Bronx born and Money Earnin Mount Vernon raised Pete Rock is an DJ, a Rapper, and a Producer. Pete rose to fame and gained his first audience in the World of Rap by working with DJ Marley Marl at WBLS in NYC doing the “In Control…” show and the “Future Flavas” show……at the tender age of 17. He was regarded as the man “puttin in work” because of his use of double copies of each record on each song he spun, a rarity at a time when most DJ’s might have done it every third or fourth…….probably his Jamaican heritage at work.
He was half of the critically acclaimed group Pete Rock & CL Smooth.
He began producing in the early 1990s working with such groups as Run DMC, Public Enemy, Biggie and Nas.
Every Friday we are going to hit you with a classic shot from the Soul Assassins archive! Check out the photo of DJ Muggs and Sen Dog from the early ’90s!
Check out this dope little interview with Posdnous of De La Soul about the “Scenario” recording sessions, and the lost versions of the track with members of Tribe, Leaders, De La Soul, and Black Sheep. He also talk about the recently released A Tribe Called Quest’s “Beats, Rhymes, & Life” documentary.
VICE loves to party. And so does Snoop Dogg. For its newest video series, PARTY LEGENDS, VICE teamed up with the upcoming feature film, Project X, and rounded up its favorite celebrities with legendary party pasts, asking them to tell us their most ridiculous party stories… And then animated them.
In the first video of VICE’s PARTY LEGENDS, Snoop Doog goes to the Playboy mansion, hangs with some Bunnies, drinks from his Pimp Cup, and then SHIT HITS THE FAN.
Schoolboy Q joins Danny Brown on stage to perform “Blunt After Blunt” during the Fool’s Gold Take Over at the Echoplex in Los Angeles, CA on January 24th, 2012.
Cypress Hill teamed up with Dubstep DJ/Producer Rusko to release a collaborative EP, Cypress x Rusko. You can download the first single, “Roll It, Light It” here.
“I think dubstep is a natural progression of hip-hop,” says Sen Dog. “Especially the way that we formulated it with Rusko, there’s definitely some roughness to it.”
“We’ve always been the type of group to take chances on doing something radically different than what people expect from us. So this carries with the tradition of us going out of the box. If it’s not something that we embrace then we don’t dare mess with it and this is something we fell right into the pocket of,” adds B-Real.
Here’s a new track from Action Bronson called “Strictly Business I & II” from Statik Selektah’s re-up mixtape with Action Bronson, New Jack City: Chopped And Screwed.
I’m a big fan of Action, and I feel like him and Roc Marci are really waving that flag for the return to classic hip hop!
