Issue 30: Hip-Hop Nuggets

COVER STORIES

NAS + MADLIB with Peanut Butter Wolf

INTERVIEWS

PRINCE PAUL + STEINSKI + IVAN “DOC” RODRIGUEZ + EGYPTIAN LOVER + GEORGE LOIS on Muhammad Ali + BARRY MICHAEL COOPER, journalist and screenwriter of New Jack City

NUGGETS

BROTHER READE + BONZ MALONE + DJ SCREW + DREAM HAMPTON + BOBBITO GARCIA + “The Night-Time Master Blaster” by DAVE TOMPKINS

ORAL HISTORY

The oral history of Ego Trip magazine from its five founders: Gabriel Alvarez, Chairman Mao, Sacha Jenkins, Brent Rollins + Elliott Wilson

EXCERPT

A look back at The D.O.C. from Brian Coleman’s Rakim Told Me: Wax Facts Straight from the Original Artists — The '80s

ON LOCATION

Dave Tompkins enters the Battle Station, the former New York home base of RAMMELLZEE

PORTFOLIO

Photographer Sue Kwon opens her vault of images, revealing intimate moments from such hip-hop stars as the Notorious B.I.G., Erick Sermon, Flavor Flav, the Wu-Tang Clan + Jay-Z

FACE TO FACE

Alex Abramovich talks to jazz pianist Jason Moran

CRATE ODDITIES

Record collection recollections from Steinski, Dante Carfagna, Egon + Alan Shacklock of Babe Ruth

+ MORE

NASLIB - CD SAMPLER

DJ Serv 1 mixes the best raps from Nas' career with some of Madlib's most impressive productions. This mix CD is exclusive to Stop Smiling's Hip-Hop Nuggets Issue. Produced in association with Stance Records