Busta Nut
Pretty Ass, High Class
Whoever said hip hop was an inner-city phenomenon was probably an inner-city crack addict. Rent a movie like Down South Hustlers and you'll see nothing but country rappers driving Impalas down dirt roads, pumping slow 808 beats and keeping it...
I Ain't A Rapper I Just Thug-a-lot
Beanie Sigel popped out of nowhere in 1998 on The Roots' "Adrenaline" track and spit one of the first raps he ever wrote. His crude depiction of taped-up snitches in a drug deal gone wrong was just a teaser. A few months later, the demo-less Philly...
What's Beef?
Everything was so simple back in 1993. All Nas had to do was shout out Cormega on his classic "One Love" and the incarcerated rapper got signed by Def Jam the minute he came back to NY.Then Cormega didn't pay his membership fees and Nas changed his...
The Invisible Baller
The story behind every Southern hip hop label CEO is like a movie. (That's probably why each and every one of them has a movie coming out.) Houston's Lil' Troy is no exception. In 1989 he put out the first record by the South's most legendary emcee...
