MC Serch & Pete Nice Reunite 3rd Bass After Years Of Conflict
3rd Bass is celebrating the 35th anniversary of their debut, “The Cactus Album,” which arrived via Def Jam Recordings/Columbia Records in November 1989.

EXCLUSIVE! Paris Talks White Privilege, Cultural Gatekeepers, & Respect in Rap
PARIS BREAKS DOWN WHITE PRIVILEGE & BROACHES HOW TO HEAL HIP-HOP.

Former 3rd Bass Member Pleads Guilty To Tax Fraud
PRIME MINISTER PETE NICE IN TROUBLE FOR TAX EVASION

Like Fine Wine, These Get Better with Age: The 10 Best Rap Albums from 1989
25 years is a long time. 300 months. 9,125 days. It is a true testament to anything when it is still as highly regarded now as it was a quarter of a century ago when it was first introduced. And Hip-Hop is an accelerated art form, so for music from that culture to have maintained […]

Greg Mack Shares More KDAY History and Discusses Racism In Radio
We now conclude our two-part story with radio legend Greg Mack and for those who might dispute that, yes he is a legend. Back before the artists that you now refer to as legends became legends, they needed a home to be heard and 1580 KDAY was that place whether it was an East Coast […]

The Gentrification of Rap: Did Hip-Hop Sell Us Out ?
“a.k.a. a sellout /rap definition/get off that boy/change your mission” – “Crossover”, EPMD Although broken glass was everywhere, unemployment was at a record high and 911 was a joke, Clive Saddler’s Sedgwick Avenue neighborhood was not the jungle the media portrayed; it was home and full of promise. But everyday the six o’clock news would […]