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Two random vintage rap magazine ads

Posted in music, nostalgia, pop culture, rap with tags advertising, music, nostalgia, pop culture, rap on April 22, 2016 by Paxton

I don’t have any more NWA specific scans, but here are two random hip-hop scans.

Here’s an ad for Def Jam records from the early 90s. Notice the separate pics for the members of 3rd Bass (MC Serch, Prime Minister Pete Nice and Daddy Rich) who broke up right before this ad. MC Serch’s pic is from his one and only solo album, The Return of the Product, which was actually a pretty good album. Pete Nice & Daddy Rich’s solo album wasn’t quite as good, but it’s not bad for 90s rap.

Here it is, the coup de grace. An ad for Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch’s second album, You Gotta Believe. It was a followup to their hit debut Music for the People. I’ll admit, I owned this album and I still to this day think the title track is pretty good.

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Dr Dre in-depth interview with The Source (1992)

Posted in music, nostalgia, pop culture, rap with tags music, nostalgia, NWA, pop culture, rap on April 20, 2016 by Paxton

Continuing this week to show you scans of old rap/hip hop magazines featuring the members of NWA.

Today we are looking at the November 1992 issue of The Source magazine.

The magazine featured an in depth cover interview with Dr Dre promoting the upcoming release of his solo debut, The Chronic, on Death Row Records.

Dre talks about a lot of things in the article including his new album, the break up with NWA, his beef with Eazy-E and his brand new record label. Very interesting look into the head space of one Andre Young right before he’d change the face of rap with that aforementioned solo album.

He even gets candid about the “Dee Barnes” incident (mentioned in yesterday’s Rap Masters magazine scan), his buddy DOC’s car wreck and The World Class Wreckin’ Cru. It’s a good read.

The article also has two sidebars, both interviews. One is with DOC and the other is with Snoop Dogg who very recently made his debut on Dr Dre’s song Deep Cover and will soon come into prominence due to his heavy appearance on The Chronic.

Here’s the article.

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NWA in Rap Masters magazine (1991)

Posted in music, rap with tags music, NWA, pop culture, rap on April 19, 2016 by Paxton

This week the Nerd Lunch Podcast is comin’ Straight Outta Compton with a very special drilldown on the rap super group NWA. To celebrate, I thought I’d dig out some of my old rap magazines and showcase some old pictures and ads featuring the group.

This is Rap Masters magazine from July 1991. It features a cover story about NWA.

Here’s the actual article. It’s about the press NWA has received recently, good and bad, due to antics from the group. It starts by discussing Dr Dre attacking Dee Barnes at a Def Jam party because she allowed former member Ice Cube to “dis” them on her show. The article mentions that it was a party to celebrate the group BWP’s new album and Dre’s attack upstaged the group’s release party. The article also talks about Eazy-E’s invite and attending of a Republican dinner which also caught many headlines that summer. Lots of press to hype NWA’s upcoming second album, the article says.

Unfortunately, the article is unfinished. It says at the bottom that the article continues on “page 60”, but it must mean in another magazine because the only thing I found on page 60 was the rest of the Ice-T article that is showcased on the cover.

Check back tomorrow for some more rap magazine scans from the early 90s.

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Nerd Lunch Episode 184: Down the Rabbit Hole

Posted in Genres, martial arts, movies, music, podcast, pop culture with tags internet, movies, music, Nerd Lunch Podcast, podcasts, pop culture on June 23, 2015 by Paxton

This week on the Nerd Lunch Podcast CT and I are joined by Timly Barger from timlybarger.com and Jeff Somogyi of sommerjam.com.

This week we are taking one of those trips through the Wikipedia rabbit hole.

Down the Rabbit Hole

You know those trips, you go out to Wikipedia to look up something and next thing you know, 20 minutes later, you’re 50 pages away from where you started. So, we have two of us pick random topics and we see if we can somehow navigate our way from the 1991 movie Karate Cop all the way over to the 1981 Rush classic, Tom Sawyer. We make several stops along the way. Come join us on this Internet-y trip!

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Nerd Lunch Episode 130: First Favorite TV Theme Songs

Posted in cartoons, Knight Rider, music, podcast, pop culture, TV, TV shows with tags movies, music, Nerd Lunch Podcast, podcasts, pop culture on May 6, 2014 by Paxton

This week the nerds and I are joined by our good friend, and pop culture encyclopedia, William Bruce West. William joins us to discuss a very favorite topic of ours, TV theme songs.

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We are given categories; cartoons, action, sitcom, drama and opening narration and we all pick 2 or 3 of our favorites in each. Several of us wind up singing the songs for you. And yes, we do discuss our least favorites. But don’t worry, we leave plenty in reserve for our future SECOND Favorite TV Theme Songs episode. And this may be our audio clip-iest episode since that board games episode we did with all the commercials.

Download this episode from iTunes, Stitcher or listen to it on Feedburner.

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