The title is a reference to the Black Star Line, a shipping company founded by Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey. The album deals with modern-day issues, philosophies and life in Brooklyn.
Pete Rock isn’t the first hip-hop producer to sample jazz, but Mecca and the Soul Brother is first hip-hop album to consistently reflect the fluidity of jazz.
Ships 9/6/24 - DJ Harrison celebrates a decade of Stashboxxx. The record includes popular joints such as “Erykah’s Gun” and “Dilla’s Eclair”, and will be joined with a collection of unreleased Bonus Traxxx.
Wilco's debut album A.M., with its alternative country style, was released in March 1995 and was their only album to feature Brian Henneman as lead guitarist.