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...
...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 ...
...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 ...
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.
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...