Some demo action to soundtrack your Saturday night.| unkut.com - A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)
The artist formerly known as Fashion aka Kool-Ass Fash took some time out to discuss the ups and downs of his career as both a soloist and as a member of The Beatnuts. This first part focuses on his early days, revealing that the Intoxicated Demons EP could have been completely different had fate not intervened, his thorny relationship with Juju, subliminal rhyme jabs between the Native Tongues and how recording the Street Level album was absolute hell.| unkut.com - A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)
There’s not much that Freddie Foxxx hasn’t done in his long career. Whether it’s working with all your favorite producers, stealing the show from big name MC’s with his legendary cameo spots or just plain knocking rappers out for charity, Bumpy Knuckles has got you covered. Fresh off the release of his shelved Crazy Like A Foxxx album through Fat Beats last year, Foxxx was ready to talk about his ups and downs in the rap game, as we discussed everything from the early days of Long Isl...| unkut.com - A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)
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)
Take 6’s silky smooth harmonies set off the opening scene in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing as ‘Don’t Shoot Me’ played behind Señor Love Daddy’s morning wake-up routine1, but thanks to the work of The 45 King, they also become part of an essential hip-hop breakbeat.| unkut.com - A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)
Taken from an episode of Kool DJ Red Alert’s KISS-FM show from 1988. Not sure if this is a radio blend with a 45 King instrumental or something he cooked-up for Red exclusively – either way, it’s a good time.| unkut.com - A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)
Year: 2025| unkut.com
Cheers to Ronan for inviting me to play some music on his long-running rap radio show 1, Hippopotamus Rex, this past Monday. Just for kicks, I burnt some of my home-made remixes onto a CD and grabbed some white label records to play. We also talked about stout! Download: Hippopotamus Rex, Monday 14th July 2025...| 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)
Month: June 2025| unkut.com
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)
Now that we’re halfway through 2025 and I’m still standing firm on my refusal to start a podcast or any other form of multi-media ‘content creation’, but I still wanted to try something new (no, not effin’ IPA). Rather than actually push myself to learn something new – because who has time for that crap,...| 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)
Nice! I saw the music videos back in the day, but never saw this full tape. Interesting they include “I Get the Job Done” when it’s not from the Taste Of Chocolate album; and the back of the box lists the “All Of Me” video, but they never play it.| 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)
Prince Powerule and the crew might have set some kind of record, having released singles on six different labels 1989 and 2017. A couple of years after their excellent Hydra Entertainment single ‘Dawn To Dusk’, the trio released another winner on Dolo Records (owned by Stretch Armstrong and a dude from Atlantic Records). | unkut.com - A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)
When I found this version of ‘Can I Live’ on a Stretch Armstrong Show recording from 1997, complete with some abrasive Jimi Hendrix guitar chops, I was expecting B.R. to close off the song the same way he did on the retail mix. Turns out this was originally a L.O.X. song with Rob on the hook, which Bad Boy remade into a fair more relaxed Boardroom Bap version (with an added rap from Black Rob) for his Life Story album – not to be confused with the song of the same name on Money, Power a...| unkut.com - A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)
In recent times I’ve spent a bit of time tracking down an assortment of rap bootlegs and white labels, chasing the buzz of finding alternative versions of old favorites. And it turns out that the 25 To Life Entertainment crew have more than their fair share of demo mixes from the legendary The War Report album. I’ve managed to compile most of them, from dodgy vinyl pressings and rap radio rips, but there are still a couple more that are yet to see the light of day or I just couldn’t fin...| 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)
It’s been a tough week, with Mr. Cee, Patti Astor and Paul Nice all leaving us. I’ve revisited and re-transcribed the interview I did with Paul in January 2015 for my Ultimate Breaks and Beats feature for Cuepoint so that I can share his personal reflections on the series that changed everything, and the inspiration for the final mixtape he released in 2018.| 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