Thanks Joell. “Tupac’s Back” has been stuck in my head on repeat all week long. At least I can switch up a bit now. Read the rest of this entry »

First they dug up Biggie. Then they resurrected 2Pac. Now the morbid minds of Cookin Soul double up on séances and incantations to bring a couple of New York’s finest back to life for the iPod era. Pitting the Bronx versus, Harlem, D.I.T.C. versus Terror Squad, Night Of The Living Dead Pt. 3 gives us dead heads classic mashups of Lamont “Big L” Coleman and Christopher “Big Pun” Rios for some Halloween homage. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s three sides to every story: yours, mine and the truth. The Terror Squad offices have had revolving doors since Pun’s passing, yet the commander-in-chief has never switched positions. Who’s real and who’s phony? Who really knows but we do know that Joey Crack sent a volley in Pun’s wife’s direction on his new LP. Read the rest of this entry »

Even though he’s been grinding out full-lengths since most of the current competition was in grammar school, Fat Joe doesn’t have a 5 Cig album under his belt. He was however, a formidable presence in East Coast Hip-Hop before Southern MCs valued materialistic raps over hard country livin’ and Big Pun crash landed his massive frame onto the Billboard charts. Read the rest of this entry »

Digital Underground. The name means so many different things to different people. “The Humpty Dance” resonates with just about any ol’ rap fan but whisper Sex Packets in a crowded room and it’ll separate the Top 40 downloaders from the ones who were caught up in Read the rest of this entry »

R.I.P. Big Punisher. Read the rest of this entry »

No Pun and no Black Thought…but who cares? This song will always be a display in lyricism unmatched. Releasing as the first single for the accompanying CD that’ll drop with Big Pun: The Legacy. Read the rest of this entry »

The recent dust-up between Joe or Liza Rios has taken attention away from Christopher Rios and the mark he managed to leave behind in only five years of work.

With that in mind, focus your attention above @ the official trailer of the upcoming, Vlad Yudin-directed documentary, releasing on 9.15.09. Read the rest of this entry »

Photo By Kris Connor

Well you heard Liza Rios side of the story. Now Joey Crack goes live with Peter Rosenberg & Cipha Sounds to defend the alleged slander to his name.

“She has to find a job…somehow…”

Don’t we all.

Fat Joe Calls Cipha Sounds & Peter Rosenberg

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But wait…there’s more. Read the rest of this entry »

A few days ago, video surfaced of Pun’s wife making claims that she lives in a homeless shelter & her family struggling. Of course, Fat Joe was painted as the evil villain in the case. Knowing there would be two sides, I didn’t want to really shine light on it until Joe spoke up. Now, he’s released a statement. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s always been the unsubstantiated story of Jay-Z, Terror Squad & bottles poppin’ in a club (and not in a celebratory manner). This may have been one of the few times I’ve seen a public swipe taken or hint of tension indicated. Read the rest of this entry »

“Your style is unoffic’

Niggaz like you stay on my wanted list

Pun and Prince, we walkin’ on kings, like a son of a bitch

Fuckin’ with this is hazardous to amateur battlers

Average niggas get lost in the course of embarrassment

Of course you don’t have a chance, I’m the boss in your eminence

Get tossed in the ambulance with the force of an avalanche Read the rest of this entry »

This original EP portion has been out of print for a while now.

“Drop It Heavy” – One of the best Big Pun verses you’ve probably never heard.

Show & A.G. – Full Scale EP

This definitely goes without saying but in terms of posse cuts:

1998>2008

You can front all you want but all these “hood anthems” we’re being bombarded with nowadays are straight up garbage, and forgettable. Does anyone remember Webbie was on the remix to “Speedin???” Who had your favorite verse on “Don’t Touch Me (Throw Da Water On ‘Em)???” And why is that we refer ever new Khaled collabo as “I’m So Hood Part ____???” The usual suspects of the era still managed to be everywhere there was a studio, but in terms of actually making an impact, the difference is vast. In this day and age, all these dudes are concerned with is cashing a check. And you can tell because that’s all their regurgitated rhymes entail.

While the days of MC’s battling on tracks for bragging rights may be an afterthought at the moment, the legacy is not. Backtrack for a few minutes with these collaborative efforts that’ll guarantee to cause chronic neck spasms when you relive them. Read the rest of this entry »

Delightful.

When you decide to remake one of the most influential rap songs of all time, you better do it right.

So like I told TC, Def Squad came correct with their remake in ’98.

When it came time for Reggie, Erick Sermon and the ‘baby of the bunch,’ Keith Murray, to record their version of Sugarhill Gang’s archetypal “Rapper’s Delight,” they didn’t do much more than tweak the original.

Aside from it becoming the trios only real hit, it was (and is) the only reason I can spit just about every single word to the almost 7-minute song when I hear it get play at clubs with taste.

Word to my youth.

Words By TC

Sinister.

True, Def Squad did successfully make a “true old school” gem sound relevant but Pun & Joe shaaat on the original Deep Cover like their was no original. And like Pat M. said, when it gets to that “Lil’ Italy, middleman rhyme,” END game. Even Snoop was in the video showing love. I gave you fair warning Beware, Deep Cover ’98 is killin’ anything “delightful.” Grit over gloss homie.

Def Squad – Def Squad Delite

VS.

Big Pun & Fat Joe – Deep Cover ’98