How did Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis find their way onto an Ice-T record? And it wasn’t via sample, either.
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Pass the Popcorn: “Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone”
Documentaries that chronicle the rise, triumph, and inevitable fall from grace – and redemptive coda, if one is available – of an influential artist are often tricky propositions: VH1’s “Behind the Music” series pretty much cornered the market on this plotline early on, and subsequent efforts to subvert the formula either need to be either particularly innovative in style or to boast an interesting enough story to distinguish themselves. Take last year’s Pearl Jam Twenty, for example: an exemplary documentary, […]
Saturday Backspin: "Fuck Compton"
Just so you know, the East/West Coast rap wars didn’t start with Tupac and Biggie. Actually, that beef always kind of made me laugh. ‘Pac was born in New York. Anyway, the animosity between rappers from New York and rappers from California started almost as soon as West Coast rappers began making noise. Growing up in Brooklyn, no one in my neighborhood was walking around with Ice-T tapes. Cali cats were corny. They wore jheri curls or perms. New York […]