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March 31, 2011: Guest: Brian Coleman
Brian Coleman is the author of Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies (Random House 2007) and Rakim Told Me: Hip-Hop Wax Facts, Straight from the Original Artists (Wax Facts Press, 2005). Over the past decade he has written extensively about the hip-hop artform for publications such as: Scratch, URB, Wax Poetics, CMJ Weekly and Monthly, Complex, Boston Herald, Boston, New York and Philadelphia Metro, Boston Phoenix, XXL, Source, and NY Press. He has lived in Boston since 1988.
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Format | Comments | Approx. start time |
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Bad Brains | Big Takeover | Rock For Light | PVC Records | 1983 | LP | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |
J.V.C. F.O.R.C.E. | Strong Island | Doin' Damage | B-Boy Records | 1988 | LP | 0:03:11 (Pop-up) | |
Schoolly D | P.S.K. What Does It Mean? | Schoolly-D | Schoolly-D Records | 1985 | 12" | 0:29:15 (Pop-up) | |
Public Enemy | Don't Believe The Hype | It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back | Def Jam Recordings | 1988 | LP | 0:35:41 (Pop-up) | |
Three Times Dope | Funky Dividends | Single | Arista | 1989 | 12" | 0:41:27 (Pop-up) | |
The Roots | The Lesson Part 1 | Single | DGC | 1994 | 12" | 0:45:12 (Pop-up) | |
Bahamadia | Commonwealth (Cheap Chicks) | Single | Good Vibe Recordings | 2000 | 12" | 0:50:11 (Pop-up) | |
De La Soul | Plug Tunin' (original 12-inch version) | 3 Feet High And Rising | Tommy Boy Music | 1989 | LP | 0:55:58 (Pop-up) | |
The D.O.C. | Mind Blowin' | No One Can Do It Better | Ruthless Records | 1989 | CD | 1:11:20 (Pop-up) | |
The Geto Boys | Mind Playing Tricks On Me | Single | Rap-A-Lot Records | 1991 | 12" | 1:15:06 (Pop-up) | |
N.W.A. | 100 Miles And Runnin' | 100 Miles And Runnin' | Ruthless Records / Priority | 1990 | EP | 1:20:24 (Pop-up) | |
The 2 Live Crew | C'mon Babe | As Nasty As They Wanna Be | Skyywalker Records | 1989 | LP | 1:24:07 (Pop-up) | |
Poor Righteous Teachers | Time To Say Peace | Holy Intellect | Profile Records | 1990 | LP | 1:28:44 (Pop-up) | |
Ed O.G. & Da Bulldogs | I Got To Have It | Single | PWL America Records Ltd | 1991 | 12" | 1:34:01 (Pop-up) | |
E Da Boss | Go Left Feat. Gift of Gab and Lateef The Truth Speaker | Single | Om Records | 2007 | 12" | 1:37:25 (Pop-up) | |
Terminator X | Buck Whylin' feat.Chuck D Introducing Sista Souljah | Terminator X And The Valley Of The Jeep Beats | Columbia | 1991 | CD | 1:40:37 (Pop-up) | |
Pete Rock & CL Smooth | Straighten It Out | Mecca And The Soul Brother | Elektra Entertainment | 1992 | LP | 1:45:07 (Pop-up) | |
Butterball | Butterballs (Part 1) | Single | Fast Eddie | 7" | ` | 1:49:15 (Pop-up) | |
El Da Sensei | Crowd Pleasa | The Unusual | Fat Beats Records | 2006 | CD | 1:51:40 (Pop-up) | |
Eric B & Rakim | Don't Sweat The Technique | Don't Sweat The Technique | MCA Records | 1992 | CD | 2:10:19 (Pop-up) | |
Mr. Lif | Status feat. Insight | I Phantom | Definitive Jux | 2002 | CD | 2:14:30 (Pop-up) | |
Dagha | Conquerors feat. Al-Jabra | Object In Motion | Last Arc Records | 2006 | CD | 2:18:10 (Pop-up) | |
Ice T | Radio Suckers | Power | Sire | 1988 | LP | 2:23:54 (Pop-up) | |
Freeway | Line 'Em Up feat. Young Chris | Single | Roc-A-Fella Records | 2002 | 12" | 2:27:42 (Pop-up) | |
Del Tha Funky Homosapien | Eye Examination | The Elektra Years: B-Boy Handbook | Warner Music | 2004 | CD | 2:32:20 (Pop-up) | |
Quasimoto | Rappcats Pt. 3 | The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas | Stones Throw Records | 2005 | CD | 2:36:43 (Pop-up) | |
Cypress Hill | The Phunky Feel One | Single | Ruffhouse Records / Columbia | 1991 | 12" | 2:38:47 (Pop-up) | |
Count Bass D | Dollar Bill | Begborrowsteel | Ramp Recordings | 2004 | CD | 2:42:06 (Pop-up) | |
MF Doom | Cellz | Born Like This | Lex Records | 2009 | CD | 2:44:35 (Pop-up) | |
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Garey Coleman | The Outlaw And The Indian | Single | Peace Pipe Productions | 1987 | 12" | 2:54:18 (Pop-up) |
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