“Industry is shady, it needs to be taken over / Label owners hate me, I’m raising the status quo up / I’m overcharging niggas for what they did to the Cold Crush / Pay us like you owe us for all the years that you hoed us / We can talk, but money talks, so talk more bucks”– Jay-Z

That was a short verse from “IZZO” by Jay-Z. That was a huge hit but not a lot of people understand what he was doing with that lyric. It leaves us with a lot of questions. Who or what are the Cold Crush? What happened to them? And why does Jay-Z feel so bitter towards the entire situation?

WIB Podcast # 10: The Cold Crush Brothers (Know Your History) 

My name is Chase March and we’ll be exploring all those questions and more as we focus the entire episode today on one of hip-hop’s first crews, The Cold Crush Brothers.

This is Episode 26 of the monthly radio show I do called “Know Your History” and it is just one part of our regular programming on 93.3 CFMU in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada for the overnight hip-hop show, DOPEfm,which can be heard Saturday nights starting at midnight.

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Enjoy the show!