Music

B Cox reviews Eminem’s fourth album The Eminem Show as it turns 20. On the heels of two massively successfully albums in The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem sought to take a different approach on his latest effort. Taking over the production reins in this album, […]

B. Cox and J. Owe review the Bronx rap duo Camp Lo’s cult classic debut Uptown Saturday Night. After spending the initial parts of their careers together apart, Sonny Cheeba and Geechie Suede rose through the independent rap scene and collaborated with up and coming producer Ski for their debut […]

B. Cox reviews A Tribe Called Quest’s seismic second album The Low End Theory as it turns 30. Fresh of their successful debut People’s Instinctive Travels And Their Paths of Rhythm, the quartet-turned-trio from Queens sought to make a deeper impact on their sophomore album. Buoyed by the presence of […]

B. Cox and Domo look back at Toni Braxton’s mega hit second album Secrets. Coming off her massively successful self-titled debut album released three years prior containing several charting singles, she avoided the dreaded sophomore slump by putting forth a phenomenal effort that was once again produced by Babyface. Featuring […]

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 […]

B. Cox & J. Owe look back at Houston’s own Geto Boys third album, We Can’t Be Stopped; an offering that sprung the hardcore rap group into the national spotlight with tracks that combined gangster rap, horrorcore, political commentary and a classic single that would cement their legacy for years […]

B Cox and Domo look back on OutKast’s critically acclaimed classic fourth album, 2000’s Stankonia, where the iconic Atlanta duo stretched the limits of creativity and what was possible to bend hip-hop into other genres such as funk, jazz and psychedelic soul. Visit The Vault Classic Music Reviews Online www.vaultclassicpod.com […]

B. Cox looks back at Eric B & Rakim’s 1990 classic third album Let The Rhythm Hit ‘Em; a hard charging album with rhymes from one of the G.O.A.T.S lyrically and production that provided a soundtrack to a standout album that has stood the test of time in the three […]

It’s a new bonus segment for The Vault! In this first installment of Cards, Dominoes, Drinks & Smoke, B. Cox and J. Owe discuss how the regional intricacies in hip-hop, which made it so versatile in its adolescence, has virtually disappeared in the last 10-15 years and what impact it […]