I’ve heard many a hip-hop artist extend props to those in the game whose work and lyrical abilities they greatly admire, and who ultimately keep them on their toes. But never before have I heard it done in such a way that not only gives me a new found appreciation for the artist whom [...]
To the one that muted the West Coast/G-funk sound that reigned supreme over my young ears during the early-mid 90’s and, with the most beautiful flow I’d ever heard in my life, brought my attention back to East Coast Hip-Hop…I say: Thank you and rest in peace. The Great One:
This might just be the worst kind of “ether” I’ve seen handed to a rapper thus far:
Update 2/3: On second thought, this isn’t “ether”, and to have labeled it as such is actually an insult to the word and all that it stands for in hip-hop. True, 50 succeeds at delivering some pretty harsh [...]
Just as I reached for the remote to turn away, this track grabbed me by the ear and made me stick around for the end credits of last night’s show:
Basic Vocab – Come Get With It
Oh, and, by the way: Late & Pass.
After I spotted preview images of TI’s Paper Trail album cover a couple months ago on the web, I immediately put it down in my book as one of the best hip-hop album covers of the year. In fact, with a little over 2 months left in ‘08, and still without any contenders in [...]
As I’ve mentioned here numerous times before, I’m a sucker for great album cover art. So of course I had to post this:
It’s the cover of T.I.’s upcoming album, Paper Trail, and in my humble opionion, it just might be one of the best album covers that I’ve seen from a hip hop artist [...]
Then said ghost blogger is doing a pretty half assed job over on Kanye Universecity. That’s my short response to this whole situation.
If Kanye really is doing all the blogging himself, then he should definitely be commended on his efforts. The guy is an international celebrity, with a demanding schedule, and [...]
Ok, go ahead and hand me a super late pass on this (and I certainly deserve it considering I haven’t posted much of anything lately…my bad): apparently, while I was away from the interwebs, RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan and Chesspark joined forces to launch Wuchess, a chess-centered social networking site with a hip-hop [...]
Jay Smooth took a trip into his archives and brought out a series of audio clips from a 2002 interview with Q-Tip, in which Tip talks about early Tribe production techniques, shady industry execs, musical segregation and more. Take a listen.
That upcoming album that Tip is speaking of, we’ll finally get that sometime [...]
