ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix Busta Rhymes - Extinction Level Event - Final World Front - Elektra, 1998. 🎤📝⚒️: Busta Rhymes’ raw vocal tone and aggressive, herky jerky flow has always attracted me, but I think it is best served in doses, mixed up with other MCs. A lot of solo Rap projects include that feature anyway… Continue reading In The Stacks 8/1/26
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In The Stacks 6/27/26
ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix Brand Nubian - One For All - Elektra, 1990. 🎤📝🎨🎭💰⚒️: A heyday era Rap album for me, good beats, samples and verbal acuity. Grand Puba seemed to be the prime voice in this group and he has a sharp, edgy tone that can inflect lines with harshness or humor. The other members… Continue reading In The Stacks 6/27/26
In The Stacks 5/24/26
ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix Bo$$ - Born Ganstaz - Def Jam, 1993. 🎤🪦: Bo$$ appeared on the Rap map in 1993, she was featured as a hard, female, gangster rapper. Her appearance was minimal and severe. She seemed to fit in using hard language and taking the Gangster Rap genre into a new market as a… Continue reading In The Stacks 5/24/26
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ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix Boogie Down Productions - Edutainment - Jive/Zomba, 1990. 🎤: This BDP album really lives up to its title, KRS-One is weaving ballad, narratives about all types of contemporary problems, that are still relevant 36 years later. It is pretty clear that he is intentional about his role as an educator and it… Continue reading In The Stacks 4/15/26
In The Stacks 3/11/26
ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix 🦴- Ancient to the Future (The Old New!) - New Icon Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop - Zomba, 1989. 🎤⚰️🏋🏽 ⚒️: Education. These songs all focus on teaching something: the history of Hip Hop; rewritten/overwritten Black History; the history of Boogie Down Productions; police violence - without… Continue reading In The Stacks 3/11/26
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