^ The first and last time that you’ll see this douchbag’s dome on this site.
Please proceed to your nearest newsstand and cop the end-of-year Hip-Hop Connection. Drew Huge from Fat Lace has followed-up the classic Rap Mag World Cup from the 90′s (which was won by the mighty ego trip) and given us the Hip-Hop Blog World Cup, pitting the top 16 rap sites against each other, round by round. Wondering how Unkut Dot Com performed? You’ll have to get the mag. Other highlights include the stuff I was involved in (Kyron from Screwball interview, Top Choice Clique feature, the story of the Hipster Douchbag Poll and a debate of the merits of G Rap in 2008) and a bunch of other stuff that I’m just about to read.
Some clips from a forthcoming documentary called Founding Fathers (produced by Ron Lawrence, who was the other half of Two Kings In A Cipher with D-Dot and later part of The Hitmen) which challenges the widely held belief that The Bronx were the leaders of this hip-hop shit in the early days. (more…)
There have been an almost overwhelming number of special vinyl releases of unreleased tracks and demos this past year, but this one really got my attention – Freestyle Records have complied different versions of early Showbiz & AG tracks, unreleased instrumentals and a never before heard cut produced by Diamond D! Considering that Runaway Slave is one of the best examples of Bronx beat science ever made, this is major.
At some point I actually gave a shit that a new EPMD album was about to drop. In theory, their non-progressive approach is exactly what I look for in a rap tape – but Out Of Business was complete trash and 99% of rap comebacks suck, so I was prepared for the worst.
‘Puttin’ In Work’ (feat. Raekwon)
PMD is sounding on-point as usual, Sermon actually seems to be able to rap again after his verbally retarded dolo joints and Rae sounds excited to be rapping with two of idols. The only problem is the slightly annoying violin stab driven beat.
‘What You Talkin’ (feat. Havoc)
Keyboard beats are ghey. Havoc injects some much needed ignorance into proceedings and drops some message board slang on ‘em (“when you keep playin’ with me you -1″).
‘Roc-Da-Spot’
Is this “Crossover 08″? Hand claps? Check. Rodger Troutman vocoder? Check. Pointless lyrics? Next! (more…)
