New Jack Cornballs Beware: Here Comes Ricky
Love him or hate him, Ricky Powell has been a New York City institution forever in Money Making Manhattan. If you were involved in the NYC music scene in the […]
Category Archives: Hip Hop Culture
GZA Liquid Swords Chess Box Set
The first time I heard the GZA’s Liquid Swords I was______________________. Fill in that blank, as it was one the best Wu solo joint to be released, and I know […]
Big Fun In the Big Town
The New York of 1986 is much different from the New York of today. For one week in 1986, Dutch filmmaker, journalist and rap fanatic Bram Van Splunteren came to […]
Hot Peas & Butta: A Creative Force In Music, Art & Collecting
Photo by Micheal Regan Check out the feature on Hot Peas and Butta team members Skeme Richards aka The Nostalgia King and artist Lance Pilgrim as they explain the aesthetics […]
Big Ups with Noah Uman
Noah Uman talks digging Upstate, reissuing Run DMC records, Star Tavern Pizza and more Continue Reading
Why Instrumental Hip Hop Doesn’t Suck: A Rebuttal
I came across this article in the San Francisco Weekly by Phillip Mlynar stating that “Instrumental Hip Hop Sucks. Ban It Forever”. Now if you have been a follower of […]
You Be Illin’, Mike D Gets Grammatical
Mike D: rapper, producer, ex-label mogul, style maker, taste maker, heart breaker. Now add Grammatical doctor to his resumè. Mister Diamond took to the airwaves and the Colbert report to […]
Yasiin Bey’s Fellowship Mission
When musicians aren’t making music, what are they doing? Some, like raptor (that’s rapper x actor), Yasiin Bey, the artist formally known as Mos Def, act and decide to move […]
Flea Market Funk 