Riley

I get a lot of mixes from DJs in my inbox – like lots! Every once and a while though, you hear something that stands out from the pack. That’s what happened last Friday afternoon when I came...

20 years ago, The Source Magazine’s Nicholas Poluhoff proclaimed Chef Raekwon’s debut album one of the best rap LPs of the year (if not ever). 20 years later and, much like the music itself, that review still holds truth. Only...

Rakim Allah, widely regarded as the greatest emcee of all time, is celebrating his birthday today. I mean, how do you pay homage to someone with this much influence? His debut album Paid In Full was named the...

Product placements are nothing new, especially in hip-hop. Heads like myself often like to gripe about how commercial things have gotten, but we often overlook the overt, almost insulting product placements of the 90’s. This week we’ll chat...

I’m a junky for original versions. It’s not often that you find a classic hip-hop record that didn’t have an alternate version – for a multitude of reasons. It could be that once they had money they could...

January 20th was a big day – and not just because it was my birthday. While a lot of heads were busy checking for the new Lupe and Joey Bada$$ albums, I was checking for my pre-order of...

We were saddened to hear about the closure of the legendary D&D studios, which was the creative lair of the iconic producer DJ Premier. Countless (seminal) albums were recorded there. So on that train-of-thought, we though we’d start...

Hip-Hop Twitter was a buzz this weekend over a rant that Hot 97 DJ Funkmaster Flex unleashed upon Jay-Z and his Life + Times web team/writers. His beef arose when a rep from Life + Times, who flex...