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Doug E. Fresh

  • Voice Choices

    November 2, 2011

    PLANET ROCK

    The Zulu Nation celebrates its 38th anniversary

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Ten Hip-Hop Covers Of Rap Songs

    ​Last week, the Detroit-based rapper and one-time J Dilla collaborator Elzhi released Elmatic. It's the second time a rapper has re-written and re-made Nas's hallowed Illmatic, with Fashawn attempting a similar feat last year. As a listening experience, Elmatic is less than convincing, leaving ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 5, 2011

    Slick Rick

    ​Last week, the Detroit-based rapper and one-time J Dilla collaborator Elzhi released Elmatic. It's the second time a rapper has re-written and re-made Nas's hallowed Illmatic, with Fashawn attempting a similar feat last year. As a listening experience, Elmatic is less than convincing, leaving ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    The Most Overlooked Tracks of 2010: El Debarge Featuring Fabolous, Quadron, Travie McCoy Featuring Cee-Lo

    ​Our look back at all things 2010 continues this week as we highlight some of the year's most overlooked tracks. In this edition: different shades of soul.

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2010

    SOTC Nightlife Awards: The Best Parties of 2010, Featuring Q-Tip, Let's Play House, Jelly NYC, and More

    The crowd at Let's Play House, our favorite wandering house party. Photo by John Barclay.​Before we sink into holiday hibernation, we thought we'd take a moment to reflect on our exploits, and present to you our very own 2010 SOTC Nightlife Awards. Below, our fourth installment examines the ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    The 2010 Media Holiday Party Circuit Crash-Map

    ​For my second-to-last Press Clips, Day 27, we have a very, very special treat. Every year, many of the New York-based media companies who produce a large portion of American media that is consumed across the country gather after months of conspiring...to get shitface drunk. Behold:

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Doug E. Fresh Finally Gets It Together (Badah Badah Badha) at Harlem Restaurant

    ​At Doug E.'s, chicken and waffles will set you back $8. Rapper, human beatbox, and scientologist Doug E. Fresh wanted to start a restaurant as a source of employment and training for youth in his Harlem neighborhood. In April, 2007, a store at the corner of 132nd and Adam Clayton Powell appe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2010

    GOOD Friday: Kanye West, Pusha T and Friends Misbehave on "Take One for the Team"

    ​It's oddly appropriate, though almost certainly not intentional, that the week rumors started to spread about naked photos of Kanye West, he releases his raunchiest GOOD Friday track yet. Of course, he pretty much told us this was going to happen. "I sent this girl a picture of my dick," he a ... More >>

  • Dance

    September 15, 2010

    Noémie Lafrance’s Melt Ends the Summer, DanceNow Heralds the Fall

    Gooey doings under the Manhattan Bridge, plus a choreography sampler at DTW

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    Gucci Mane, DMC, Andrew W.K., Cool Kids, Big Freedia, Tim Harrington, And Doug E. Fresh Played The Last Jelly Pool Party, Possibly Ever

    And so it ends, the fifth and most calamitous season of Jelly Pool Parties, with a finale abruptly canceled and grudgingly reinstated, in the end overloaded with a semi-secret parade of random-ass rappers, semi-secretly headlined by your friend and mine Gucci Mane. Never has the line "I don't wear ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Week in Review: Sign of Victory

    One of these dudes is noticeably less enthusiastic than all the other dudes. Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith​In the week we interviewed an actual fitness instructor about the theoretical plausibility of exercising to Sleigh Bells, we also penned a Twitter-based ode to Erykah Badu's habitual latenes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Live: Galactic (And Doug E. Fresh) Bring New Orleans To Brooklyn Bowl

    Intense bass warning. Galactic Brooklyn Bowl Friday, June 4 If this was a scene from Treme, it'd play as farce: real New Orleans dudes playing real New Orleans music... in a snazzy, opulent, achingly hip Brooklyn bowling alley. We'd be mocked as clueless, unappreciative cultural tourists who woul ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 22, 2009

