Articles by Del F. Cowie

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  Ice-T/Various

  Westside

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

  At first glance, having Ice-T appear on the cover of a compilation of West coast hip-hop seems like a good idea. After all, Ice-T has often...

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  Tre Hardson

  Liberation

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

  With the Pharcyde now pared down to the duo of Romye and Imani, and Fatlip continuing on somewhere as a solo artist, the only remaining ori...

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  Large Professor

  1st Class

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

  "Queens represent/Buy the album when I drop it." It seems like a pretty innocuous line, but when it was uttered at the end of "Keep It Roll...

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  Nas

  The Lost Tapes

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

  When terms like "unreleased" and "b-sides" are bandied around, there's cause to be apprehensive about how good that material is. After all,...

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  Paragon

  Calm Before The Storm

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

  Hailing from Battersea, South London, Paragon is made up of cousins Rapsody the 6ft3 and Jiff. This four-track EP is a promising taster of...

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  El Da Sensei

  Relax Relate Release

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

  Along with Redman's cousin Tame One, El Da Sensei established himself in the Newark, NJ, crew the Artifacts, who debuted with "Wrong Side O...

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  Various

  One Big Trip

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

  Billed as hip-hop's first one-disc DVD/CD combination, One Big Trip initially seems like an interesting proposition. The film on the disc f...

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  Various

  Red Hot + Riot

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

  Since his death from AIDS in 1997, the legacy of Afro-beat pioneer and Nigerian icon Fela Kuti has truly been in ascendance. Knowledge of h...