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15 YEARS AGO TODAY | The movie He Got Game was released in theaters.
John Edward “Big Hawk” Hawkins (November 15, 1969 – May 1, 2006)
Little Big Man
YOUNG YOUNG MONEY
EL-P + Killer Mike = Run The Jewels - Get It
PROFILIN’: Jason Collins
Happy Birthday, Master P.
Beastie Boys Sign a Memoir Deal (via @nytimesmusic) If the Beastie Boys wrote a book, you might expect it to depart from standard memoir form. Rather than a strict narrative patiently winding its way from bygone days, such a book might — in keeping
Happy 43rd, Andre.
BACK IN THE DAY |4/29/09| The Roots released their eighth album Rising Down on Def Jam Records.
Chance The Rapper ft. Ab-Soul - Smoke Again #AcidRap 4/30
Everyone’s a Critic: Prison Reviews on Yelp
Happy 47th, Short.
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James “Jim” Valvano (March 10, 1946 – April 28, 1993)
15 YEARS AGO TODAY |4/28/98| Big Pun released his debut album, Capital Punishment, on Loud Records.
Camp David Chronicles (via @Frank151)
PROFILIN’: PAT EWING
BACK IN THE DAY |4/27/99| Rawkus records released, Soundbombing II, the second installment in their Soundbombing series.
Happy 61st, Ice Man
20 YEARS AGO TODAY |4/27/93| Pete Nice & Daddy Rich released the album, Dust To Dust, on Def Jam Records.
PROFILIN’: SWISH PRVSLY | PROFILIN’: BIRDMAN
BACK IN THE DAY |4/26/02| 50 Cent released, Guess Who’s Back?, on Full Clip Records.
BACK IN THE DAY |4/26/94| Outkast released their debut album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, on LaFace Records.
BACK IN THE DAY |4/26/95| The movie, Friday, was released in theaters.
Happy 43rd, Mega Montana
Have the whole NY State aiming at your face.
PROFILIN’: BIRDMAN
BACK IN THE DAY |4/25/95| Mobb Deep released their second album, The Infamous, on Loud Records.
BACK IN THE DAY |4/25/94| The First Annual Source Awards took place at the Paramount Theater in New York.
Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes (May 27, 1971 – April 25, 2002)
BACK IN THE DAY |4/25/95| Method Man released his third single, I’ll Be There For You, off of his debut album.
Happy 73rd, Al.
BACK IN THE DAY |4/25/90| Vanilla Ice released the lead single, “Play That Funky Music” off of his debut album, To The Extreme. The single’s B-Side is “Ice Ice Baby”.
Eddie & Mike
EAZY WIDER
CONVICT MUSIC
You can’t spell Headband without NBA
Dressed in Lo from head to toe to just to let you know.
Loud Records Print Advertisement Campaign (1999) (via babylonfalling)
Happy Hump Day
BACK IN THE DAY |4/24/92| The Fu-Schnickens released, La Schmoove, the second single off of their debut album, F.U. Don’t Take It Personal.
J-Zone’s “Rugged Neva Smoove” Appreciation Post… and the Mystery of “1-5-4-F*ckin’ 5” (via @egotripland) Fuck it. Why not go right to 1545 St. Marks Ave., the street M.O.P. have repped in every single song (and one album title, Marxmen Cinema)?
Death Row Records - New York Times Magazine (1996)
THIS OR THAT: ALL WHITE EVERYTHING or THANK GOD FOR THAT WHITE
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HEAD GAMES: Dennis Rodman PRVSLY || FACES: Rasheed Wallace
Just like a B-Boy with 360 waves
#GoldToothTuesdays
ALL I NEED IS THE LOVE OF MY CREW
20 YEARS AGO TODAY |4/22/93| The movie, Who’s The Man, was released in theaters.
Patrick Ewing in the Exorcist III Press Shot (1990)
FACES: Rasheed Wallace
Corporal Patrick Daniel “Pat” Tillman (November 6, 1976 – April 22, 2004)
MC Serch x Tupac x Shock G
BACK IN THE DAY |4/22/89| Gang Starr released their debut album, No More Mr. Nice Guy, on Wild Pitch Records.
The Ghostface Killah Rises Again (via @nprmusic) Ghostface Killah is a compulsive storyteller. His fiction is painterly, and he delivers it in a headlong rush. On “,” from the 1997 album Wu-Tang Forever, he rhymed, “He pointed to the
Happy 76th, Jack
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