Mr Fantastik: The mysterious rapper who smoked MF Doom on his own track in 2003
“RICHARDS!!!”
Hip-hop
Jam Master Jay: a hip-hop legend’s murder and a 22-year wait for justice
A tragedy in every sense of the word.
Flatline: How B.O.B killed his career with a flat earth freakout
No, seriously, he did once have a career to kill.
Bob Dylan’s frankly surreal rap on a Kurtis Blow album, 1986
“Kids starve in Ethiopia / And we are gettin’ greedier”.
‘American Supreme’: Suicide regurgitate hip-hop clichés on brilliant post 9/11 concept album
I don’t recall much of what I was doing when Suicide’s American Supreme came out in late 2002, but it definitely wasn’t listening to that…
Dr. Octagon: Time-traveling killer gynecologist of underground hip-hop returns with ‘Flying Waterbed
WARNING: Extremely catchy earwig ahead. For the first time since 1996, the trio behind Dr. Octagonecologyst the classic and influential Kool Keith solo album have…
I was a teenage Goth, Punk, Hesher, Hip-Hop, Raver: Photographs of fashionable youth from the 1980s
The 1980s encapsulated in one photo. If you remember the eighties, you were probably there. Big hair, bad music, and terrible fashion. Or was it…
Hip to be Square: A look at young men’s fashions from the 1960s
Most young men in the sixties didn’t look like Charlie Manson in beads and a kaftan. Most wore button-down shirts, drainpipes, and sported short hair.…