Song of the Week: Notorious B.I.G. – “Kick In The Door”

“This goes out to you, this goes out to you, this goes out to you, and you, and you, and you!” It’s hard being a King, hell it’s hard wearing a crown all the time. I’m not complaining because someone has to do it.  We have all these Carl Thomas ass niggas in the World..they EMOTIONAL. So for this week’s edition of SOTW Read more

Taking Off Your Cool: The Remix Edition

The remix as defined by Wikipedia…. “A remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. A remixer uses audio mixing to compose an alternate master recording of a song, adding or subtracting elements, or simply changing Read more

DJ Drama & Cookin’ Soul|The Notorious B.I.G. Tribute [Mixtape]

I can still remember my ex-girlfriend calling me early in the morning and telling me about Biggie’s death. March 9th 1997. 12 years later, Iam glad to say that Christopher George Latore Wallace’s name is still alive and well. After seeing Read more

King Jerm’s Letter To B.I.G.

What’s good B.I.G? This is coming from someone you bumped into over 15 years ago at a show at NCA&T. I told you the story about how I found my ticket on the ground and you laughed. I remember meeting you like it was yesterday. Read more

The Numbers Game: Notorious Debuts At #4

Not only did the soundtrack to the movie Notorious take the #4 spot on the album charts, the movie itself also took #4 at the box office (It grossed around 20 million dollars). Well, I guess thats not too bad. Of course we all wanted it to do better but then again it could have been a lot worse Read more

Masters Of Skit-Hop

You have to dig in the crates quite a ways back to find out when skits became big on Hip-Hop albums. If I remember it right, I THINK it was De La Soul that pretty much escorted this practice into regular status in Hip-Hop. On some albums, it’s a major player and adds to the quality and on other albums, it’s a part of the reason the FFWD button is damn near naked. Read more

The Notorious B.I.G.|Notorious [OST]

I wanna make things clear; I love Biggie. Before people started calling me a “Jay-Z stan”, The Notorious B.I.G. was my hands down best MC of all time (I’ve said this before but still…). But for some reason, I’m still unsure about the Notorious movie. Not to say I’m not curious; there’s a lot of stuff that I’m curious about seeing in the movie Read more

Hating Season: Jay-Z

As some of you know, I get accused of being a Jay-Z hater by a couple of staff members: B-Easy and H2O, and a few readers, most notably V-G and Chip. But I don’t hate the guy, I just don’t overrate him like the rest of you bums! If Jay puts out any verse, you guys AUTOMATICALLY memorize his verse, analyze it, and place it among Hip-Hop’s greatest verses. I’m not that way. Read more

Song of the Week: Lil’ Kim – “Big Momma Thang”

Now if you guys know anything about me, then you should know that I used to be a HUGE Lil’ Kim fan back in the day. Yeah, I was just like you had the infamous Hardcore posters on the wall. The only difference I had two, and they were autographed! Read more

Rappers Who Should Have Movies Based On Their Lives

With The Notorious B.I.G. biographical film Notorious scheduled for release on January 2009, the obvious discussion comes up about what other rappers have big screen worthy life stories. I mean, we kinda had that with 8 Mile & Get Rich Or Die Tryin’. But those movies where loosely based on the lives of 50 Cent & Eminem; that’s also the same case with Krush Groove. I won’t even get into VH1’s Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story. Read more

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