Playlist of the Week: Listen to “Brooklyn in the ’90s” on Apple Music
These classic tracks will bring you back to a time when Jamaican sounds were blending with hip-hop in New York's outer boroughs.
Watch Yami Bolo’s “Love Keeping Us Together” Video
Fresh new music from a reggae veteran.
Double Barrel: Reggae Samples and Hip Hop Classics with DJ Gravy + Corey Chase (Mixtape)
The history of hip-hop is deep with sounds borrowed from Jamaica.
Throwback Thursdays: Born Jamericans’ “Gotta Get Mine”
DJ Treats revisits the meaning of Born Jamericans' "Gotta Get Mine" (featuring Shinehead and Mad Lion) through the lens of U.S. Independence Day, July 4.
Mixtape Mondays: DJ Prince’s “Test My Sound” (LargeUp Premiere)
Words by Jesse Serwer—
This week on Mixtape Mondays we've got a little something different. Earlier this year, our dude DJ Prince from the Duck Down Records family hit us up about a dancehall- and reggae-i... Read More...
Heds & Dreds: A History of Funkmaster Flex + Dancehall
Words by Jesse Serwer—
New York radio don Funkmaster Flex recently dropped his first mixtape in a decade, Who You Mad At? Me or Yourself? and he saved the best for last, unleashing a pair of new danceh... Read More...
Throwback Thursdays: Cosmo Baker on Jackal the Bear’s “For Real”
Words by Cosmo Baker—
Just as Mad Lion captivated New York's Tri-State area in the mid '90's with the gruff and tuff raggamuffin rap of "Take It Easy," Philly and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic region had ... Read More...
Boogie Down The Chimney: KRS-One, Mad Lion + Shinehead Inna “Holiday Gift Style”
Words by Jesse Serwer
You might have heard that KRS-One is about to drop a new album, Just Like That, produced entirely by a resurgent Mad Lion at the top of next year. Knowing that doesn't make their ne... Read More...
Double Trouble: Watch KRS-One’s Video for the Mad Lion-Produced “Aztechnical”
Words by Jesse Serwer
In the early '90s, KRS-ONE introduced us to Mad Lion, producing his classic "Take It Easy" and bringing the gruff deejay into the fold of Boogie Down Productions. The pair would con... Read More...
Throwback Thursdays: DJ Shirkhan on Born Jamericans’ “Gotta Get Mine”
Words by DJ Shirkhan
Along with Sammy K., his partner in Malmo, Sweden's Safari Sound, DJ Shirkhan has been a staple on our Mixtape Mondays column, thanks to Safari's steady stream of consistent, high-qu... Read More...
Mama Used to Say
Words by Jesse Serwer
For my money, British R&B singer Junior Giscombe's "Mama Used to Say" is one of the most crucial—and original—tributes to motherly wisdom, right up there with this and this. Not... Read More...