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 […]
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As many of you know, last weekend was a busy weekend as I was covering the 10th annual Afro-Punk Festival in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn. With their being a continuing examination of what […]
Public Enemy was another band that was particularly important to me as a child – in fact, i had begged my folks to buy me a copy of Public Enemy’s Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black which […]
My household was always somewhat musical in the sense that i was constantly exposed to music — someone would be singing (badly) or playing music or watching concert footage. By the time, I was entering […]
After a discussion of old school hip hop with several Twitter followers, I had mentioned this track, the Young Black Teenager’s “Tap the Bottle.” I remember that Kid Capri used to play this one quite […]