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Goldie: Judge Dread

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, ...

Foxy Brown: In the studio with Foxy Brown

Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, The Source, October 1998

LOOKING MORE like a model just departed from a catwalk than a rapper hustling to finish an album, Foxy Brown sits quietly behind the massive ...

Salt-N-Pepa: Salt 'N' Pepa: Short Back and Asides

Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 28 April 1990

SALT 'N' PEPA are about to curl up and dye. The first of their chain of Salt 'N' Pepa beauty salons will soon open at ...

Tupac Shakur: Afeni Shakur: The Kick Inside

Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 1 July 1998

It is two years since gangsta rapper Tupac Shakur's short life ended in a hail of bullets. Caroline Sullivan talks exclusively to his mother about ...

Fugees, The: With Help From Roberta Flack, The Fugees Are Redefining Rap

Interview by Amy Linden, The New York Times, 26 May 1996

IT'S SEVERAL HOURS BEFORE the start of the recent Fugees show here at the Irvine Auditorium on the University of Pennsylvania campus, and the rap ...

Last Poets, The: The Last Poets: Young Master

Interview by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 13 October 1984

Kidnapped heiress Patti Hearst is said to have listened to him incessantly during her captivity and the hip-hop crowd regard him as a guru. His ...

Kurtis Blow: The Super-Ego Rules, From The Bronx To Kingdom Blow

Interview by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 1 November 1986

In short, Kurtis Blow thinks an awful lot of himself. An awful lot. His new LP is called Kingdom Blow. The line-up on it includes ...

PM Dawn: P.M. Dawn: Prince among thieves

Interview by Andy Gill, The Independent, 31 October 1991

Andy Gill talks to Prince Be, frontman of rap group P.M. Dawn ...

N.E.R.D.: N*E*R*D: The New Statesmen

Interview by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 4 August 2001

If Uber-producers N*E*R*D ruled the world there'd be no guns, no drugs and we'd all wear our STDs on our sleeves. ...

Last Poets, The, Lightnin' Rod, Jalal Mansur Nuriddin: Jalal Nuridden:The Verse Is Yet To Come

Interview by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 29 September 1984

LAST POET Jalal Nuridden recites to Chris Roberts ...

Streets, The: Dead Cert: The Streets

Interview by Ben Thompson, The Observer, 25 April 2004

'I LOVE THE NAME "The Streets",' muses 24 year-old Mike Skinner - at once the mercurial creative-director, canny CEO and flaky spokesmodel of that thriving ...

Beastie Boys, The: Beastie Boys: Cash for Questions

Interview by Tom Doyle, Q, November 2009

YOU CAME TO BLAME THEM FOR EMINEM AND (WRONGLY) HAIL THEIR INVENTION OF THE MULLET. THEIR AGENDA ENCOMPASSED DEBBIE HARRY'S "DOME-SKI" AND THE PROSPECT OF ...

Last Poets, The: The Last Poets: Bardcore!

Interview by Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 13 April 1985

THE LAST POETS were the first rappers — the voice of ghetto anger and fiery jazzoetry. Their "exile" over, they're back with a new LP ...

Ice-T: Invisible Jukebox: Ice-T

Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, July 1996

Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...

Ice-T: Ice on Ice

Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 27 April 1993

In this face to face interview conducted at his home in Beverly Hills, Ice-T talks to Jeff Lorez about the man behind the notorious myth... ...