New Gangrene with Roc Marcy. Please stop rapping though, ALC.
From the Vodka & Ayahuasca LP.

Gangrene feat. Roc Marciano - ‘Drink It Up’

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…

Kenny Parker - ‘What It Is (Outro)’

For those that slept: Kenny Parker – The Unkut Interview

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:
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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.

Fame: Uh…go ahead, you answer that one.
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You might have caught Bronx native $amhill on the P Brothers The Gas LP, the Counterstrike mixtape, or a few old Unkut posts. 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…

Shouts to LEX for the heads-up.

Update: Here’s the mp3….

$amhill - ‘Poetic Justice’