Author: Small Axe

Born the 31st of August the year of 1977. Paul grew up all over the United States, residing everywhere from CT to CA. It was in Dallas, TX as a teenager that he first fell in love with Hip Hop and began rhyming to express himself. He moved back to the East Coast just in time for the golden era of hip hop where he took on DJ'ing as a personal hobby. He attended college in NYC where he learned the art of beat baking from none other than Jay Marvalous himself while they worked together on various street teams promoting such records as Black Star. Today he resides in Boston, MA where he resides with his precious daughter Colette a/k/a Coco. He works as a therapeutic counselor giving back to the community and in his spare time still bangs pads on the MPC and finds great pleasure in mix tape style pod casts which can be found here on TUB!!!!!
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Ill Adelphi Mix

This goes out to Jay Marvalous and Irish Muscle… In memory of apartment 4B, the only difference being the cuts from the axe as I searched the wax for life have been replaced with shine […]

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April Hustle Mix

Coco is by far the star of this mix though I can’t front P.Casso’s verses or Rek’s delivery or Wiz’ melodies or Pharoahe’s concepts or Deacon and Kno’s southern soul or Fashawn’s prayers or Lupe’s […]

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Common at Howard

In honor of Black History Month I share with you a freestyle I think common killed at Howard U. this week. This is how you master a ceremony off the top of the dome piece… […]

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Super Bowl XLV Snap Shots

Don’t look for any artistry here… just a few images to share with the fam, of an experience I wish the TUB fam was with me at…       Perhaps I should have slapped the […]

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February Shadows Mix

    It’s been a long time, I shouldn’ta’ left you… The extra dose of Lady Hot Coco on this mix should assuage any fears that she lost a step just like Pharoahe‘s performance on […]

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Miss January Mix

  Now that I have your attention… Two words = True grit…this is underground like the C train rolling beneath the east river, it’s hip hop like b sides from Fat Beats and promo shirts […]

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Stories for Beats

Dj Premier & Pete Rock     Video is approximately one hour but I damn near cried as they dished the goods on some of my favorite songs ever.  They hit up all the highlights […]

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SCROOGED MIX

    Happy Holidays Yall!! Wanted to get this up before I got crazy playing Santa plus I couldn’t stand some dudes colon being the first thing I saw on T.U.B. crates anymore.  In the […]

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Lick My MistleToe

Per Suggestion I did a test run on a Holiday pod-mix for lack of a better term…..the only real difference between this and me on the turntables is you don’t have to wonder if I’ll […]