Music

B. Cox commemorates The Vault: Classic Music Reviews Podcast on its third anniversary. It’s been a long journey in the three years since the first episode posted highlighting Mobb Deep’s Murda Muzik. He gives a basic history on how the show became into existence, the challenges through COVID and his […]

B. Cox reviews hip-hop duo Gang Starr’s third album Daily Operation. After their critical and commercial breakthrough with their sophomore album Step In The Arena the year before, Guru and DJ Premier sought out to capitalize on their notoriety and recognition within hip-hop circles while staying true to the underground. […]

As we continue our special preview of what is to come in 2022, B. Cox looks back on the year of 1997. It was a year of a transition of some sorts and and one of tragedy. Three major deaths marked the year. including the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. […]

In this bonus episode, B. Cox gives us a double feature with a two-part episode as the summer starts to wind down. In the first part, he pays homage to the DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince (Will Smith) classic ‘Summertime’ as it turns 30 years old this summer. […]

The crew reviews Jodeci’s smash debut album Forever My Lady as it turns 30. The group was quintessential to shaping a standard for male R&B groups in 1990s with their distinctive melodies, sharp production and street style not seen by R&B acts at the time. Their style harkened more towards […]

B. Cox welcomes special guests D & T of The Perfectly Imperfect Couple Podcast to help him review the Fugees second and final album, the magnum opus The Score. It was a once in a lifetime occurrence in hip-hop in 1996 with a unforgettable story: How a $135,000 advance after […]

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 […]