June 24, 2008 – 3:56 pm
Let’s get it straight, it doesn’t get any rawer than Redman and the flow doesn’t get any nicer than Method Man. Here you have two of hip hop’s best combining their skills to mold one project: Blackout! The album came out in 1999 to fairly good reviews, but there were the occasional bad reviews. The [...]
June 19, 2008 – 3:45 pm
“Praverb speaks on reality every time he is in presence of a microphone.” These are the words I read in the media package that contained the album by Praverb, Center of Attention. His pride in speaking about what is right in front of our eyes but not seen by everyone is [...]
June 16, 2008 – 8:23 am
Kev recently posted up anything you need to know about Element of the LA group Custom Made. A fairly popular group, Custom Made has been heavy on their Mixtape hustle and are expected to drop an album on Babygrande records soon enough. Element comes out on his own tip with Great Expectations (Part 5 of [...]
June 9, 2008 – 8:06 am
Consistency in hip hop these days is a rarity. Everyone has changed their style and while being fresh is all a part of making music; some walk that line to what most call “selling out”. One group that does sell out — just about every live show that they have had — has managed to [...]
June 6, 2008 – 6:10 pm
The general of the Boot Camp Clik, Buckshot, teams up with former Little Brother producer 9th Wonder for a second go around following their less than stellar debut as a duo: Chemistry. Perhaps it was the lackluster and brutally boring production by 9th Wonder or maybe it was the seemingly uninterested raps of Buckshot, but [...]
June 4, 2008 – 8:25 am
Spoken word is a lost art in hip hop culture. We hear bits and pieces of it on the occasional album; the “Intro” track on Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor or even Lauryn’s beautiful display on the “Mystery of Inequity.” Spoken word can be ten times more vivid, descriptive, enlightening, [...]
June 2, 2008 – 6:45 am
It’s interesting, I’ve always been a fan of simplicity, but this album cover really took me. It is kind of crazy how mesmerized I was by the simplistic album cover but not unusual. I’ve been known to juxtapose a piece of art or two in my day. Upon first listen of this Fort Lauderdale MC, [...]
May 12, 2008 – 9:49 pm
Breathe in… now breathe out. How do you feel? Refreshed? Rejuvenated? If so, that’s exactly how you’ll feel upon first listen of the sophomore release from Kidz In The Hall, The In Crowd. I’m not gonna get all cliché and say that this album is a breath of fresh air. How many [...]
May 3, 2008 – 1:12 pm
Yeah, it’s been a minute since I’ve done a music review. I get so much music in my email from cats wanting to be heard. I can’t blame ‘em; get your hustle on. I just wish I had the time to listen to everyone’s joints. But, when SoulKlap sent me a [...]
March 22, 2008 – 3:14 pm
theBREAX have been hard at work since releasing their debut album last year. Since its release, Ruslan and crew put together an American Gangster remix album, entitled Eye Am Gangster, and they have been diligently working on their sophomore effort, When theBREAX Sold Out.
Slated for an April 1st release, theBREAX have decided to go [...]
February 18, 2008 – 8:55 am
Prepare yourself for a musical journey; a journey that will take you through hip hop, funk, soul, r&b, and pop; a journey that will take you through the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and into the future; and a journey that will introduce you to Nicolay & Kay. Familiarize yourselves with these two names now, [...]
February 6, 2008 – 12:36 pm
I know you’ve been hearing me talk about this album since I first heard it a few weeks ago. Straight off my interview with 100dBs, I wanted to give this album its proper respect by writing a full review. Here’s my take…
The Adventures of the One Hand Bandit & the Slum Computer Wizard [...]
February 3, 2008 – 9:01 am
Ladies and gentlemen, hip hop lives and it lives today in 2008. The London-based label BBE is proud to present the new album from Tha 4orce, Mind The Gap Anthems Version 2. BBE is responsible for bringing us music from the likes of J. Dilla, Pete Rock, and DJ Jazzy Jeff; so you [...]
February 2, 2008 – 2:18 am
If you’ve been following the site here for a while, you know that one of my favorite American Gangster remix albums is Eye Am Gangster, produced by Eye Am Productions. Eye Am Productions is the production side of the Southern Californian hip hop group The Breax. When I got wind that they had [...]
January 20, 2008 – 8:15 am
When you think male R&B, the first names that may come to mind are Usher, Omarion, Chris Brown or (quality forbid) T-Pain. These artists prominence in the genre have created an arch-type in which to follow because their crossover appeal as entertainers have given them a supple amount of success. But wherein lies that down-to-earth [...]
December 16, 2007 – 11:15 pm
With the release of this monumental hip hop album, I thought it would be a ‘cool’ idea to collaborate on the review with my partner in crime, Edwin Ortiz. Edwin has written a few album reviews for my site and after hearing Lupe Fiasco’s new album, we both wanted a stab at it. [...]
December 11, 2007 – 5:47 am
Not to sound corrosive, but it came as no surprise when the news came through that Beanie Sigel was going to the slammer after his third album release, entitled The B. Coming. His music record boasted his track record on the streets, yet it still hit as a harsh reality that he had to do [...]
December 6, 2007 – 7:46 am
Hi-Teknology 3: Underground is the third album in Hi-Tek’s Hi-Teknology series. It is due to be released on December 11th.
I have been a fan of Hi-Tek since I first heard his beats on the Reflection Eternal album with Talib Kweli. His past two Hi-Teknology albums were pretty hot and I have been anxiously [...]
December 1, 2007 – 6:42 pm
When Ghostface Killah dropped Fishscale in early 2006, it was met with strong reception from fans and critics alike, where it topped numerous charts as the top Hip-Hop album of the year. To go along with that, Ghostface released another album at the end of year entitled More Fish. True, it didn’t receive as strong [...]
November 20, 2007 – 8:47 pm
After the 2004 break-up of Roc-A-Fella records, artists involved have had difficulty getting a project up and running. With the exception of Kanye West and Jay-Z (who both had commercial successes regardless of label politics), no artist has released an official album for the public until now.
Free At Last (released Nov. 20th) is that album, [...]
