Longtime London 90′s duo of Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba return as The Herbaliser, this time collaborating with The Easy Access Orchestra for their seventh album, There Were Seven. The result is a set of infectious new grooves from The Herbaliser we all know and love, yet this time with a much fuller, crispier sound. [cont.]

Inspectah Deck had a rough go round during the first generation of Wu-Tang solo LP’s. While each Method Man, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, GZA/Genius, Raekwon, and Ghostface were blessed with debut albums produced exclusively by RZA (save one or two tracks), Deck’s debut, Uncontrolled Substance, was one of the first LP’s to largely employ many of [cont.]

Dan The Automator has been quite nomadic in recent years. Just a decade ago, we found him at the helm of high profile projects like Deltron 3030, Handsome Boy Modelling School, and Gorillaz, before going off to produce rock acts like Head Automatica and Kasabian. So it’s been a while since we’ve heard the more [cont.]

No, you didn’t download the wrong album. It is certainly dead prez you’re listening to, not FloRida. Or 2 Chainz. Or like, Weezy or something. This deluxe reissue of Information Age is classic DP content paired with some melodious curiosities. Still, the physical release would have been adequately enhanced with half of the six additional [cont.]

There is something to be said about the career of Joe Budden to this point. Though he has never really achieved huge commercial success, his introspective lyricism has been winning fans over for years. With his latest album No Love Lost, he seems to find himself at what appears to be a new peak for [cont.]

The extra-hard working Curren$y defeats all stoner-stereotypes, releasing multiple projects each, suggesting that every day he is on his grind. Yet once you experience his music, you realize that sitting around, smoking weed, and just happening to spit some lyrics over beats is a big part of it. So maybe he’s found his element. With [cont.]

Since his temporary withdrawal from The Clipse, Pusha T has hustled hard to build his solo career over the last few years. Most recently we’ve seen him become full integrated into the G.O.O.D. Music family, helping propel tracks like “I Don’t Like (Remix)” and “Mercy”, into nightclub bottle-selling anthems, raising his profile in a heavily [cont.]

DJ Muggs is most famous for his work as the backbone of Cypress Hill, responsible for two arguably classic LP’s from the crew, not to mention a more-or-less strong catalog, despite a few missteps along the way. His solo career has been largely defined by his Soul Assassins series of hip-hop compilations, which found him [cont.]

NY rapper A$AP Rocky has found a quick road to stardom, after creating a heavy buzz with his Live.Love.ASAP mixtape, which almost instantaneously found him as part of the major label system. Landing at this moment now, Rocky is holding a massive hit with the posse cut with “Fuckin’ Problem”, and a sure shot follow-up [cont.]

In six years, Flying Lotus has released four albums, starting with 1983 leading to his newest, Until the Quiet Comes. Beginning with a foundation of electronic music and hip-hop, he’s quickly evolved, digesting unique sounds and genres, blending samples, live music, and vocals to create something that you can’t prepare for. For those who listened [cont.]

The history of what would one day become Wu-Block dates back to a song by Fat Joe called “John Blaze”, which featured both Raekwon and Jadakiss, among other rappers. This would be the first time that someone from the Clan appeared on a track with someone from the post-Bad Boy crew, The Lox, despite accusations [cont.]

In Los Angeles’ new era of hip-hop, many artists have found it most beneficial to represent themselves and remain independent. Pac Div discovered this reality after signing with Universal Motown in 2009 when they felt that commercialized stardom wasn’t a good fit for them and they ripped up the contract. The West Coast trio was [cont.]

Game has experienced a series of highs-and-lows throughout his seven year career, which began as an Aftermath/G-Unit Recording artist, then took several strange turns from there. After a public falling out with 50 Cent, and a struggle to maintain his relationship with mentor Dr. Dre, Game has made a series of questionable moves publicly. Among [cont.]

“Sometimes I ain’t get in trouble, trouble got in me…” When one thinks of the last few years for one Clifford “T.I.” Harris, it’s hard not to acknowledge that line. Though his image has been repaired through his reality series starring him and his family, as well as various other community endeavors he has been [cont.]

Chief Keef is one of these artists whose personal drama is as or more interesting than his music. The 17-year-old from the South Side of Chicago has not only led a surge in popularity for a new local subgenre called “drill music”, he’s admittedly shot at police (so he says at the beginning of this [cont.]

Big Boi introduces himself on Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors as one half of Outkast, and while he and Andre 3000 have taken different creative paths, Big Boi’s solo work is proving he is more than capable of holding his own. This is technically his second solo effort, a follow-up to 2010’s Sir Lucious Left-Foot, [cont.]

Over the years, countless rappers have gone head-to-head with their major label benefactors, many times ending up with their albums being shelved or simply being dropped from the roster. In the case of Atlantic Records alone, we’ve seen many of underground rapper at odds with the label, such as Apathy, Little Brother, Lupe Fiasco, and [cont.]

When you hear the title Jet World Order 2, you may think of the sequel to a story about the Illuminati planning to rule the airways with cruel intentions domination; or perhaps on a lighter note, an aviation company. But on realistic measures, one could assume that the Southern rap collective is back at it [cont.]

Roc Marciano has experienced somewhat of a second childhood in hip-hop, first debuting as member of Busta Rhymes’ fledgling Flipmode Squad, after the departure of Lord Have Mercy. He later teamed with Pete Rock on his Petestrumentals Beat Generation project, acting as one of the only voices on the largely instrumental LP. He finally released [cont.]

In one of the most unexpected super-group/collabo records of the year, Murder Mass / Showoff emcee Termanology teams up with M.O.P.’s Lil Fame (aka Fizzy Womack), for the humorously titled Fizzology LP, for Brick Records. Produced almost entirely by Fame, the album explores what things sound like if Fame trades rhymes with a more cool [cont.]