About a month ago Nas and Jay-Z performed "Hip Hop Is Dead" on BET, Def Jam prince playing a poor/rich...
Nov 08, 2007
Greenwald beat me to the punch in talking about "Diamond Heart," one of the most bracing openers 2007's yet heard....
Nov 07, 2007
Medaphoar’s been guesting on Stones Throw releases for the past couple years (see:
Madvillainy) with his super conventional rapping, acting...
Nov 07, 2007
Forgive all introspection and self-reflection, but I am a visual-dependent lad. Blue cover art will have me proclaiming an...
Nov 07, 2007
No Said Date gave up “The Future”; Made In Brooklyn begins with “Then and Now”; will Masta Killa’s...
Nov 07, 2007
The word “retirement” often conjures a host of images and names, a world of beaches, booze, blithe nurses, condominiums, gated...
Nov 07, 2007
Harold hadn’t been ready for the Great Indie Kid Slip Into The Mainstream. Suddenly, all around him, skinny Bolsheviks...
Nov 07, 2007
The world woke up from the 1999 party a long time ago.
Roots Manuva’s still here, but his dubby, reggae-flavored Brit-hop’s...
Nov 07, 2007
Someone once said, “You can’t trust violence.” And, somehow, they said it over a ringing guitar whose notes hung...
Nov 07, 2007