Cast : Ice-T, Ice Cube, Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, DJ Premier, Dr. Dre, Nas, Q-Tip Director : Ice-T Release Date : June 15, 2012 Synopsis : First time documentarist Ice-T shows us how rap music has grown to dominate cultures around the world, showing how rap evolved and how it continues to be part of the mainstream culture. A whole [...]

The Beatnuts - Props Over Here Camp Lo - Coolie High Intelligent Hoodlum - Street Life Japanese producer, Dj Ezzascul reached out a few days back with this DOOOOPE compilation of 90's classics...this right here took be back to them ol good days. This compilation is made of 18 classics, including, Da Brat, The Beatnuts, Mobb Deep, Kris Kross, Cypress Hill, Lords of The Underground, amongst others. Classics that go from 1993 til 1996....Don't sleep on this ya'll [...]

CLICK HERE TO VIEW All of the summer just gone the good people at FLuD watches have been running a series interviewing well known producers from the likes of Lord Finesse to Showbiz and Evidence. So to finish this series with a bang there is this live performance beat making with Araab Muzik. I may be a few months late getting this out there but I have been watchin and listening to this non stop since I was put onto it. So sit back and relax while your computer catches fire!! Araab [...]

No Gimmicks Freestyle by Toki Wright Toki spits a freestyle over Lord Finesse's "No Gimmicks" (1995).
Classic mix tape from 2002. DJ Adlib is wrapping up his Hi-Hat Club record "Haus & Garten". To be released anytime soon Tracklist A Intro BJ Digby "Surrender" Dave Ghetto "Eye Level" Dj Serious... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

See Also: The 50 Greatest Producers of All-Time #50-41 40. Battlecat At the risk of excluding forgotten pioneers, you can trace the local roots of LA hip hop production to five names: Dr. Dre, Joe Cooley, Egyptian Lover, Arabian Prince, and DJ Battlecat. The latter broke in as a 16-year old DJ in the early KDAY era and remains one of the most influential architects of West Coast rap. When Snoop went into the studio last month [...]

Most people know the original version of this track from the Trespass Soundtrack, which dropped as a promo only 123 back in 1992. In early 2000 hip-hop heads were finally able to hear the original version (actually titled "Knockin' Niggaz Out") featuring what would have been Big L's debut had the label not rejected it as being "too hard". This track was remixed by Lord Finesse and his production partner Davel "Bo" McKenzie (The Alumni) in 2004, and was intended to be used on the Funky Technician Remix Project, an album which is finally dropping in April 2012 [...]

For the past couple of days I've been blasting a great deal of Mac Miller's nasty beats through my iPod. Whether I'm doing work, on the subway, in the car or just hanging out, his tracks always provide me with right amount of that swag vibe that his music offers in order to get me through the day. It is tracks like Kool Aid and Frozen Pizza that have caught my attention the most because they reminisce of the mid 902s rap that I have fallen in love with in the past bunch of years. The similarities between [...]
Artwork by Lily Dobberteen At Metrojolt, we love classic hip-hop. That means Big L , Biggie , Rakim , De La Soul , and many others. And if we claim to know the godfathers, the foundation layers, we need to add Lord Finesse to the list. His three albums may not have enjoyed Billboard top 20 success, but his music influenced many young artists, most notably Big L, who Lord Finesse took under his wing in the early 902s as part of the underground group crew D.I.T.C. ('Diggin In The Crates'). [...]

After growing up surrounded by hip-hop, in my late teens I moved to a place where underground hip-hop heads were scarce, and I primarily had to rely on myself to find under-the-radar emcees and producers. Without much in the form of exterior stimulation, I used mixes as a way to listen closer to new musical finds. I made a number of mixes in the tape era, but with the first CD-burner I purchased in '98 or so, hip-hop mixes for myself became routine. They were quickly assembled and provided with no tracklist; simply labeled in numeric order starting with "Mix [...]
CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW VIDEO This summer brings us warm weather, BBQ's, pool parties, bikinis and New York City- based FLüD's 2011 summer collection. New to the FLüD family of watches is the BPM, a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
This summer brings us warm weather, BBQ's, pool parties, bikinis and New York City- based FLüD's 2011 summer collection. New to the FLüD family of watches is the BPM, a drum-machine inspired digital watch that also serves as a calculator. For it's release, the watch group has teamed with some of Hip Hop's most acclaimed producers in the BPM Video Series with Jonathan Kim. Among the acclaimed production veterans are Evidence, Exile, DJ Nu Mark, DJ Spinna, Lord Finesse, Showbiz and araabMUZIK, J.Rocc and DJ Babu. Here we follow DJ Spinna from his 8 track [...]
Two legends, one street corner, and a whole lot of sick rhymes.
This summer brings us warm weather, BBQ's, pool parties, bikinis and New York City- based FLüD's 2011 summer collection. New to the FLüD family of watches is the BPM, a drum-machine inspired digital watch that also serves as a calculator. For it's release, the watch group has teamed with some of Hip Hop's most acclaimed producers in the BPM Video Series with Jonathan Kim. Among the acclaimed production veterans are Evidence, Exile, DJ Nu Mark, DJ Spinna, Lord Finesse, Showbiz and araabMUZIK, J.Rocc and DJ Babu. The immortal Lord Finesse talks to us about diggin' [...]

This week I'm bring you guys one of my favorite rap mixtapes. This mixtape by Memory Man brings you two of New Yorks finest rap crews together in a mash up of Wu-Tang and D.I.T.C. acapellas and beats. Memory Man - Wu Tang vs. D.I.T.C. Part 1 Memory Man - Wu-Tang vs. D.I.T.C. Part 2 Wu-Tang Clan was formed in the Slums of Shaolin (Staten Island) after the RZA, GZA [...]

Flamboyant Entertainment (in conjunction with The Estate of Lamont Coleman) has remastered some of Big L's most famous freestyles along with rare & unreleased tracks. Featuring Gang Starr, Lord Finesse, D.I.T.C. and more, the end result is "The Danger Zone" - hitting stores on May 31st. Download: Big L "What I'm About" ft. Lord Finesse

Download: Neek the Exotic & Large Professor "Still On The Hustle" Neek the Exotic & Large Professor team up on a new project Still On The Hustle (Fat Beats Records/Distrolord Inc.). The album drops May 17th 2011 and will feature Joell Ortiz, Satchel Page and production from Lord Finesse, Marco Polo & Carnage. Check out the first single "Still on the Hustle", the title track.

This post might have been better suited to last week, but I realized too late that last Tuesday was the 12th anniversary of NY (Harlem?) MC Big L 's death. It struck me that I've never done a Big L-themed OSM before, so it seemed like high time to do one. Big L is of course, Lamont Coleman who got hooked up with Lord Finesse when he was a teenager and eventually became a member of the celebrated D.I.T.C. crew. Like other deceased MC's, L has taken on a [...]
Lord Finesse D.I.T.C rams 100 tracks in a 2 hour set covering hip hop, beats, boogie, funk, soul, disco and new jack swing, plus even manages to throw in a freestyle and spit some classic Lord Finesse bars. Recorded live in Sydney exclusive for Cold Crushin' Mixes

Another year, another month, another Smorg. Was really missing the old underground radio station WHPK when I made this, so it ended up having one of those old lo-fi-radio-station-recorded-t o-cassette feels to them. I dig it, and I hope that you good people do as well. Tracklist and DL link up under the blouse. Rite on. *PBBT!'S SMORGASBORD JANUARY 2011 [ DOWNLOAD ]