On this date in the infamous year of 1988, the late, great “Human Orchestra” Biz Markie released his debut full-length album Goin’ Off on Cold Chillin’/Warner Brothers Records. Produced exclusively by ...

Hip-Hop suffered a huge loss with the untimely passing of legendary rapper, beatboxer, DJ, actor, comedian, and television personality Biz Markie in July. During a recent interview with “HipHopDX,” ...

Legendary rapper Biz Markie didn’t like to unwind with the kind of funk or hip-hop music one might expect from a “human beatbox” — instead, the “Nobody Beat the Biz” maestro turned to different kind ...

Canonizing Biz Markie as a one-hit wonder more than misses the mark; it requires a fundamental misreading of hip-hop history and the genre’s cultural touchstones to arrive at that distillation of his ...