You already know the deal: in a New York Minute, aNYthing can happen,
and as the Howard Houses legend will tell you, one bad choice is enough to f*ck your life up.

Les journaux à scandale le rebaptisent « Busta Chrymes » et demandent son arrestation immédiate. Vœu à moitié exhaussé : en mars, les autorités new-yorkaises le déclarent officiellement « danger public » et lui interdisent l’accès au tournage d’Order Of Redemption, un film dont il tient un des rôles principaux. Scott Leemon à nouveau : « Il y a eu un véritable harcèlement contre Busta. Les médias lui hurlaient dessus… Le New York Post le lynchait en Une à la moindre occasion. Les accusations pesant contre lui étaient celles d’un monstre en puissance… Quand les faits véritables ont été mis bout à bout, c’était juste une petite succession de pas-grand-chose. Maintenant il est en probation, et à l’avenir tout devrait bien se passer, espérons-le… » Au ton de sa voix, on sent que Leemon ne parierait pas non plus sa montre sur ce coup-là.

« I was shopping my first demo for a record deal. My mother was my manager since she knew the ropes of the business. I was going by the name Lord-T (The Golden Child) after Eddie Murphy’s movie The Golden Child. »

Pete Rock is not only an accomplished DJ/Producer/Rapper but is also a big comic book head.
Stussy caught up with Pete at Forbidden Planet comic book shop in New York City to discuss his deep love for comics and hip hop’s connection to superheroes.

For someone responsible for co-writing (and eventually co-producing) everything from Pieces of a Man through 1980, Jackson rarely gets more than a cursory mention in most GSH-related tributes. He’ll occasionally get name checked in rare groove/record nerd circles for guesting on this D.C. soul/jazz gem. But despite near-equal billing on most of the aforementioned classic LPs, credit-wise the Brooklyn native’s kind of the invisible man.

You may not have heard of Malcolm Cecil or Robert Margouleff but you’ll certainly be familiar with their work. These two electronic music boffins helped transform Little Stevie Wonder in to one of the greatest song writers in pop music. They produced and engineered four albums that are widely regarded as « Stevie’s classic period. »

In this trailer for a new documentary entitled Brooklyn Boheme which stars Spike Lee, Chris Rock, Rosie Perez and more, narrator Nelson George takes us back to a prolific period when Fort Greene was a place where magic happened for a talented generation of young African American writers, artists and musicians before explaining why, and how, it all ended.

You don’t need to be Sacco & Vanzetti to know that nothing ups the fun factor more than having a buddy around to get in trouble with. With that in mind, we decided to check out what our favorite duos are up to these days. We scoured the worlds of architecture, fashion, music, food, film, and fun to come up with this: League of Two.

Cool & Dre have been producing tracks since their high school chorus days. Since then they’ve gone from a hometown R&B act to Cash Money producers who’ve worked with every hip hop artist from Ghostface to Lil Wayne. We caught up with them at their Miami compound to learn about how two high school buddies from North Miami made it big-time.