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20 August 2008 18:58 Posted by SPINE CREW EPK with new music for the forthcoming Madlib album for BBE's Beat Generation series: WLIB AM: King Of The Wigflip. |
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19 August 2008 16:34 Posted by SPINE CREW Sounds of summer: 1960s and 1970s Latin music is the theme of Chairman Mao's latest show in our radio section. Top 10 updated too. |
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19 August 2008 14:00 Posted by SPINE CREW Preview 88 Keys' forthcoming album The Death Of Adam, which features the likes of Kanye West, Bilal and Redman. |
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19 August 2008 13:42 Posted by SPINE CREW Forbes article on artists and moguls packing up their garish mansions and moving out. Probably not back to the projects though. Except maybe Scott Storch. |
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18 August 2008 15:58 Posted by SPINE CREW Ice Cube takes a sec and thinks back to when he was Straight Outta Compton and not straight outta Hollywood. |
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18 August 2008 11:19 Posted by TOBES New Capone-n-Noreaga: 'Follow The Dollar', produced by The Alchemist. Taken from their October-released Channel 10 album. |
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15 August 2008 11:43 Posted by ZAID New track from The P Brothers: 'Digital B-Boy', featuring Milano. Taken from their album The Gas, released on Heavy Bronx in September. |
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15 August 2008 11:33 Posted by SPINE CREW This week's Friday Throwback comes from Juice Crew emcee Craig G with his Atlantic 12" from '89 'Shootin' The Gift (Remix)', remixed by Marley Marl. |
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15 August 2008 11:18 Posted by SPINE CREW The sun will shine, birds will sing, DMX will get arrested. |
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14 August 2008 11:55 Posted by SPINE CREW There's a lot of puppets in the music industry, and sometimes they even appear in videos. Complex run down The Unauthorized History Of Puppets In Hip-Hop. |
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14 August 2008 11:31 Posted by SPINE CREW Heavyweight DITC producer/MC Diamond D talks about his amusingly-titled forthcoming album The Chronicles Of Huge Hefner. |
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14 August 2008 11:24 Posted by ZAID Worshiped dead Rock N' Roll king Elvis is on the cover of Wax Poetics. |
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14 August 2008 11:05 Posted by ZAID Foxy Brown makes a rare appearance on stage in her native New York on Saturday, September 13th with Roxanne Shante, Spragga Benz and more. Big Daddy Kane hosts the show. $25, or email for one of a few pairs of tickets we've got to give away. |
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14 August 2008 10:53 Posted by ZAID De La Soul, Too $hort, Cypress Hill, Slick Rick and Naughty By Nature will be saluted at this year's VH1 Hip-Hop Honors in October. Older gods Nelson George and Fab 5 Freddy executive produce the celebration. |
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13 August 2008 19:01 Posted by SPINE CREW Check the radio section for another sixty minutes of brand new hip-hop courtesy of The Dan Greenpeace Show. Competition section updated too with the new Large Professor LP up for grabs - win the album when he drops it. |
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13 August 2008 12:51 Posted by SPINE CREW New music from De La Soul affiliate Butta Verses: 'If I Die' featuring Lucien, taken from his forthcoming album Reality BV. CL Smooth and Kurious appear on the album as do producers V.I.C. and Marco Polo. |
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13 August 2008 11:29 Posted by ZAID Legendary producer Large Professor makes a rare appearance in front of the camera to speak on his new album Main Source. |
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12 August 2008 12:18 Posted by SPINE CREW No I.D. joins Kanye behind the boards for Jay-Z's Blueprint 3. Best bring your A-game. First single from the album: 'Jockin' Jay-Z (Dope Boy Fresh)'. |
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12 August 2008 11:05 Posted by ZAID Tonight's scheduled Q-Bert show at NYC's Knitting Factory isn't happening because according to the promoter he "decided he didn't feel like coming". Sounds like a good enough reason to us. Despair not - Roc Raida, Rob Swift, Total Eclipse and Precision - the X-Ecutioners - will perform instead. Free entry, 8pm. |
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11 August 2008 15:42 Posted by SPINE CREW Timeless articles on DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Sun Ra, Roy Ayers , Willlie Mitchell and many others fill the second volume of the Wax Poetics anthology, a coffee table necessity if ever there was one. |
