Whenever Liverpool get a flukey refereeing decision to win a game, you can guarantee Rafa Benitez will stand there in the post-match interview barely able to conceal his smugness as he pontificates that, yes, Carragher handballed it but these things always have a way of evening themselves out over the course of a season as [...]

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Yeah, we said it. If you’ve heard the new album, you know what we’re saying. Hands down. Bring on Relapse 2. Eminem over Alchemist / Emile > Dre right now. Let’s hope he takes it there.

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Big up the mans dem Tobes & Yoda for their next mix tape instalment. “Think Bobby Brown cruising for chicks in a 1989 Testarossa and Mike Tyson riding shotgun with a white baby tiger on his lap”. Think? That’s how we live e’ydayyyy.
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We even trainspotted the cover from the Around The Way Girl 12″.

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Our first BIG post today is dedicated to the Notorious one. We’ve not seen the film, nor do we particularly want to see it. Really, what’s the point? Maybe we’ve grown up and have zero interest in a modern portrayal of BIG, we felt his records in ‘94, by ‘96 we were done. He was [...]

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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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Tragedy a.k.a. Intelligent Hoodlum’s first incarnation was part of a group called Super Kids alongside DJ Hot Day. Here’s their first 12″ and we also posted ‘Super Kids Live’ on Hot Day Records. See more on Hot Day HERE. As part of Diggers With Grattitude’s commitment to mining unreleased gems, they’re about to release a [...]

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This shit is pretty dope, we’re feeling it.
Statik Selektah & Termanology are 1982 – ‘Thugathon’ ft Lil Fame of M.O.P.

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We’re feeling this track and any Kanye production or features that distract us from ‘Heartbreaks’ can only be a good thing. Great concept but judging by a poll of our learned readers HERE, the vast majority of you think otherwise.
GLC featuring Kanye – Big Screen

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It’s only natural that the Italian island of Capri, off the Amalfi coast, has got shops owned by former rappers and singers. After all, the island was colonised by Kid Capri in 1968, who runs the place like a private fiefdom, while his mate Silver D is lord(s of funk) mayor of the more sedate [...]

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It’s been a bit quiet on the Christopher Bridges front since 2006’s ‘Release Therapy’, and now we know why: retail therapy. Yep, Luda has gone and opened up a little ‘bomboniere’ in Italy for all of the girl dem, and girls go wild when they step into this money maker. Never mind disturbin’ tha peace, [...]

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