We’ll leave other blogs to debate the irony in an album that contains a tracked called ‘Leak it out’ being leaked a couple of months earlier? Us? It’s late January and we just wanna hear some good hip-hop. EMC is a tricky proposition. There’s no doubting Masta Ace’s legacy or longevity, and Wordsworth proved he [...]

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Remember when Dre really mattered and hip-hop moved units? Earlier in the month we said we wouldn’t speculate as to whether the ‘Detox’ album may or may not materialise this year. We’ll stand by that, but even if it did you could predict each step of the flimsy promotional campaign. First up, every blog [...]

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New Guilty Simpson track ‘Home Invazion’, a Madlib produced non-album bonus cut off the forthcoming single ‘Ode To The Ghetto’.
Guilty Simpson – Home Invazion

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We could have gone on with this. We could have spent a small fortune tracking down records like The Korner Boys’ ‘Sage of Roxanne’, G-Mann’s ‘Roxanne is my girl’, Overnite Bandits’ ‘Roxanne’s Baby’ and East Coast Crew’s ‘No More Roxanne’. We could even have included the largely unrelated ‘The Roxanne Plague’ by bass maestro Maggotron. [...]

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Here’s another human beatbox quiz. The first person to correctly guess which record each beatbox came from wins a Fat Lace tee shirt. Use a legit email in the comments so we can hit you for an address. A bonus prize to anyone who can name the pictured beatboxer.
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A triple threat of so-called Roxanne family members are the subject of today’s post. According to these records, Roxanne has a sister, a brother or brothers, and parents. Straight nuclear to the death! D.W. and the Party Crew had a few joints on Party Crew records, including the pretty expensive ‘Freaky Lover’ cut. Roxy here [...]

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Sometimes, perseverance pays off. The guys over at DWG have already built themselves an admirable rep for sourcing lost and unreleased classics and re-releasing them in limited pressings. They kicked off with a much sought-after issue of Phill Most Chill bangers, and graduated to a Godfather Don E.P. which also sold like cakes of the [...]

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New HHC out Feb 5th profiles Death Row Records, again. Someone’s obviously trying to rinse the back catalogue. Definitely worth picking up for the Gangsta Rapper feature which quite rightly includes the O.G.’s Schoolly D and Just-Ice. “Yes, for he is the hip-hop gangster”.

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“You’re wacker than wack, you stole your name from a hat…”
Yep, The Invasions are calling out MC Trilby. Or Kangol. One of the two. One of the finest minor Roxanne releases, this cash-in was produced by Clark Jay, who produced most of Specific’s output, including timeless classics for Divine Sounds like ‘What People Do For [...]

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Termanology feat Ea$y Money – Welcome To The Machine (EXCLUSIVE)

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