Monthly Archives: August 2016

The Lords Of The Underground are the Newark-Cleveland trio that met in the early nineties while attending the Raleigh, North Carolina based HBCU, Shaw University. As the story goes, it was the Cleveland, Ohio native Lord Jazz, who brought Doitall and … Continue reading →

The original cast of Onyx consisted of the threesome of Fredro “Q” Starr, Big DS (rip) and Suave (aka Sonee Seeza). In 1990 the Queens bred trio inked a single deal with Profile to test the waters, and released the … Continue reading →

We last heard from Monie on her 1990 debut album Down To Earth, which created quite a buzz for the London bred emcee, largely due to, not one, but two, Grammy nominated singles. I’m still surprised that even with the … Continue reading →

By 1993, Ice-T had 5 albums under his belt (four solo albums and one with his experimental rock band, Body Count, which I’m not touching with a ten foot pole on this blog) and 5 gold or better selling albums, … Continue reading →