Flushing and Japan connect for this new Live Guy With Glasses joint.
Like many of you, the first time I heard Nasty Nas was through his stirring performance on Main Source’s seminal “Live At The BBQ”, but it was initial exposure to “Halftime” on a local radio show that really got me amped. I was so impressed with the track that I eventually went on to describe it as “The Best Brag Rap Song of The 90’s”: “The lyrics are a ‘Good Combination’ of declarations of poetic superiority, explanations of his daily operations, product name checks, witty punchlines, casual blasphemy and a healthy dose of Eff The Police sentiment. What more could a rap fan ask for?”
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Grab your cardboard for this dedication to the late, great Jimmy Castor.
Pete Marriott gets a spirited defense of sampling in hip-hop courtesy of DJ Clark Kent, while Large Professor chimes in as well in this vintage New Music Seminar footage from 1993.
Greater than great. This new Noreaga album is going to be official, based on this and that Funkmaster Flex session.
The Grimy Awards dropped this week, and to my ear it’s the best solo release from Ill Bill yet. This cut features Large Professor on production.
Update: Bill just hit me up to let it be know that there’ll be a video for this track in the near future.
This has to be the first time that G Rap and Large Pro have shared microphone duties since “Money In The Bank.” Ayatollah on the beat, DJ Dutchmaster on the cut. Queens Reigns Supreme!
NORE has reverted his rap name back to P.A.P.I and dropped a track with Large Pro in the process. Nice to hear him over a good beat again.
Tragedy Khadafi: Me and Capone wind-up meeting, and we started building on the concept of starting a group. I initially wanted him to be a solo artist, but he kept saying, ‘Yo, my man’s about to come home. His name is Papi, I wanna start a group with him’. From that point on, we started building the whole Capone-N-Noreaga thing.
The Live Guy With Glasses visits his barber for a shape-up and swings past the now defunct Big City Records for this video for an instrumental track from Professor @ Large.
The Live Guy With Glasses does his thing over a beat from Audible Doctor at the Mass Appeal CMJ event, who has a new instrumental LP dropping at the end of the month.
New vid from the Live Guy With Glasses. Album is good too.
This song might make you think you’ve woken up in 1993, which is a good thing. Yelling on the hook? Check. Horn stabs? Check. Three dope Queens rappers? Check.
Professor @ Large has got a lot of quality material on it. A nice mix of guest spots, instrumentals and classic Xtra P raps. Cop it on June 26 through Fat Beats.
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’:
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New vinyl drop from the Live Guy, now without glasses. Wax has the original, remix, instros and accapella. Uptempo Rap lives…
Large Professor - ‘Key To The City (Mad Scientist Remix)’
I really should have timed my New York visit a little better…how could I miss a live performance of ‘Live At The BBQ’?!