I decided to revisit Defari's 1999 debut LP after I came across a couple of references to it on the site but without an actual review in the archives. I remem... Read More...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...