UpNorthTrips Presents The 10s | The Main Sorcerer: Behind The Boards with Large Pro
Large Professor is a man of many names: Large Pro, Extra P, The Professor At Large, The Mad Scientist, the list goes on — and so do his talents. The heralded Queens representer is recognized for an alchemy of masterful production and his ability to rock a microphone. His status in hip-hop’s history is secure.
Today marks the 21st anniversary of the release of Main Source‘s influential and acclaimed LP, Breaking Atoms, the classic album from the group founded by Large Pro that also included “them two DJs” – the Toronto-based members, Sir Scratch and K-Cut. Much of the credit for the album’s effective use of enriched jazz and soul samples goes to Large Pro, who expertly hand-crafted the sounds on the E-mu SP-1200. Extra P also gave light to a hungry up-and-comer named Nasty Nas (maybe you heard of him) on the the record’s famous posse cut, “Live at the Barbeque,” and the newcomer made the most of his on-wax debut.
This is for my trapped in the ’90s niggas… [Read More]
Photo Credit // Rashad Ringo Smith
BACK IN THE DAY |7/13/99| Gang Starr released a compilation album, Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr, on Virgin Records.
Walking on Pins: A Five Borough Hip-Hop Tour Via Google Maps
YOU MUST LEARN are three words synonymous with KRS-ONE. There’s a lot to learn about rap as it continues to age, gracefully. Movies like The Art of Rap teach those lessons. Yet when you’re not wired to the web, or trying to soak up every hip-hop special on VH1, just look out your window like KRS did, sans automatic weapon. You might be overlooking a hip-hop monument. Our friends at UPNORTHTRIPS.com go about hip-hop the same way, living and breathing rap’s museum of photography, and classic recordings, just to name a few. Today, we begin a recurring feature on great rap (and graffiti) monmuments, just by putting in their coordinates on Google Maps.
[The first of many @massappeal x @upnorthtrips collabos!]


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UpNorthTrips Presents The 10s | The Main Sorcerer: Behind The Boards with Large Pro
Large Professor is a man of many names: Large Pro, Extra P, The Professor At Large, The Mad Scientist, the list goes on — and so do his talents. The heralded Queens representer is recognized for an alchemy of masterful production and his ability to rock a microphone. His status in hip-hop’s history is secure.
Today marks the 21st anniversary of the release of Main Source‘s influential and acclaimed LP, Breaking Atoms, the classic album from the group founded by Large Pro that also included “them two DJs” – the Toronto-based members, Sir Scratch and K-Cut. Much of the credit for the album’s effective use of enriched jazz and soul samples goes to Large Pro, who expertly hand-crafted the sounds on the E-mu SP-1200. Extra P also gave light to a hungry up-and-comer named Nasty Nas (maybe you heard of him) on the the record’s famous posse cut, “Live at the Barbeque,” and the newcomer made the most of his on-wax debut.
This is for my trapped in the ’90s niggas… [Read More]
Photo Credit // Rashad Ringo Smith](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7mp68D1MX1qzbwkjo1_500.jpg)

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Walking on Pins: A Five Borough Hip-Hop Tour Via Google Maps
YOU MUST LEARN are three words synonymous with KRS-ONE. There’s a lot to learn about rap as it continues to age, gracefully. Movies like The Art of Rap teach those lessons. Yet when you’re not wired to the web, or trying to soak up every hip-hop special on VH1, just look out your window like KRS did, sans automatic weapon. You might be overlooking a hip-hop monument. Our friends at UPNORTHTRIPS.com go about hip-hop the same way, living and breathing rap’s museum of photography, and classic recordings, just to name a few. Today, we begin a recurring feature on great rap (and graffiti) monmuments, just by putting in their coordinates on Google Maps.
[The first of many @massappeal x @upnorthtrips collabos!]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5vx3lnz5L1qzbwkjo1_500.jpg)

