Birthday Bitch: An Interview With Trap Beckham

[dropcap][/dropcap]One of Def Jam’s own Trap Beckham tells Above Average Hip Hop the importance of being a team player and explains to us how It is a central component to his overall success. Beckham, recognizing that you can...

Michael Christmas & Prefuse 73 Come Together As Fudge

Boston emcee Michael Christmas teams up with producer Prefuse 73, and together they are Fudge. Fudge delivers to their listeners Lady Parts – an album that contains 15 tracks with extraterrestrial production (Prefuse 73) and spazzy and impromptu...

Hippy Africano Drops Debut Single [Audio]

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]rom the same team that’s been carving a lane with the innovative artist Siimba Liives Long comes Hippy Africano, a 22-year-old Newark, New Jersey, transplant; Originally, the young rapper hails from the Ivory Coast). The new upstart, who...

Long Liive Siimba: Rapper Plays With Wild Cats In New Video

“It’s in my genes, know your denim; some people try to rock it, but the clothes don’t fit em’.” —Siimba Liives Long [dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter a strong debut with his “Cocaine Bimbie” song/visual ten months ago and two highly praised...

Isaiah Rashad: The Sun’s Tirade

The Sun’s Tirade is the new project released by Isaiah Rashad McClain, the 25-year-old Chattanooga, Tennessee, artist who signed to West Coast imprint TDE in 2013 — and released his first EP Civilia Demo the following year. Isaiah’s...

Zoey Dollaz: Putting On For His City

Elvis “Zoey Dollaz” Millord, the 25-year-old Haitian-American phenom from North Miami Beach, signed with Epic and Future Hendrix’s Freebandz imprint — and is flaming the airwaves with hit after hit. He dropped his first record “I Run AP”...

Hard Work Pays: PIFFMAN Is Next Up

[dropcap]B[/dropcap]rooklyn, New York, has given birth to many successful upstarts over the years; mainly, as far as rap is concerned, “street artists” that are cut from the cloth of artists like Biggie, Kool G Rap, and others. BK-native...

Master P’s Ghetto D: 19 Years Later

“Clean up ya dirty money to good money; legal money last longer than drug money!” — Master P [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he undisputed entrepreneur and southern legend Master P — who ironically started his career on the west coast — was...

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