Say It Loud!: Top 5 Pro-Black Albums

08.18.11 Written by Gotty™

In 1994, Common’s “I Used To Love H.E.R.” traced Hip-Hop’s timeline and pointed out one of the music’s major shift with the lyric “She said, ‘Afrocentricity, was of the past…’” The early ’90s saw artists who placed an emphasis on being Black in America and revitalized a spirit unseen since Civil Rights era. Read the rest of this entry »

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Six Out-Of-Print Hip-Hop Albums That We Needed Yesterday

01.25.11 Written by MZ

It never dawned on me that albums ever went out of print until all my CD’s were stolen from my dorm room during my freshmen year of college. Between Best Buy and BMG, I didn’t have much problem replenishing my stock until I got to a particular infamous album, which played a part in Rawkus Record’s demise. And it was going for well over a resonable asking price on Amazon.

Now, an industry powerhouse is looking to do something about that.

Universal Music Group has partnered with CreateSpace, an Amazon.com company, to release classic out-of-print CDs using their disc on demand service. Read the rest of this entry »

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Well, They Forgot A Part Of Jersey…

05.09.09 Written by Gotty™

I really didn’t even think about it when it was posted but I knew someone besides Budden didn’t make that Jersey Radio mix. I did my due diligence & found Volumes 1 & 2…but there was no trace of three of NJ’s finest. Shameful when you think about it because PRT Read the rest of this entry »