Tag Archives: Mainframe

“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day One)

Out of all the records I enjoyed during 2008 I chose twenty of them as my favorites.  I put them all in alphabetical order and wrote about them.  Here are the first five… In 1988 poet, teacher, philosopher and metaphysician Lawrence Krisna Parker described Hip-Hop’s talent pool as “a lot of suckers with colorful names.” He […]

You Wanna Listen to This So Bad Your D***’s Hard -OR- Rock-A-Bye Baby!

Astute Blogareaders have probably noted that there’s been an erroneous announcement on the OKP front-page about a post concerning Left Coast indieground Rap duo New Jack Hustle adorning this blog since last week. The even less canny among you should have observed a lack of posts in general during the latter half of last […]

You Should ALL Be Riding Blu & Mainframe’s “Johnsons”

Friday night I received a gift from my best friend. It was something I’ve wanted for quite some time too; a home screen-printing kit! While the screen-printing process isn’t rocket science it’s still a bit complicated, so I haven’t busted anything out with it yet. But one of the first shirts I […]

Lunch @ 45RPM’s

I closed out yesterday’s post with a surprise video clip from one of my favorite new Hip-Hop dudes of the year, Saint Louis, Missouri’s Black Spade. When I originally bigged up homeboy’s debut album To Serve With Love I likened my reaction to it to my reaction to hearing the Below the Heavens, the […]