VIDEO: 5 Hip-Hop Myths, Debunked!

The second installment in my new web video series for The Big Payback, produced by my comrade, the award-winning Antonio Neves, and shot and edited with great skill by the aptly-named Jon Genius. Play it, embed it, circulate it! Peep the video after the jump…

The Big Update: Upcoming Events and Media (as of Friday, December 3)

RELEASE DATE December 7, 2010 WHERE TO BUY Everywhere books are sold (see below for links) WEBSITES www.dancharnas.com OR www.bigpaybackbook.com FACEBOOK/TWITTER www.facebook.com/bigpaybackbook www.twitter.com/dancharnas UPCOMING EVENTS Borders — Columbus Circle — Manhattan December 9, 2010 | 7:00 PM BORDERS PANEL: “How ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ Changed America” featuring Ed Lover, Pete Dougherty, Cory Robbins, Sway, Fab 5 […]

VIDEO: Why I Wrote “The Big Payback”

Here’s the first installment in my new web video series for The Big Payback, produced by my comrade, the award-winning Antonio Neves, and shot and edited with great skill by the aptly-named Jon Genius.

We’ll be rolling these nine videos out over the course of the next two months.

Play it, embed it, circulate it!

Peep the video after the jump…

In Memoriam: JMJ taught Lyor Cohen the business

I knew Jam Master Jay only in passing. I met him when I was a young mail clerk at Profile Records, running packages between Profile and the recording studio where Run-DMC was completing their Back from Hell album. But Jay was always the most approachable of the crew. One of the stories I tell in […]