Music

In a special bonus episode, the crew takes time out to memorialize a fallen legend. Earl Simmons bka DMX, who passed away at the age of 50 after being in a vegetative state after a heart attack. He was a transcendent emcee and artist that ushered hip-hop back into the […]

B. Cox and J. Owe review Brand Nubian’s debut effort One For All; an almost completely self-produced effort that infused soul, jazz and funk samples around rhymes that interspersed between politically and socially charged verses and fun loving lyrics familiar to hip-hop at the beginning of 1990s. Visit The Vault […]

B. Cox and J. Owe look back at at the momentous occasion of Snoop Doggy Dogg’s classic debut album Doggystyle as it turns 30. Fresh off the heels of his breakthrough performance on several tracks on Dr. Dre’s The Chronic released not even a year prior, he set to set […]

The crew reviews Raekwon’s pivotal 1995 debut album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… also more popularly known in hip-hop circles as “The Purple Tape” known for its distinctive color of the original cassette tape release. It was a project that innovated the Mafioso rap sub genre with tales of street […]

B.Cox looks back at Public Enemy’s politically charged third studio album 1990’s Fear Of A Black Planet and how its production, lyrics, themes and ideologies built on their predecessor classic It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back.  Visit The Vault Classic Music Reviews Online www.vaultclassicpod.com Join our […]

The crew looks back at Queen Latifah’s landmark 1989 debut album All Hail The Queen: how she set the standard for Female MCs for years to come and how it launched her career as an entertainment powerhouse and icon for the next 30 years.  Visit The Vault Classic Music Reviews […]

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 […]

In a bonus episode, B. Cox sorts through some of his favorite and memorable hip-hop posse cuts of the 1990s. *We did not include Wu-Tang Clan and its individual members’ albums that could have memorable posse cuts as we determined that they could warrant a standalone bonus episode in the […]

In this bonus segment of Pop Culture Corner, B. Cox looks back at that the black romantic comedy that was Brown Sugar as it turns 20. The film, which co-starred Sanaa Lathan and Taye Diggs, as lifelong friends who fell in love with hip-hop (and each other) as kids, now […]