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Linton Kwesi Johnson

Erin Digs It: Linton Kwesi Johnson
6 months ago

Friends, (as John McCain would say), I have found something special and I'm going to share it with you. On a recent business trip to a certain somewhat overpriced Brooklyn record store, I fell weak to my not-so-inner record nerd and used the time before the meeting to peruse the bins. The problem that I have at this record store is not that I can't find anything worth buying, but that I can fin...

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Dub Poets & Hip Hoprisy: LKJ and Mutabaruka Droppin' Bombs
over 2 years ago
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...Here's a little Hip Hop backstory that you might not have heard...back in the day when I was a teenager, like around the time that hip hop was springing up in the South, Sister Nancy, a dread who had a record store a street over from where I copped my rap LPs, turned me on to dub poets from Jamaica and England (who predated most American MCs outside of Cool Herc and the Herculoids up in NYC ...

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Dub Poets & Hip Hoprisy: LKJ and Mutabaruka Droppin' Bombs
over 2 years ago
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...Here's a little Hip Hop backstory that you might not have heard...back in the day when I was a teenager, like around the time that hip hop was springing up in the South, Sister Nancy, a dread who had a record store a street over from where I copped my rap LPs, turned me on to dub poets from Jamaica and England (who predated most American MCs outside of Cool Herc and the Herculoids up in NYC ...

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Another Great LKJ
over 2 years ago
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I was tipped off on Linton Kwesi Johnson last week by CrashPryor (http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/77192)The track I am posting today is what it is all about. I love this stuff. This song does not let up with the groove.

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Erin Digs It: Linton Kwesi Johnson
6 months ago

Friends, (as John McCain would say), I have found something special and I'm going to share it with you. On a recent business trip to a certain somewhat overpriced Brooklyn record store, I fell weak to my not-so-inner record nerd and used the time before the meeting to peruse the bins. The problem that I have at this record store is not that I can't find anything worth buying, but that I can fin...

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