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Boot Camp Clik

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    May 3, 2012

    Q&A: Blockhead On Public Access, The Baby Show, And Learning About Sex From Channel J

    "Public access was a platform for the weirdest New Yorkers who had any sort of gumption to create," says Blockhead, a hip-hop producer whose new album on the Ninja Tune label, Interludes After Midnight, is named in homage to a late-night show on channel 35 that just so happened to be hooked around t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    A Dissenting Opinion: Let's Quit It With The Live Performances Of "Classic" Hip-Hop Albums

    Back in 2007, All Tomorrow's Parties and the Pitchfork Music Festival decided that getting GZA, the Wu-Tang Clan's resident rhyme scholar, to reenact his crime rhyme masterpiece Liquid Swords in full was a good idea. And it probably was—once, maybe twice. But the third time removed the charm. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Live: Black Moon Bring Enta Da Stage To Southpaw

    Black Moon Southpaw Wednesday, August 17 Better than: Funkmaster Flex's 2007 Fourth of July weekend '90s marathon mix. 1993 was a very good year for hip-hop. Wu-Tang Clan, Souls of Mischief, Lords of the Underground, and the under-recognized Rumpletilskinz all made their debuts, while Cypress Hil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    The Top Ten "Otis" Freestyles

    ​ In the run-up to yesterday's release of Watch The Throne, the project's first official single, the Otis Redding-sampling "Otis," was re-done and freestyled over by many a rapper. So to tide you over until the physical version of Watch The Throne (packaged with a bonus CD-ROM containing a vec ... 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

    February 15, 2011

    Top Five Young, Hometown-Obsessed New York City Rappers

    Roc Marciano, leading the charge​Last year a small, underground pocket of NYC-based hip-hop found its voice again. With Roc Marciano's unimpeachable Marcberg album as the catalyst, a crew of loosely associated artists shook off that tired cliché about our city's commercial-outsider status and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Top Ten Greatest Rap-Acronym Anthems

    ​Kanye West and Jay-Z's Lex Luger-produced "H.A.M." is a creative union of the two biggest currently recording rap stars in the world -- as the lead single to the duo's upcoming Watch the Throne project, it's a feisty statement of intent. But more importantly, it's a fresh edition to the canon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2010

    Download: Skyzoo and !llmind, "Speakers on Blast"

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Fuck chillwave. Brooklyn rapper Skyzoo and producer !llmind have your tape-damaged nostalgia fix without any Peter Pan hysterics or lazy mush. Their full-length collaboration Live From The Tape Deck ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2010

    Is Kingmaking At CMJ A Real Thing Or An Act of Futility? Our Critics Discuss

    Titus Andronicus play Webster Hall during last year's CMJ. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​Ah, the first day of CMJ: a moment of optimism, possibility, and prophecy. Even now every website and publication with any kind of music-related bent is scrambling to post guides and predictions, links to MySpac ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 6, 2010

    RAPPER’S DELIGHT

    CMJ kicks off with a hip-hop reunion

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    The Top Ten Rap Supergroups That Never Happened

    Over the weekend, the rapper Sean Price took to Twitter to propose a collaboration album between his own Brooklyn-based Boot Camp Clik hip-hop crew and Staten Island's mighty Wu-Tang Clan. The idea has been received rapturously. But then again, theoretical hip-hop supergroups usually are. Rap's hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Presenting "The 25 Greatest Boot Camp Clik Songs Of All Time," Another Fine (If Click-Intensive) Complex.com List

    ​Fresh off their triumphant Tunnel Bangers countdown comes another Complex.com list celebrating the glory days of New York rap, this one focused on Boot Camp Clik, Brooklyn's eight-man mid-'90s supergroup. Rest assured Black Moon's "Who Got the Props" does very well. Writer Andrew Nosnitsky of ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 11, 2009

    De La Soul

    ​Fresh off their triumphant Tunnel Bangers countdown comes another Complex.com list celebrating the glory days of New York rap, this one focused on Boot Camp Clik, Brooklyn's eight-man mid-'90s supergroup. Rest assured Black Moon's "Who Got the Props" does very well. Writer Andrew Nosnitsky of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2008

    Indie-Rap Survives the Crash

    ​Fresh off their triumphant Tunnel Bangers countdown comes another Complex.com list celebrating the glory days of New York rap, this one focused on Boot Camp Clik, Brooklyn's eight-man mid-'90s supergroup. Rest assured Black Moon's "Who Got the Props" does very well. Writer Andrew Nosnitsky of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2007

    DJ Quik Sells Out?

    ​Fresh off their triumphant Tunnel Bangers countdown comes another Complex.com list celebrating the glory days of New York rap, this one focused on Boot Camp Clik, Brooklyn's eight-man mid-'90s supergroup. Rest assured Black Moon's "Who Got the Props" does very well. Writer Andrew Nosnitsky of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2007

    Live: Twista and Black Moon Rap for Olde English

    ​Fresh off their triumphant Tunnel Bangers countdown comes another Complex.com list celebrating the glory days of New York rap, this one focused on Boot Camp Clik, Brooklyn's eight-man mid-'90s supergroup. Rest assured Black Moon's "Who Got the Props" does very well. Writer Andrew Nosnitsky of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2007

    Boot Camp Clik: Definant Consistency

    ​Fresh off their triumphant Tunnel Bangers countdown comes another Complex.com list celebrating the glory days of New York rap, this one focused on Boot Camp Clik, Brooklyn's eight-man mid-'90s supergroup. Rest assured Black Moon's "Who Got the Props" does very well. Writer Andrew Nosnitsky of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2007

    The Quarterly Report: Best New Albums

    ​Fresh off their triumphant Tunnel Bangers countdown comes another Complex.com list celebrating the glory days of New York rap, this one focused on Boot Camp Clik, Brooklyn's eight-man mid-'90s supergroup. Rest assured Black Moon's "Who Got the Props" does very well. Writer Andrew Nosnitsky of ... More >>

  • Music

    August 23, 2005

    A Thing About Fire

    Despite all kinds of dissonance, Jamaican dancehall don smokes

  • News

    April 13, 2004

    Rap, Rage, REDvolution

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

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