The Masterdon Committee’s 1982 classic “Funkbox Party” turned early hip-hop into a crowd chant and block-party staple with its call-and-response energy and funky groove.
It was a dance floor scorcher and a wake-up call — and in 1983, Captain Rapp’s “Bad Times (I Can’t Stand It)” was exactly that. As one of the earliest West Coast responses to the socially conscious rap coming out of New York, this track didn’t just light up the dance floor — it forced […]
One of the most unexpected crossroads of that era was C.O.D.’s “In the Bottle” — a 1983 electro remake of Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson’s classic “The Bottle.” What started as a gritty 1974 social commentary about alcoholism and urban struggle became a futuristic club anthem that lit up floors from New York to London. […]
Faith Evans is keeping the memory of her husband alive. Though her first husband The Notorious B.I.G., has been gone for twenty! years, she’s continuing his musical legacy with a duets collection, The King And I, using his vocals and hers. She’s just dropped a revised version of his classic joint “Ten Crack Commandments” called […]
GZA of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan has penned an open letter titled “The Lost Art of Lyricism” via Cuepoint and medium.com. “Hip-hop is not going to…
This is Jeremy checking in with you and I wanna know, have you heard about Scarface releasing his book “Diary of a Madman”? Houston’s…
{SILVER SPRING, MD – October 13, 2014} – On the eve of its announcement, Radio One of Texas II, LLC generated buzz and filled the airways with advertising free, 24-7 music from Beyonce. Today, Radio One announced its new permanent format, Boom 92.1 FM, a Classic Hip Hop station. It is the first major market […]
“Now what you hear is not a test/I’m rapping to the beat…” If you can complete not just this sentence, but the verse before and…
DJ Spinderella, born Dee Dee Roper, is one of hip-hop’s most enduring pioneers. As the longtime deejay for hip-hop duo Salt N Pepa, Spin has…
LL Cool J’s DJ Cut Creator has been by his side for over two decades. The two met as teenagers in Queens when the hip-hop…