For many fans, GZA’s sophomore solo release Liquid Swords is one of crowning achievements of the entire Wu-Tang Clan’s discography. While the LP is replete with back-to-back bangers, perhaps one of the album’s most memorable songs is “Labels,” in which the Genius takes aim at the record industry and name-checks over 40 different labels in a seamless stream of rhymes. Now, in celebration of the GZA’s 46th birthday today, Get On Down dissects the track to see how many of the imprints named in the song have stood the test of time.
Check out Get On Down’s “Investigative Reports: Breaking Down GZA’s’Labels'”
While concerts like Summer Jam and tours like Rock the Bells have made live Hip Hop shows stadium-status, there was once a time when Hip Hop performaces existed almost exclusively in clubs. Perhaps one of the most celebrated and notorious Hip Hop clubs of the past two decades was the Tunnel, a New York venue that helped established some of Hip Hop’s biggest stars during the ’90s. Now, in a recent article from Complex, artists and industry figures like Funkmaster Flex, DMX, Michael Rapaport and more detail a history of the infamous nightlife spot.
Check out Complex’s “The Oral History of the Tunnel”
Finally, the summer of 2012 is winding down and many fans are preparing for a slew of anticipated releases in the fourth quarter. But before media outlets jump the gun on projects due out later this year, The Boombox has come through with a list of the 15 best Hip Hop and R&B albums of 2012 so far. With inclusions like Nas’ Life is Good and OFWGKTA’s OF Tape Vol. 2, the list takes an inclusive and critical look at a few of the more exceptional efforts of the first part of this year.
Check out The Boombox’s “Best Hip-Hop and R&B Albums of 2012 (So Far)”
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AHHH, The good old days at the tunnel, I remember me and my click would grind all day just to get some gwap to buy some gear and goto the tunnel, so many good memories…
Like when ODB showed up sauced money and screamed on the tunnel security saying he will blow the whole Fucking place up, because he was being well, ODB. That same night ODB was on the second floor lounge getting noggin out in the open…
The tunnel had CO-ED bath rooms and a BAR! So you could take your jump-off to the rest room and get-it-in, then grab a drink!
Or my most interesting memory, they would allow you to bring in a certain amount of trees, but confiscate whatever you had to roll it in so that you would have buy a dutch from the ‘dutch boy’ for like $2.00, that really made me scratch my head. Like WTF??
The Best thing about the tunnel was that the women always outnumbered the men, because like Prodigy said, “first 500 bitches free”, so the last thing you worried about was being around too many hard ankles… Glad I was able to experience that time in History…
No one one cares, really.
I heard wayne got a dildo… suck dat bitch
ya dig,,,,I fuck Jarule in prison and he was shouting for more… Nigga ass tight af…. Bitch
I mean Ja Rule was one of the hottest in the game one point of time… but when he dropped the last temptation, that was it.. it was a wrap..JA didn’t use the same formula they used on pain is love, which was a well put together album
This guy uses the wu label like it was 93
the ipact this guy has had on the industry is flat out amazing. I have nothing but love for him !