This French production duo just dropped their debut LP, Funky As Usual, with some nice guest spots. The highlight for me was this third version of the Large Pro feature which dropped a couple of years back in it’s original form and then with a remix on 7″ last year. A revisiting of ‘Looking At The Front Door’ with a a different perspective….
The Funk League feat. Large Professor - ‘Through Good And Bad (Breaking North Mix)’
Video: The Funk League feat. Sadat X – ‘On & On’: (more…)
When I saw that Kenny Parker had produced the latest KRS-One project, called The BDP Album, I figured I’d give it a shot. Turns out it’s actually pretty good! ‘Tote Gunz’ is a great example of Get Off My Lawn Rap, aka Gran Tarino Rap. It’s always a good sign when The Blastmasta sounds pissed off.
KRS-One - ‘Tote Gunz’
As an added bonus, Unkut Dot Com even gets a mention on the ‘Outro’ just after the two minute mark…
Mark has been making these for awhile, but I only just caught on. This may be the 14 most awkward minutes of video I’ve ever seen, which is all the more amusing for the fact that 45 King and Diamond have known each other for a long time. I’m not sure if they both smoked some killer weed or are really hung-over from a night of drinking hard booze. Or maybe it’s just the ‘zany’ sound effects…
Get over to 45 King’s YouTube channel for more episodes with Premier, Biz Markie, Prince Paul, Double J, Kid Capri and more.
Thanks to the ultimate random find over at Gwar Izm, some footage of the 1st Annual Rapper’s Boxing Championships has been uncovered, 6 minutes into the above clip for the ‘Dance Energy Special 1992′. This legendary, one-off event was originally covered in The Source (scan) and has been a topic of amusement for me ever since. So much so that I felt compelled to ask Freddie Foxxx about his involvement: (more…)
When I heard that there was a press day being held for the Marxmen to promote the new Sparta LP, I thought it might be a good oppertunity to have a slightly more rational conversation with Rap’s Greatest Duo than the last time we crossed paths. Good thing I didn’t bring up this story, huh? Turns out a bad phone line didn’t get things off to a great start….
Robbie: I feel like a lot of the aggression has been lost in rap in the last 10 years. There’s not enough music that make you want to break car windows. How do you keep that energy in the music?
Bill: Slap, can you hear him?
Fame: I can’t really hear him, mayne. What did he say?
Bill: He’s trying to say how do we keep the aggression in our music.
You might have caught Bronx native $amhill on the P BrothersThe Gas LP, the Counterstrike mixtape, or a few oldUnkutposts. If not, check out this new offering from his forthcoming EP, produced entirely by Preservation. Guess it’s time I transcribed the interview I did with $amhill in 2010…
This was a limited-edition vinyl release a month or so back, and now it’s appeared as a bonus cut on the new K-DefNight Shift LP in glorious CD quality. I’m guessing the parting shot at “all the sell-outs, all the people that wanna talk about flowers and meadows” is a PM Dawn diss. “Everybody that wanna front with their shirt off” is a bit more general though… Unless this was the same time that Young MC tried to comeback on some brolic shit?
This is almost enough to let me forget about 14 Shots To The Dome…
Back in 1994 K-Def was working on some beats out of the B Room in Marly Marl‘s House Of Hits when LL Cool J walked in on his session and said “let’s make some tracks together”. Uncle L had always wanted to rhyme on a track using the famous ESG breakbeat ‘UFO’, so he had Def lay it down with some scratches and then went to town with the mic. Both thought they had a sure fire hit on their hands but unfortunately it was never used. The DAT tape of the studio session was feared lost for several years before it eventually turned up stuck behind a radiator!
As more and more new rap music continues to suck, the task of finding recent shit that doesn’t make me want to cut my face off with a broken bottle and slowly peel the skin off has become more and more difficult. Naturally, all of these songs are old news on the internets by now but if you’re reading this that clearly isn’t an issue for you anyway.
Torae drops his For The Record LP tomorrow, but here’s a pro tip – Marco Polo brought the best track to this project, which includes contributions from DJ Premier, Large Professor, Pete Rock and Diamond D to name a few. Looks like Canada finally won something.
