Lamont Coleman, Big L passed away 13 years ago today. Underated to this day, Big L was the mc’s mc! Punchlines and deliveries all day, Harlem World’s son is still shining. Flamboyant forever! Look out for the new Big L documentary, “Street Struck” out this year, his murder is still unsolved.
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This is some super fly shit from the guys at Gasface (France) who are currently working on a short film about the ultra cool composer/producer/sample source Galt MacDermot entitled Looking 4 Galt. They have teamed up with DJ Greengiant and have released a sampler of Galt’s work as well as some tunes that most of...
Love
Common and Stevie Wonder pay tribute to J.Dilla and Whitney Houston at this post-Grammy event at the Conga Room in Los Angeles. Stevie sings over Slum Village’s “Fall N Love” and then he launches into Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.” Watch here
One Time
Sunday mornings are typically reserved for the faithful. And in a huge, fluorescent-lit basement near Manhattan’s Union Square Park, a congregation of some of hip-hop’s finest producers – Diamond D, Da Beatminerz, Buckwild – spend this particular march Sabbath worshipping at the shrine of the beat gods: the New York City Record Convention. In the...
Tuff Gong
Happy birthday to Robert “Nesta” Marley. One of the most prolific, influential, and misunderstood person of our time. If he was still physically here, Bob Nesta would have been 67 years old. ““The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those...