Play It Kool – Cash Money & Marvelous

Vintage 1987 Cash Money & Marvelous freestyle session from Tim Westwood’s Capital Radio rap show.

Prophets Of Rage – Public Enemy

GrandGood.Com footage of Public Enemy’s show at BB Kings in NYC earlier this month.

“Can’t Truss It”

“Night Of The Living Baseheads”

“Bring The Noise”

“Shut Em Down”

“Public Enemy #1″

“Don’t Believe The Hype”

“Rebel Without A Pause”

“Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos” / “Welcome To The Terrordome”

Eric B.

Chuck D Speaks

Melle Mel

Got The Juice – Masta Ace

Ace speaks to Mr. Do-It-All of Lords Of The Underground about his early days with the Juice Crew and his forthcoming project with Edo.G.

Rock The House – DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

Brilliant 1986 footage of Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince with human beatbox Ready Rock C performing at The Wynne Plaza in their hometown of Philadelphia.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Make Or Take – Nine

Nine of “Whutcha Want?” fame looks back on his career and offers some advice for today’s upcoming rappers.

It’s Ya Birthday! – Public Enemy / Ice-T

Footage of Flavor Flav celebrating his 50th birthday at Public Enemy’s recent B.B. King’s gig ending with Flav on the drums and Ice-T freestyling.

A Million And One Questions – Jay-Z

1996 Shades Of Hip-Hop interview with Jay-Z promoting the release of “Reasonable Doubt”.

Fresh For ‘92 – KRS-One / Boogie-Down Productions

1992 BDP performance of “We In There” on “Yo! MTV Raps”.

Jersey Boys – Naughty By Nature

Footage of New Jersey’s Naughty By Nature performing their classic “Hip-Hop Hooray” in NYC earlier this week.

Nobody Beats The Biz – Biz Markie

The Diabolical B-I-Z in Las Vegas being interviewed for KarmaloopTV.Com.

I literally just got back from seeing Biz performing at London’s Jazz Cafe tonight – the dude is definitely a born entertainer.

State Of The Nation – Chuck D

Veteran journalist Davey D asks Public Enemy’s Chuck D “Is Hip-Hop A Movement?”

Uncle Ricky – Slick Rick

MC Ricky D talks to StreetSongsTV.Com about his career and Russell Simmons being a “secret agent”.

To The East… – Brother J

Interview with X-Clan’s Brother J about the group’s new album “Mainstream Outlawz”.

The Meaning Of The Name – DJ Premier

Premier breaks down the history behind the origins of Gang Starr during an interview in Poland.

Bad Men Wear Black – Sadat X

Sadat X talks about the recording of Brand Nubian’s 1992 classic “Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down” and speaks honestly about his recent prison bid for D-Nice’s “True Hip-Hop Stories” series.

Album Review – Nick Wiz

Nick Wiz

“Cellar Sounds Volume One (1992 – 1998)”

(No Sleep Recordings)

Ask any self-respecting Hip-Hop fan to name their favourite producers from the 90s and you’ll no doubt get the same predictable yet totally understandable answers – DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Large Professor, Showbiz etc. However, if those same boom-bap aficionados dug in their crates to check the credits on some of their vintage vinyl, they might be surprised by how many other talented producers were also around at the time who don’t necessarily get remembered during today’s debates about who was nicest on the MPC or the SP-1200. Case in point being Nick Wiz, a New Jersey native who spent the 90s donating his atmospheric, drum-heavy studio creations to the likes of Mad Skillz, Rakim and, most notably, Brooklyn’s Cella Dwellas, whose 1995 Loud debut album “Realms N Reality” remains a largely slept-on East Coast classic.

This extensive 44-track double-CD package finds Wiz digging deep into his archives to blow the dust off a huge selection of previously unreleased cuts and alternative remixes from artists both known and unknown. Immediate standouts include a dope reworking of the Cella Dwella’s “Good Dwellas” (based around Gwen McCrae’s timeless “90% Of Me Is You”), Rakim’s horn-filled head-nodder “Once Upon A Rhyme” (a lost track from Ra’s “The 18^th Letter” project), and Ill Mentality’s “Lovin’ U 4 Dayz”, a cocky mid-90s cut previously released on the Phat Wax imprint and packed with serious back-in-the-day jeep beat appeal.

Pudgee’s melancholy “Inner City Blues” features an uncharacteristically restrained DMX caught in the everyday struggle with only Wiz’s filtered melodies for company, whilst Ran Reed’s excellent “Whutcha Want” offers mildly offensive rhymes coupled with a Method Man vocal sample and hazy keys. The demo tracks included here from New Jersey acts such as LSD and Nautilus are also of a high standard, hinting at a local scene that perhaps didn’t reach its full potential during a time when Naughty By Nature and their affiliates were dominating and defining the area’s sound.

At over 40 tracks deep, it’s to be expected that not every cut included on “Cellar Sounds” is an absolute must-have, but with contributions from the likes of Shabaam Sahdeeq, Lord Have Mercy, Chubb Rock and Channel Live, it’s a solid body of work from a producer who perhaps didn’t get his rightful props the first time around.

Mr. Smith (Part Two) – LL Cool J

More GrandGood.Com footage from LL’s recent gig at NYC’s Nokia Theatre.

“Mama Said Knock You Out”

“Rock The Bells”

“I’m Bad”

Born In The BX – DJ Kool Herc

Living legend Kool Herc on ShineOnTV.

Mr. Smith (Part One) – LL Cool J

GrandGood.Com footage of LL performing classic verses from collaborations with EPMD and Craig Mack along with a couple of his own back-in-the-day bangers at NYC’s Nokia Theatre.

“Rampage”

“Flava In Ya Ear”

“I Shot Ya” / “Ill Bomb”

Tales From The Dane Side – Dana Dane

D-Nice catches up with Brooklyn’s Dana Dane to discuss the story behind his 80s hit “Cinderfella Dana Dane” for “True Hip-Hop Stories”.