Words By Patrick M.

Convincing someone of the brilliance of Capital Punishment is easy. You just let Pun’s lines do the work for you.

“Behavin’ like a money hungry hooker/funny how the money took her from an average honey to a stunning looker”

or the ridiculous:

“Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know we’d riddled some middlemen who didn’t do diddly.”

Game over.

But while the written lyrics do amaze, they don’t come close to capturing the display of MCing on this album. Pun was one of Hip-Hop’s great enunciators, always putting the correct stresses on syllables to improve the flow of the lyrics. It’s no coincidence to find this quality in someone from a Spanish-speaking background, as the language’s grammatical structure lends itself to the poetic. Mixing that fluidity with multi-syllabic raps straight out of the Kool G Rap playbook is what made the man so great. Read the rest of this entry »

As always, a Crew discussion lead to this post.

And always, it lead to a heated series of emails, text messages & mobile minutes wasted. There were comments such as stepping “aside to avoid the secondhand crack smoke coming from ________’s clothes” to straight-up ALL CAPS E-BULLYING.

So, as in previous times, we must depend upon you, TSS faithful to help us settle the debate on…

The Topic – Best Supporting Actors

Let’s take a look @ sidekicks/apprentices/weed carriers/anyone to come up under somebody else…and proceed to Read the rest of this entry »