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Mixtape das-efx-25-Final

Das EFX Dead Serious 25th Anniversary Mixtape

Videos LipSport

Real Talk with Jansport J & Fatlip

Videos IMG_8300

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-25-final

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-25-1000x1000

Cypress Hill 25th Anniversary Mixtape

Mixtape ALL-SOULED-OUT-25-1000x1000

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 Dilla-splash-B+

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_Bad_Words_Good_mix_for_WaxPoetics

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 jiggggs

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 monkWBAI

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 PEOPLES-MIX-612x612

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

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