The story of the New York Police Department’s so-called “hip-hop police”—now known as the Enterprise Operations Unit—begins with Derrick Parker. Parker was a detective in the NYPD who, in 1996, joined the department’s Cold Case Squad. He was also a longtime hip-hop aficionado who knew a lot of players in the industry. Following the Notorious B.I.G.’s murder in 1997, Parker says he caught up other members of the NYPD on rap’s major players, giving them a four-hour presentation about the East Coast/West Coast rivalry…
May 26 marked the anniversary of Eminem’s 2002 album, The Eminem Show. On the album, the Detroit MC stepped away from the cartoonish persona and shocking lyrics which he had become famous for but…
A mock news clip announcing residents of an undisclosed ghetto community in Jamaica “are fuming about treatment meted out by security forces” opens the commentary “Worldboss”…
In this installment of “Studio Sessions,” Hitchcock explains why he didn’t ask J. Cole for a feature during the Dreamville sessions, talks recording under quarantine, and who would be his dream…
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