Author Archives: deedub77

For those keeping score at home, this one should go right after Straight Out The Jungle, kicking off 1989. Remember Young MC? Or better question, remember the crossover rap hit “Bust A Move”?  This one song defined his rap career … Continue reading →

KMD is both an acronym for “Kausing Much Damage” and/or “a positive Kause in a Much Damaged society”, depending on how the group felt on the given day you ask.  The Long Island trio made up of Zev Love X, Onyx The Birthstone Kid (who apparently replaced the original member, … Continue reading →

As the nineties roared on hip-hop continued to grow and expand.  The east coast born genre grew up and begin to venture out of its childhood neighborhood and would eventually not only blow on the west coast but also touch all … Continue reading →

Teddy Riley and his New Jack swing were in full effect in 1989, and by the early nineties this sound dominated R&B, and it eventually begin to penetrate hip-hop’s walls as well. Even legends like Big Daddy Kane worked with Riley, incorporating this swing into … Continue reading →

Most folks will remember Craig G as the lead off emcee from the classic Juice Crew joint “The Symphony”, a song that if you’re not familiar with and consider yourself a true hip-hop fan, you should immediately youtube, watch, and study. What you … Continue reading →

With the Bronx being hip-hop’s birthplace and New York being the hip-hop Mecca, it was only a matter of time before some of it’s neighboring east coast states would get in the hip-hop game and make a little noise as well. Boston native Edward Anderson … Continue reading →

Four scores and seven years ago, before the Wu-Tang Clan would collectively leave their fingerprints all over our chosen genre, there were three:Prince Rakeem (Rza), Unique Ason (ODB), and today’s subject, Gary “The Genius” Grice. In the late eighties/early nineties the three went … Continue reading →

David Anthony Love Jr. was born in the Bronx in 1967.  At the tender age of 8, he begin deejaying at block parties (I know right? Where the hell were his parents?), and took on the moniker Kid Capri, after … Continue reading →

In 1980 Maxwell Melvins was sentenced to live in prison for murder and would serve his time in the maximum security penitentiary in Rahway, NJ.  In between meals and lifting weights, Melvins had time to reflect on his mistakes and longed … Continue reading →

What better way to kick-off the year of 1991 then with one of the greatest hip-hop groups of all time? Gang Starr released their debut album No More Mr. Nice Guy, in 1989. And while the album was meh at best, … Continue reading →