“This menagerie of thrilling, mostly overlooked jams begins in rap’s naive era, when “I’m on the cover of TV Guide” passed as a big-time boast. New York-based Profile Recordsstruck gold with Run-DMC, whose success funded a bonanzaof odd experiments, like Dana Dane’s charmingly tuneless singingon “Nightmares” and Rammelzee Vs. K-Rob’s eccentric masterpiece “Beat Bop.” Profile […]”