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Mac Miller by Robert Adam Mayer

The Mac Miller Interview

Chris Orrick

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

Dr. Dre The Chronic 25th Anniversary Mixtape

Grand Puba Reel to Reel 25th Anniversary Mixtape

Das EFX Dead Serious 25th Anniversary Mixtape

Real Talk with Jansport J & Fatlip

In the Court of the Covina King

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

A Tribe Called Quest found their footing while making their mark

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

Cypress Hill (Get On Down)

Get On Down offers deluxe Cypress Hill debut package

Anderson Paak

Poised to Strike: Anderson .Paak

Cypress Hill 25th Anniversary Mixtape

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

Just Blaze illo by James Blagden

Producer Just Blaze gets in where he fits in

Son of Detroit:
The Oral History of J Dilla

Lootpack

Mad Loot: Lootpack featured on Toyota of Oxnard commercial

UGK

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

Butcher Bear mixtape of heady hip-hop and beats

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

NWA

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

Newcleus

Newcleus was at the center of the electro cosmos

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

Wax Poetics Records introduces Bones & Beeker, premieres debut song

'Rideau 2 Richmond' Memetic

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

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

A Tribe Called Quest

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

DJ Cash Money

The incredibly insane collection of DJ Cash Money

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

Rod Lee, Baltimore club

An oral history of Baltimore club

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

Pete Rock

Back to basics with Pete Rock

Shabazz Palaces

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

Funky Four Plus One

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

Apollo Brown and Ras Kass

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

Biz Markie

Nobody Beats Biz Markie

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

Joe Sample

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

Notorious BIG Biggie Smalls Christopher Wallace "Ready to Die"

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

Notorious BIG Biggie Smalls WhoSampled Mixtape 20th Anniversary

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