An interactive archive of Oakland-based hip-hop collective, Hieroglyphics & their website Hieroglyphics.com between 1995-2001.
Interview with Tajai of Souls of Mischief / Hieroglyphics (June 1997)
Stream back in time to the World Wide Web of 1997 with this amazing interview with Tajai as Hieroglyphics prepares 3rd Eye Vision.
Pep Love of Hieroglyphics Concert Video from October 2000
Pep Love of the Hieroglyphics crew performing live in Philly on October 23rd, 2000. Over 10 minutes of footage including “After Dark” & “Undisputed Champs.”
3rd Eye Vision 20th Anniversary Retrospective, Hieroglyphics
3rd Eye Vision, Hieroglyphics’ debut independent album turns 20 years old! The artists provide a retrospective & history.
Hieroglyphics.com Turns 20 Years Old
As a junior in high school in 1995, I had randomly discovered the modem buried in our family’s Packard Bell PC which until this point was nothing more than a glorified word processor and an excuse to play the X-Wing videogame. It was a random moment with my father, who nonchalantly logged into a CompuServe chat room one evening and…
Hieroglyphics Spring Tour 1998 Photos
Rare photos of the Hieroglyphics Crew during their 1998 Spring tour supporting their debut independent album, 3rd Eye Vision.
Long Live Hieroglyphics.Com!
I save a lot of stuff. I have backups of backups of gifs, videos, Photoshop PSD’s, you name it. And occasionally I will search for one thing, and come upon a treasure trove of Other Things. Such was the case earlier today when I stumbled upon the files that amounted to my departure from the site I created and maintained between…
Time Warp! RealAudio Lands at Hieroglyphics.com (16 Years ago today)
It’s funny how these things happen…I was looking through some old files and came across the very first audio recording I ever made in RealAudio. You remember RealAudio, right? Way back when we were using telephones to dial-up our connections to the Internet, RealAudio provided a low-bandiwdth codec that was efficient enough to encode audio in a file size that…
Hieroglyphics – Live (Video), Pomona CA, 2000
Last weekend I dumped over 131 gigs of DV video tapes of all kinds of stuff from 12+ years ago. Among the tapes was some live footage of the Hieroglyphics crew performing at The Glass House in Pomona, California on March 16th, 2000. Youtube’s upload limits at the time of this writing forced me to split the footage in two.…
Interview with Domino, Hieroglyphics – June 1997 (Presented in Stink-E-Scope)
I dug up a pretty amazing audio conversation I had with Domino of Hieroglyphics from way back in June 1997, right as Hiero was knee-deep preparing their debut “family album”, 3rd Eye Vision for mass consumption. Presented in our all-new Stink-E-Scope theater technology, this is more than just a simple audio interview: Sit back and be amazed by the moving…