This French production duo just dropped their debut LP, Funky As Usual, with some nice guest spots. The highlight for me was this third version of the Large Pro feature which dropped a couple of years back in it’s original form and then with a remix on 7″ last year. A revisiting of ‘Looking At [...]
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The Funk League feat. Large Professor – Through Good And Bad (Breaking North Mix)
Planet Asia & Doo Wop – Leather Goose Musik
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From the new tape that the God’s connected on. Planet Asia & Doo Wop - ‘Leather Goose Musik’
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Gangrene feat. Roc Marciano – Drink It Up
New Gangrene with Roc Marcy. Please stop rapping though, ALC. From the Vodka & Ayahuasca LP. Gangrene feat. Roc Marciano - ‘Drink It Up’
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KRS-One – Tote Gunz
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When I saw that Kenny Parker had produced the latest KRS-One project, called The BDP Album, I figured I’d give it a shot. Turns out it’s actually pretty good! ‘Tote Gunz’ is a great example of Get Off My Lawn Rap, aka Gran Tarino Rap. It’s always a good sign when The Blastmasta sounds pissed [...]
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Video: The 45 King – Making The Beat feat. Diamond D
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Mark has been making these for awhile, but I only just caught on. This may be the 14 most awkward minutes of video I’ve ever seen, which is all the more amusing for the fact that 45 King and Diamond have known each other for a long time. I’m not sure if they both smoked [...]
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Video: Footage of the 1st Annual Rapper’s Boxing Championships!
Thanks to the ultimate random find over at Gwar Izm, some footage of the 1st Annual Rapper’s Boxing Championships has been uncovered, 6 minutes into the above clip for the ‘Dance Energy Special 1992′. This legendary, one-off event was originally covered in The Source (scan) and has been a topic of amusement for me ever [...]
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M.O.P. – The Unkut Interview
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When I heard that there was a press day being held for the Marxmen to promote the new Sparta LP, I thought it might be a good oppertunity to have a slightly more rational conversation with Rap’s Greatest Duo than the last time we crossed paths. Good thing I didn’t bring up this story, huh? [...]
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Video: $am Hill – Poetic Justice
You might have caught Bronx native $amhill on the P Brothers The Gas LP, the Counterstrike mixtape, or a few old Unkut posts. If not, check out this new offering from his forthcoming EP, produced entirely by Preservation. Guess it’s time I transcribed the interview I did with $amhill in 2010… Shouts to LEX for [...]
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Download: T-Ray – Best Kept Secret Mix
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Here’s a mix that abcdrduson made of some of Todd Ray’s work from back when he was killing it behind the boards. In case you missed it back in 2007, you might want to read my three part interview with T-Ray while you listen. Download: T-Ray – Best Kept Secret Note: This is a proper [...]
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LL Cool J – It’s The Hip-Hop (1994)
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This was a limited-edition vinyl release a month or so back, and now it’s appeared as a bonus cut on the new K-Def Night Shift LP in glorious CD quality. I’m guessing the parting shot at “all the sell-outs, all the people that wanna talk about flowers and meadows” is a PM Dawn diss. “Everybody [...]
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New Rap That Doesn’t Suck – November 2011 Edition
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As more and more new rap music continues to suck, the task of finding recent shit that doesn’t make me want to cut my face off with a broken bottle and slowly peel the skin off has become more and more difficult. Naturally, all of these songs are old news on the internets by now [...]
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Roc Marciano – Emeralds
Weekend officially redeemed. Produced by Arch Druids. Marcberg: Reloaded coming soon…. Roc Marciano - ‘Emeralds’
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Torae – You Ready
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Torae drops his For The Record LP tomorrow, but here’s a pro tip – Marco Polo brought the best track to this project, which includes contributions from DJ Premier, Large Professor, Pete Rock and Diamond D to name a few. Looks like Canada finally won something. Torae - ‘You Ready’
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Photo: Lord Finesse At The WFMU Record Fair
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‘Ness reppin with Big Bird. That ‘Art of Diggin’ CD is a must-have, by the way. Courtesy of The Grim Times.
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Gravediggaz – The House That Hatred Built (Unreleased Demo)
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Prince Paul just pulled this out of the vault for Halloween. Who said Twitter was useless? “This is the First song we recorded as the Gravediggaz in 92″ . It was the intro to our demo and it was actually recorded the day I introduced these guys to each other at my house . This [...]
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Large Professor – Key To The City (Mad Scientist Remix)
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New vinyl drop from the Live Guy, now without glasses. Wax has the original, remix, instros and accapella. Uptempo Rap lives… Large Professor - ‘Key To The City (Mad Scientist Remix)’
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The Four Best/Worst Rap Alter-Ego Albums Ever
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Nothing says ‘I’m out of decent ideas’ like the good old Alter-Ego album. For most rappers, it’s not really much of a stretch to adapt another personality, since 95% of them are acting anyway (except for everyone who’s gone to jail, natch). This was published in the last rag that’s still willing to print my [...]
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