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BROTHER J (X-CLAN): GRAND VERBALIZING (INTERVIEW)
Words & Interview By Jake Paine
It is approaching 25 years since X Clan released their seminal debut, To The East, Blackwards. Although he shared the billing with his late partner Sugar Shaft, and later additions, the also mourned Professor X as well as Paradise The Architect, the verses and production were almost entirely thanks to Brother J. Still the leader of the group, the Brooklyn native created a movement around the music, decades before the expression would become a cliché. Blackwatch, which was hand-in-hand with X Clan and their lessons on wax, promoted Black Nationalism to the Hip-Hop generation, stressing respect of elders and family. Although the symbolism and lyrics of X Clan’s music was (and is) dense, Brother J and his crew were never above laughing, joking, and sweetening the wisdom with danceable grooves. Continue Reading →
“DIGGIN’ IN THE FILES: KRS-ONE” – BY BILL ADLER
Thirty years ago, when I first started collecting smart newspaper and magazine articles about rap and hip-hop, I was motivated by the twinned beliefs that journalism is the first rough draft of history (as the old saying goes) and that hip-hop was indeed making history.
As time passed, I began to value this trove not only for its documentary value – who, what, when, where, and why something happened – but as evidence that there’s always been a vigorous discussion within the culture itself of hip-hop’s fairly ceaseless violations of so-called political correctness.
This might not seem so very remarkable except that there’s never been a time when various self-appointed guardians of public decency – most of whom otherwise care nothing about hip-hop or hip-hoppers – weren’t loudly baying about hip-hop’s misogyny, homophobia, materialism, anti-Semitism, glorification of violence, etc., etc. Continue Reading →
THE BAKER BOYS – “COUNTING SHEEPLE” (VIDEO)
These are some young cats coming up out of D.C.. Don’t know much about them – but like the vibe. Give ‘em a listen / watch.
¡MAYDAY! x MURS – “TABLETOPS” (VIDEO)
The good folks at VICE.com premiered this earlier today. Fresh new visuals from our own ¡MAYDAY! and the homie MURS.
FOUNDING FATHERS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF HIP-HOP (