Remembering the 1993 LP Doggystyle and examinig its significance within the artform of hip hop in the post-Reagan and H.W. Bush-era war on drugs and recognizing its importance on American culture on its 20th anniversary. Do you want to feel old? It has now been twenty years since Jurassic Park was released theatrically for the first time. In addition to Steven Spielberg's dinosaurs-running-amuck blockbuster, 1993 was a seminal year in pop culture for another reason. It was the same year that that the Dogg Pound was unleashed with the release of Snoop Lion's (then Snoop Doggy Dogg) landmark LP Doggystyle....

On January 29, 1984 Scott Lewis and Gary Winter hosted their second ever public access television show "The Scott & Gary Show" in New York. On that particular edition of their show a very young group of talented lads (and a lady) appeared. As Scott Lewis explains, he had just seen them open for the Dead Kennedys and the audience seemed to take a liking to them - so why not introduce them to the public-access-television-watching world. They were Michael, Adam, Adam and Kate and they called themselves Beastie Boys. Kate was Kate Schellenbach, punk rock drummer for alt, indie...

Queen guitarist Brian May goes back to the mixing board to explain the complexity of layers that went into realizing Mercury’s vision for the song. The original 24-track analogue recording system was far too limited, so the band used the ping-pong technique to “bounce” literally hundreds of overdubs into the mix. May explains how the operatic vocal layers were inspired by the “cascading strings” effect made famous by Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, a technique May first tried out in 1974 with the guitar solo on “Killer Queen.” The video is an excerpt from Inside the Rhapsody, a documentary that was included...