Music

B. Cox and Domo fondly recollect on Toni Braxton’s classic self-titled debut album as it turns 30. The Maryland native, who started in an R&B group with her now famous sisters, made her name first known after her standout performances on the wildly popular Boomerang Original Soundtrack the previous year […]

B. Cox is joined by NaturallyAlise and JR of the R&B Representers to review SWV’s debut classic album It’s About Time as it turns 30. The crew is also joined with a very special guest appearance by Brian Alexander Morgan, one of the album’s principal producers and co-writers. As R&B […]

B. Cox welcomes back in Charlee D of the Word To The Mutha Podcast to the show to review the original soundtrack to the black romantic comedy Boomerang. The film starring an all-star cast of Eddie Murphy, Halle Berry, Robin Givens, David Alan Grier, Martin Lawrence, Chris Rock and the […]

B. Cox is joined by Charlee D. of the Word To The Mutha Podcast as they review TLC’s debut album, 1992’s Ooooooohhh…On The TLC Tip. After forming as a group in Atlanta in the early 90s under the tutelage of writer and producer Dallas Austin, TLC burst on to the […]

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 welcomes special guest 12Kyle of the 12Kyle Podcast to review De La Soul’s seemingly prophetic fourth album Stakes Is High. It was their first album without the production prowess of Prince Paul, who helmed their first three projects. Faced both with the uncertainty of their recording career after […]

B. Cox and Domo review Maxwell’s groundbreaking and culture-shifting debut album Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite. It was an album that signaled a paradigm shift from R&B music of the day that featured a more hip-hop sound back to a traditional feel that combined soul, jazz and funk in a way […]

n this two-part “Throwback Edition” bonus episode of Cards, Dominoes, Drinks & Smoke, B. Cox takes on a journey in his past. In Part 1-The ’95th Element, he talks about how the summer of 1995 and a bond of friendship based on music and hip-hop culture, coupled with a banner […]

The crew reviews the almighty Wu-Tang Clan and their iconic classic debut album Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) as it turns 30. After doing what seemed the impossible to assemble a supergroup of emcees hailing from Staten Island and Brooklyn, the collective gained major notoriety with their debut single “Protect […]