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CunninLynguists – “So Live!” b/w “Thugged Out Since Cub Scouts” & “616 Rewind”

Post by Spoton June 26, 2001Category : 12-inch Singles

If I told you to peep this new Deacon shit, you would probaly think its some internet battle, but this is not the case. Deacon The Villian isn’t just some “internet emcee” and Read More »

Royce Da 5’9″ – “Boom” b/w “We Live”

Post by Spoton June 26, 2001Category : 12-inch Singles

Royce Da 5’9″ – “Boom” b/w “We Live” Royce is always referred to as Eminem’s “protege” on mainstream television like MTV and BET, especially since this 12″‘s A-side video, “Boom” has gotten a Read More »

Afu Ra – “Big Acts, Little Acts” b/w “DJ Premier RMX”

Post by Spoton June 26, 2001Category : 12-inch Singles

Afu Ra feat. GZA – “Big Acts, Little Acts” b/w “DJ Premier RMX” What’s so amazing, to me at least, is that I haven’t really stuck my ear to the speaker since I Read More »

Ras Kass – “Home Sweet Home” b/w “4 Much”

Post by Spoton June 26, 2001Category : 12-inch Singles

Ras Kass – “Home Sweet Home” b/w “4 Much” This is one of those 12’s with the serious difference between the A and B-sides. The styles on both are completely different. To put Read More »

Alley Life – That’s The Way We Roll

Post by Spoton June 26, 2001Category : 12-inch Singles

Thus far, Detroit is known for lyrical geniuses like Royce Da 5’9″ and Eminem, who are respected above- and underground. Alley Life shows his pride for the Motown in his first single off Read More »

D12 – “Purple Pills” b/w “That’s How”

Post by Spoton June 26, 2001Category : 12-inch Singles

I’m sure many are non-believers in Eminem since his unfortunate LP, The Marshall Mathers LP. I don’t blame you, I was, too. Eminem groupies, never fear–it is confirmed that Eminem CAN put down Read More »

CHICAGO CONCERT OF BOSTON, WEST COAST, MIDWESTERN ACTS

Post by Spoton June 25, 2001Category : Articles

Despite lingering presumptions that Roxbury’s Edo G. was with Da Bulldogs and not the other way around, the Boston mic-controller incontrovertibly proved Friday at heavily billed concert at Bucktown’s Congress Theater that his Read More »

LOS MARIJUANO NAME-JACKING

Post by Spoton June 25, 2001Category : Articles

Chicagoland’s premier chicano rap group Los Marijuanos has enjoyed a close relationship with its Los Angeles area contemporaries in the Cypress Hill camp for several years dating back to the late 1990s. Cypress Read More »

Napster: Robbery Or Promotion?

Post by Spoton June 22, 2001Category : Articles

In all reality, searching “Kermit” or “Lycos MP3 Search” just does not compare to the ease of Napster. All of the files on any MP3 search engine often require the user to upload Read More »

What’s Next?

Post by Spoton June 22, 2001Category : Articles

I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s next for hip hop. I rarely watch TV, and when I do, it’s usually not a music video station. However, going to a school that is Read More »

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CunninLynguists – “So Live!” b/w “Thugged Out Since Cub Scouts” & “616 Rewind”

Royce Da 5’9″ – “Boom” b/w “We Live”

Afu Ra – “Big Acts, Little Acts” b/w “DJ Premier RMX”

Ras Kass – “Home Sweet Home” b/w “4 Much”

Alley Life – That’s The Way We Roll

D12 – “Purple Pills” b/w “That’s How”

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LOS MARIJUANO NAME-JACKING

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