Music

B. Cox and Domo reminisce about Reflection Eternal’s soulful, yet powerful 2000 debut classic album Train of Thought. It was album that nodded heads, shook spirits and educated minds about the battle for the soul of hip-hop and Black America at the turn of the new millennium. It was a […]

Reunited!!! The crew is back together once again. They take a look back at the Slum Village’s 2000 “cult classic turned classic” second album Fantastic Vol. 2 and how a largely obscure underground group of talented emcees and a producer, in J. Dilla who would grow in legend, crafted one […]

The crew revisits the revolutionary group Dead Prez’s 2000 debut Let’s Get Free and discuss its themes of Pan-Africanism, self empowerment, anti-establishment, holistic eating and knowledge of self that are still cautions to the ills of Black America a generation after its release.  Visit The Vault Classic Music Reviews Online […]

The crew discusses De La Soul’s historic 1989 debut 3 Feet High And Rising, its impact and how it shaped other projects released within the genre in the following year and years to come.  Visit The Vault Classic Music Reviews Online www.vaultclassicpod.com Join our Private Facebook Listener Group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/600256077743122 Support […]

In the long awaited premiere of Season 7, B. Cox kicks things off by going “Back To the Vault” and looking back 25 and 30 years to four original album reviews covered in the first season: 1994’s Notorious B.I.G.’s debut classic Ready to Die and Scarface’s classic third album The […]

B. Cox reflects on the year that was 2003. In a year that saw Western Powers kick their war against dictatorships in the Middle East into full gear and saw the U.S. biggest state in political turmoil, the music scene was successfully and commercially thriving. It was highlighted by the […]

In a bonus episode, B.Cox looks back on what he thinks may be the greatest R&B release week of the 1990s: September 16, 1997. During that release week, four classic and essential albums graced the store shelves and stereos everywhere: Mariah Carey’s Butterfly, Usher’s My Way, Jon B’s Cool Relax […]

B. Cox and Domo look back on Musiq’s (previously known as Musiq Soulchild) second studio album Juslisen as it turns 20. Not even two years after his wildly successful debut album Aijuswanaseing was released, the Philadelphia soul singer was back at it to eclipse his previous effort. Teaming back up […]

In a bonus episode of Pop Culture Corner, the crew looks back on the motion picutre Juice as it turns 30, featuring the film debuts of Omar Epps and the late Tupac Shakur. The film, which also starred Khalil Kain and Jermaine Hopkins, tells a coming of age, yet ill-fated […]