Ronan was kind enough to invite me back to the show this week to celebrate the works of O.C. for two hours. Apparently the Jewelz album was released this week back in 1997, which is a happy coincidence I guess? Stream: Hippopotamus Rex (106.7 PBS-FM) – 18 August 2025: A Salute to O.C. Download: Hippopotamus...| unkut.com – A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)
The origins of the first white label hip-hop remix can be traced back to a long forgotten film titled Running Scared, which starred Gregory Hines (who, amongst his credits as a top-shelf tap dancer and actor, dropped a solo album in 1986 with assists from Luther Vandross) and Billy Crystal (his first co-starring role in a motion picture, if we don’t include his turn as Morty The Mime in This Is Spinal Tap).| unkut.com - A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)
Salutes to Richie1250 for spreading the good word of the Conservative Rap Coalition and playing some of my CRC remixes on his long-running PBS-FM radio show last Friday, you can catch the audio here: A handful of copies of the first Summer of Stout 7″ are still available from Big Cartel and Bandcamp.| unkut.com – A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)
“You’re three feet and sinking/The tribes are lost and everyone’s breath stinkin’” – Kool Keith on Ultramagnetic MCs ‘Pluckin’ Cards’, 1992. As pointed out in Angus Batey’s revisit of Funk Your Head Up in 2012, Keith continued the Ultramag party line – first witnessed on Tim Dog’s ‘I Ain’t Takin’ No Shorts’ – that the...| unkut.com – A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)
While reading Decoded, I was often thinking, ‘Hold-up a minute – if Jay-Z doesn’t even write down his rhymes on paper, how has he got time to write a cot damn BOOK?’ Then on page 309, after it’s all said and done, he reveals the plot twist – ‘First and foremost I’d like to acknowledge Dream Hampton1. How can I thank you enough?2 You’ve lived my words and life for so long that you might need therapy to get back to yours (sorry, Nina). Dream, thanks again for suffering my art ...| unkut.com - A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)
So I needed a change of pace after the book and went back to making rap music, something I hadn’t done since the late nineties. Luckily Stan Ipcus and Genovese (hailing from White Plains and Yonkers, respectively) were down to let me make my own versions of their recent stuff so I wasn’t stuck doing Remix #300 of Das-EFX and Mobb Deep’s ‘Microphone Masters’ or Nas’ ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell’. I pressed up 100 of these on 7″ but if all goes well I’ll follow up with something...| unkut.com - A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)
This may come as a shock to the lotta youse, but I’m not exactly timely when it comes to reviewing stuff around here. This may be a side-effect of interviewing too many Rapper Dudes 1 over the years, resulting in my having been inflicted with some sorta ‘Hip-Hop Time’ condition which leads to scenarios where Large Professor left an HHC photographer waiting for hours in Flushing Meadows while he was taking his new push bike for a spin. Anyhoo, it must have been a full moon over Staten Is...| unkut.com - A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)
Admitting to sampling Ultimate Breaks and Beats is one of the last remaining sacred cows of rap music. Ghostwriters and beat-jacking entire songs all seems to be fine and dandy these days, but the pride of claiming that you personally found every drum sound, horn stab and loop in the dollar bin of a ‘Mom & Pop’ thrift store/op shop is something that a very rare few are willing to admit to. When I asked UBB co-creator Breakbeat Lou about this, he revealed how Mantronik put together his cla...| unkut.com - A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)
From what I’ve been able to piece together, Dan The Beatman (aka DJ Danny Dan who made a record for Select with his girlfriend, The Female Dream) made the original beat and recorded it with Paul C. at 1212 Studios (as told to Big Daddy magazine for issue 12):| unkut.com