Tag Archives: Gift of Gab
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REWIND: Five rappers from the ’90s we’ve lost, most recently Coolio
Coolio in 1995. Paul Bergen/Redferns, via Getty Images. Coolio died, as I’m sure you’ve all heard by now. I mentioned to a friend who’s also stuck in the ’90s that it seems like it’s been a bad run of rappers from our high school days passing away, mostly last…
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In Memoriam: DMX, Charlie Watts and 30 other artists we lost in 2021
Row 1: DMX, Biz Markie, Dusty Hill, Charlie Watts, Joey Jordison, Nanci Griffith and B.J. Thomas. Row 2: Mary Wilson, George Wein, Michael Nesmith, Terence “Astro” Wilson, Tom T. Hall, Stephen Sondheim and Graeme Edge. Row 3: Chick Corea, Gift of Gab, Bunny Wailer, Shock G and Sylvain Sylvain.…
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Obituary: Quick-spitting Blackalicious MC Gift of Gab dead at 50
Gift of Gab performs with Blackalicious at Yoshi’s in Oakland on Jan. 9, 2020; his final Bay Area performance. Sean Liming/STAFF. Much-loved hip-hop MC Timothy J. Parker, better known by his stage name Gift of Gab, passed away June 18 of natural causes at 50, his collaborators announced on…
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REVIEW: Blackalicious wows with relentless raps at Yoshi’s
Blackalicious performs at Yoshi’s in Oakland on Jan. 9, 2020. Photos: Sean Liming. OAKLAND — Yoshi’s hosted the connoisseur’s choice in hip-hop Thursday as celebrated duo Blackalicious returned to Oakland. Performing a career-spanning set in just over an hour, the energetic team thrived in the friendly atmosphere of the 310-seat…
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ALBUM REVIEW: DJ Shadow and friends appraise ‘Our Pathetic Age’
Under that moniker DJ Shadow, Joshua Paul Davis in 1996 gave sample-based music one of its first hit albums with Endtroducing. He transcended the established norms of ‘90s hip-hop by incorporating elements of ambient music, electronica and “sampledelia.” Davis found more common ground with U.K. trip-hop than West Coast G-funk—which might…
