Chiddy Bang Feature (Boston Show Monday Night @ Harpers)
Posted on August 18, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Hip Hop, Interviews | Leave a Comment
Man, did I want to hate Chiddy Bang and his producer/percussionist accomplice, Xaphoon Jones, with all my heartlessness. What with Chiddy’s cutesy nostalgic moniker, the skateboarding in their videos, and their major-label status, there seemed little reason not to lump them in with all the manufactured post-Wayne hype rappers. Except [...]
You Gotta See “Winnebago Man” This Weekend
Posted on July 23, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Interviews, Uncategorized, Video, WTF | 2 Comments
Twenty summers ago, in the deep sweat of nowhere Iowa, a hired crew set out to film the lamest sort of low-budget sales video imaginable. But what could have been a mundane if not suicidal assignment spun into accidental comedy, as the star of the infomercial, ex-network news producer turned industrial [...]
Prince Paul @ Fresh Produce 4th Anniversary!!! Now With Semi-Exclusive Interview!!!
Posted on July 14, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Boston Hip-Hop, Hip Hop, Interviews | Leave a Comment
It’s a typically dope thing about hip-hop that one of its foremost architects — an old- and true-school icon who nurtured acts like De La Soul, cut the genre’s standard bearer for concept albums, and, for better or worse, produced boom-bap’s first comic interlude — will be manhandling the DJ booth [...]
Exclusive Fashawn Interview-Feature (preview for this Sunday’s show @ The Western Front in Cambridge)
Posted on July 7, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Hip Hop, Interviews | 1 Comment
By his 20th birthday, two years ago, Fresno rhyme prodigy Fashawn didn’t just have evidence that he would dent the rap establishment. Even better: he was roommates in Los Angeles with Dilated Peoples stalwart Evidence, who — along with other exalted guides including producer Exile — helped the West Coast Golden [...]
Interview with Havoc: Survival of the Fittest
Posted on June 24, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Arts, Hip Hop, Interviews, Rap Beef | Leave a Comment
For all their traditionalist gusto, Mobb Deep’s legacy is also tied to their captain’s role in propelling rapid-fire mixtape culture forward. By leaking a torrent of posse cuts and singles through publicity predators like DJ Clue, they helped catalyze a major shift in the rap marketplace. By the late ’90s, [...]
Conspiracy Worldwide Radio: If Ya Don’t Know, Now Ya Know
Posted on June 15, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Audio, Hip Hop, Interviews, Media | Leave a Comment
Sorry if you’ve known about this forever already, but I’ve been feeling this show so much that I would hate to think that anybody else is sleeping on it (as I was for a while). They crank tough didactic joints that get you thinking, and do some badass interviews as well. In fact, these are [...]
Meet The Guy Who Spent 10 Years Of His Life Writing A Book About The History Of The Vocoder
Posted on May 12, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Boston, Events, Interviews | Leave a Comment
Don’t be fooled by its textbook appearance — How To Wreck a Nice Beach (Melville House/Stop Smiling) is hardly a dry anthropological study of “The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop,” as the subtitle suggests. In his decade-long exploration of voice compression, veteran music journo (and seismic wordsmith) Dave Tompkins [...]
HipHopDX.com Lands the Most Telling Interview Yet Regarding GURU and The Super Loser Solar
Posted on April 27, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Boston, Boston Hip-Hop, Hip Hop, Interviews | 6 Comments
Props to Jake Paine from Hip-Hop DX for scoring (and transcribing) this remarkable interview with Solar’s baby mama, who worked extensively with 7 Grand. It’s a heart-breaking read, but holy shit is there a lot in here (excerpt below with link at the end)…
DX: Right. These guys weren’t just studio rats, so to speak. [...]
Slaine Confirms Sam Adams is Still on “PM Dawn” Watch
Posted on April 19, 2010 by Martín Caballero - Filed Under Boston, Boston Hip-Hop, Interviews | 9 Comments
Dedicating even a few key strokes more to Boston’s Boy is something I can’t physically or emotionally do anymore. So I’ll let Slaine keep it going, as he did in an interview with HipHopDX concerning a certain Wayland soccer star.
HipHopDX: How much of this stems from Sam Adams using the EP title, “Boston’s Boy“?
Slaine: All [...]
New Sean Price Feature (show at The Middle East next Thursday)
Posted on April 14, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Hip Hop, Interviews | 2 Comments
Despite his notorious blunt-scented halitosis, Sean Price feels terrific these days. He still doesn’t clock mega rap ducats — and likely never will — but the Boot Camp jester thug can no longer make legitimate use of his infamous “Brokest Rapper You Know” tag. And though Price did solicit fans for gifts [...]
Necro clears up his dissing Michael Jackson, and reminds the rest of you bandwagon motherfuckers about how you didn’t give a fuck when that piece of shit was alive
Posted on April 3, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Hip Hop, Interviews, Rap Beef, Video, WTF | 6 Comments
“I would be crying, on a stretcher, in tears, if I had seen Michael in person.” – Necro
Another Version of the Sam Adams Story (from this week’s Boston Phoenix)
Posted on March 10, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Boston Hip-Hop, Hip Hop, Interviews, Rap Beef | 117 Comments
For Now, Here’s the Sam Adams Story as I Reported for This Week’s Boston Phoenix…
Something equally remarkable and unprecedented happened this past week: a virtually unknown white Cambridge MC named Sam Adams landed in the top hip-hop spot on iTunes with his debut EP, Boston’s Boy. In the Hub’s underground rap enclave [...]
At Long Last: The Jake One and Freeway Feature
Posted on February 17, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Hip Hop, Interviews | Leave a Comment
One can only wonder what the door policy will be at Freeway & Jake One shows. Although he’s done tracks for G-Unit, Jake One is a white Seattle underground stalwart who’s best known for producing gems with the Midwest indie powerhouse Rhymesayers. In other words, he’s the type of artist whose fans rarely get harassed [...]
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