#dismasters

For The Purpose Of Having A Real MC Fight

White guys used to say that rap sucked, but now they say that new rap sucks; that’s better, I guess. (Give this one a chance, seriously: it’s killer.)

Choice’s “Payback” and the New School Roxanne

If you’re gonna pick a fight, make sure you can knock ’em out. So was the mission of Choice when she basically took on the biggest names in late-80s hip hop with her brazen attacks on the Geto Boys (who were her freaking label mates), NWA and Too $hort. It was vaguely reminiscent of the early Roxanne Wars where women were asserting themselves against their male counterparts, but noticeably…

Son.of.Byford’s Ninth Best Hip Hop Album of 1989

9 Dismasters’ And Then Some

This was easily the biggest sleeper album of 1989 hip hop. There is nothing about this album that would have clued me in to its genius nor to the fact that it is arguably the perfect hip hop album. It has everything: the diss track, the house track, the track about a girl, the message track, etc. Raven T and the late Mike Ski probably have some of the best emcee…

Son.of.Byford Presents Neckwork III: 1989.2

Available for download (mp3) HERE

Seriously tough to be all cool when you get 100 Facebook likes. Being that we represent 1989, it’s hard to know what those 100 likes get you, but we feel it’s worth giving you something back. Today, we present you Neckwork III (1989 Continued). It’s one hour of 1989 lusciousness. De La Soul, Queen Latifah, The D.O.C., Dismasters, Jungle Brothers, the Beasties. I…

For Doz That Slept on 1989: Neckwork II

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Neckwork II (1989) by Sonsofbyford on Mixcloud

They forgot about ’89. They often do. They front on Chubb Rock, Willie D, Kool G Rap and Posdnous. They sleep on entire scenes. Those…