes —House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence—which in 2012 were remastered & compiled into Trilogy. Kiss Land came a year later in 2013, and the debut album is heavily focused on the dark side of his newfound fame: That s what Kiss Land is…
 A-T-L-A-N-T-A-G-A-THAT’S-WHERE-I-STAY. Before Jeremih, the premiere baby-voiced and baby-faced R&B songsmith was The-Dream. Label beef and a number of other issues have held up a new album from Terius Nash for nearly four years, but before that the songwriter was seemingly unstoppable, racking up dozens of hits for himself and producing & writing for Rihanna, Beyonce,…
Malcolm Martin aka Thelonious Martin hails from Chicago, and he’s produced tracks for Vic Mensa, Chance The Rapper (the three make the Chi-town collective SAVE MONEY), Action Bronson, Joey Badass, Odd Future rappers, A$AP Rocky, and more. For this 10-track LP, the producer, who cites J Dilla, Madlib, Flying Lotus, Alchemist, Pete Rock, MF DOOM,…
The Boom, the bip, the boom-bip. Thes One of the mighty People Under The Stairs crew delivering an incredible collection of instrumental beats, straight out the MPC! Heads already know Thes is the truth when it comes to classic sample-based hip-hop production techniques, and this set of beats is irrefutable proof of the skills. Contains 15 beats…
The Boom, the bip, the boom-bip. Thes One of the mighty People Under The Stairs crew delivering an incredible collection of instrumental beats, straight out the MPC! Heads already know Thes is the truth when it comes to classic sample-based hip-hop production techniques, and this set of beats is irrefutable proof of the skills. Contains 15 beats…
Yay Area heater, now on 45! Originally released back in 2006 (arguably at the peak of the hyphy movement), Blow The Whistle brought together veteran Oakland MC Too Short and crunk king Lil Jon. The result is bangin as hell and will still bring out the freaks more than a decade after the fact! Dirty version with instrumental on the flip. (Lil…
ASTROWORLD is the 3rd album from Travis Scott, and it is easily the Texas rapper s best work. Boasting an impressive list of features—Kid Cudi, Frank Ocean, Drake, The Weeknd, Swae Lee, Gunna, Nav, 21 Savage, James Blake, Quavo, Takeoff, Juice Wrld, Sheck Wes, Stevie Wonder, and more—Scott plays the role of a curator on…
Victory Mensa is what Hot 97 s Peter Rosenberg calls young Vic from Chicago. It s a fitting name, because the rapper, since dropping his debut mixtape, Innanetape, in 2013, has not taken any Ls: performing collabing w Damon Albarn Gorillaz; touring w J. Cole, Danny Brown; co-writing ( All Day ) and landing high…
8 MCs, no hook, and you already know what Protect Ya Neck, and Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)Â did to the game in 1992. The legend of Wu-Tang Clan, which began in the slums of Shaolin, blew up in front of the world w this grimy classic, and flip the 7 for another absolute banger, Method…
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