A rarely heard Biggie Smalls '94 freestyle with Craig Mack re-surfaces.
| When B.I.G. Met ‘Pac: The Newly Unearthed Freestyle Video | March 11, 2013 |
I’m hesitant to extrapolate broad ideas about complex artists after watching three and a half minutes of footage originally recorded 19 years ago. But this is Biggie and Pac and I have a book coming out on them in two months, so fuck it. (Pre-order now). This is no mere idyll captured by Dream Hampton […]
| Biggie Smalls is the Illest | March 1, 2013 |
Joshua Lerner is an invisible bully like The Gooch. In one of the many excellent anecdotes from Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap, Ice-T tells what it was like to hear Melle Mel grab the mic in the early days of hip-hop in the Bronx. When Mel would take his turn, it would sound […]
