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Africa Caribe: Mongo Santamaria x Joe Claussell

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Fania has been doing their thing lately as far as dragging their untouchable credibility for old school salsa into the new millenium with remixes and cool collaborations. Th... Read More...

Jerk Sauce Committee: Beastie Boys x Santigold

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Our Afro-picked overlords at Okayplayer HQ just posted this new Beastie Boys track, "Don't Play No Game I Can't Win," featuring Santigold and we got an auto-alert that is ge... Read More...

Fine Spine: Vybz Kartel x Dre Skull “Go Go Wine”

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Brooklyn producer Dre Skull just debuted the first single off a full-length album he's recorded with dancehall's current undisputed champ Vybz Kartel. "Go Go Wine" streamed ... Read More...

LargeUp TV: Now Things with Los Rakas

A LargeUp Exclusive Webisode - Words by Eddie STATS For our newest edition of Now Things series (see the features on Maluca and Kid Daytona here and here, respectively) we caught up with Panaman via Oakl... Read More...

LargeUp/Federation Exclusive: Red Fox, “Money Bell” Flatlands Riddim

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton The Federation Sound-produced Flatlands riddim just dropped on iTunes y'all and in exchange for a promise to ring the alarm and tell the people, Feddy governor DJ Max Glazer... Read More...

Throwback Thursdays: Mad Cobra, “Flex”, “Cobrastyle” + More

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Will probably be starting a lot of Throwback Thursday posts off with this phrase, but...remember this joint!? I do. I was in college when it dropped and my West African room... Read More...

Tempted to Taste: LargeUp Exclusive Look at Miss Lily’s

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton and Jason "J-Rockaz" Orford As we mentioned in our recent Limonious post, we have been haunting Miss Lily's quite a bit lately. If you're not hip to it yet, that's downtown ... Read More...

Super Soca: Tiny Winey + “Black & Yellow” Poirier refix

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton We don't usually cover local events on here but as long we are covering local events (see previous post) we have to give a bligh to the Tiny Winey soca party kicking off tom... Read More...

Big People Music: Sleepy Wonder, Sluggy Ranks & Roman Stewart

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, via Deadly Dragon Always a source of the finest in rub and dub, our good personal people over at Deadly Dragon have just re-pressed classic tunes from NYC badmen Sleepy Won... Read More...

Throwback Thursdays: Shabba Ranks “Ting-A-Ling”

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, illustration by Jenny Mortsell via FADER From here on out we are dedicating Thursday afternoons to posting throwback videos from your favorite Caribbean artists on LargeUp,... Read More...

Cool & Deadly: Supreme X Jamaica

Words by Jason "J-Rockaz" Orford A yo! The skater dudes turned top ranking downtown streetwear dons over at Supreme NYC always know how fi do it. Behold the Spring/Summer 2011 Jamaica Tank, fitted for go... Read More...

Nice & Lovely: New Rayvon f. Red Foxx Video ‘When I Get You Home’

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Legendary dancehall hookman Rayvon just this second dropped a video for the infectious "When I Get You Home," proving that his way with a melody is timeless. A duet with his... Read More...

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