“The other day around the way I seen you illin’ at a party
Drunk as skunk you illin’ punk and in your left hand was Bacardi
You went up to this fly girl and said “Yo, yo, can I get this dance?”
She smelt your breath and then she left you standin’ in your illin’ stance
You be illin’
—Run DMC, “You Be Illin’,” Raising Hell
| Playlist: East Coast Hip Hop
Music
DJ Kool Herc
Grandmaster Flash
Grandmaster Melle Mel
Afrika Bambaataa
Run-DMC
The Sugarhill Gang
Eric B. & Rakim
Kurtis Blow
Biz Markie
Slick Rick
Big Daddy Kane
The Fat Boys
EPMD
LL Cool J
Public Enemy
Beastie Boys
Schoolly D
Gang Starr
Native Tongues Posse
Stetsasonic
A Tribe Called Quest
De La Soul
Wu-Tang Clan
Nas
Boot Camp Clik
Mobb Deep
AZ
Dälek
The Notorious B.I.G.
Busta Rhymes
Jay-Z
Big Pun
Kool G Rap
Big L
DMX
KRS-One
Saul Williams
MF Doom
Gravediggaz
Jeru the Damaja
Mr. Lif
The x-ecutioners
Talib Kweli
Mos Def
Pharoahe Monch
Immortal Technique
The Fugees |
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Playlist: Dedicated to New York City
Movies
The Warriors, directed by Walter Hill
Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon, directed by Michael Shultz
Five Deadly Venoms, directed by Chang Cheh
Video Games
Double Dragon, by Technos Japan
Grand Theft Auto 4, by Rockstar Games
Roleplaying Games
With Great Power, by Michael S. Miller, Incarnadine Press
Nine Worlds, by Matt Snyder, Chimera Creative
Project Donut (FreeMarket beta), by Luke Crane and Jared Sorensen
Dread, by Epidiah Ravachol, The Impossible Dream
Web sites
The Rap Dictionary
Vice Magazine
Mass Appeal Magazine |
