Music

B. Cox reminisces about Jay-Z’s eight album The Black Album as it turns 20. Heading into this album, it was being touted as Jay-Z last album as he was to “retire” to take up the mantle of president of Def Jam Records after the album was released. The news and […]

In a bonus Segment of Cards, Dominoes, Drinks & Smoke, the crew discusses how the prevalence of new rap groups has disappeared over the last two decades. Hip-Hop was a culture that started largely with groups and crews. They ruled during the first 30 years of hip-hop. Why has the […]

B.Cox looks back at Mobb Deep’s 1995 landmark album The Infamous, which launched the duo to the forefront of the reemergence of East Coast Rap and the New York hip-hop scene and continued the tidal wave with gritty tales of street life and the ills of ghetto.  Visit The Vault […]

The crew looks back at Common’s second album Resurrection to see how his partnership with No. ID and improvement on his debut album would lead him to an impressive run through the rest of the 90s and the early 2000s.  Visit The Vault Classic Music Reviews Online www.vaultclassicpod.com Join our Private […]

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 […]