Issue Articles — Street
Rappers Unite to Benefit Arts Center; Gregory D Gets Da Boot
Dr. Dre, 2Pac, Ice Cube, Public Enemy and Digable Planets are just a few of the rap/hip hop acts featured on Straight From The Streets, a compilation album released last […]
Cool D’s Country Rap; U.N.L.V. Takes Gangsta Bounce to Another Level
Call it country gangsta rap. No, it’s not Garth Brooks meets Snoop Doggy Dogg. It’s Cool D. (Darrick Burel), a rapper from Raceland, LA, with a new single, “Life N […]
DJ Jubilee Bounces His Way to the Top; Sporty T Hits the Jackpot
To his students at Cohen Sr. High School, Jerome Temple is a substitute teacher and football and basketball coach. But to local rap fans he’s DJ Jubilee, and his song […]
Gregory D Wears A New Boot; WQUE and WNOL Team Up for Teen Summit ’93
Gregory D’s new LP, If The Boot Fits Wear It on Midwest Records, will be out next month. The album title is a stab at industry people who have a […]
A New Album for The Real Seduction; “The Hump Dance” Has Arrived
On her first American tour in six years, Tina Turner comes to the UNO Lakefront Arena on Saturday, August 18, along with special guest Chris Isaak. Her tour coincides with […]
The Thick Man Swings; the Grandmother of Rap Gets Tough
This month, Big Beat/Atlantic Records releases “From the Brick Jungle,” the first single from local rapper MC Thick’s (Stewart Harris) debut album The Show Ain’t Over Till the Fat Man […]
Colin England Is Out of Control; Meet the Don Rousell Band
New Orleans native Colin England has a new album on Motown Records called Out of Control. The first single from the LP is an uptempo, “Come Over Baby.” England co-wrote […]
Straight-Up Funk from 39 Posse and Dopa Than Dope Is in the House
Sixteen-year-old “Reero” (Rene Porche) and 18-year-old “Dee” (Danielle Eugene) first met at the Riverwalk in 1991. One year later, the female rappers, known collectively as Da’Sha’Ra, released their first 12″ […]
