Music

The crew discusses the second and final offering from Pete Rock & CL Smooth, 1994’s The Main Ingredient. A laid back virtuoso effort by the duo is often overlooked and underappreciated. They discuss how, as grown men, they can appreciate its brilliance.  Visit The Vault Classic Music Reviews Online www.vaultclassicpod.com Join […]

B. Cox and J Owe look back at the late DMX’s second studio album Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood as it turns 25. After setting the industry on fire during the previous year and a half and the explosive success of his debut It’s Dark and Hell […]

B. Cox looks back at The Pharcyde’s debut classic album Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde as it turns 30. In the midst of a genre shift of power over their home base of California, the former dancers turns emcees and producers released their debut album to little fanfare, but would […]

B. Cox looks back at Mary J. Blige’s debut classic album What’s the 411? as it turns 30. As the youngest signee of Andre Harrell’s Uptown Records, the New York-born singer was brought under the tutelage of producer and executive Sean “Diddy” Combs for debut album. Utilizing samples of popular […]

B. Cox looks back and briefly reminisces about hip-hop group Arrested Development debut album 3 years, 5 Months and 2 Days In The Life Of… as it turns 30. In the midst of a shift in tone in hip-hop where gangster hip-hop and conscious hip-hop were delintating their lines in […]

B. Cox reviews Tony! Toni! Tone!’s fourth and final album House of Music. After taking a hiatus after the success of their third album Sons of Soul, the Oakland band reunited to record their final effort. Taking a departure from their previous albums, the group adopted a sound that harkened […]

In a bonus episode of The Guest Lounge, B. Cox sits down with Sumit Sharma & Chris Mitchell of the Breaking Atoms Podcast. Based in the United Kingdom, Sharma and Mitchell have built one of the more intuitive, insightful and entertaining hip-hop podcasts in the industry. He chats with the […]

B. Cox reviews De La Soul’s classic second album De La Soul Is Dead, a project that saw the Native Tongues group rise after its classic debut 3 Feet High & Rising to fight back against the duel battles of their images as “hippies” and against the changing hip-hop landscape […]

The crew ends an eventful 2020 by looking back at the top albums of 1990, 1995 and 2000 and apply their honorable mention and Top 5 rankings of albums for each respective album. Visit The Vault Classic Music Reviews Online www.vaultclassicpod.com Join our Private Facebook Listener Group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/600256077743122 Support The […]