Few people would reproach De La Soul anything, except maybe for some copyright holders and faithful fans who often had to wait years for new music. But exc... Read More...
Hip-Hoppers, raise your hands if you recorded several albums worth of songs but never actually put out any.
Gee, that's a lot of hands going up.
In reali... Read More...
THE PRELUDE
Usually, I don't make too much of a distinction between the two, but when you search the 1980s for rap but explicitly not for hip-hop in a forei... Read More...
As far as crime references go, John Gotti is positively old school. Not to mention deep-sixed for two decades. Rap folk have adopted his last name again and ag... Read More...
How could you get a rap album ready for 1998 and not release it? A DJBooth.net breakdown of platinum hip-hop albums revealed that no calendar year can claim mo... Read More...
PRELUDE
Let us begin with two songs that are not part of our presentation but are fit to set the stage.
In 1956 Neapolitan singer Renato Carosone recorde... Read More...
