Articles by Del F. Cowie

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  Mobb Deep

  Free Agents

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  There are a lot of people running around calling themselves thugs and because it seems to be fashionable, there are inevitably some frauds...

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  Mr. Roam

  Tom Strokes Presents the Classix

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  As a guest MC on Da Grassroots’ Passage Through Time, one of the finest hip-hop full-lengths that this country has issued, Mr. Roam shone a...

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  T-Love

  Long Way Back

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  T-Love’s b-girl credentials are impeccable. Aside from being an MC, she’s been a journalist and editor at URB, writing about the music and...

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  Various

  Suite For Weldon

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  Having just bought the classic Boogie Down Productions album By All Means Necessary, jazz pianist Weldon Irvine was a bit surprised to say...

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  Throw-up Throw Down

  Hip-hop History Written On the Wall

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  It's been 20 years since Style Wars, the hip-hop documentary about the lives of graffiti writers first surfaced, and as the scene has evolv...

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  Freeway

  Philadelphia Freeway

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  Freeway is the latest MC from the Roc-A-Fella camp to gain success by association. Down with Beanie Sigel, who has now churned out two unde...

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  Killer Mike

  Monster

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  Having guested on Outkast’s "The Whole World” single, Monster represents the logical step of Killer Mike into the solo spotlight, but it’s...

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  Peanut Butter Wolf/Various

  Badmeaningood Vol 3

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  Anyone who had the opportunity to hear Roots Manuva’s bizarro cover version of the Beatles’ "Yellow Submarine” on Volume 2, will know that...