Detroit native legend, Royce 5’9” blessed us from the underground with a new booming 12 track mixtape that can be streamed on DatPiff. The mixtape is entitled Trust the Shooter and is loaded with features from Styles P. Westside Gunn, Smoke DZA, Assassin and more. The mixtape is a tease…
“Linden Boulevard represent, represent. Tribe Called Quest represent, represent.” A large diverted, yet unified, crowd came together on a rainy morning to honor the memory and mourn the death of one of Hip Hop’s most influential rappers, Phife Dawg, yesterday at St.Albans, Queens — where the five-footer himself originated. Beforehand,…
Siimba Liives Long shuts down The Pianos with a fiery performance! The artist, who’s no stranger to AA Hip Hop, performed three singles, “W.I.A,” “ Lost Souls,” and “Cocaine Bimbie.” He even blessed us with a few unreleased gems that may be released on his highly anticipated album “Zemenays Gemiini.”…
On March 9th, the world celebrated the Brooklyn native, Notorious BIG’s 19th year death anniversary. While we don’t have the rapper in physical form, his legacy still lives on! Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. Notorious BIG became the king of his borough, leaving an influential precedent to Brooklyn art natives! As…
PIMP PIMP HOORAY! The Compton-born rapper, Kendrick Lamar did it yet again with another genius album to indulge! I’ve been ruminating the album since he unexpectedly yet welcomely dropped the project early March. The ambiguous album reminiscent of Kendrick’s classic releases from good kid, m.A.A.d city’s, Sing About Me, I’m…
The artist is dead. I mean, nowadays you find a lot of people calling themselves an artist by confusing their hobbies as a given talent then producing it as art….which now entitles them as an artist. So is the artist dead or is the art just breathing? Art can be…
I’m pretty sure we all fiddled through our channels Monday night, going back and forth on the Grammys 2016. But, I guaranteed we put our remotes down when Kendrick Lamar performed the most powerful performance piece we’ve seen in a long time. With the perfect time of the month, Kendrick…
Rap is something you do, Hip Hop is something you live! — KRS-One KRS couldn’t have said it any better. Nowadays, people have the tendency to debate Hip Hop vs. Rap as if they carry a huge difference behind the definition. They both feed off each other. Can’t have one…
