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Beastie Boys, The: The Beastie Boys: The Most Horrible Group In The Universe?
Interview by uncredited writer, Smash Hits, 25 February 1987
They play ear-splitting heavy metal rap music, they throw food on the carpet, they throw eggs at Sigue Sigue Sputnik, they hate the Human League ...
Beastie Boys, The: The Nature of the Beastie Boy
Interview by John Aizlewood, No. 1, 7 March 1987
Mad, bad and dangerous to know, it's THE BEASTIE BOYS! Loud, obnoxious, snotty and very very funny. ...
Sweet Tee & Jazzy Joyce: Queens of the Bronx
Interview by David Toop, The Face, May 1987
"HIP HOP is such a beats orientated music. It's just beats and a bass line. If you put anything else to it like keyboards and ...
Big Daddy Kane, MC Shan, Biz Markie: Cold Chillin' Records: The Big Chill
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 16 April 1988
COLD CHILLIN' HAVE COMPILED A ROSTER TO CHALLENGE DEF JAM'S HIP HOP SUPREMACY. CAROLINE SULLIVAN MEETS A TRIO ON THE WAY TO THE TOP ...
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 14 January 1989
As a columnist for Billboard and The Village Voice, Nelson George has been America's most incisive commentator on the changing face of black music culture. ...
Teddy Riley, Guy: Teddy Riley: The Life of Riley
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 10 June 1989
At 22 TEDDY RILEY is the most sought-after producer in America. His mixture of R&B and rap has created a new sound, dubbed New Jack ...
Cookie Crew: Some Cookies Don't Crumble
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Guardian, 21 June 1989
British rap is taken seriously in the States largely due to the Cookie Crew. Sheryl Garratt found out why ...
Professor Griff: 100 Per Cent Prof.
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 31 March 1990
Accused of anti-Semitism, dissing the President, condoning Idi Amin and generally being a bit of a foam-flecked Rottweiler, Public Enemy's Minister Of Information PROFESSOR GRIFF ...
De La Soul: Cool Hip Hop: De La Soul De-flowered
Interview by Steven Daly, Spin, May 1991
Declaring that De La Soul Is Dead, the beat-box beatniks turn ornery. Have they lost the plot? Or are they writing it? STEVEN DALY explains. ...
De La Soul, Prince Paul: De La Soul: Pushing Up Daisies
Interview by Steven Daly, Blitz, June 1991
De La Soul are back, but rap's original hip-hop hippies are no longer wearing flowers in their hair. De La Soul Is Dead, the long-awaited ...
Naughty By Nature: Hooray Homies
Interview by Angus Batey, New Musical Express, 20 March 1993
They're huge! They're massive! NAUGHTY BY NATURE are the rap equivalent of Nirvana, catapulted to success by the unstoppable 'OPP'. But as they hold promotional ...
Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 10 July 1993
It's the most exciting and important tour to take place this year. In the last six months, politics has roared back onto the musical agenda ...
Snoop (Doggy) Dogg: Snoop Doggy Dogg: What's Your Problem? Absent fathers
Interview by Lisa Verrico, Vox, April 1994
SNOOP DOGGY Dogg, born Calvin Broadus, was brought up by his mother in the working-class suburb of Long Beach, Los Angeles. From early adolescence, when ...
Snoop (Doggy) Dogg: Snoop Doggy Dogg: A Pussycat?
Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, April 1994
Who's a busy homeboy then? His CV already bulges with a prison sentence, a US Number 1 LP and a still-fresh murder charge. Now, gangster ...
Interview by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 5 August 1995
GOLDIE is being called the Jimi Hendrix of jungle, the charismatic centre of an extraordinary new music. His debut album, Timeless, is a hugely inventive, ...
Interview by Dele Fadele, NME, 29 June 1996
Having adopted the moniker of one Pablo Escobar, NAS ESCOBAR set about creating vivid lyrical depictions of life in his native New York tenement slums. ...
Why does everyone ignore "Jump Up" jungle?
Interview by Bethan Cole, Mixmag, January 1997
Even Goldie has been dissing "jump up". But wasn't it the ragga stuff that put jungle back in the frame in the first place? ...
Dallas Austin, Tricky: Tricky: The Mad Father
Interview by Craig McLean, The Face, May 1998
They used to call him Tricky Kid, now they call him The Boss... He is the overworked businessman with his own label who is to ...
Kurtis Blow, Afrika Islam: Kurtis Blow and Afrika Islam (1998)
Interview by Frank Broughton, Rock's Backpages Audio, 27 September 1998
The pioneering DJ talks about inspirations like Pete DJ Jones; about being a B-Boy; attending Kool Herc parties; starting out as an MC and the rise of rap... until he gets into a shouting match with Afrika Islam. Beef!
File format: mp3; file size: 25mb, interview length: 27' 18" sound quality: ****
Cold Crush Brothers, The: The Cold Crush Brothers' Charlie Chase (1998)
Interview by Frank Broughton, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1 October 1998
From discovering the breaks to the most enthralling stage act in hip hop's first decade, Cold Crush Brothers' Charlie Chase — a rare Hispanic DJ — takes us back to the park jams and the PALs, and the DJs like Bam, Flash and Theodore.
File format: mp3; file size: 54.4mb, interview length: 59' 27" sound quality: ****
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