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Various Artists :: Sounds of New York, U.S.A. Volume 1

Matt JostMarch 6, 2012

Things were happening fast in 1979. Once Sugar Hill Records came out with their Sugarhill Gang, everybody scrambled to put out a record. Among the first was Ga... Read More...

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Jon Lajoie :: You Want Some of This?

Steve 'Flash' JuonFebruary 28, 2012

2008 was the first time I heard the name Jon Lajoie, although he had been working as an actor and comedian in Canada prior to that. He would go on to achieve ma... Read More...

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Various Artists :: Beat Street Soundtrack

Patrick TaylorFebruary 7, 2012

It's fall of 1984. I'm riding the school bus home from another day in the fourth grade. Two older boys pull out a smallish ghetto baster and start playing some... Read More...

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Unique and Dashan :: Black to the Future

Matt JostJanuary 24, 2012

"Black to the future - what a funky concept," Def Jef pondered on his 1989 album "Just a Poet With Soul." The native New Yorker had found a label and some succe... Read More...

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King Sun :: XL

Matt JostDecember 13, 2011

Believe it or not, before EXTRA EXTRA LARGE came to represent our grandiose modern times, EXTRA LARGE was sizeable enough to stand out. Rapper King Sun had the ... Read More...

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Heavy D & the Boyz :: Blue Funk

Steve 'Flash' JuonDecember 6, 2011

This review comes exactly four weeks after the hip-hop world was shocked by the untimely passing of Dwight Arrington Myers. The talk show pundits and rap cynics... Read More...

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Freeway & Jake One :: The Stimulus Package 2

A-F-R-O x Stu Bangas :: The Bad and The Ugly

Westside Gunn :: Still Praying

Jon Lajoie :: You Want Some of This?

Various Artists :: Beat Street Soundtrack

Unique and Dashan :: Black to the Future

King Sun :: XL

Heavy D & the Boyz :: Blue Funk