We started a new series on The Beastie Boys! Our first Hip-Hop series (more metal next series, we promise)! Nike, Don, and Keefy deep dive into the early years of the band, how they formed, how a “joke song” led them down the path to become one of the biggest-selling acts in Rap in the eighties and 1990s!Continue reading
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Chuck D (Public Enemy) Drops His Single and Video “New Gens” – New Album Coming Soon
Rap legend and Public Enemy co-founder, Chuck D, has just unleashed “New Gens,” his first new solo single in seven years. His last solo effort was 2018’s Celebration of Ignorance. Coming with a music video, it serves as an introduction to his new solo album, Radio Armageddon, arriving on May 18, via Def Jam Recordings. Watch the new video and find out more below.
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Slayer’s “South Of Heaven” Was Released Thirty Years Ago
What do you do for an encore when you have released arguably the greatest album in metal history, at the zenith point for the genre? Well if you are Slayer, you blow people’s minds and release South Of Heaven (Def Jam) as the follow-up to Reign In Blood (also Def Jam). Although some of its slower mid-tempo jams threw fans for a loop, Slayer’s fourth album is full of gritty, true to life bangers and classic tracks. Let’s revisit this masterpiece which turned thirty years old today. Continue reading