Music

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 […]

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 […]