David Ma

Japanese poster for THE HARDER THEY COME (1972)

Starring Jimmy Cliff

Directed and co-written by Peter Henzell - BOTD in 1936

Kool Keith's "Facts Remain": Transcending Epochs & Styles | Passion of the Weiss This recent release from the unorthodox master finds him spitting slick rhymes through unwieldy flows.

Kool Keith is 63 years old and still making some of the weirdest, funniest and best rap songs out.

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damn rest in peace Bob Power

Grandmaster Flash explaining the origins of his DJ technique and hip-hop itself.

Lou Reed and Fela promoting the Amnesty International Conspiracy of Hope Show at Giants Stadium in '86.

Til Then is the cut!

DOOM offering a moment of silence for Dilla

Platurn by Dust & Grooves Platurn — 45 Is The Magic Number New interview on the Dust & Grooves website. “If you are really nerdy about music and start diving into stuff, you realize that there’s a wide array of personalities...

Hi guys 👋🏼
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this epidemic of people holding loud ass speakerphone conversations on the train……. bring back shame

When I part, they grieve, pray the mark I leave (Beautiful)

Can end quick, treasure friendship, 'cause it's (Beautiful)

I know that evil 'cause I lost some people that were (Beautiful) - KA

**Goddamnit, miss him all the time.**

Fire And Ice : Blood Of The New Gestapo

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John Coltrane: Live at Birdland John Coltrane

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must’ve just missed ya

Rap fans recall Fab 5 Freddy from YO! MTV Rap, but his resume includes painting, directing videos (Gang Starr’s “Just to Get a Rep”) and producing films (Wild Style). This year his autobiography Everybody’s Fly will be released.
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just wrote a thing on seafood city. so dope g

A Bay Area Rap Cult Classic Gets a Second Life Eyedlmode blazed their own trail, at their own peril. Now, decades later, they’re getting their flowers.

my Eyedlmode “Fogville” project on Bandcamp Daily

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this is like the golden age of bozos

#5debutalbums9094 #NowPlaying
Freestyle Fellowship - Too Whom it May Concern.
Top 5 not even in question.

OK then, here's a WAV file download of the entire LP.

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Deep Cut Friday: ‘Another Lonely Christmas’ by Prince Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Prince released an album almo

I wrote about Prince's "Another Lonely Christmas" for Spin's Deep Cut Friday column:
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Coming up in the 70s my cuz DeeNee taught me about funk, mom's friend Bubba introduced me to disco and Uncle Carl schooled me on the magic of Miles Davis. My essay on imformal music lessons "Fly Away: On Jazz," appears in the new Kevin Powell edited website The Game. thegame.visibility.art

in the pit

This entire weekend

Today marks 4 years since my friend, mentor and brillant writer Greg Tate died at the age of 64. He'd been in my city the month before, but I'd blown off the oppertunity to hang-out, figurin' there would be a next time...
--Afrodisiac: A Textual Meditation on Greg Tate lithub.com/afrodisiac-a...

A look back at Stax Records with Steve Cropper, Booker T. and Isaac Hayes The Memphis soul label is the subject of the HBO Max documentary series, Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. We listen back to archival interviews with Stax musicians Steve Cropper, Booker T. and Isaac Hayes.

Steve Cropper's death is as good a reminder as any that if you haven't seen HBO's wonderful docuseries on Stax Records—in which Cropper himself is featured—you gotta get on it www.npr.org/2024/05/24/1...

go watch “School Colors” (as mentioned in this article) about race relations at Berkeley High School in the early 90s) and have your mind blown at the echoes out to today

YouTube video by NPR Music David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert

Ok, with this year being what it has, we all deserved and needed this today. Do yourself a favor and watch it. You deserve it.

YouTube video by The Truth Hurts Ras Kass Interview

We spoke to Ras Kass about coming up in Watts & Carson, his early encounters w/ 'Pac & Rick Rubin, the making of "Soul on Ice," collaborating w/ Dre, the "Home Sweet Home" controversy, major label nightmares & more

One of my favorite Truth Hurts eps.

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12" of Sanchez - Praise HIM on Exterminator label. Released in 1995. Produced by Phillip 'Fatis' Burrell.

Happy 61st birthday to Sanchez.

Throughout the 90s Sanchez was in the premier league of Jamaican singers. Best known for his sweet lovers tunes, he also recorded one of the greatest roots anthems of the decade...

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