You may have asked yourself where the folks from 100b went? I mean, heck, the apartment has been empty for more than a month. You tried ringing the doorbell. You checked with the super. Their mail has been spilling out of their mailbox. Well, I can say we’re back and any squatters in the apartment [...]
Filed under: 100beats, Backtrack, mp3 | 1 Comment »
From the projects to the stage to the boardroom, hip hop performer and entreprenuer extraordinaire Shawn Carter – alias Jay-Z – has established himself through 10 (soon to be 11) albums as perhaps the greatest hip hop artist of all time. He is now almost a charicature of himself so it is easy to forget [...]
Filed under: 100beats, 100best, Music, mp3 | Leave a Comment »
I bought Yeah, It’s That Easy simply based on the name of the band and the cover of the CD. I was walking through Amsterdam Central Station in 1997 on my way to a party and ducked into a small branch of a CD chain store in the station. The cover artwork caught my eye. [...]
Filed under: 100beats, Music, Poptastic Day, mp3 | Leave a Comment »
The goofy-looking guys you see before you are Woodhands, from Toronto, Canada. Remember them from high school? Maybe freshman year at college? They were the guys you cool people probably thought were geeks (note that I didn’t say us cool people). Now they have the kids up and moving it to the beats they weave [...]
Filed under: 100beats, From The 100(mail)b(ox), Music, mp3 | Leave a Comment »
The Score blew up in 1996 and there was no looking back for Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, and Pras Michel. The Fugees’ second album flowed out of speakers around the world with a combination of superb bass drops, verbal hijinks, and unparalleled class that simply left weakass hip hop in the past and helped propel [...]
Filed under: 100beats, Classics, Music, mp3 | Leave a Comment »
