Loyal customers will have enjoyed our Tuff City retrospective last year (HERE, HERE & HERE). We only scratched the surface when it comes to the encyclopaedic knowledge of label President Aaron Fuchs but we aim to air more stories after we’re invited back for some more face time with him. There are even rumours of [...]

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It’s February, it’s cold and there’s still a notable lack of new releases to talk about so what do we do? That’s right we dig in the proverbial crates and talk about rap that matters. However much we may chortle at 50’s latest web antics or squirm at news of the latest Twitter baby we [...]

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We’re back with some more teary eyed nostalgia, this time Sylvia Robinson’s business card. Needless to say she’s no longer maintaining in the Garden State, she’s maintaining her garden because it’s in a state, living large off all those royalties she probably didn’t pay to Master Gee and them lot. Strange that for such a [...]

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It’s part two of our latest nerd-out, mining the authentic business cards of hip-hop legends. Well someone’s gotta do it. This time we have non other than Afrika Bambaataa’s original business card. A couple of things to note looking at his dog eared calling card. His business hours are from between 2 and 5pm. What [...]

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OK, this is our latest nerd-out. We’ve gotta maintain our competitive edge after all. Here’s the first in our series of mining obscure business cards belonging to early rap entrepreneurs.  Don’t laugh, this is what we do son! So first up, Johnny Soul, Harlem Record store keeper and owner of the Soul-O-Wax and Disc-O-Wax imprints [...]

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