1994 was a crazy year in hip-hop. It was the year that Nas dropped his classic, and arguably genre defining, masterpiece Illmatic. Five short months later we were blessed with Biggie Small’s debut Ready To Die. It was, for all intensive purposes, the height of the golden era – and…
Nas’s Classic debut Illmatic is timeless – period. It’s something that has been written about and debated to death; however, with the recent release of the documentary Time Is Illmatic, we are reminded of the bigger picture the album represents. It’s more than just Nas – although he is a…
On December 2nd, Wu-Tang Clan will drop their long-awaited A Better Tomorrow – an album fraught with turmoil, rumours of family feuds and sheer anticipation from music geeks everywhere. It also didn’t hurt that they have some of the most innovative hype campaigns we’ve seen in a while. We haven’t been…
The Barrel Brothers – aka Skyzoo & Torae – drop new visuals for the Antman Wonder produced Memorabilia of their Barrel Brothers project. This album is incredibly underrated, if you haven’t heard it, head over here and stream it now – It’s stacked with 14 filthy NYC bangers produced by…
Every (real) hip-hop head is anxious to get their hands on that new Prhyme album – the collaboration of Royce 5’9 and DJ Premier. Today they blessed fans with some new visuals for their track U Looz. Peep it after the jump.
You may recall last month’s disappointing last minute (literally) cancelation of the epic battle scheduled between Def Squad’s Keith Murray and Onyx frontman Fredro Starr. Well, according to a Tweet from MC War, the promoters who took an online lashing over the flop show, the battle has been rescheduled to…
It runs in the family. It’s often (but not always) surprising when you realize that artists are the products of either musical parents and/or have talent in their families. This was true for artists like Prodigy of Mobb Deep, whose grandfather, Budd Johnson and great-uncle Keg Johnson were active in…
Commercialization of hip-hop culture during the 90s had more than one negative effect on the way we consume music. The obvious, which I’ll begin this piece by delving into, is the dictation of what we should be listening to. It’s simple really: labels spend (a lot) of money marketing the…
