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A streaming music service owned by music artists will change the course of music history about as much as a Wal Mart employ owning a franchise of the store would change the course of retail history. Jay-Z’s new...

“Back in the days I use to rock a troop jacket, me and everybody in my cabinet, we was shining, if you had the troop jacket you was grinding…” —E-40 – It’s All Gravity  Hip-hop and fashion have been...

“This is not a serious academic study. This is an, like, ‘I thought it’d be cool on the Internet [project]…” – Matt Daniels, in a interview with NPR. Meet Matthew Daniels – a New York based designer, data scientist...

When it comes to female MC’s, who I always think of as just MC’s, they seem to fall into two distinct groups these days: those who have bars and those who lean on their sexuality as a crutch....

He still has bars on top of bars – stuffed with more bars; however this album seems far less rushed. As far as rap characters go, there aren’t many in the game with the background of overweight-spitter Action...

At the turn of the millennium, alternative hip-hop label Def Jux was dropping some pretty avant garde shit. The game was in a weird place – the golden era was over, and we weren’t as deep in the musical...

“So nasty that it’s probably somewhat of a travesty…” — DOOM It’s all entertainment. When it comes to the rap game, you often need to take the character most artists portray both on stage – and on wax...

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.” ― Ansel Adams Hip-hop has always been a very visual medium. Aside from the obvious audible aspect of...