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Biz Markie

  • Music

    May 23, 2012

    Midyear Report: 12 for '12

    A dozen of the best singles from the year so far

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    This Week in the Voice: OBIES 2012

    This week in the Voice, out today, Michael Feingold says in his essay on the OBIES that Broadway kinda sucks: "Sitting through Man and Superman and The Caretaker, after a week that had included Ghost, Don't Dress for Dinner, and Leap of Faith, I realized that I didn't hate theatergoing at all: I jus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    12 For '12: A Dozen Songs From This Year That You Should Hear Right Now

    In this week's Voice I offered up a midseason report of sorts, listing 12 particularly outstanding tracks from this year. Here, for your listening pleasure, are the 12 songs in streamable form (via a combination of YouTube and Soundcloud so as to not lock anyone—or any songs—out). Happy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    Three Rappers Who Should Be The Center Square For MTV2's Hollywood Squares Reboot (And One Who Definitely Should Not)

    Next month MTV2 will debut Hip-Hop Squares, a rap-centric takeoff on the "tic-tac-toe with trivia and celebrities" game show Hollywood Squares. (The non-genre-specific version of the show aired its last episode in 2004.) The show will be hosted by Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg, and MTV has announced a fe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    Laura Nyro (10) And Paul Simon (2) Take SOTC's March Madness Tournament Down By The Schoolyard

    ​Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week. Today, all the remaining contenders in the Uptown division battle it out in the Round of 32. Keep up with all the action here. In a stunning upset, No. 10 seed Laura Nyro has upended the brackets ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire Gets Down With His Duality

    ​"You got to ask my mother that. You wanna call her? Come on, let's call her." It's a rain-sodden Thanksgiving's eve and Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire's goddaughter has just turned up at his Crown Heights apartment. Her appearance prompts the question of what the rapper himself was like as a kid� ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Beyond Jay And Kanye's Throne: Ten More Regal Seats In Hip-Hop

    Coming to an arena near you this weekend: Jay-Z and Kanye West. ​Kanye West and Jay-Z's grandiose Watch The Throne tour comes to the New York City area tomorrow, and sticks around through next week—the pair perform at the Izod Center on Saturday and Sunday, and at Madison Square Garden o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    Ten Highly Entertaining Videos By Biz Markie

    ​Biz Markie is hip-hop's most brilliant buffoon. An adept beatboxer, endearingly entertaining rapper, and deliberately awful singer, Biz coined classics during hip-hop's late-'80s golden era and rolled with Marley Marl's almighty Juice Crew. Then he pulled his biggest prank: sampling and getti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Ten Great Neighborhood-Specific Brooklyn Rap Anthems

    ​This Saturday, the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival will conclude with shows by Brownsville's mighty M.O.P., who will perform their rambunctious brand of rap down under the Brooklyn Bridge, and, er, noted Queens representer Q-Tip. Rappers from Brooklyn have never been shy about proclaiming their her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Blue Note Records' Ten Best Sample Sources

    Blue Note's cover art: Also an inspiration. (Original on the left, homage on the right.)​Hip-hop artists have never been shy about sampling songs from the vaults of the Blue Note jazz label, and few have pilfered with as much creativity and gusto as A Tribe Called Quest's one-time de facto lea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #10: Name The Hosts Of Yo! MTV Raps

    ​Recently our hackles were raised after a concerned Park Slope resident (or, as reports increasingly indicate, a gifted troll) sent out a petition hoping to keep a new club from playing the hip-hop music (gasp!) in yuppietacular Brooklyn. We could not imagine the anarchy if rap music ever hit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    The Top Ten Best Worst Singing Rappers

    ​These days, there's nothing attention grabbing about rappers who sing, whether it's Andre 3000's amped squawk, an Auto-Tune-enabled Kanye West, or Lil Wayne's upcoming Riker's Island shower room spirituals. This week the canon sees new album additions from one-time Goodie Mob member Cee-Lo Gr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    Live: Matt & Kim Bring Their Nuclear-Powered Cheerfulness To Webster Hall

    ENTHUSIASM. Pics by Rob, more below.​Matt & Kim Webster Hall Wednesday, October 27 Better than: Most other "don't-worry-be-happy"-type situations. "I'm going to refer to this Wednesday night as 'Friday night' from now on!" shouts Matt, as the young-and-pretty Webster Hall crowd roars and Kim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Live: Biz Markie Regales A Bunch Of Ad-Agency People, And Why Not

    The maddest man of all. Pics by Chris, more below.​Ad Week is over, but you'd never know it from the glut of agency parties happening constantly around town. If it's a weeknight and you're looking for something to do, just talk to your closest ad buddy, because chances are they can break you i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Live From The Bizarre But Much-Improved Paper Magazine Nightlife Awards

    Mia Moretti, co-winner, Best DJ (seriously). Pics by Puja, more below.​"There's nothing that says 'party' and 'class' like a bomb-shelter basement in Midtown," joked drag comedian Murray Hill last night. "This is bullshit!" It was one of the many loving jabs taken at the sixth-annual Paper Mag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Week in Review: Apollo Kids

    ​In the week one of this blog's authors inspired a short play about juggalo zombies and Lady Gaga, we celebrated by announcing the 2010 Village Voice/Redeye Distribution Day Party, featuring the great Marnie Stern, Hooray For Earth, and a bunch of others, including a wonderful special secret g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2010

    Ten Pioneering Pieces Of Hip-Hop Street Art

    Jean-Michel Basquiat, Triple Self Portrait. All images courtesy the Eric Firestone Gallery.​Street art has enjoyed a steady resurgence in rap over the last few years, with Kanye West and the Clipse jostling to let KAWS design their album and magazine covers, 50 Cent and Busta Rhymes appearing ... More >>

