3X year old hip hop junkie from Philadelphia. Hip-hop from ‘87 to ‘96 is what you’ll find me listening to most of the time. Big up to my grandmother for letting me listen to the first Run-DMC tape everyday in her tape recorder back in ‘84. Sorry for breaking it. Also, big up to my fellow hip-hop aficionados from Lincoln University – Terrell and Lesheem. We will debate hip-hop even when we’re wearing dentures!
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Great Way to start of new Year. I cannot wait to see these old, but golden years, of the source mag. I am going to add this site to my blogroll. I got a question though. Do you collaborate with the cats from press rewind?
By: John Q on January 19, 2008
at 4:25 pm
No, I don’t know anyone at “press rewind” but they inspired me to get going with this project.
By: vincentlopez on January 19, 2008
at 5:05 pm
Keep the Sources coming! Next time I’m at my mother’s house, I’ll see if I have any of your missing issues.
By: hotbox on January 29, 2008
at 10:28 pm
Hi, all I can say is keep up the good work, regarding posting up old Source mags. By the way, have you got any old Rap Pages, Rap Sheet mags??
Also as your from Philly, have you ever heard of Jazz Fresh??
By: Kevin on February 3, 2008
at 1:55 pm
I have to give big props to Vince Lopez for posting up the old covers of The Source Magazine as the mag was truly groundbreaking in hip hop music and seeing the past issues again brings back a lot of good memories of hip hop from 88-96- the golden era of hip hop music!
If you could would you post most of the issues from 88-96 as I really would enjoy seeing these classic Source covers again and again!!
Dr. Dre putting the gun to his head from November 1992, The DPG with Jewell and Nate Dogg cover from May 1995, and Ice T on the cover from April 1996 are just some of my favourite covers of The Source and I would really appreciate you posting these specific covers on your site if you could.
Thanks!
By: Nel Man on August 14, 2008
at 3:35 pm
@Nel Man – The November 1992 issue (Dr. Dre) was posted here already:
http://thimk.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/tres-leches-dr-dre-charles-barkley-and-spike-lee/
By: vincentlopez on August 15, 2008
at 6:29 am
i had the doo wop 95 live tape but lost it…
could you post??
cheers
By: kev mac on September 14, 2008
at 11:46 am
@kev mac – You can get it here – http://recogthereal.blogspot.com/2008/07/doo-wop-95-live-pt1.html
By: vincentlopez on September 15, 2008
at 3:29 am
Hi Vincent,
Nice job on the blog man.
Dig the tunes and pdf’s
I had a proposition you might dig.
Could you shoot me a short mail so I can explain?
Peace.
By: galllax on October 30, 2008
at 4:49 pm
Great site, found it during a quest to find old Wu-tang source covers, specifically the OG cover with the red Wu bat. Having a hard time even finding out when that was. I see that there was a Oct 1995 cover with Rae, Rza, and Meth. Any help would be great. Shout me out on e-mail if you have a chance. Thanks
AG
By: Gunzoid on November 24, 2008
at 3:30 pm
first of all i gotta give mad props to this blog, i lost/threw out all my old Source mags (i started buying in 96) and it’s crazy to see the old ads & things again, i laugh my a** off sometimes at the ads & things they say in the interviews & things like that.
@ Gunzoid – i think the Wu cover you are talking about (with the read logo) was from 97, around the time of Forever being released. The Wu has gtta be the only hip hop group that could be on the cover of a magazine but not actually have any members on the cover & cats still know who the f**k the mag is talkin about!
By: Dave on December 4, 2008
at 5:10 am
Man, the best blog to date! Thanks for all your time! brings back memories.
Any chance of helping me out and uploading that Nas freestyle from the Source sampler in 1996 ive searched every where for that and your link is down…!!!!!!
Thanks
Mike
By: mike on December 19, 2008
at 10:47 pm
first of all, mad props for this site. for someone who wasn’t able to read the source back in its heyday, being able to sit here and read it it’s awesome. i really thank you for that. but could you up those first links you posted back in january, february, march & april 08… they’re all dead.
thanks in advance and keep with the good work
By: adn on April 16, 2009
at 4:53 pm
Vincent,
love what you’re doing..and dug the post on unkut’s blog as well–re: album reviews. we should collab, i’m trying to start a music collective (aren’t we all), of lovers and knowledgeable folk on music. just a thought–but most importantly, just wanted to say I appreciate your blogging voice.
k.scribe
By: kdotscribe (k.scribe) on May 17, 2009
at 10:47 am
@ Kdotscribe – Thanks for the comment.
By: vincentlopez on May 17, 2009
at 11:33 am
love the site just stumbled upon it a month ago. It sucks that I wasnt able to get all of the malcolm x speeches before the links went dead. If you can hit me up with the links. Thanks for everything
PEACE
By: BBGInc305 on June 3, 2009
at 11:53 am
Hi man! How can i get dat stuff?
By: slamdoggydogg on September 2, 2009
at 7:31 pm
I don’t understand, why do you put the interview pages up if they are too small to read? I would really love to read those Biggie articles…
By: joe smith on November 8, 2009
at 10:00 pm
bro i need to see that the source magazines old issues,but i can not see the links ,can u add me your blog please
By: engin on November 10, 2009
at 4:36 am