Tag: Hip Hop
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Songs for the Apocalypse: Hole In The Bucket
Click or not: Songs for the Apocalypse: Hole In The Bucket Michael Franti knew social injustice when he saw it, but being aware is so 90s… just substitute whatever crisis we’re facing at any given time and it’s easy to see why this song endures. …
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Beastie Boys Still Ill
Click or not: Beastie Boys Still Ill25 years. Way to make us all feel old, Beastie Boys. Still Ill celebrates the milestone of the release of Ill Communication, an album that broke the mold and blurred the lines of hip-hop, punk and hardcore and avoided a myriad of pigeonholes in the process. …
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Gil Scott-Heron: New York Is Killing Me
Click or not: Gil Scott-Heron: New York Is Killing MeGil Scott-Heron represents a backward step that took me so far forward in the musical journey along the hip-hop route. But so much more. Although awake to many that came after him, for whom he had paved the way, that he wasn’t on the radar despite his longtime standing was a source of disappointment, almost… …
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Sunday Sabotage
Click or not: Sunday SabotageThe legacy of the Beastie Boys can’t be underestimated. Hip hoppers with their roots firmly set in punk, who could actually play instruments. Here they Sabotage Letterman in 94, thrashing the best one-chord song ever written, with a fuzzed-out bass blitz from Yauch, a Mike D drum demolition and a ton of Ad Rock attitude… …