I mean, you had to have at least one guy to beat box.ĭrafts of the entries for “Parents” and “Regulate” appeared on your personal blog on July 9th and 11th respectively-around the same time you published them on Wikipedia-however they really were discovered on a mass level just last week. It is purely coincidental, although that question just made me realize how many rap stars during the first two generations were duos or groups… probably because it was too hard to do it alone back then. & Rakim, or my own personal fave “It Take Two” by Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock? Was that by design or just sheer coincidence? You know, do you have plans to tackle any other great duos like Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Eric B.

I noticed that thus far you have only tackled hip hop duos. ”įrom there we went back and forth regarding a few of the issues raised by these two bits of pure Internet gold. I was inspired by the entry for Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s ‘ Got Your Money’ and did the Fresh Prince to get my sea legs before doing. “The reason I only did two,” Pettie wrote, “was I was afraid that the Wiki community would figure out what I was doing and start undoing my entries. Earnest Pettie-or Earnestp if you prefer his now-defunct Wikipedia handle-is an editor at. Over the weekend, the author of the two best entries-Warren G and Nate Dogg’s “ Regulate” and DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince’s “ Parents Just Don’t Understand”-made contact. Last week I reported on the secretive heroes of Wikipedia and their detailed academic descriptions of 90s hip hop classics.

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