Summerstage celebrates its 30th season with one of the biggest and largest seasons yet with a variety of programming across the city. Just a few hours ago, I was at Queensbridge Park to catch two […]
Tag: old school hip-hop
New Audio: Rhythm Scholar’s Psychedelic and Funky Take on De La Soul’s “Breakadawn.”
If you’ve come of age during hip-hop’s golden era, De La Soul holds a rather important position to you, as they released some of that period’s best and most memorable material. Now, if you were […]
Live Footage: Biz Markie at Summerstage, Herbert von King Park 6/17/15
Last night, I was in lovely Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn to catch Masta Ace and the legendary Biz Markie perform at Herbert von King Park as part of Summerstage’s ongoing summer music, art and culture festival. […]
I’ve been lucky enough to have seen quite a number of incredible things live and among the things I’ll likely remember for the rest of my life is this: the incredible New Orleans-based brass band, […]
A few years ago, I was at a Summerstage show that included the legendary Large Professor got on the stage and literally half the audience had no idea who the man was – nor did […]
Kendo The Almost Famous, P.E. 2.0, and Public Enemy at Brooklyn Bowl 9/16/14
Kendo The Almost Famous, P.E. 2.0 and Public Enemy Brooklyn Bowl 9/16/14 As a child of the 80s, there were a number of artists I loved immensely and hadn’t had a chance to see back […]
As I mentioned in a previous post, the legendary Public Enemy is at Brooklyn Bowl tonight, and I’ve been a Public Enemy fan since the late 1980s but sadly, I was too young to see […]
The legendary Public Enemy is at Brooklyn Bowl tonight, and in honor of the occasion, we gotta go back old school with the Spike Lee produced video for “Fight the Power” – and not the […]
If you follow this blog often, you’ll know that a few weeks ago I heard from a producer and DJ by the name of Rhythm Scholar, who released a slick disco/funk inspired remix of ABC’s “When […]
If you’re a real hip-hop head and were coming of age in the late 80s and early 90s – and in particular, you dug the underground hip hop scene then. you’d probably heard of the […]
if you’re a true hip-hop head, there are three dates where you can probably remember where you were as though it happened yesterday – the date Tupac was murdered (September 13, 1996); the date Biggie […]
Merry Christmas! And I’m marking the holiday with what I hope will be an annual tradition for The Joy of Violent Movement – the official video for RUN DMC’s “Christmas in Hollis.” Since this song’s […]
Buckshot of Black Moon, the Crooklyn Dodgers, the Boot Camp Clik and others was the headliner of the first (of what i hope will be an annual affair), Brooklyn Wildlife Summer Festival at the Paper Box in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. The hip […]
Buckshot of Black Moon, the Crooklyn Dodgers, the Boot Camp Clik and others was the headliner of the first (of what i hope will be an annual affair), Brooklyn Wildlife Summer Festival at the Paper […]
The folks at Lyricist Lounge in concert with Summerstage hosted their now annual show featuring two of hip hop’s legendary DJs and producers — DJ Premier and Pete Rock. Last year, they had a power outage that cut the show short […]