To clear things up off the bat, this is NOT an album by the old white English musician Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys. If this disappoints anyone out there, I ... Read More...
The award for most transparent album name and CD packaging ever (narrowly beating out Tribe's "Beats, Rhymes and Life" and perhaps Ice-T's car, women and gun t... Read More...
I listen to a lot of underground hip hop, and I have a particular penchant for what I call "producer albums," records that take the art form back to when the D... Read More...
Telling the James Yancey story again would first require me to find the nearest brick wall and bash my head into it until I forgot I had told it in the first p... Read More...
Much to the likely dismay of the artists themselves and die-hard fans of authentic African hip-hop, this disc has been sitting around in my possession for quit... Read More...
North of the Bronx, just beyond the New York City limits, lay three Westchester County areas that each have contributed to the history of New York hip-hop. Yon... Read More...
