Did you know that Lyor Cohen once owned half of The Source magazine?
Little-known hip-hop fact #1: For a brief time, Lyor Cohen owned half of The Source magazine. After the founding editors of The Source walked out in a dispute with publisher Dave Mays, a friend stepped in to negotiate on their behalf. But what Lyor Cohen ended up doing was not the act of a friend… […]
Dan Charnas Spotlighted On AtlantaPost.com
“The Big Payback: The History Of The Business Of Hip-Hop” hits the blogs with The Atlanta Post‘s profile, “The Economic Machine Behind Hip-Hop.” Many thanks to Ali Abidi, who had the dubious honor of conducting the first interview that yours truly has done on behalf of the new book. Special thanks to Nazneen Patel for […]
The Book
So it’s done. After almost two years of relative radio silence on this here blog, I’ve just completed the last edits to the text of a book that I began writing almost four years ago. It’s called The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, the first-ever definitive narrative—spanning an epic 40 years—of […]
Dan Charnas on IllDoctrine.com
Jay interviewed me for his second piece on Asher Roth. Check it here: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpcrQ4SvaGE] You can watch his first piece here.
White Devil Becomes White Angel – Tony D. R.I.P. (1966-2009)
Very few white boys in hip-hop could make the Black heads say, “Damn!” Rick Rubin did it. Eminem could too. And so could the producer Tony D. I still have clear memories of that day, 20 years ago, when my roommate Paul incessantly imitated a song he heard on Red Alert’s radio show, a song […]