New York Hip Hop revolutionaries Ced-Gee, Kool Keith, Moe Luv and T.R. Love, known as Ultramagnetic MC's dropped their seminal debut album Critical Beatdown in 1988. Immediately grabbing the attention and pushing the boundaries of hip hop into new horizon
When Queens natives Capone-N-Noreaga dropped their 1997 debut album, The War Report, Hip Hop was in a transition period. A new crop of MCs were coming in, many of the benchmark artist of the late 80s early 90s were focused on getting on mainstream radio.
Serpent brings Real Bad Man together with the inimitable Kool Keith and is produced in its entirety by Real Bad Man. Serpent features appearances from Slug of Atmosphere, Ice-T, Edan, Cool Calm Pete and Zeelooperz.
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.