School ends soon and then, alas, so too will my project.
The list of music to put on this DVD is enormous and difficult to narrow down, but there was never a question about this: Mecca and the Soul Brother had to find a place on it.
So many great duos have graced hip-hop–Gang Starr and Atmosphere [...]
Mecca and the Soul Brother
Daily Operation
I’ve been mining hip-hop lately to put get some suggestions for a student of mine and one of the best parts of this project is revisiting Gang Starr. Daily Operation is their third release (1992… jeez!), continuing to deliver what the duo of DJ Premier and Guru is best known for: lines with street cred [...]
People Under the Stairs – O.S.T.
In all fairness, I had no contact with People Under the Stairs outside of an appearance on Mark Farina’s Mushroom Jazz Volume 4 until one of my students got me hooked on them. I finally sat down to listen to a full-length album and I’m still bouncing from the aftershocks.
The diversity of hip-hop in the [...]
“Not Another Day”
I guess people like to say that Slug, MC of Atmosphere, is now in a ’story-telling’ phase. I’m not really sure when he wasn’t in a story-telling phase, but it is certainly true that the latest releases, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold and Sad Clown Bad Spring are heavy on [...]
