“Dreams and schemes to make a knot… I sat on the stove and wrote C.R.E.A.M., one blunt 2 o’clock…” —Raekwon from the song Heated Nights Look, do you like Raekwon? Done – you’ll love this album. That was easy. [drops mic]. Just kidding, but it felt that easy when I…
“It’s just a good feeling sitting in the studio with Vincent and Kelvin…” – Trugoy, De La Soul Earlier this month, I received an email from De La Soul [I’m on their mailing list] informing me that they would be putting out their first album in a decade. It’s currently…
The 90’s hip-hop sound had a very specific sound/feel to it. It’s often duplicated, and many artists claim to be “bringing it back”…but it’s not that simple. The music we grew up on was driven less by money and overt commercial intervention. It was motivated by the love of the…
Welcome to AAHIPHOP Radio – a new pilot initiative here at aboveaveragehiphop.com. We’re going to be bringing you dope monthly mixes, and giving our unsigned submission a chance to get some shine at the same time. We’ll be reserving 2-3 slots a month for some of the hottest unsigned submissions…
We put songs that we feel strongly about in, essentially, a better position to be heard. Nowadays artists have a sea of options to share their music, including services like Bandcamp and the ever-popular behest that is Soundcloud. Users can upload their songs to a profile, and freely share it…
Are mixtapes dead? Yes – well, actually…no. Kind of? I mean, as a format, yes. Handing a copy of your burned cd to someone is essentially the same as a grocery store or bank handing out promotional frisbees at a BBQ. It’s a digital game now, yet we hold on…
Each month, we here at Above Average Hip-Hop sift through all of our submissions and choose one lucky album to review on the site. This month I can across the Summerville, South Carolina, trio Savage Souls. Comprised of Kae G The Original Seed, Fortune the Iron Mic Mangler and DJ…
It’s always interesting to me that when it comes to comic book characters, illustrated stories of their origins are treasured and adorned with monetary value, yet the recorded/documented origins of our own cultural characters often gets the “blahzay” treatment. We’re going to work on that over the next few weeks.…
