Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts

8.31.2018

I n I - Pete Rock's Most Influential Project?


'Center of Attention' nearly missed us, getting mothballed for years and lingering in obscurity for a decade after that. Originally titled 'The Life I Live' , this fundamental was anti-climatically released as part of a Pete Rock B-Sides comp. Although the album will never break into the mainstream there is access, and that let's the music live on.





8.26.2018

A Brief History of Non-Phixion

 Non-Phixion stiff-armed the 'crazy whiteboy' stereotype that plagues hip hop, focusing on more complex, politically-motivated subject matter, delivered with deadly accuracy.






8.25.2018

MAIN SOURCE - BREAKING ATOMS



 This is the precursor to a new era, and the the catalyst for a revolution in hip hop. Love it or hate it, 'Breaking Atoms' ushered in the sonic landscape of the 90's that polarizes everyone today. What the lyricism lacks, the production carries on this international '91 release from masterminds Pete Rock and Large Professor. 'Breaking Atoms' created a blueprint for the next generation of hip hop and laid the foundation that countless groups, the world over, developed from.

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