Oct 30th
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| I've been planning the release of a sample set for Common's opus, Resurrection, for over a year or so but just never got around to completing the project. As chance would have it, a couple weeks back I was watching the 1991 film The Five Heartbeats and stumbled upon an audio snippet which was sampled [...] |
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3 months, 13 days ago. Sep 27th
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| Lack of updates here at Hip Hop Is Read are fully to blame due to my new-ish 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. work schedule. Yes, you read that correctly. I wanted to finish this sample set a couple of weeks ago in unison with Traffic Entertainment Group's impressive box set/deluxe re-issue of Pete Rock & [...] |
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| 1 year, 4 months ago. Sep 24th
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| A bit of advice from A Tribe Called Quest: when stating your objective, let it out at the offset. Q-Tip did just that on "Excursions", the intro to their sophomore (and possibly greatest) LP The Low End Theory:Back in the days when I was a teenager/Before I had status and before I had a pager/You [...] |
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| 1 year, 4 months ago. Sep 2nd
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| This set is my gift to Combat Jack (and Dallas Penn - even if he doesn't want it). What we've got here is a small sampling of music from Africa, handpicked by Jr. Gong & Crew. As Damian Marley explained in an interview, one of the driving forces behind this collaborative record with soul brother [...] |
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| 1 year, 5 months ago. Sep 2nd
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| This set is my gift to Combat Jack (and Dallas Penn - even if he doesn't want it). What we've got here is a small sampling of music from Africa, handpicked by Jr. Gong & Crew. As Damian Marley explained in an interview, one of the driving forces behind this collaborative record with soul brother [...] |
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| 1 year, 5 months ago. Aug 22nd
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| If you are living in the world today, remember to read the labels when entering the cold world of killah hills 10304. Investigative reports state that the duel of the iron mic took place in the 4th chamber. And it was the infamous shadowboxin' technique that lured MC's into the razor sharp blades of solid [...] |
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| 1 year, 5 months ago. Aug 12th
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| Nasty Nas Timeline (Mixed by Statik Selektah) What can I say about this album that hasn't already been expounded upon by music journalists and institutional scholars alike? Illmatic is to hip hop what Miles Davis's Kind of Blue is to jazz: a quintessential centerpiece to its respective genre. Dallas Penn summed it up quite nicely: [...] |
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| 1 year, 6 months ago. Aug 10th
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| One Love to NY emcee Kwan Lee, celebrating his born day today. Happy birthday, mayne! A little while back, Kwan passed me a link to his new EP, I Warned You, as well as a set of samples featured on the project. These things are catching on, huh...KWAN LEE - I WARNED YOU [EP]1. I'm [...] |
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| 1 year, 6 months ago. 