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H.E.A.L., which is an acronym for Human Education Against Lies, is a movement that was formed and led by the Blastmaster KRS-One back in the early nineties. KRS-One’s beliefs and philosophies have changes plenty over the past thirty years, but … Continue reading →

Sway and Tech’s legacy will always be cemented in the annuals of hip-hop for what their legendary radio show, The Wake Up Show, did for hip-hop in the nineties. Through their radio show the bay area duo helped provide a … Continue reading →

We last heard from Kool Moe Dee in 1991 with his third full-length release Knowledge Is King. You can read my thoughts on that album by clicking this link, but in a few words: Knowledge Is King was chalked full … Continue reading →

Nineties hip-hop gave us several abstract artists and one-off projects, but no one project or group may have epitomized both those things more than the subject of today’s post, Son of Bazerk. Son of Bazerk (government name: Tony Allen) and … Continue reading →

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 →