Here we have some interviews with Q-Tip & Busta Rhymes, and their music video “Thank You”. First up is an interview with Q-Tip and Elliott Wilson, on the future of ATCQ, the legacy of ATCQ, his future projects such as his upcoming The Last Zulu album, producing on Kanye West’s next album, and The Abstract and The Dragon project with Busta Rhymes. Next up is a behind the scenes interview with Q-Tip & Busta Rhymes on the making of the song “Thank You”. …
Tag: Hip Hop
The super Hip-Hop duo Killer Mike & El-P as Run The Jewels are a match made in Hip-Hop heaven. Both are skilled emcees, with El-P handling the dope production. But that’s not all, they impart humor, socio-cultural analysis, and life advice as well. In the recent past we’ve seen things from big name artist like Jay-Z and R Kelly’s Best of Both Worlds, and Kanye & Jay-Z’s Watch The Throne. Not to mention lesser known duo’s like KRS-One and Buck Shot as Survival …
This is an interview KRS One did recently in Switzerland, conducted by johnSF88. He talks about Hip-Hop’s ancient origins, knowledge of self, the current state of Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop in corporate environments, and new ideas that he’s currently spearheading. He asks Hip-Hop heads to question him, and not take him at his word, it’s his “Philosophy.” You gotta check it out to see if it matches your’s (gnosis/scientific). Me personally, KRS talks here about free education being important (I concur) but he mentions this …
Russell Simmons tried to promote “Horrorcore” as a new Hip Hop sub-genre in the 90s, here with his group The Flatlinerz. They put out an album called U.S.A (Under Satan’s Authority). At the time of this promotion, their had already existed other groups who touch on dark, violent, nihilistic subject matters. For example you had the Geto Boys, Kool Keith, Esham, Dre Dog (Andre Nickatina), Brotha Lynch Hung, Tech N9ne, Bone Thugs n Harmony, The Gravediggaz (RZA and Prince Paul side project), …
Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes have been long time collaborators through out their careers, ever since Busta, along with his crew Leaders of the New School appeared on A Tribe Called Quest’s classic posse cut “Scenario” (1992). As a treat for fans around this holiday season, on this 20th anniversary of ATCQ’s Midnight Marauders (1993), Q-tip and Busta decided to collaborate once again as a duo and not as leaders of two seminal Hip Hop groups from the late 80’s, early 90’s. They …
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