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Apr 23, 2021 • 99 tweets • 18 min read
“I’m sorry,” he says with a quiver in his voice. "But I just get so emotional thinking about the past. I’m so happy that people are finally paying attention to my work,"- My 2010 VIBE interview with Shock G. Rest In Power to hip-hop's UNSUNG music man. fatcapmagazine.blogspot.com/2010/12/shock-…
"By 1980, I started really getting into P-Funk. I was 16. At the same time. I had already lived in New York when Hip Hop was starting.I left NYC in ’78, so I was in that younger crowd of hip-hop fans.I was there for the DJ’s in the park at the jams."--Shock G
Apr 21, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Why is Scratch playing Meth's Riddler song??????? Meth didn't even know the lyrics to that joint. Someone needs to explain the whole point of Verzuz to Scratch...
Keith Murray!!!!!!
Sep 24, 2019 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
Ok. So I've seen a few of these type of posts from a few heads concerning ghostwriting when it comes to women emcees. And I want to set the record straight historically. Specifically on MC Lyte....
2) Now let's start off with the foundation of why male hip-hop heads always seem to jump head on into the SHE DOESN'T WRITE HER OWN RHYMES trope. Which is quite misogynistic and misses the point about the power dynamic between men/women that has existed in the hip-hop industry.
