Schoolly D
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Schoolly D: Schoolly D (Schoolly D Records)
Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 23 August 1986
SCHOOLLY D is from Philadelphia and appears to be some kind of hoodlum, with an unhealthy interest in the status trinkets of high life, drugs ...
Report by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 13 September 1986
The pervasive sound of hip hop becomes punctuated by an altogether more sinister noise — the bark of hand-guns — as, on the streets of ...
Schoolly D: Triumph Of The Ill
Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 15 November 1986
SCHOOLLY D arrived in Britain for his tour with BAD with a fearful reputation. He was reputed to take a Magnum along to interviews, once stalked the streets with ...
Big Audio Dynamite/Schoolly D: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 22 November 1986
BEAT ROOTS ...
Schoolly D: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 22 November 1986
"ROCK 'N' roll living's a thing of the past, so all you longhaired faggots can kiss my ass. Say it loud, I love rap and ...
Rhythm King Records: Hit Me With Your Rhythm Kings
Profile and Interview by James Brown, Sounds, 24 January 1987
Somehow, somewhere James Brown became a fast-chat, no-flab funker. And he did it with the help of Rhythm King, Britain's leading dance indie label. Since ...
Schoolly D: Saturday Night (Rhythm King MELT LP2)***
Review by James Brown, Sounds, 9 May 1987
BOTH DEF AND DUMB ...
Schoolly D: Philadelphia Story
Report and Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 9 May 1987
ON THE EVE OF HIS BRITISH TOUR AND WITH A CRACKING SECOND ALBUM ON THE WAY, SCHOOLLY-D SHOWS FRANK OWEN AROUND HIS HOME TOWN. PICS: JANETTE BECKMAN ...
Schoolly D, Three Wise Men, Cookie Crew: Holloway & Royal Bedford College, Egham
Live Review by Mark Sinker, New Musical Express, 16 May 1987
COLT 45 ...
Schoolly D: Saturday Night (Rhythm King)
Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 16 May 1987
ENGLAN' y'say? Meldy Maka? Well, I don't know if I rilly wanna get involved in alla this... how much?... ah, maybe I gotta coupla minutes. ...
Schoolly D: Saturday Night Jive
Interview by John McCready, New Musical Express, 16 May 1987
Yo! and pass the fun-size Mars Bars! Eating lemon sherbets instead of lead death, JOHN McCREADY asks cutting edge B-boy SCHOOLLY D how he got ...
Schoolly D: The Royal Holloway College, Egham, Surrey
Live Review by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 16 May 1987
"AN ULTIMATE character," is how David Stubbs has labelled Schoolly-D. Bad, badder, baddest, and baddest most ill. "My name is Schoolly-D and I'm running amok. ...
Schoolly D: University Of Essex, Colchester
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 30 May 1987
ANOTHER SATURDAY night. The Cookie Crew have already pushed sensuality into the cause of women MCs, Three Wise Men have re-freshed us with the politics ...
Interview by Mat Snow, Sounds, 30 May 1987
Reformed gangster and self-made record tycoon, SCHOOLLY-D is in town to promote his new album Saturday Night. MAT SNOW admires his jewellery ...
Philly Busters: The Rappers That Ate New York
Report and Interview by John McCready, New Musical Express, 7 November 1987
After ten years in the shadow of New York Flash and Cool, Philadelphia is fast becoming the City of Brotherly Rap. A new generation of ...
Schoolly D: Am I Black Enough For You? (Jive LP only)
Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 2 September 1989
SOMETHING'S CREPT up the stairwell and shat on your perfectly-formed oriental rug. Schoolly D has just moved in, and, as the old adage says, your ...
Schoolly D: Am I Black Enough For You (Jive HIP85/CD) ***
Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 2 September 1989
AT THE time of The White(y) Album Sonic Youth nominated J Mascis for president. In their Rock 'N' Roll For President scheme Schoolly D was ...
Interview by Damon Wise, Sounds, 23 September 1989
Schoolly D has given up on his gangster past to direct his rap at the problems facing black America. Damon Wise asks what happened to ...
Schoolly D: Welcome to America (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Vibe, March 1994
EARLY RAP imitated the world it was created in: celebratory house and street parties that suddenly erupted into bloody crossfire from gangster-leaning, stick-up kids walking ...
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