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11 August 2008 10:15 Posted by SPINE CREW R.I.P. iconic soul singer and arranger Isaac Hayes who died yesterday at the age of 65. |
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08 August 2008 17:38 Posted by SPINE CREW Random mid-nineties indy rap for this week's Friday Throwback: Dead Poetz Society's 'Lick A Shot (Remix)' from 1996. |
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08 August 2008 16:54 Posted by SPINE CREW Just when you thought hip-house was consigned to a footnote of rap history, here's a new track from the mysterious Sodaboys featuring a legendary Native Tongues MC: 'Everybody Cha Cha'. |
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08 August 2008 16:10 Posted by SPINE CREW "As long as they cut my motherf*ckin' checks, I could care less about radio spins and promotion." Brutal honesty top of the agenda in Unkut's interview with Roc Marciano of The UN. |
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08 August 2008 15:47 Posted by TOBES New music from M.O.P.'s metal-mouthed frontman Lil' Fame, 'Security'. |
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08 August 2008 15:36 Posted by ZAID Record collectors DJ Shadow and Dante Carfagna put their combined encyclopedic knowledge to good use for a forthcoming book of 45 label art. |
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07 August 2008 18:38 Posted by SPINE CREW In 1991 Tim Dog stopped dissing the entire West Coast for just about long enough to go to London and appear on Max & Dave's Kiss FM show. Audio courtesy of Fatlace. |
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07 August 2008 18:33 Posted by SPINE CREW In the most surprising news of the day, Lil' Jon signs a new record deal. |
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06 August 2008 11:14 Posted by TOBES Another track from Large Professor's forthcoming album Main Source, 'In The Ghetto'. |
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06 August 2008 11:08 Posted by SPINE CREW You know, whilst rappers are running around endorsing anything they can stick their record company logo on and selling out promoting potentially harmful products, it's nice to see a true legend like Dr Dre getting his head down and working on Detox. |
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06 August 2008 10:55 Posted by SPINE CREW If it ain't broke... Complex runs down the list of rappers who lose their producers, usually followed closely by their careers. |
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06 August 2008 10:34 Posted by TOBES New music from Slum Village's Elzhi: 'Motown 25' featuring Royce Da 5'9, produced by Black Milk. Album comes out through Fat Beats next week. |
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05 August 2008 18:47 Posted by SPINE CREW The second installment of The Kon & Amir Show is now in our radio section. Click the archive button for older shows. |
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05 August 2008 11:32 Posted by TOBES Single from Heltah Skeltah's forthcoming album D.I.R.T., 'Everything Is Heltah Skeltah', produced by Ill Mind. Evidence, Marco Polo and EZ Moe Bee are among the producers on the LP, out September 30th. |
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05 August 2008 11:07 Posted by ZAID Why watch grainy footage filmed on a cellphone from the nosebleed section and read a dozen illiterate teenage bloggers' version of events at Rock The Bells when you can catch up on it all in one succinct Billboard article? |
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04 August 2008 12:06 Posted by SPINE CREW Another classic Ron G mix with bonus related Yo! MTV Raps video courtesy of DJ Soul. |
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04 August 2008 11:49 Posted by SPINE CREW Disgruntled champagne quaffer lets off a couple at Jermaine Dupri's star-studded bash in Atlanta. Duck down. |
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01 August 2008 11:44 Posted by SPINE CREW "What the f*ck is a podcast?" Bronx bomber Fat Joe may not be familiar with the latest methods of online audio transmission but he gives a great interview when people aren't asking him the same tired questions about his new album and 50 Cent. In this candid chat with Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg he talks about getting put on by Diamond D and Showbiz, DJ Premier's ill-fated Terror Squad album and getting blacklisted at Hot 97 for his crew beating up someone they shouldn't have. |
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01 August 2008 11:23 Posted by SPINE CREW Friday Throwbacks return not a moment too soon with Da Ranjahz' unreleased 'Event Horizon' featuring Jay-Z, recorded circa 1998. |
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