Author Archives: deedub77

If you’re keeping track at home, place this one after Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury. Make Way For The Motherlode is the debut album from the South Central based female emcee, Yo-Yo. In my review of her second album Black … Continue reading →

New addition. It you’re keeping track at home, place this one after Paris’s The Devil Made Me Do it. From the mid-eighties to early nineties, Uptown Records was a force to be reckoned with. The New York City based label, … Continue reading →

Added this one to the collection a few months ago. Place this one after Marley Marl’s In Control Vol. 1.  When discussing Seattle hip-hop, the only name you can truly give credit to for putting the city on the map … Continue reading →

Above The Law is one of those groups that I’ve always respected but never invested time to really listening to their entire catalog. The only album that I actually listened to back in the day was their second full-length release … Continue reading →

Jesse West might not be a household name, but he’s been grinding since the eighties and has a pretty impressive resume under his belt. I first heard Jesse West on his cameo appearance on Heavy D’s Blue Funk cipher joint, … Continue reading →

While there is no question that New York is hip-hop’s birth place and Mecca, Philadelphia was one of the first cities outside of New York to make a name for themselves in hip-hop, which kind of makes sense, considering it’s … Continue reading →

Wow! It feels like I haven’t posted in forever. Well, here is the best and worst of 1993. Let me know your thoughts. I’ll be doing some house cleaning before we dive into 1994, so the next few post will … Continue reading →

We last checked in with Yo-Yo in 1992 with her sophomore effort Black Pearl. Her debut album Make Way For The Motherlode was a critical success, and even if it didn’t sell a ton of units, it did make some … Continue reading →

The next two are new additions to my collection, which also happen to be released on the same day. It would have been perfect if I could have got these done last week for International Women’s Day, but a brother … Continue reading →

The success of Kris Kross’ 1992 debut album Totally Krossed Out, had everybody and their mama looking to sign the next kid rap sensation. Michael Bivens had ABC. The Native Tongues gave us Chi-Ali. And then their was Da’ Youngsta’s … Continue reading →