The Chef's Blog – July 2008 Archive (2)

If you’re reading this Hip Hop this article and don’t know the basic bio info for Erick Sermon and his partner-in-rhyme Parrish Smith, kill yourself. No introduction should really be needed for the green-eyed bandit, and in his recent conversation online conversation with The Chef , the E in EPMD made it abundantly clear that he and P won’t be straining to formally reintroduce themselves to a new generation of Hip Hop fans on their first… Continue

One of Rhino's main gifts as a record label is that they know a good gimmick when they see it, and there's no better gimmick than the millennium. Hence, their series of Millennium Party albums. None of the Millennium discs demonstrate much imagination, but they do make a good argument that sometimes it's better to stick to the basics. For instance, Millennium Hip-Hop Party contains 18 tracks, most of them hits from the Bush era, but also a couple of… Continue