This music video is roughly 6 years old (2006-ish), and it’s an interesting look back at the rapper Thai before he linked up with 454. Even without the help of fancy DSLRs and high production values, Thai was on his video grind back when Youtube was still in it’s infancy. The artist found much of […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Thai – “Roll Wit Uz” (2006?)What were you doing in 1999? If you were the ladies of One Vo1ce, you would have been busy promoting a debut album, Just the Beginning and it’s accompanying single – “When You Think About Me”, a mild hit. Back when R&B girl groups were the craze, it was unique to see a crew of Filipino-Americans […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: One Vo1ce – “When You Think About Me” (1999)Our Lookin’ Back section may be a bit sparse, with posts few and far between, but that does’t mean it’s still interesting to take a look at years past and the artists that filled the airwaves once upon a time. Smilez & Southstar may be one of those Hip-Hop acts that would make you say “Oh […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Smilez & Southstar – “Tell Me”In the following grainy clip you’ll see a little nugget from the long-gone VHS era. It’s a Nike ad from a campaign featuring some big names repping for their teams at the time. In this particular clip, Jason Williams from the Sacramento Kings (at the time – circa late 90s) does a little remix of […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Chops Voices Over for Nike AdTime sure flies. “Gift” by Lyricks & Manifest is one of those early videos to go “viral” before viral videos really existed. It was recorded back around 2006 over the instrumental to Eminem’s “When I’m Gone“, and at the time social networking basically included AIM and maybe Xanga and Myspace depending on who you talked […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Lyricks & Manifest – “Gift” (2006)Wow time sure flies. 5 years ago, in the summer of 2006 I vividly remember vegging out in front of the TV (thanks to leg surgery), watching an at-the-time-brand-new-hit-show called America’s Got Talent. To my surprise, a group of Asian-American dudes walked on the screen and absolutely blew everyone away with their “Hip-Hop-apella” rendition of […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: At Last on America’s Got Talent (2006)I can’t believe seven years has passed since Utada Hikaru‘s US debut, “Easy Breezy” off her album Exodus. By this point in her career Utada was already an extremely successful pop star in Japan, and her partnership with Island Def Jam for her US debut held a lot of promise and anticipation for a lot […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Utada Hikaru – “Easy Breezy” (2004)Wow, I can’t believe this track is 13 years old. Some of our youngest readers may not have even been born yet when this song dropped! Anyway it’s a Hip-Hop classic featuring DJ Honda and Mos Def called “Travellin’ Man” off of Honda’s 2nd album h2 (1998!). This song was a world-wide hit in Hip-Hop […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: DJ Honda x Mos Def – “Travellin’ Man”This isnt the first time we’ve looked back through the years and shared a little Mountain Brothers with you. But we thought it’d be especially appropriate to share this skit track titled “Love Poetry” from their debut album 12 years ago, in 1999. It’s completely tongue in cheek and borderline stupid… but borderline awesome as […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Mountain Brothers – “Love Poetry” [Free DL]In lieu of the historical success by the Far East Movement with their single “Like a G6” and recently released album, Complex has put together a little feature article on who they consider 8 Pioneers in Asian-American Hip-Hop. In no way is this to be considered a definitive list, but it’s a great read on […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Complex Mag Features “8 Pioneers In Asian-American Hip-Hop”
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