After the non- indictment decision in the Mike Brown’s case, the streets of the american cities have been flooded by people protesting the criminal justice…
Making Peace With Big Bank Hank
Grandmaster Caz, aka Casanova Fly, remembers the old friend who “borrowed” his name and lyrics for “Rapper’s Delight”. When I met “Big Bank” Hank he was…
Freddy Stone discusses Stand!
By the end of the 1960s, Sylvester “Sly Stone” Stewart, Frederick “Freddie Stone” Stewart, Rosemary “Rose Stone” Stewart, Cynthia Robinson, Larry Graham, Greg Errico, and…
Do The Math: Indie vs Major
In this incredible article, Wendy Day breaks it down on the Music Industry. An indepth look at the numbers behind record sale and the trade…
From The Barbershop To Hip-Hop
The emperor of intergalactic funk is out with a new memoir, and he has stories to tell. George Clinton’s life in music spans six decades, from…
From Assata Shakur To Mike Brown
NOMAMA PROJECT insieme U.NET| BONNOT | M-1 | INOKI – GIOVEDì 6 novembre @ Centro Sociale Cantiere dalle h.19:30 si comincia con il laboratorio Hip Hop…
How Run-D.M.C. Changed the Rap Game
Here’s a piece by cultural critic Nelson George on the pages of Billboard. – Though rap had been selling records and denting the lower reaches of…
The Birth Of Def Jam
In this Rolling Stone interview, Def Jam founder and legendary producer Rick Rubin returns to the New York University dorm room where his career began…
The Triumphs and Tragedies of Larry Smith
Remember when Run declared to the world that “Larry put me inside his Cadillac” on Run-DMC’s breakthrough single “Sucker MCs”? That very same Caddy was featured at…
How Hip Hop Got Its Name
The origins of the phrase go deeper than Sugarhill Gang. Hip-hop — they were the first words on the genre’s first big hit, the Sugarhill Gang’s 1979 song,Rapper’s…