Tag: Diggin’ In Da Den
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Diggin’ In Da Den: Kanye West & John Legend Perform “Gold Digger” in 2003
Before The Grammy’s & Oscars
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Diggin’ In Da Den: The Night Everyone in Hip-Hop Freestyles on Arsenio Hall
The beauty of the internet; one minute you streaming your favorite movie and the next moment you stumble across one epic night of everyone in hip-hop freestyling on the Arsenio Hall Show. Some of you may remember this night when the Arsenio Hall Show ended for the first time. As a special dedication, some of…
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Diggin’ In Da Den: Talib Kweli At Fat Beats In 1998 (Video)
DJ Eclipse is back with more dope vintage footage from the Fat Beats days. This time around he pulls some 1998 footage of Talib Kweli performing. Relax and Listen after the jump.
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Diggin’ In Da Den: Common 1997 Freestyle (Video)
After unearthing some vintage footage of Kanye a couple of weeks ago, DJ Eclipse keeps the blessings flowing. This time around we get to see a 25 year old Common freestyling at Fat Beats in New York City in 1997. Man I wished I had a camera back then. Relax and Listen after the jump.
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Diggin’ In Da Den: Will Smith 1989 Freestyle (Video)
So its 11:00pm here in Atlanta and I’m fresh off of vacation doing what I normally would do and it hit me. You should do some Diggin’ In Da Den. Now why Will Smith came to mind, I have no clue. Maybe it was the 4 episodes of Fresh Prince of Bel Air I saw…
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Diggin’ In Da Den: 19 Year Old Kanye West Freestyling (Video)
Man these are the reasons why I love technology. Moments ago DJ Eclipse gave Complex the go ahead to release some classic footage of a 19 year old Kanye West freestyling at the grand opening of the Fat Beats store on 6th Avenue in the West Village. Relax and Listen after the jump.
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Diggin’ In Da Den: Notorious B.I.G. & Craig Mack 1994 Funk Flex Interview & Freestyle
For our latest edition of Diggin’ In Da Den we travel back to 1994 as Biggie and Craig Mack visits Funk Flex show for one of their first interviews. We even got Biggie spitting verses from his Ready To Die album prior to it hitting the shelves. Relax and Listen after the jump.
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Diggin’ In Da Den: 2Pac’s & Sanyika “Monster Kody” Shakur 1995 Phone Convo
Sometimes I forget that 2Pac was only 25 when he passed. His music would continue to impact the world, even now in 2014. Today we get an unreleased phone conversation of 2Pac and Sanyika Shakur, better known as Monster Kody. The two were recorded by accident by Monster’s wife back in 1995 shortly after he…
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Diggin’ In Da Den: Big L & Big Pun 1998 Freestyle (Video)
Today would have been rapper Big L’s 40th birthday. To celebrate the good folks over at Complex put together two clips of him doing what he does best. The first clip is Big L in the studio with Ron Brownz and the second features Big Pun jumping in on the mix. Check out both clips…
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Diggin’ In Da Den: Notorious B.I.G. & Craig Mac 1995 Freestyle
It’s been a while since we did a Diggin’ In Da Den, but after catching wind of this 1995 freestyle of the Notorious B.I.G. & Craig Mac for Tim Westwood, it was only right that we brought it back. Shouts to NahRight on the heads up. Relax and Listen after the jump.
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Diggin’ In Da Den: Kanye West Unreleased Freestyle Circa 2002
Speaking of Mr. West, Noah Callahan Bever of Complex Mag recently release some bars of Kanye freestyling from his truck in 2002. Relax and Listen after the jump.
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Diggin’ In Da Den: Wu-Tang Clan – Ya’ll Been Warned (Unreleased)
We take a look back at the classic unreleased visual from the Wu-Tang Clan crew off of their 2001 Iron Flag LP. Watch Method Man, RZA, Raekwon, Masta Killa and Inspectah Deck below. Relax and Listen after the jump.
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Diggin’ In Da Den: Dan-e-o Fresh Fest Freestyle (Video)
Dan-e-o is taking us down memory lane with all of this classic videos. His latest takes us back to 1991 as the emcee drops a freestyle at Fresh Fest. Relax and Listen after the jump.
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Diggin’ In Da Den: Outkast On Yo MTV Raps Circa 1996 (Video)
Its been a while since we made a Diggin’ In Da Den post, but its a rainy day in Atlanta and as I think of ways to improve on what we do here on Da Den, I figured its time for a reintroduction. When we first started Diggin’ In Da Den the thought process was…