things and time will tell.

KRS-One (as Big Joe Krash) – Break The Chain, Vol. 1 No. 1 Marvel Music, Inc. – [no cat. #] Cassette, EP + Comic Book, US, 1994 info Last year I said something about a certain hip-hop meets Marvel comics TV show that was so out of my dreams that someone could have made it up just to mess with me. File this in that same folder: KRS-One and one of my favorite comic book artists teamed up to make a hip-hop, after school special style, comic for the kids, complete with a cassette featuring three all-ages, Return Of The Boom Bap  era Boogie Down Productions tracks that you've never heard. Almost has to be a story designed to send me on some e-bay/discogs wild goose chase... Except it's true and I just got my hands on a copy that's been sitting in someone's closet unopened for the last 28 years. 1994: record producer Marshall Chess (ex-of Chess and Cadet Records) somehow pulls Kris and brilliant cartoonist Kyle Baker into a Marvel Comics deal to produce an educational comic...

The world of remote working, social distance and closed schools has been pretty disorienting. Hard to tell some days how much I've accomplished, no matter how hard we work. That said, knowing that I managed to make at least one of you into a new Billy Boyo fan makes me 100% confident that this has been a productive week in my life. So, by request, one last visit to our high school MC. __________________________________________ Billy Boyo ‎– Zim Zim Silver Kamel Audio ‎– BB5640 CD, Album, US, 2002 Billy Boyo's career seems to have disappeared almost as swiftly as he had come on the scene. By about 1985 he pretty much disappeared from recording. Another handful of singles trickled out over the years, but I believe his exit from music went along with leaving Jamaica for New York. Years later, there were rumors that he had been shot and killed, but they appeared to be untrue when news circulated in late 2000 that Billy Boyo (at age 30?) had just died from brain cancer. ...