Do you listen to Poetical Prophets, Brick City Kids, Original Flavor, Ricky D, Kid Wizard Rakim, Simply II Positive, or Darkman X? You probably do, but just don’t know it yet. A blog called Onetwann digs into the archives and unearths a treasure trove of lost pre-major label demos from the likes of Jay-Z, Slick [cont.]

Crooked I sits down to speak about putting together rhymes, lyrics and reconstructing them afterwards. This is part of the series How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC on sale now. Other artists included in this series are The Clipse, Cypress Hill, Nelly, Public Enemy, Remy Ma, Schoolly D and A [cont.]

We dug up another one from the cassette vaults today…. For 10+ minutes straight on one Sunday night in NYC, circa ’96, Marley Marl and Pete Rock allowed a freestyle session to take over the Hot 97 airwaves, as each Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Consequence, Black Thought, and Pete himself rhymed off of the top of [cont.]

Over two-years in the making and 200+ hours of interview footage shot, actor Michael Rappaportis helping spearhead a documentary on A Tribe Called Quest, entitled Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest. The film begins at the group’s historical reunion at the 2008 Rock The Bells festival, and picks up from [cont.]

Taken from the Reebok Classics Remix series, this time covering A Tribe Called Quest’s “Bonita Applebum”. Kind of… – DJ Pizzo

HHS: It’s kind of impossible for me to not touch on your past, A Tribe Called Quest. On the last album, The Love Movement, where were each of you’ll as far as being a unit for the future? Phife: “Definitely not, everybody was spread out, doing their own thing already. The vibe was kinda… Well, [cont.]

White Plains, NY – Crowds of people witnessed a shocking scenario at the Galleria of White Plains shopping mall this afternoon. What looked to be just another dispute between two former companions, was actually the result of selfishness and total disregard for the other persons feelings. The three involved in the dispute were Q-tip and [cont.]