    'Hip-Hop Legends Concert Series IV'

    Intense bass warning. Galactic Brooklyn Bowl Friday, June 4 If this was a scene from Treme, it'd play as farce: real New Orleans dudes playing real New Orleans music... in a snazzy, opulent, achingly hip Brooklyn bowling alley. We'd be mocked as clueless, unappreciative cultural tourists who woul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2008

    No Context: Time in the Wild, The Jammys

    Intense bass warning. Galactic Brooklyn Bowl Friday, June 4 If this was a scene from Treme, it'd play as farce: real New Orleans dudes playing real New Orleans music... in a snazzy, opulent, achingly hip Brooklyn bowling alley. We'd be mocked as clueless, unappreciative cultural tourists who woul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 10, 2007

    Photos: MC Hammer, MC Lyte at Wingate Field, 07.09.07

    Intense bass warning. Galactic Brooklyn Bowl Friday, June 4 If this was a scene from Treme, it'd play as farce: real New Orleans dudes playing real New Orleans music... in a snazzy, opulent, achingly hip Brooklyn bowling alley. We'd be mocked as clueless, unappreciative cultural tourists who woul ... More >>

  • Music

    July 10, 2007

    The Show Must Go On and On and On

    Doug E. Fresh leads a delighted Brooklyn crowd down a Frosted Flake–filled memory lane

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2007

    The American Idol Finale: A Running Diary

    Doug E. Fresh leads a delighted Brooklyn crowd down a Frosted Flake–filled memory lane

  • Music

    May 1, 2007

    The Fall of a Perfect Dive

    With Siberia closing for good, we restrain the urge to vomit one last glorious time

  • Music

    January 9, 2007

    Slick Trouble

    The government's determination to deport old-school rapper Slick Rick knows no bounds

  • Music

    November 28, 2006

    Lips Inc.

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

  • NYC Life

    July 25, 2006

    Thursday 8/3

    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.

  • Music

    September 13, 2005

    Pulling the White Strings

    Light-skinned acts ride hip-hop’s changing tide with dark-skinned Svengalis

  • NYC Life

    June 14, 2005

    Mixed Up

    Bust at Mondo Kim's exposes record-industry hypocrisy

  • Music

    February 8, 2005

    Pirates of the Caribbean

    Record execs hoist soca as the island flavor of the season

  • News

    September 7, 2004

    Join the Party: A Politically Charged Bash Ignites the Movement

    Record execs hoist soca as the island flavor of the season

  • News

    April 22, 2003

    Party Patrol

    A New Federal Law Could Spoil Your Summer Fun

  • News

    November 5, 2002

    When I Reminisce

    Hip-hop Movies Mythologize the Age of Innocence

  • Film

    October 8, 2002

    Could Be Verse

    Hip-hop Movies Mythologize the Age of Innocence

  • News

    July 16, 2002

    The Neverland Music Summit

    Sharpton's Confab Charges Music-Money Apartheid

  • Film

    March 5, 2002

    The Targets Shoot First

    Sharpton's Confab Charges Music-Money Apartheid

  • Music

    July 10, 2001

    Music

    Sharpton's Confab Charges Music-Money Apartheid

  • News

    March 6, 2001

    A Gangsta’s Prayer

    Shyne’s Bible Is His First Line of Defense

  • Music

    March 6, 2001

    Music

    Shyne’s Bible Is His First Line of Defense

  • NYC Life

    February 27, 2001

    Live and Erect

    Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action

  • Music

    February 13, 2001

    Me and the Devil Blues

    Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action

  • News

    December 21, 1999

    The Harlem Shuffle

    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Boulevard

  • Film

    October 5, 1999

    Corn Doggy Dogg

    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Boulevard

  • Music

    January 5, 1999

    Stardust Memories

    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Boulevard

  • Music

    October 13, 1998

    Do for Self

    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Boulevard

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