Music

B. Cox looks back on Ludacris’ sophomore album Word of Mouf as it turns 20. After a commercially successful debut the previous year, the Atlanta emcee burst onto the scene with an equally, if not more impressive follow up. Keeping up with his theme of being braggadocios, witty and comedic […]

B. Cox & J. Owe review Mobb Deep’s third album Hell On Earth. After releasing their sophomore classic, 1995’s The Infamous, to critical acclaim and rave reviews, the duo from Queensbridge followed up the next year with an equally strong effort to announce their intention to be in the game […]

The crew reviews Lil’ Kim’s debut album Hardcore. The highly anticipated debut came on the heels of her being a focal point of Junior M.A.F.I.A’s debut the previous year. Unleashing a torrid assault of hardcore lyrics mixed with sexually explicit scenarios and lines that could rival any of her male […]

B. Cox & J. Owe look back at the late Tupac Shakur’s (recording under the alias Makaveli) fifth studio album and his first posthumous album The Don Killuminati-The 7 Day Theory. Released on Death Row Records not even two months after his fatal shooting in Las Vegas which shook up […]

B. Cox & J. Owe review Ice Cube’s classic, but controversial second album Death Certificate. After splitting with NWA and dropping his highly acclaimed debut AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, Cube followed up with a busy 1991 starting his label, kicking off the careers of fellow West Coast emcees Yo-Yo and Del […]

The crew take a look back at Wu Tang Clan crew member Ghostface Killah’s debut classic album Ironman. After a four year run of excellence that started with the group’s groundshifting debut Enter the 36 Chambers followed up by acclaimed solo releases by various group members, the release by the […]

It’s a bonus episode of ‘Cards, Dominoes, Drinks & Smoke’! In this episode, B.Cox and Domo discuss old school southern hip-hop and break it down by Region: SouthEast, Mid-South, and the Gulf Coast aka 3rd Coast. They talk about which acts from each region were their favorites and which region […]

B. Cox reviews A Tribe Called Quest’s seismic second album The Low End Theory as it turns 30. Fresh of their successful debut People’s Instinctive Travels And Their Paths of Rhythm, the quartet-turned-trio from Queens sought to make a deeper impact on their sophomore album. Buoyed by the presence of […]

B. Cox reviews The Roots’ third studio album, 1996’s Illadelph Halflife. After a respectable success and notoriety from their sophomore offering Do You Want More?!!!???!, the hip-hop band and outfit from Philadelphia found themselves moving a little bit away from their live instrumentation 100 percent output and experimented with samples […]