Posts Tagged: prince paul
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First Serve, "Pushin' Aside, Pushin' Along"

Oh my god this so good! It's basically new De La Soul, as "First Serve" is the name chosen by Posdnuos and Trugoy the Dove, two-thirds of the the storied Long Island rap trio, for their new project with French production duo 2+4. Apparently, they're making a concept album (and maybe a movie?) for which they've adopted alter egos (Posdnuos is "Jacob 'Pop Life' Barrow," Trugoy is "Deen Whittier"), that tells the story of a pair of goofy Queens teenagers hoping to make it in rap. Conceptually and musically, First Serve harkens back to De La's old pal Prince Paul's super-awesome, not-nearly-well-enough-known 1999 rap opera, A [...]

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Horror City, "Pain"

Very exciting news for rap music fans of a certain age and temperament and affinity for the work of De La Soul or Grave Diggaz or Handsome Boy Modeling School: The great, great, funny, weird, soulful, thoroughly lovable Amityville, Long Island producer Prince Paul has just made public (and for free!) a full album's worth of material he made with a local MC named Superstar in 1995. The project, which went under the name Horror City, never found a record label, and Paul ended up using some of the beats on his wonderful, star-studded 1999 album A Prince Among Thieves-a "hip-hop opera" that is [...]