  • Music

    March 24, 2010

    Take Donald Glover, Aziz Ansari, and Das Racist's Joke Rap Seriously

    A new generation of MCs grapple with how funny they're allowed to be

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Adam Green Playing "Surprise" Full-Band Show $6 Tonight at Lit Lounge

    Should you be in the mood this evening for a sloppy tribute to Billy Corgan's GF, a Biz Markie cover, being called a "barbarian," or nonsensical asides about things like Stinky the Ferret or leaky flasks, get yourself to Lit Lounge tonight where ex-Moldy Peach wiseacre Adam Green is playing a $6 " ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 18, 2009

    Biz Markie+Lost Boyz+Rakim

    Should you be in the mood this evening for a sloppy tribute to Billy Corgan's GF, a Biz Markie cover, being called a "barbarian," or nonsensical asides about things like Stinky the Ferret or leaky flasks, get yourself to Lit Lounge tonight where ex-Moldy Peach wiseacre Adam Green is playing a $6 " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    Lissy Trullie EP Gets A Release Date

    After playing the same lovely set of songs at a various spots in downtown NYC for the last handful of years, sometime-model and fashion plate Lissy Trullie finally has a record label, a studio EP, and a release date. Her Self-Taught Learner, named for the dreamily calm track that remains her best ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2008

    Live: Adam Green and Lissy Trullie Cover Biz Markie at Santos

    After playing the same lovely set of songs at a various spots in downtown NYC for the last handful of years, sometime-model and fashion plate Lissy Trullie finally has a record label, a studio EP, and a release date. Her Self-Taught Learner, named for the dreamily calm track that remains her best ... More >>

  • Music

    October 8, 2008

    VHI and Slick Rick, Together at Last at Hip-Hop Honors

    The channel's cheerfully confounding tribute to rap's golden oldies

  • Music

    August 5, 2008

    A Running Diary of Hip-Hop Superfest Rock the Bells

    The exquisite joys of a sunny Sunday afternoon on the LIRR, Mos Def's basketball uniform, and De La Soul's late-'80s nostalgia

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2007

    CityParks Summer Concerts: Performers So Old School They Used To Gang Bang With the Flintstones

    The exquisite joys of a sunny Sunday afternoon on the LIRR, Mos Def's basketball uniform, and De La Soul's late-'80s nostalgia

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2007

    Tonight: ESPN2's It's The Shoes Host Bobbito Garcia @ APT

    The exquisite joys of a sunny Sunday afternoon on the LIRR, Mos Def's basketball uniform, and De La Soul's late-'80s nostalgia

  • Music

    November 28, 2006

    Lips Inc.

    Hip-hop disrespects them. Subway patrons love them. Beatboxers make some serious noise.

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2005

    Video Game Music Supervisor: Best Job Ever?

    Hip-hop disrespects them. Subway patrons love them. Beatboxers make some serious noise.

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2005

    Ghostface: Best Rapper Ever?

    Hip-hop disrespects them. Subway patrons love them. Beatboxers make some serious noise.

  • Books

    March 15, 2005

    Sample Sale

    Too much joy: Who gets royalties from 'Happy Birthday'?

  • News

    December 28, 2004

    Hiphop Turns 30

    Whatcha celebratin' for?

  • News

    April 13, 2004

    Rap, Rage, REDvolution

    As hip-hop emerges as an empowering voice for indigenous youth, mainstream rappers still objectify Indian country

  • NYC Life

    December 23, 2003

    Listings

    As hip-hop emerges as an empowering voice for indigenous youth, mainstream rappers still objectify Indian country

  • News

    April 22, 2003

    Party Patrol

    A New Federal Law Could Spoil Your Summer Fun

  • Music

    December 31, 2002

    Songs in the Key of Z

    A New Federal Law Could Spoil Your Summer Fun

  • News

    October 8, 2002

    The Blessed Version

    Let One Hundred Edits Bloom

  • Film

    March 5, 2002

    The Targets Shoot First

    Let One Hundred Edits Bloom

  • News

    July 10, 2001

    Party Over Here!

    Let One Hundred Edits Bloom

  • Music

    July 10, 2001

    Music

    Let One Hundred Edits Bloom

  • Music

    March 27, 2001

    Vibrators

    Let One Hundred Edits Bloom

  • Music

    May 16, 2000

    Mental Machine Music

    Let One Hundred Edits Bloom

  • Music

    October 26, 1999

    A to the B

    Let One Hundred Edits Bloom

  • Long Island Voice

    September 14, 1999

    We got your hip-hop hall of fame

    Let One Hundred Edits Bloom

  • Music

    August 17, 1999

    Gag Reflex, 35 Cents Off

    Let One Hundred Edits Bloom

  • Music

    August 17, 1999

    Zooted, Blooted, Sclamslooted

    Let One Hundred Edits Bloom

  • Music

    August 3, 1999

    Pretty Fly as You Feel

    Let One Hundred Edits Bloom

  • Music

    March 2, 1999

    The Director's Cut

    Let One Hundred Edits Bloom

  • Music

    March 2, 1999

    Two Realists

    Let One Hundred Edits Bloom

  • Music

    December 15, 1998

    Consumer Guide

    Six of these 12 picks recast known compositions, and only two of the six are in the rock tradition. But I did find one medium-obscure alt band worth writing about. One.

  • Music

    September 15, 1998

    Words Worth

    Six of these 12 picks recast known compositions, and only two of the six are in the rock tradition. But I did find one medium-obscure alt band worth writing about. One.

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