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Interview by Dele Fadele, NME, 29 June 1996

Having adopted the moniker of one Pablo Escobar, NAS ESCOBAR set about creating vivid lyrical depictions of life in his native New York tenement slums. ...

Big Daddy Kane, MC Shan, Biz Markie: Cold Chillin' Records: The Big Chill

Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 16 April 1988

COLD CHILLIN' HAVE COMPILED A ROSTER TO CHALLENGE DEF JAM'S HIP HOP SUPREMACY. CAROLINE SULLIVAN MEETS A TRIO ON THE WAY TO THE TOP ...

Lil' Kim Is The Baddest Girl Alive

Interview by Amy Linden, XXL, May 2000

NEW YORK CITY'S Central Park South is a mixture of dyed-in-the-wool, Waspy Manhattan mega bucks and the glitz of the nouveau notorious. Side by side ...

Ludacris: You Don't Know Me

Interview by Amy Linden, XXL, January 2005

To hell with the bitches and so-called fame, Ludacris just isn't as crazy as his rappin' name. Beef with Bill O'Reilly, T.I. and Chingy be ...

Iggy Azalea: "I Have Never Had Any Musicians Tell Me That I Wasn't Authentic"

Interview by Kate Mossman, The Observer, 29 June 2014

The Australian rapper has endured her fair share of controversy in a brief, spectacular career, but seems well equipped to fight her way to the ...

Naughty By Nature: Hooray Homies

Interview by Angus Batey, New Musical Express, 20 March 1993

They're huge! They're massive! NAUGHTY BY NATURE are the rap equivalent of Nirvana, catapulted to success by the unstoppable 'OPP'. But as they hold promotional ...

Snoop (Doggy) Dogg: Snoop Doggy Dogg: A Pussycat?

Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, April 1994

Who's a busy homeboy then? His CV already bulges with a prison sentence, a US Number 1 LP and a still-fresh murder charge. Now, gangster ...

Nik Cohn: Rock Dreamer

Interview by Jon Wilde, Uncut, January 2006

He inspired Townshend and Bowie to create Tommy and Ziggy Stardust, wrote the article that became Saturday Night Fever and penned the greatest pop book ...

Nelson George: Soul Destroyer

Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 14 January 1989

As a columnist for Billboard and The Village Voice, Nelson George has been America's most incisive commentator on the changing face of black music culture. ...

Professor Griff: 100 Per Cent Prof.

Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 31 March 1990

Accused of anti-Semitism, dissing the President, condoning Idi Amin and generally being a bit of a foam-flecked Rottweiler, Public Enemy's Minister Of Information PROFESSOR GRIFF ...

Dallas Austin, Tricky: Tricky: The Mad Father

Interview by Craig McLean, The Face, May 1998

They used to call him Tricky Kid, now they call him The Boss... He is the overworked businessman with his own label who is to ...

De La Soul, Prince Paul: De La Soul: Pushing Up Daisies

Interview by Steven Daly, Blitz, June 1991

De La Soul are back, but rap's original hip-hop hippies are no longer wearing flowers in their hair. De La Soul Is Dead, the long-awaited ...

De La Soul: Cool Hip Hop: De La Soul De-flowered

Interview by Steven Daly, Spin, May 1991

Declaring that De La Soul Is Dead, the beat-box beatniks turn ornery. Have they lost the plot? Or are they writing it? STEVEN DALY explains. ...

Manic Street Preachers, Credit to the Nation, Blaggers ITA: Manic Street Preachers, Blaggers ITA, Credit to the Nation: Eclectic Riot Orchestra

Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 10 July 1993

It's the most exciting and important tour to take place this year. In the last six months, politics has roared back onto the musical agenda ...

Roots, The: Forward To The Roots

Interview by Amy Linden, XXL, January 2003

FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS the city of Philadelphia has sponsored the Philadelphia College Festival. Held directly across the steps of the Art Museum (home ...

Goldie: Judge Dread

Interview by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 5 August 1995

GOLDIE is being called the Jimi Hendrix of jungle, the charismatic centre of an extraordinary new music. His debut album, Timeless, is a hugely inventive, ...

Goldie Lookin' Chain: Goldie Lookin Chain

Interview by Simon Price, The Independent, 3 April 2005

One minute they were an unknown posse from Gwent, the next they were music industry darlings. Are Goldie Lookin Chain — the "Welsh Wu-Tang Clan" ...