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Ten Canadian Emcees To Watch For In 2012

by Jeff Leon February 6, 2012 Lists

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Hailing from Toronto, I try to keep up with rap released north of the border. While Canada’s had a Hip Hop scene since the early 80’s, it wasn’t until the late 90’s that we really started making noise. And within the past few years, we’ve seen the scene grow and artists and producers become recognized [...]

Top 10 Artists That Are Heavy On My Radar

by Arasia Magnetic January 8, 2012 Lists

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I am known for my love [and borderline obsession] with Hip Hop however music [in general] lives in my heart. I check for it all: soul, electronica, dub, whatever. And there were a lot of artists [last year] that pulled me from my beloved Hip Hop, who span a wide range of genres that at [...]

Top Soul Artists To Watch For in 2012

by Duane Powell January 8, 2012 Lists

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Happy New Year soul people! This year will definitely be one of the most exciting and best years for soulful music with the much anticipated return of soul’s prodigal son D’Angelo, as well as new releases from Erykah Badu, Maxwell, Robert Glasper Experiment (with a catastrophic guest feature list), Esperanza Spalding, Jose James, and many more. We also [...]

Top 10 On The Jazzy Side: 2011

by Duane Powell January 8, 2012 Lists

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You can’t deny that the Native Tongue Era and the genre known as boom bap helped introduce a whole new audience to this sound called Jazz. Although we may have heard it before, something about the marriage between Hip Hop and Jazz was just righteous. However, for so long after, many Jazz purists tried to [...]

Top 10 Soulful Albums & EPs: 2011

by Duane Powell January 8, 2012 Lists

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This year was quite an eventful one in the arena of indie and global/electro soul. So good, that we had to divide albums and EP’s. Thanks to social networking, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, and the blogosphere, we saw a plethora of super talented producers and singers. And although it was EXTREMELY hard to narrow it down to [...]

Most Anticipated Hip Hop Albums of 2012

by Kevin January 7, 2012 Coming Soon

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2011 is behind us and it’s time to anticipate the future. Since the first quarter (January – March) is normally very quiet for music releases, there hasn’t been too many albums that have officially been announced for release and those that have be announced are more than likely to have their release dates pushed back [...]

Top 10 Hip Hop Albums: 2011

by KN Staff January 5, 2012 Lists

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Kevin Nottingham: 2011 brought us a lot of great hip hop. So much that it was almost impossible to do a Top 10 list. If you look at are lists below, you’ll notice we have just as many honorable mentions, making these more or less a Top 20 list! For me though, the Top 5 [...]

Top 10 Smaller/Slept On Albums: 2011

by KN Staff January 5, 2012 Lists

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Justin Ivey: For this list, I always like to spotlight albums that even the most ardent Hip Hop fan tends to overlook or completely misses altogether. Señor Kaos, with the help of producer Illastrate, hit a home run on his solo debut The Kaos Effect LP and earned the #1 spot for me. Houston legend K-Rino ended up with two picks [...]

10 Most Disappointing Albums: 2011

by KN Staff January 5, 2012 Lists

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Justin Ivey: The albums on my list “earned” their spot by delivering subpar quality and in some cases, a simply awful effort on their LPs. The worst offender was Lupe Fiasco, whose fans battled Atlantic Records to get Lasers released and were rewarded with an awful mess of pop cliches. Blu continued his streak of dropping albums that sounded [...]

Top 10 Emcees: 2011

by KN Staff January 4, 2012 Lists

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Justin Ivey: After years of having fans anticipate when his L.A.B.O.R. album would drop, One Be Lo made it well worth the wait by delivering one of the best LP’s of the year which earns him the top spot in my book. Nemo Achida went from breakthrough artist in 2010 to one of the most [...]

Top 10 Producers: 2011

by KN Staff January 4, 2012 Lists

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Justin Ivey: Kno continues to cement his spot as not just one of the best producers at it right now, but of all-time and 2011 just added to his amazing resume. The Atlanta beatsmith unveiled some amazing sounds handling all the production on the latest CunninLynguists album as well as his collaboration with MarQ Spekt. Ski [...]

Top 10 Posse Cuts: 2011

by Justin January 4, 2012 Lists

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Compiling the top 10 posse cuts of the 2011 was probably the most difficult of all the lists for me. The basic criteria is simple: four emcees have to be rhyme on the track. The top spot was the one thing I was sure of as producer TrakkSounds enlisted the help of Bun B, Killa Kyleon, Pill [...]

Top 10 Free Albums: 2011

by KN Staff January 3, 2012 Lists

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Justin Ivey: Another year, another #1 free album for Big K.R.I.T. The Mississippi emcee/producer stole the show once again with Return Of 4Eva, the follow-up to his breakthrough K.R.I.T. Wuz Here. After releasing the very dope Digital Dan LP in the spring, Nemo Achida showed he was holding onto some even better material on his album Nemotional. THURZ broke away from [...]

Top 10 Mixtapes: 2011

by KN Staff January 3, 2012 Lists

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Justin Ivey: There were plenty of high quality mixtapes released in 2011, but the one thing Jeremiah and I could agree on was that nothing topped Elzhi’s outstanding Illmatic tribute, ELmatic. A lot of “sequels” made their way onto my list from the likes of Killa Kyleon, Young Gully, Dee-1 and Tommy Nova. Portland emcee Luck-One manage [...]

Top 10 EP’s: 2011

by KN Staff January 3, 2012 Lists

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Justin Ivey: I’m a huge fan of the EP because it’s a great quick way for up & coming artists to introduce themselves and a chance for veterans to hold fans over until their full length projects are released. 2011 brought a lot of high quality. The top spot came down to Nemo Achida and [...]

Top 10 Comeback Artists: 2011

by Justin January 2, 2012 Lists

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2011 saw the return of some notable names after a lengthy hiatus as well as some legendary artists jumping back into the game to show they’ve still got it. Producers such as Organized Noize, Kenny Dope and Grap Luva showed they were still more than capable of holding down the beats on entire LP’s while [...]

Top 10 Breakthrough/New Artists: 2011

by KN Staff January 2, 2012 Lists

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Justin Ivey: A lot of new talent emerged in 2011, but none of them stood out quite like the duo known as The Doppelgangaz. Matter ov Fact & EP were the clear choice for breakthrough artists of the year in my mind. The duo wowed listeners with their album Lone Sharks, which helped introduce Hip Hop fans to the black [...]

Top 10 Music Videos: 2011

by Justin January 2, 2012 Lists

As we move into 2012, KN.com offically takes a look back at the best of 2011 beginning today. To kick things off this week we’ve got the ten best music videos of the year. Once again, I wanted to focus on videos that displayed creativity and truly helped paint the picture of the story being told in each [...]

Top 10 J-Live Collabs

by Michael Kaminsky October 3, 2011 Lists

J-Live has always been one of Hip Hop’s most beloved contributors. And over the past 15 years, he has solidified his presence by appearing on several of his peers’ records in addition to his own releases featuring a handful of rap’s finest. He has taken time away from the game to pursue teaching, only to [...]

Top 10 Pre-WTT Jay-Z and Kanye West Collaborations

by Calvin August 16, 2011 Exclusive

Jay and Ye’ have done their fair share of work together. Their working relationship (in the studio) has been turning out songs since 2000. And while Jay’s lyrics can be heard on each song, Kanye appears in different capacities. Sometimes, he’s the MC rapping over one of his own tracks while other times, he’s just [...]

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