Cool and gray in Gotham. Time to cool out…

Meanwhile, dig this dope mix, A Downtown Affair by Osita and Osore.

It’s hard being hooked…

Dig this piece on Guru by his brother, Harry Elam, Jr.

Our man Chyll Will wrote an excellent appreciation of Guru over at Serious Consideration:

And here’s one of my favorites, in less than two-and-a-half-minutes to boot:

Salute.

(more…)

A real head-nodder…

It’s a lovely spring morning in the Bronx. Today gives NBA playoffs and baseball, lots more baseball.

Yanks go for the sweep against the Rangers.  Here’s hoping for a good day. In the meantime, some Sunday soul.

Eh, what’s one more just for the hell of it?

Sh*t-kicker Friday:

Hell, let’s make it an ass-kickin’ two-fer:

Love this bass line, man.

Malcolm McLaren, most famous for bringing us the Sex Pistols, died yesterday. He was 64.

McLaren also was the brains behind a seminial Hip Hop record in the early ’80s.

Dig the classic, Buffalo Gals:

No game today so no battle rhymes. How about happy times, like this classic remix by Pete Rock from the days when everything Pete touched turned to butta:

Okay, so while we’re talking battle rhymes why not take a moment to acknowledge perhaps the greatest battle MC of ’em all, KRS-ONE. Dig this freestyle from Tony Touch’s classic Power Cypha mix tape 50.

1-09 KRS-One

I rocked the 917 when it was 718…

Since we’re in battle mode and all, I figured I’d drop this classic diss record on you. From Sun Dullah, formerly King Sun, produced by Doo Wop, this record took aim at Tupac Shakur during the height of the East Coast-West Coast nonsense in the mid-’90s. Three verses, one better than the next, and a bumpin’ beat. I first remember hearing this on late night college radio–Stretch and Bob–and it still holds up as a banger:

Got to give it to this kid. He knows how to spread the mustard on the ol’ Hammond:

Happy Opening Day!