Big up to EDAN for discovering this. Kool Keith and Ced Gee rhyme about the NBA Allstars of 1989, with the funky drummer drummin’. Fresh on so many levels.

      A lot has changed in Hip-Hop since the Ultramagnetic MC’s seminal debut, Critical Beatdown, and the release of their new album, The Best Kept Secret: a fact that is apparent by just comparing the covers of the two albums. In the nearly 20 years (old school heads, take a minute to check for gray [cont.]

     The greatest hip-hop album of all time? For some, it’s Nas’ Illmatic, for others, it’s Boogie Down Productions’s Criminal Minded. For this critic, it’s Public Enemy’s It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, and for another group of people, it’s Dr. Dre’s The Chronic. But among these staples that have shaped [cont.]