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Liquid Swords 1995: Inside Wu-Tang’s Stacked Solo Run
Liquid Swords 1995 was really the last piece of something bigger — the closer on a run nobody in hip-hop has really…
Fatal Hussein Outlawz: A 1998 Diaspora Ad
Fatal Hussein Outlawz ties are what this whole ad is built on. Relativity Records put this out in 1998 to push his…
Street Lord Mafia: Tuna & 2Pac
Street Lord Mafia: Tuna & 2Pac — In honor of what would've been 2Pac's birthday, Tuna, an affiliate of the legendary Detroit…
Jeru The Damaja Hip Hop Connection Interview 1994
This Jeru The Damaja Hip Hop Connection interview is from 1994, Issue #60, right as "Come Clean" was starting to spread and…
Gang Starr Step in the Arena Poster — 1991 Chrysalis Promo Ad
Found this Gang Starr Step in the Arena poster and had to share it. Chrysalis and Cooltempo ran it back in 1991…
Prodigy of Mobb Deep: My Infamous Life Audiobook
Prodigy of Mobb Deep gave us more than "Shook Ones" — he gave us his whole story, and the best way to…
Filthy Rockwell Clothing: Rare Designs from the Archive
I ran across these old Filthy Rockwell clothing designs on an archived version of thomasdishaw.com, a website that has since been taken…
Stic From Dead Prez Shares Original Loud Records Artwork and Early Vision
Stic from Dead Prez took to Instagram to share a bit of history. The photo pictured below was the first piece of…
Tupac’s Makaveli: The Unseen Back Cover Depicting Puffy
Tupac's Makaveli album was not released as he had originally envisioned. The unreleased back cover boldly portrayed Puffy in a pink skirt…
2Pac’s Euthanasia Project: Insights into the Tracklist and Collaborations
2Pac's Euthanasia Project, was drafted on October 4, 1995. Written in blue and red pen on white notebook paper, this blueprint gives…
Raekwon’s Glaciers of Ice Sample Found
Raekwon's Glaciers of Ice sample is uncovered almost 29 years later. Sample snitching is in full effect. According to YouTuber CJ Meyer,…