Original "The Source" reviews
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Is there a website that has scans of reviews done by "The Source" from the early 90s? The very few issues I had as a kid are long gone.
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stop biting black thought. use "joint" or "album" from here on out.
I can't believe this doesn't exist. I was sure there would be a website out there, with scans of this stuff.
sorry your fav Peedie Crack album never cracked the 3 mic glass ceiling for Philly rappers.
issues, when it was a little 5-page zine ... I wish I
knew where they were - if I turn them up I'll try to
scan some stuff for y'all.
Ever seen this?
A real terd of a 12" - produced by Nile Rogers, sampling
Wild Cherry, and featuring the "rapping" of the original
owners of The Source ... Boston dollar bin rubbish for years ...
That would be real cool to get those scans, SoulOnIce.
Hahaha, I picked that up for a quarter on some novelty-rap steez. I didn't know they were the original Sauce dudes, though. That makes it even funnier.
A 1/2 star better than Southernplayalisticadillacfunkymusic? Fucking duh.
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KRS One - Return Of The Boom Bap
Red Man - Whut Thee Album
Common - Resurrection
Group Home - Livin' Proof
Raekwon - Cuban Lynx
Organized Konfusion - Self Titled
J Rock - Streetwise
Gang Starr - Step in The Arena
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People forget just how bad most of the writing in the Source was--even during the "classic" era.
lets talk some more about ny slang
Dude in the Harvard Polo is Jonathan Shector aka Shecky Green. He was a founding member of the Source along with David Mays and is now a professional poker player (he was on espn last week). He also has Game Records and puts out those hip hip honey dvd's... He sold his shares of the mag after Mays and Benzino became buddy buddy in the mid 90's... Not sure who dude was on the left... Also, Brett Ratner was the executive producer of that record.
Really appreciate the link faux. I knew SS would come through. Despite the shitty writing, it's fun reading these reviews 15 years later.
It always reminded me of a wrestling magazine. You always needed a certain amount of suspension of disbelief when reading the source.
Ha! That's a pretty good way of describing it.
I actually remember a lot of those articles from when they first came out. What somebody really needs to find or post, though, is that big-ass Kwest the Madd Lad article from Rap Pages.
Haha... that was the cover story, right?
Yeah. And the tagline was "Who the $@(% is Kwest the Madd Lad and why is he on the cover of this magazine?" Or something like that. I thought it was dope that they put him on the cover and gave him so much space in the mag (it was 8 or 10 pages long).
Yeah, agreed, but surely the important point was that it was someone other than Rolling Stone, NME or whatever writing about rap music. The tone may have been more suited to a fanzine, but that's often been the case with rap publications, and besides, there wasn't a whole lot else to choose from in the early 90's.
I think I have this. I'll have to pull it out.
I have that issue on my Great Wall Of RapPages, which undoubtedly had the best covers of any Hip Hop magazine EVAR.
Edit:
It's directly under Goodie MoB between GrafPages and the DJ issue with Primo.
the only problem being - i wasnt in touch with my inner collector yet.
(meaning most issues have ripped out pages, which were put on my wall)
i wonder what some youngin would be willing to pay for some of these on ebay?
scan them mannnnn.. I have most the 90's too. I'll try to scan some.
Isn't that often the case with things that are the work of enthusiastic amateurs, though? I'm not trying to mount a defence of shitty writing here by any means, but even though we'd had Hip-Hop Connection for a few years in the UK by the time The Source began to filter over here, magazines which were solely dedicated to rap music were still something of a novelty. I first came across The Source in late '91/early '92, I think - the Geto Boys were on the cover. To be honest, the quality of the writing was less of an issue to me than the fact that here was an American perspective that UK fans hadn't previously had access to, and one that, if nothing else, showed a real committment to the music as opposed to the kind of dilletante-ish shit we were used to seeing in the mainstream UK music press.
So many great B+ images in those. The Pharcyde cover, the Alkaholiks one... the Old Dirty one... Great stuff.
I wish I still had all my old hip-hop magazines. Over time, and through multiple house-moves, they've nearly all gone now: I had loads of copies of The Source, Rap Pages, Rap Sheets, Flavor, Represent (a good UK one)... Same with my skate magazines (TWS, Big Brother from issue 1 until Larry Flynt ruined it... Poweredge...). Strangely, I still have nearly all my graf mags (Can Control, IGT etc.).
I'd love to buy sets of these again, so if anyone's selling at a reasonable price, PM me...