Of course, Mom didn’t come all the way to Korea just to do touristy stuff – she had to come see the places I was working and all of those cute little kids! She was able to sit in on two of my classes, one with my 5 year olds and another with my advanced 7 year old class....
On her 2005 track "Lighters Up"Lil' Kimdeclares Brooklyn "Home of the Greatest Rappers." It’s hard to argue. Marcy Projects alone would give us Christopher Wallace a.k.a.Biggie SmallsandJay-Z. Manhattan also plays a role in hip-hop’s evolution as a playground where rappers...
having grown up with it. Fusing old Jamaican beats with rap on the track “Hip-Hop Reggae,” recorded with Cutmaster MC, Longsy D, a talented rock and jazz drummer, went on to record the underground hit “This Is Ska,” on which ...
bringing to a close the violent cross-country rivalry that had dominated the 1990s rap world and enthralled the media and the public. Astonishingly, the Biggie Smalls murder also remains unsolved, and Wallaceâ
Then they announce a special performance by some kid from the Broadway musical “The Secret Garden“. This little 10 year old white boy comes out dressed like a little fancy lad - with a big ribbon around his neck. By this time, the kids in the audience were justan angry Skittle-fueled...
“I’m going, going, back, back to Yosemite,” I say, invoking the lyrics of Biggie Smalls, my hand scratching an invisible record. “You should work with me at the winery,” Dave says. “Stay with me at the house in the vineyard.” ...
Biggie, obviously wasn’t there, but even Biggie, when they played Biggie Smalls’ tracks at that concert, I think of me thinking of first encountering hip-hop and thinking, “How do people do this with language?” And “How do people make words do this thing that I didn’t know ...
Some beats that I recommend are that of J Dilla type beats , 9th Wonder and any beat that Biggie Smalls raps over. These beats were designed for freestyling. These mid-tempo rap beats are story telling instrumentals. So even when you are practicing in your room, pretend that you have an...
“Honestly, I did not really know anything about Biggie Smalls,” said Carson. “But while I’m watching, I’m thinking to myself, ‘Hold on a second here. This is all interconnected. These are all the same guys.’” Carson realized that the tactics used in the Biggie Smalls ...