Email Author Jon Caramanica

1999 Stories by Jon Caramanica

• Jay-Z's Hard-Knock Week

  published December 14, 1999

  If I shoot you, I'm brainless. But if you shoot me, you're famous. What's a nigga to do? When the streets is watching, blocks keep clocking.... More >>

• Jay-Z’s Hard Knock Week

  published December 7, 1999

  If I shoot you, I'm brainless. But if you shoot me, you're famous. What's a nigga to do? When the streets is watching, blocks keep clocking.... More >>

• The Russian Is Coming, Percussion Is Coming!

  published November 30, 1999

  In England, a country fanatical about beats, homegrown hip-hoppers are criminally underrespected. While speed garage, drum'n'bass and the much... More >>

• The Russian Is Coming, Percussion Is Coming!

  published November 23, 1999

  In England, a country fanatical about beats, homegrown hip-hoppers are criminally underrespected. While speed garage, drum'n'bass, and the much... More >>

• Big Poppa, Little Willies

  published August 31, 1999

  When Biggie Smalls--né Christopher Wallace--was murdered two and a half years ago in Los Angeles, he didn't leave behind the sort of... More >>

• It's Nation Time. Again.

  published August 31, 1999

  This past weekend, a contingent of American rappers and activists boarded a plane for Havana to participate in the fifth Cuban rap festival and... More >>