Best. Opening Line. Ever.
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DOWNLOAD: LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
Being rushed for time kills me. I want to tell a long story about running into a scary dude from high school who used to steal cars and always brought along his own music to listen to as he drove the stolen cars all over the city - mostly Slick Rick.
Instead I’ll do a crappy [...]
As a music writer it’s hard to suppress the desire to tear into a song and break down all the aspects of what make it a great song. In one sense it’s like appreciating a great dish - you want to enjoy the food but at the same time you want to know what MAKES [...]
Ah, the heady days of late 80’s rap. It makes me laugh to think Ice-T is now more famous for his work on Law and Order: SVU than his rap career. I wonder if all the folks in middle America who eat up Law and Order franchises with a spoon realize this is the same [...]
I’ve been super-sick the last few days and the Nyquil has kept me from clearly remembering a good Eric B. & Rakim story. I have a vague recollection of a friend of mine from one neighborhood over being the bigger fan of the duo. Every time his tape deck would start it would be Eric [...]
When I need something quiet and soft for the headphones I tend to dial up Fat Jon’s Lightweight Heavy. I love the slow, dreamy quality of the album and how the tracks flow together so smoothly. To date I still can’t tell what half the sampled voices are saying on the various tracks but [...]
The UMC’s Fruits of Nature is a lost hip-hop classic. It’s aged as well as De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising or A Tribe Called Quest’s People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm but nothing clicked for the band the way they did for the Native Tongues Posse. It probably didn’t help [...]