Tag: Tupac Shakur
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RC 355: Scarily Good Mashups
Finally a new mashup podcast – much delayed from September as I was trying to camp in October which went as well as it sounds (chilling). In time for Halloween it’s a Slightly Scary podcast of dark mashups, monstrous metal and frightfully funky mashups, unnerving Marvin Gaye mashups, continuing the Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac…
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RIP Shock G aka Humpty Hump
Sad to hear about the death of Gregory Jacobs aka Shock G, aka Humpty Hump: fake-nosed rapper extraordinaire who wanted you to Doowutchyalike and grab em in the biscuits in Digital Underground’s world-wide 90’s hit. And indeed the Humpty Dance, named after his character. All a precursor of Dre’s gangsta rap, those beats and old funk…
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Dead Poet’s Society
DEAD POETS SOCIETY by Beets This came up randomly I think during a Bandcamp trawl, it’s by BEETS and Dead Poet’s Society is a concept album of those who burned out too young, leaving their music. Fallen rappers, singers, comics, musicians all together, from Nick Drake to Biggie, Elliott Smith to Bill Hicks, ODB to…
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RIP Mark B
Around the new year UK hip hop lost a great rapper and producer, Mark Barnes aka Mark B (of Mark B and Blade fame). I held off saying much because I wanted something more official than a tweet from others confirming it. I was hoping it was a rumour, but I guess this confirms it…
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RIP Joe Cocker
One of Sheffield’s finest sons Joe Cocker has died at the age of 70, which seems far too early despite his heavy rock star lifestyle. Most will probably will be scrambling to find footage of Woodstock that hasn’t been DMCA’d online, but I prefer this funky track ‘Woman to Woman’ which most people already know…
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All Hail The New Improved HoloMJ
Here’s the Michael Jackson Hologram Billboard performance that everyone’s talking about, if like me you found the initial YouTube posts pulled by the time I got to them. Same happened to the Tupac Coachella perfomance, almost completely scrubbed off the Net, I had fun trying to find that one to replace a broken link from…