#rewindreview: Wildchild ‘Secondary Protocol’ 2003

  In “the year of the Mad,” often referred to as 2003 by many underground HOP heads, we got a slew of Madlib produced or adjacent albums. Wildchild who is one third of the Lootpack along with Madlib and D.J. Romes, tried to satisfy the urge fans were left with, after the debut album from […]

#rewindreview: ChronILLogical ‘Rhyme And Reason’ 2020

  The recent pandemic might have been the worst and most odd thing many of us have or will experience in our lifetime but it made a space for creatives to sit down and focus. A lot of music came out from people we haven’t heard from in a while. Enter the M.C., producer duo […]

#rewindreview: Alcynoos, Parental & Loop.Holes ‘Rewind’ 2023

  This album truly touches the HOP audience familiar with instrumental releases from Alcynoos, Parental and Loop.Holes as individuals and as a collective. All three are from overseas with Alcynoos and Parental from France and the Loop.Holes crew from Norway. They team up to deliver a cool out album with a collection of some of […]

#rewindreview: J-Live ‘Reveal The Secret’ EP 2007

  There was this very underrated and unmistakable hit on D.J. Jazzy Jeff’s ‘The Return Of The Magnificent’ album called ‘Practice.’ This track featured the M.C’s M.C. J-Live and sampled one of Allen Iverson’s most famous media outtakes where he proclaimed that action as something he could do in his sleep. Fans of underground music […]

#rewindreview: Ol’ Dirty Bastard ‘Return To The 36 Chambers’ (1995)

  The reign of Wu-Tang Clan is comparable to lightning in a bottle. No matter how many may want to try and duplicate or say that it has happened outside of them, it simply has not. Rapping talent aside, the personalities involved in the original nine we might have took for granted while living in […]

#rewindreview: The Micranots ‘Return Of The Travellahs’ (1996)

  The 2000’s decade saw a lot of independent releases as full albums and not just 12 inch vinyl singles. The ability to create a distribute whole albums was much easier than it was in the previous decade. This caused many artist like J-Live, Nas, Juggaknots to name a few, to release previous works that […]

#rewindreview: Pete Rock ‘Return Of The SP1200’ (2019)

  It’s 2019 and why not get a collection of past beats made on an SP1200 from the legendary Pete Rock. After starting the trend of putting out instrumental HOP albums on 2001’s ‘Petestrumentals,’ “PR” knows there is an audience that wants to hear that classic sound from him. On ‘Return Of The SP1200’ the […]

#rewindreview: Lord Finesse ‘Return Of The Funky Man’ (1992)

  The second album from the ‘Funky Man’ Lord Finesse was literally a return to what he had already given on his debut album ‘Funky Technician’ with D.J. Mike Smooth. By 1992 HOP music was becoming even more popular and with that comes a change in sound and content. The weird thing about that year […]

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