Remember that Biggie line Red Cafe borrowed on « I Tote Guns » ?
That Tupac « addition » Prodigy recites on the « New York Shit » chorus ?

Bars. You can climb them, trade them with Em, or see life go by through them.
Shabaam did all of the above.

Following A Night In Alphabet City live series, the Blackmoon frontman talks about his « Buckshot Shorty » days, coming up with Mobb Deep, getting chewed out by Hav’s mom, and becoming a man thanks to a famous BK producer’s sister. Yes, you read that right.

the first Gasface’s Live Performance series

Runnin Rebels revisits the period from 1973 to 1992, when UNLV embodied the brash, swaggering spirit of Las Vegas and the notion that winning and winning big was all that mattered.

Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac were friends who grew up sharing the common bond of basketball. Together, they lifted the Yugoslavian National team to unimaginable heights.
After conquering Europe, they both went to America where they became the first two foreign players to attain NBA stardom. But with the fall of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day 1991, Yugoslavia split up.
A war broke out between Petrovic’s Croatia and Divac’s Serbia. Long buried ethnic tensions surfaced. And these two men, once brothers, were now on opposite sides of a deadly civil war.
As Petrovic and Divac continued to face each other on the basketball courts of the NBA, no words passed between the two. Then, on the fateful night of June 7, 1993, Drazen Petrovic was killed in an auto accident.

Reggie Miller single-handedly crushed the hearts of Knick fans multiple times.
But it was the 1995 Eastern Conference Semifinals that solidified Miller as Public Enemy #1 in New York City…

Stretch Armstrong recalls a number of great moments and a greater number of (then) unsigned rappers who blazed the show: cats like Jay-Z, Eminem, Big Pun, ODB, Big L, Biggie, and also a 16 y.o kid in shorts called Nasir…