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Various Artists :: Beat Street Soundtrack

Patrick TaylorFebruary 7, 2012

It's fall of 1984. I'm riding the school bus home from another day in the fourth grade. Two older boys pull out a smallish ghetto baster and start playing some... Read More...

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Unique and Dashan :: Black to the Future

Matt JostJanuary 24, 2012

"Black to the future - what a funky concept," Def Jef pondered on his 1989 album "Just a Poet With Soul." The native New Yorker had found a label and some succe... Read More...

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King Sun :: XL

Matt JostDecember 13, 2011

Believe it or not, before EXTRA EXTRA LARGE came to represent our grandiose modern times, EXTRA LARGE was sizeable enough to stand out. Rapper King Sun had the ... Read More...

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Heavy D & the Boyz :: Blue Funk

Steve 'Flash' JuonDecember 6, 2011

This review comes exactly four weeks after the hip-hop world was shocked by the untimely passing of Dwight Arrington Myers. The talk show pundits and rap cynics... Read More...

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Various Artists :: Tommy Boy Presents: Hip Hop Roots

Steve 'Flash' JuonNovember 27, 2011

I miss the days the good ol' days when Tommy Boy wasn't so pretentious and uptight. Coolio, De La Soul, House of Pain, Naughty by Nature, Queen Latifah and Ste... Read More...

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Mad Skillz :: From Where???

Matt JostOctober 25, 2011

At the beginning of the new millennium Skillz reminded everybody that he had been the "first nigga to pop his collar on an album cover" ("S.K.I.L.L.Z."). What ... Read More...

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Reviews

Yung Lean :: Jonatan

Gunna :: DS4EVER

Anotha Level :: On Anotha Level

Various Artists :: Beat Street Soundtrack

Unique and Dashan :: Black to the Future

King Sun :: XL

Heavy D & the Boyz :: Blue Funk

Various Artists :: Tommy Boy Presents: Hip Hop Roots

Mad Skillz :: From Where???