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Articles Mac Miller by Robert Adam Mayer

The Mac Miller Interview

Videos Chris Orrick

Video for Chris Orrick’s “Design Flaw,” produced by L’Orange

Mixtape

Dr. Dre The Chronic 25th Anniversary Mixtape

Mixtape

Grand Puba Reel to Reel 25th Anniversary Mixtape

Mixtape

Das EFX Dead Serious 25th Anniversary Mixtape

Videos

Real Talk with Jansport J & Fatlip

Videos

In the Court of the Covina King

Articles Tribe Called Quest in NYC, 1990. Photo by Janette Beckman.

A Tribe Called Quest found their footing while making their mark

Mixtape

Black Sheep A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing 25th Anniversary Mixtape

New Releases Cypress Hill (Get On Down)

Get On Down offers deluxe Cypress Hill debut package

Articles Anderson Paak

Poised to Strike: Anderson .Paak

Mixtape

Cypress Hill 25th Anniversary Mixtape

Mixtape

Pete Rock & CL Smooth All Souled Out 25th Anniversary Mixtape

Articles Just Blaze illo by James Blagden

Producer Just Blaze gets in where he fits in

Articles

Son of Detroit:
The Oral History of J Dilla

Videos Lootpack

Mad Loot: Lootpack featured on Toyota of Oxnard commercial

Articles UGK

Still Trill: Author Julia Beverly reflects on Pimp C with her biography, Sweet Jones

Mixtape

Butcher Bear mixtape of heady hip-hop and beats

Mixtape BK-One's "B-Boy Break Maschine Mini-Mix"

BK-One drops the “B-Boy Break Maschine Mini-Mix”

Mixtape/New Releases

Jigmastas to return with new album, greatest hits mix

Blog NWA

Six Degrees of a G: The N.W.A Family Tree

Articles Newcleus

Newcleus was at the center of the electro cosmos

Tracks Bones & Beeker (Wax Poetics Records). Photo by Jules Ameel.

Wax Poetics Records introduces Bones & Beeker, premieres debut song

New Releases 'Rideau 2 Richmond' Memetic

Ottawa producer Memetic weaves a sonic tale based on record stores that dot the local bus route

Features

Blondie rose to stardom out of New York City’s burgeoning downtown scene of punk rock and new wave

Videos A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest perform “Check the Rhime” with Paul Shaffer’s band on Late Night with David Letterman

Articles DJ Cash Money

The incredibly insane collection of DJ Cash Money

Mixtape

DJ Monk-One’s mix commemorating Jay Smooth’s influential WBAI show, Underground Railroad

Articles Rod Lee, Baltimore club

An oral history of Baltimore club

Mixtape

A Tribe Called Quest People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm 25th Anniversary Mixtape

Record Rundown Pete Rock

Back to basics with Pete Rock

Articles Shabazz Palaces

Ishmael Butler’s Shabazz Palaces is a heavy yet fleeting Afro-celestial experience

Videos Funky Four Plus One

Deborah Harry invited the Funky 4 + 1 on to SNL for the first televised rap performance

Articles Apollo Brown and Ras Kass

Detroit producer Apollo Brown talks about his new album Blasphemy with Ras Kass

Articles Biz Markie

Nobody Beats Biz Markie

Mixtape Cut Chemist Afrika Bambaataa

Cut Chemist mixtape features rare acetates of early hip-hop tunes from Afrika Bambaataa

Articles/Record Rundown DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist

DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist channel Afrika Bambaataa and take his record collection on the road

Articles Joe Sample

Keyboardist and Crusader Joe Sample left a major legacy of soul-jazz, R&B, and hip-hop

Guest Blog Notorious BIG Biggie Smalls Christopher Wallace "Ready to Die"

Ready to Die at 20: How Christopher Wallace created hip-hop’s definitive crime epic

Mixtape Notorious BIG Biggie Smalls WhoSampled Mixtape 20th Anniversary

Wax Poetics and WhoSampled present the Notorious BIG ‘Ready to Die’ 20th Anniversary Mixtape

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