Imagine a database of every word from every recorded rap song. Ever. Well, it is now a reality thanks to Hip-Hop Word Count. “Who’s the best MC of all time?” Probably the most controversial question in hip hop (depending on who you ask). People can lose friends over questions like that. While there’ll probably never …
Witness Sherman Hemsley performing on Soul Train back in 1992 for this week’s Throwback Thursday.
Egon continues his Funk Archeology series at RBMA, with a look at modal jazz this month. Over at RBMA, they’ve been running a series called Funk Archaeology where former Stones Throw label manager Egon has been digging through the expansive world of music, from Russian funk to obscure vinyl in New York. This time around, …
We told you about the possibility of Flying Lotus, Thundercat and Herbie Hancock working on music together. Now there’s another video of them listening to Dilla. Now, I know what you might be thinking – “I listen to Dilla everyday, that’s not news.” Well, that’s true and I do it too BUT when the track …
Crillmatic drops the third instalment of his NSFW: Set The Mood mixes.
UK’s Eric Lau drops the first single off his second album, featuring Rahel. You’ll be hard pressed to find a better track than this all week. Eric Lau has been all over the place these past few months, from Hong Kong to Hamburg, but amongst all the travelling, he’s found time to release the first …
DJ Finesse presents a mixtape of Biggie acapellas over Premo beats. The age old question “would Biggie have been as popular were he alive today” will continue to rage on until we’re all worm food but one thing’s for sure, he sounds incredibly dope over DJ Premier beats. DJ Finesse put the whole collection together …
Prince and his band 3rd Eye Girl offer up a stonking cover of Let’s Go Crazy. Not many artists can cover their own track and change it up into something so different and so awesome. But Prince isn’t like (m)any artists. After announcing a mini tour of the West Coast, Prince has thrown up a …
Ukraine’s KLIM beats takes us to The Lost World with his latest beat tape. A while back, I wrote a piece on Ukrainian hip hop for another blog and came across KLIM beats. He was arguably the best guy I found during my research and I’m glad he’s released another album of dope beats. This …
Enjoy the wonders of dance in this video of Michael Jackson’s Origins Of The Moonwalk for our Satuday Matinée this week. It was the 30th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s Motown 25 performance this week and after watching it back (oh, the goosebumps!), I found a video of all the origins of the move and plenty …