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“DIGGIN’ IN THE FILES: 30 YEARS OF RUN-DMC”– BY BILL ADLER
Editor’s Note: We are honored to have Bill Adler providing the first in a series of guest posts on CrazyHood.com. For the uninformed, “Ill Badler” is the former director of publicity for Def Jam...
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“DIGGIN’ IN THE FILES: WHODINI” – BY BILL ADLER
When I started working at Russell Simmons’s Rush Productions in June of 1984, just before the release of the first Def Jam records, Russell was already managing Kurtis Blow, Run-DMC, and Whodini, among...
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“DIGGIN’ IN THE FILES: 2 LIVE CREW”– BY BILL ADLER
If there’s ever been a time during the last 30 years when rap and hip-hop weren’t somehow outraging common decency, I can’t remember it. Even so, the obscenity dust-ups starring Miami’s own Luther...
View ArticleTWO WAYS OF TREATING SLAVERY IN THE MOVIES
REVIEWS OF “LINCOLN” & “12 YEARS A SLAVE” – BY BILL ADLER With 2013 just now receding in the rearview mirror, I thought it might be worthwhile to look back at a couple of wonderful movies that...
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EVEN WHITE FOLKS GET THE BLUES
A REVIEW OF “AMERICAN HUSTLER” AND “INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS” BY BILL ADLER We can talk all day about the ongoing tanning of America, but there are still large segments of the country where white folks and...
View Article“NOT QUITE THE SUPER BOWL”
President Obama Submits to Interview by Bill O’Reilly By Bill Adler On Sunday night, 110 million Americans tuned in the Super Bowl, the largest television audience for a single show in history....
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“DIGGIN’ IN THE FILES: ICE CUBE”– BY BILL ADLER
This month’s dive into the crates was suggested by DJ EFN, Crazy Hood’s capo and a longtime Ice Cube fan. Of course, over the decades there has been no shortage of press about Cube, his colleagues, and...
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“DIGGIN’ IN THE FILES: A TRIBE CALLED QUEST”– BY BILL ADLER
Stepping into the arena in the summer of 1989, in the wake of startling debut recordings by The Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, Queen Latifah, and Monie Love, A Tribe Called Quest were among the last, if...
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“DIGGIN’ IN THE FILES: KURTIS BLOW” – BY BILL ADLER
How old is hip-hop on wax? As of this year, it’s a nice round 35 years old. That anniversary is all the excuse we need to dig into the files devoted to a young man whose mother knew him as Curtis...
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“DIGGIN’ IN THE FILES: ERIC B & RAKIM” – BY BILL ADLER
This summer it will be 28 years since the release of Eric B & Rakim’s debut record, “Eric B. is President/ My Melody.” Cut for the Zakia label out of Harlem and quickly licensed and reissued by...
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“DIGGIN’ IN THE FILES: ERIC B & RAKIM (BONUS TRACK)”
By Bill Adler Just after posting our full-length excavation of some of the early press on Eric B. & Rakim, we received the translation of a Greek language review of Paid in Full. The original,...
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“DIGGIN’ IN THE FILES: KRS-ONE”– BY BILL ADLER
Thirty years ago, when I first started collecting smart newspaper and magazine articles about rap and hip-hop, I was motivated by the twinned beliefs that journalism is the first rough draft of history...
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“DIGGIN’ IN THE FILES: WU-TANG CLAN”– BY BILL ADLER
EFN said let it be the Wu this time, so I duly started digging in my files about them. As ever, I wanted to go back as early as possible, because the early stuff is going to be rarer than whatever is...
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“DIGGIN IN THE FILES: EPMD”– BY BILL ADLER
Our subject for today is EPMD, the immortal two-man crew who were nicely characterized as “rap music’s own version of Starsky & Hutch” on the hiphopelements.com website in 2003. Like a lot of...
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“DIGGIN IN THE FILES: OUTKAST”– BY BILL ADLER
As my old pal Michael Gonzales and others have noted, 2014 is the 20th anniversary of the release of Outkast’s debut album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. Combined with DJ EFN’s enduring affection...
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