90’s wiki: K Solo – Tell The World My Name

Kevin Madison aka K-Solo was the harder edge of the EPMD collective The Hit Squad who recorded 2 albums in the early 90’s. His 1990 debut Tell the World My Name was entirely produced by EPMD with Parrish Smith handling the majority of the work but Erick Sermon adding the classic opening track ‘Spellbound’. Vocally Solo was reminiscent of Big Daddy Kane with a high-speed hard delivery that, coupled with his storytelling style, vividly illuminated his adventures in prison, flirtation with crack, racism and of course sexual exploits.

Solo briefly became famous for his ‘Spellbound/Letterman’ style which entailed crafting his rhymes around the spelling out of words to create a delayed reaction punchline as the listener would take an extra second or so to decode the spelled out word.

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Popularity: 67% [?]

Edited: October 8th, 2008

Retro round up 2

Retro Kidz – New Era video

The Retro Kidz live up to their name with this track ‘New Era’ thats getting much play in America right now.

Check out their debut appearance in Armand Van Helden’s promo for his ‘I want Your Soul’ video.

MIA Okley Run

Annoying darling of the fashion world and not much else MIA has released her own clothing line surprise surprise. Take a peek at her ‘Okley Run’ line but be warned I’ll personally merk you if I see you wearing this crackheads clothes.

MIA Okley Run

The Wackness Mixtapes

A film about mid-90’s New York, hip hop and weed sounds like a dream come true. Add to that it stars Sir Ben Kingsley (no, no, no no, rowntree yes! grosvenor yes!), Method Man and an Olsen twin and this should be interesting. Even if its dripping in wack juice the soundtrack is gonna be tight and we’ve got the official movie mixtape mixed by D-Nice and a bootleg to boot.

Official tape on the DL

Bootleg

on the DL

Popularity: 69% [?]

Edited: October 2nd, 2008