JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Smooth B’s 55th birthday.
Category: Old School Hip-Hop
Throwback: Happy 52nd Birthday, Q-Tip!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Q-Tip’s 52nd birthday.
Throwback: Happy 58th Birthday, Biz Markie!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 58th anniversary of Biz Markie’s birth.
Throwback: Happy 56th Birthday, DJ Premier!
JOVM celebrates DJ Premier’s 56th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 63rd Birthday, Flavor Flav!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Flavor Flav’s 63rd birthday.
Throwback: Black History Month: MC Lyte
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Black History Month — and pays tribute to MC Lyte.
Throwback: Black History Month: Salt-N-Pepa
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Black History Month — and pays tribute to Salt-N-Pepa.
Throwback: Black History Month: Run DMC
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Black History Month — and pays tribute to Run DMC.
Throwback: Black History Month: Public Enemy
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Black History Month — and pays tribute to Public Enemy.
Throwback: Happy 54th Birthday, Rakim!
JOVM celebrates Rakim’s 54th birthday.
There are few artists I’ve written about as much as the ridiculously prolific, New York-based producer, DJ, remixer and longtime JOVM mainstay Rhythm Scholar. During this site’s 11+ year history, Rhythm Scholar has firmly cemented a reputation for crafting slickly produced, crowd-pleasing mashups and remixes of classic soul, funk, hip-hop, New Wave and others.
Rhythm Scholar’s remix sees him tackling Slick Rick‘s beloved 80s classic “Children’s Story.” The remix pairs Slick Rick’s cautionary tale of a young boy, who gets seduced into the street life and its inevitable and tragic ending with seemingly Issac Hayes-inspired production featuring twinkling Rhodes, dramatic strings, a psychedelic guitar solo and playful nods at Rob Base and DJ Easy Rock’s “It Takes Two,” LL Cool J and several others. The end result is a gritty, 70s true crime story air — as though Slick Rick had spent his time watching The French Connection, Serpico and others.
Throwback: Happy 57th Birthday MCA/Adam Yauch!
JOVM celebrates what would have been Beastie Boys’ MCA/Adam Yauch’s 57th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 60th Birthday, G.U.R.U.!
JOVM celebrates what would have been G.U.R.U.’s 60th birthday.
Throwback: R.I.P. Biz Markie
JOVM pays tribute to the legendary Biz Markie.
Throwback: Black History Month: KRS-One/Boogie Down Productions
Today is February 25 2021. It’s the 25th day of Black History Month. And as I’ve mentioned throughout this series, I’ve been featuring Black artists across a wide and eclectic array of genres and styles — with the hopes that it’ll be a bit of a primer on the Black experience and on Black music.
Of course, I hope that these posts will serve as a reminder of these very important facts:
Black culture is American culture — and Black music is American music.
America’s greatest and beloved contributions to the world are Black music styles — the blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll and hip-hop.
Black art matters.
Black lives matter — all of them, all of the time.
KRS One is one of the greatest living emcees to ever do it. And one can make a fair argument that without him, we wouldn’t have Mos Def/Yasiin Bey, Common and a lengthy list of others, who are equally dope may not be who they are right now. He also still does a great live show.