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19 October, 2014 7:09 pm

The curse of the classic album many times leaves artists always looking back on their greatest work, sometimes shunning it in fear of being labeled a one-trick pony, other times trying to recreate it over and over again. In either case, rarely does lightning strike twice and many are forced to face reality that their [cont.]

4 October, 2014 1:17 am

The state of New York rap has been in flux. The birthplace of hip-hop once proudly laid claim to “hardcore hip-hop,” shunning commercial rap on many classic tracks. Competition in the game however led to that sound disappearing, with artists like Jay Z, The Notorious B.I.G., and Big Pun finding a way to toe the [cont.]

28 September, 2014 2:43 pm

Young Jeezy very much falls into the category of “rappers we love to hate.” Entering the game via the Atlanta, GA club scene, Jeezy has always been more style-over-substance, punctuating his rhymes with adlibs that find him laughing at his own jokes (“Ha-Haaaaa!”) and affirming his own claims (“Yeeeeeeah!”, “Thaaaaat’s riiiiight!”). This method saw him [cont.]

5 September, 2014 3:45 pm

Hieroglyphics’ Souls Of Mischief dropped a west coast classic with their Jive Records debut album, 93 ’til Infinity, which produced a hit single of the same name, alongside a series of excellent b-sides and remix tracks that held fans over until their next release. Despite a lukewarm response to their sophomore LP, No Man’s Land, [cont.]

31 August, 2014 11:32 am

A large part of what defined the “golden era” (1987-1994) sound of hip-hop music is the complete freedom to use any sample you wished, without repercussion. Let’s back that up – it wasn’t actually “freedom” – people just didn’t realize it was happening. That all changed when Biz Markie needed a haircut. Statik Selektah is [cont.]

22 August, 2014 2:14 am

It’s almost hard to believe that Dilated Peoples have been in the game almost twenty years, first appearing in 1995 on Immortal Records’ The Next Chapter compilation. While their first album, Imagery, Battlehymns, & Political Poetry was shelved by the label, their perseverance and independent grind would pay off in the years that followed, leading [cont.]

19 August, 2014 3:42 am

One could surmise that the stateside explosion of EDM is in part thanks to the slowing down of hip-hop tracks over the last decade. The raucous element of stadium/Tunnel bangers like DMX’s “Party Up,” T.I.’s “Bring Em Out,” or Lil Jon’s “Get Low” was traded for scaled back, double-time, southern bounce anthems, which lacked the [cont.]

6 August, 2014 4:35 am

Buckshot Shorty was arguably the first rapper to rock a backpack as a fashion statement, way back in 1993′s video for Black Moon’s “Who Got Da Props?” This seminal track would be the first brick laid in the building of the Boot Camp Clique and the Duck Down Records empire, a year before the release [cont.]

28 July, 2014 9:49 pm

Queensbridge legend and one time member of The Firm, Cormega, returns with his first new album in several years, Mega Philosophy. Under the watchful eye of The Large Professor, whom produces the entire thing, Cormega’s latest is less about the struggle, and more about life lessons he’s learned throughout his time in the rap game. [cont.]

24 July, 2014 12:35 pm

Pretty much every album that Common has released since One Day It Will All Make Sense has been reviewed on this site, and been rated @@@@ or above. With the exception Universal Mind Control, even his critically panned Electric Circus scored highly here, despite everyone complaining that Com was under a spell of “Baduizm” at [cont.]

18 July, 2014 5:01 am

Putting it down on the mixtape scene over the last five years, G-Eazy has carved out a name for himself with a series of six mixtape releases, his last being 2011′s critically acclaimed The Endless Summer. A white rapper from the Bay Area, G-Eazy doesn’t really sound like anyone else from region, yet wisely gets [cont.]

11 July, 2014 2:30 am

If you really look back on the career of Jeru The Damaja, the takeaway is this. Here was a man from the borough of Brooklyn, who released two underground classic LP’s in the mid 90′s, both produced entirely by DJ Premier. Yet this event happened during a transitional phase that hip-hop was going through, that [cont.]

6 July, 2014 4:39 pm

One of the last remnants of the Project Blowed school of emcees, LA’s Open Mike Eagle is quite easily one of its brightest stars. Catching our attention early on with songs that poked fun at hip-hop, such as “Rappers Will Die Of Natural Causes” and “Your Backpack Past”, not to mention “Billy’s Quagmire” with Blockhead, [cont.]

1 July, 2014 2:55 am

After recent successes with Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.a.a.d. city and Schoolboy Q’s Oxymoron, all eyes on are the TDE camp, and more specifically, Ab-Soul. Ab has been impatiently waiting to get his album out to the fans, even going as far as to tweet at his label publically that he wanted it out quickly, [cont.]

23 June, 2014 4:02 am

It’s been four years since we’ve heard an album from Sage Francis, with 2010′s Li(f)e for indie rock imprint Epitaph. The album fused Sage’s heavy poetics with live instrumentation, including collaborations with members of Death Cab For Cutie and French composer Yann Tierson, among other standout moments. Between that and being an album with a [cont.]

18 June, 2014 12:27 pm

If you came of age in the 90’s golden era, you know that Onyx’s introductory album Bacdafucup was a hip-hop staple. Sticky Fingaz, Fredro Starr, Sonny Seeza and Big DS (R.I.P) were angry, spastic and totally captivating on the mic. Subsequent albums became soundtracks for New York City ruffnecks and ruffneck sympathizers across the world. [cont.]

16 June, 2014 2:27 am

After the runaway success of Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, 50 Cent was championed as both a top selling artist, and an astute businessman. The Curtis Jackson brand took on a life of it’s own, and within the period of a decade, 50 had released an autobiographical novel, a collaborative chapter in Robert Greene’s 48 [cont.]

11 June, 2014 11:12 pm

Apathy has been putting it down for almost twenty years now, with Connecticut Casual marking his fourth solo album in the can, not counting various projects with The Demigodz, The Get Busy Committee, and Army Of The Pharaohs. We’ve seen him kill it multiple times with his vocabulary rich, breathless brand of lyricism, so there’s [cont.]

11 June, 2014 12:28 am

To use a cliché, Masta Ace is like a fine wine. As with the best that the bottle has to offer, he has become better with age. Most emcees of his era have steadily declined, usually coasting on their name and past merits, and lacking the ability to create anything relevant, choose good production, and [cont.]

9 June, 2014 2:50 pm

The album title, Respect the Architect – borrowed from a 1995 Guru Jazzmatazz track – seems a bit forced, but luckily for the longtime fans, and new heads seeking quality over gloss, the title is the only thing that is out of place in this effort. The title and the artist demand consideration, calling to [cont.]

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