Music Fun Time

Being a skateboarder in the mid nineties it was nearly impossible to avoid Beastie Boy’s music. I recall being too young to drive and getting rides around town from a friend’s older girlfriend. Almost every ride was scored with Paul’s Boutique. It’s those kinds of experiences that really cement certain music in my mind. I [...]

Slick Rick is one of the few original big name New York City rappers that still has a name today. While he wasn’t born in New York his parents moved from South Wimbledon, England to the Bronx in 1975, when he was only eleven years old. Rick’s first major recording was in 1985 and since [...]

I first heard De La Soul on Yo! MTV Raps back in 1990, the song was “Me, Myself and I”. At the time I didn’t think much of it the song was catchy but didn’t make me want to run out and buy the album or single to attain it for my personal collection. That [...]

For me Boogie Down Productions will always have a special place in my heart. It’s the first rap group that I really connected with as a youth. At that time in the early nineties there was a lot of hype about rap being bad for kids. There were even campaigns to get rap banned altogether [...]

Gang Starr with a handful of other acts defined the New York hip hop sound in the late eighties, early nineties.  Oddly enough the primary founder of Gang Starr, Guru, isn’t even from New York City, he was born and raised in Boston Massachusetts but after years lived in Boston he decided to move down [...]