Tag Archives: Boogie Down Productions

Went Solo On That Ass, But It’s Still the Same (Kinda)

Yesterday I mentioned in passing how André Herman Düne, formerly of the Anti-Folk band Herman Dune, has changed his name to Stanley Brinks and embarked on a solo career. His solo output as Brinks doesn’t represent too big a departure from that of his old group. His songs, like Herman Dune’s, are weird […]

The Cool, the Buff, the Dark and the One With Glasses

Another one of my favorite acts, Queens, New York emcee Cool Calm Pete, dropped a new sort-of single earlier this week. It’s a laid-back dedication to Summertime indiscretions with the fairer sex set to a soulfully dilatory trot of a beat a catchy vocal sample called “Gitty Up Baby” and is available as a […]

Only Built 4 Polk County?

A lot was said in Friday’s Records at Random post dedicated to the 13th (despite its rep thirteen is one of my lucky numbers) anniversary of Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx about the qualities I admire a Hip-Hop album. Dirty sample-based beats imbued with the crackle-and-pop of vinyl, emcees who are creative, intelligent, […]