Posts tagged "NWA"
Blerd Radio 2014 | Episode 15: I Love My Dead Gay Son

Blerd Radio 2014 | Episode 15: I Love My Dead Gay Son

Spooky Electric would like to have a word with you about our latest podcast…

Playlistomania: 1989

Playlistomania: 1989

A Spotify playlist that’ll give you a pretty good idea of what I was jammin’ to in the year of Taylor Swift’s birth.

Let's Fight Over Who Gets Inducted Into The Rock Hall: 2015 Edition

Let’s Fight Over Who Gets Inducted Into The Rock Hall: 2015 Edition

The Smiths are human and they need to be loved (by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)…just like everybody else does.

bLISTerd Presents: The 100 Greatest Rap Albums Of All Time (Part 8)

bLISTerd Presents: The 100 Greatest Rap Albums Of All Time (Part 8)

We are closing in on the #1 rap album of all time. In the meantime, the 8th installment features friends turned rivals 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G.

bLISTerd Presents: The 100 Greatest Rap Albums Of All Time (Part 6)

bLISTerd Presents: The 100 Greatest Rap Albums Of All Time (Part 6)

Public Enemy, Ice Cube, and BDP kick off the second half of our list of the 100 greatest rap albums of all time.

bLISTerd: The 10 Best Hip-Hop Groups of All Time

bLISTerd: The 10 Best Hip-Hop Groups of All Time

Run-DMC is arguably the most influential hip-hop group of all time, but are they the best? Check out our latest list and see where Darryl, Jay and Joe landed.

The Top 40 Emcees of All Time: 20-16

Previous entries: 21-25 26-30 31-35 36-40 20. Talib Kweli Representing: Brooklyn Talib Kweli’s albums are a textbook example of a brilliant songwriter living or dying by his production. While his skills are practically unassailable, his music is capable of being completely brilliant or completely boring, depending on his beat selection. It’s an affliction that’s affected more artists in the upper echelon of this list than you might think. Despite the occasional beat-related mishaps, it’s hard to say anything bad about Kweli from a mic […]

Moonlighting: The Popdose Guide to Ice Cube

If I said that the reason I haven’t followed up my Madonna series on this here site was that I’d been busy working on the Popdose Guide to Ice Cube , would you believe me? No? Well, damn it. I tried. Anyway, when the site’s esteemed editor-in-chief Jeff Giles approached me with the idea of assisting him with this series, I jumped at the opportunity. I was pretty familiar with the majority of Ice Cube’s catalog, even though I cringed at the thought of having to listen […]

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 […]

MisenPOPic Radio Episode 3.1: The Do-Over

Me and my buddy Mikey are still trying to work out some kinks related to this podcast we wanna do, but it seemed like each week, we were getting closer and closer to what we had envisioned the MisenPOPic Podcast to be. Then last week happened. Neither one of us was on our “A” game, so we decided to scrap MisenPOPic Radio Episode 3 and go back to the drawing board. Episode 3.1 , thankfully, came out a lot better. We didn’t have […]