The Source
Founded as a newsletter in 1988 by two Harvard students, The Source is now a monthly full-colour magazine covering hip-hop music, politics, and culture, published in New York.
21 articles
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Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, The Source, September 1994
A thirst for reckless beats and raw grooves fuels the Beatnuts in their quest through the urban badlands. ...
Smoothe Da Hustler: Brooklyn Representer
Interview by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Source, April 1996
THE UNDERGROUND gem 'Broken Language' was no doubt the illest single to come from a hip-hop neophyte in a long time. Smoothe da Hustler rocked ...
Shyheim: Rugged child, running wild
Profile and Interview by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Source, June 1996
With a new album and a budding acting career, Shyheim sets out to lead a lost generation ...
Interview by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Source, August 1996
FINAL EXAMS AT Morehouse College were a bitch. Nearly four in the morning on a starry autumn night years ago, I found myself making a ...
Foxy Brown, Lil' Kim: Lil' Kim & Foxy Brown: Mack Divas
Report and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, The Source, February 1997
What demons lie beneath the excessive glam and the in-yo face sexuality? The Source gets hip close and personal with hip-hop's twin testaments to divahood: ...
Review by Michael A. Gonzales, The Source, April 1997
HOLDING BACK the tears, you can't help but think back to three years ago when the poetic masterblaster known as the Notorious B.I.G. dropped his ...
Essay by Amy Linden, The Source, 1998
THE SUBJECT is female singers, and we’re gonna make it easy on ya. ...
Queen Latifah: From Here to Royalty
Interview by Amy Linden, The Source, 1998
Y'all know Lah: She's our number one sister, our Queen for life. Ladies first and all. But y'all cats be wonderin'. Wantin' to know if ...
Busta Rhymes: Woo Busta!! Professor Rhymes holds forth
Profile and Interview by Amy Linden, The Source, 1998
"BEHOLD. BEHOLD. BEHOLD." Busta Rhymes is quietly repeating the word under his breath He’s in LA, in the thick of sessions for his third solo ...
Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
Review by Amy Linden, The Source, September 1998
WHAT DOES it say about hip-hop when one of the better hip-hop records of the year contains little actual rapping? Thoughtful, passionate, purposeful and unmistakably ...
The Fugees, Lauryn Hill: Lauryn Hill: Black Magic Woman
Report and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, The Source, September 1998
LAURYN MAY BE BEAUTIFUL. LAURYN MAY BE BRILLIANT. BUT WE LOVE HER. ...
A Tribe Called Quest: After The Love Is Gone: A Tribe Called Quest
Interview by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Source, October 1998
DRESSED IN A black T-shirt with THE LOVE MOVEMENT emblazoned in silver on the back, baggy jeans, and a blue denim fisherman's cap pulled down ...
Missy Elliott: Da Real World (Elektra)
Review by Amy Linden, The Source, 1999
THERE ARE cultural watershed moments. Blips in the radar screen that make you anticipate what lies ahead and forget what came before. One of those ...
Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, The Source, April 1999
FOUR HUMID Gemini summers before her life morphed from those joyful days of chilled Cristal dreams and gleaming jewelry to the black widow midnights of ...
Naughty By Nature: Eye of the Storm
Profile and Interview by Amy Linden, The Source, May 1999
They rocked baldies and chains before it was cool, and hold three of the game's hottest anthems. Now, eight years after 'O.P.P.', Naughty By Nature ...
Heavy D. & the Boyz: Heavy D: There's Something About Heavy
Interview by Amy Linden, The Source, July 1999
WHEN HEAVY D was just a kid, when he was Dwight Myers, the youngest of six children in a Jamaican immigrant family, he used to ...
Trick Daddy: Trouble in Motion
Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, The Source, April 2001
On the run from the ghetto vices of hard drugs, fast women and sheisty po-po, Trick Daddy sees peace at the finish line. But is ...
Interview by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Source, April 2002
THINGS ARE ABOUT to change. Trust. The rap industry may soon find itself caught out there as many hiphop fans seek sounds more suited for ...
Interview by Amy Linden, The Source, July 2002
Wyclef Jean is one of America's favorite crossover rappers. But will he be able to keep it clean when he takes it back to the ...
Truth Hurts: Truthfully Speaking
Review by Amy Linden, The Source, August 2002
STEVIE WONDER once declared that love's in need of love today. It's a beautiful notion, but one that eludes much of the current R&B. Case ...
Common: Against The Grain: Common
Interview by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Source, March 2003
EIGHT DAYS BEFORE Jimi Hendrix's sixtieth birthday, Common sits comfortably in the guitar god's apartment sipping Poland Spring. ...
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