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Kris Kross was one of the first group of rappers around my age that really had an impact on rap music.
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Digable Planets’ Rebirth of Slick ( Cool Like That) successfully merged jazz with hip hop and proved that rap music is not a thoughtless art form…
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House of Pain broke stereotypes. Not only did they break stereotypes, but they actually were good.
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It’s only right to make this week’s “Throwback Thursday” about one of rap’s greats and arguably the best to ever do it.
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For this week’s Throwback Thursday I want to focus on the positive and eliminate the negative because there are enough negative and sad things going on in the world.
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Throwback Thursday is going to take it back to when mc’s were ok with being themselves but still brought the “mass appeal” to audiences across the globe.
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They Ruled R&B for 4 years… With Aaliyah’s untimely death in 2001 we may never know the impact that artists/producers Timbaland and Missy Elliot would have had on the hip hop/R&B community. The shock of Aaliyah’s death not only sent shock waves in their family but throughout the music world. I caught myself listening to [...]
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I Used to Love H.E.R…. I had to bring it back to my hometown for this Throwback Thursday with Common’s I Used To Love H.E.R. – which was off Common’s Resurrection album and most widely known as Common’s ode to hip hop. As probably one of the greatest hip hop songs ever made, this song [...]
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2 Dope Boys in a Cadillac… That’s right…I took it down south for yall this week for Throwback Thursday and you cannot play a classic southern video without first starting with Outkast’s first single Player’s Ball. The year is 1993 when Andre 3000 was just Dre and Big Boi coined the phrase “always pimpin’, never [...]
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And I Miss My Uncle Charles Yall… No, I didn’t have an Uncle Charles but at age 11 that was definitely the only line that I could decipher and remember from Bone Thugs and Harmony’s Crossroad’s track and music video from 1996. What started as a tribute to Eric “Easy E” Wright and other fallen [...]
