You love to hear the story, how it all got started…” Something about this verse hit me hard today. I grew up in Harlem during the 90′s, during Giuliani which means it wasn’t the prettiest of times but it wasn’t the 80s. NYC was tough if you were a sucker, but for most people in [...]
2012 was a year of newfound loves, and so many ones gone astray. It was a year of new beginnings, and endings that were a long time coming. It was a year of beautiful births and painful deaths. It was as beautiful as it was tumultuous, and as profound as shallow. But, if you are [...]
Remember when Nas was just a baby MC? Illmatic was released almost 20 years ago, and here he comes again with a flow you can’t deny. Nas has been ranked as high as #4 on lists of the greatest MCs, and his new album, Life is Good is an exercise in emotional recovery and acceptance. Cherry Wine is simple and smooth with [...]
You are looking at the man himself Roy Ayers. In a time frame of almost 50 years (dating up until the present), Ayers has been releasing and working on projects spanning almost every genre of music. The handful of Roy Ayers sampled beats I have made in my day never got placed onto albums, but [...]
The time has come. We gotta expand, the whole operation, distribution. New York, Chicago, LA. We gotta set our own mark…” I always like to look for inspiration in weird places and its crazy how a certain event or relationship can make you more determined than ever. This life game has a certain knack for [...]
The world at my sneakers, Gold pieces moulded with Jesus features, Give streets the fever from the way I spit the Ether, Came on the scene at 19 a gritty fiend for – Money, power, respect, get it by any means uh. New Yorker, slick talker, walk like a brick flipper, Decimal doctor, multiply to [...]
I’m late, but I’m here, and feeling especially blessed this time around. Sorry sample fiends for the delayed fix, but this weekend has been dedicated thus far to the presence of a new life in my world, my niece Maggie Elaine. The music “game” tends to occupy my entire thinking sometimes and obscures my perspective [...]
In conversations amongst hip-hop purists, you will consistently hear Nas’ Illmatic near the top of people’s lists. I’m certainly not knocking the undeniable classic that it is, but It Was Written was always my favorite Nas album, largely because of my obsession with “The Message”. It was my Wu-Tang tape that introduced me to hip-hop, [...]
Excuse the delayed post today, I landed in San Fran this afternoon and have been restaurant hoping since. Anyways, I was walking back to my hotel when I checked my Soundcloud and I saw a submission that contained the names Nas, Led Zepplin & Gramtik – sold! The mashup was done by a dude named [...]
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