By – Steve P.
Shortly after former Clipse manager, Anthony ”Geezy” Gonzalez, was charged with running a $10-million a year drug ring, one-half of “crack rap’s” dynamic duo started blessing us with the greatest video blogging (VLOG) series in the history of hip hop.
Malice, the often overlooked and completely underrated brother of the best duo in [...]

By – J.C.
Didn’t know what to expect upon taking in my very first live “country music” show over the weekend. Especially once the Hispanic bouncer at the door asked if I was packing any knives as he patted me down.
But even that wasn’t as shocking as the mosh pit that broke out down front. Or [...]

“Troubleshooting” by 11:00A.M. 05-troubleshooting
By – TimS

As the music business crumbles around the ancient ideals of rich white men, musicians are still creating. The music is still being heard. It’s still being performed. It’s still being passed along from friend to friend. So as the rich white men scramble to stay afloat in this digital age, [...]

By – TimS
Def Poetry Jam was the definitive example of the world of slam poetry. Sometimes the performances were amazing in an otherworldly sense and others were recycled pretentious garbage.
You know the formula… Start off slow, build to a crescendo, repeat your signature line three times and finish with a slow…stuttered….pace. Like hip-hop or any other lyrically-driven [...]

By – Dank Lucas
Let me recap an era for you real quick… We’re nearing the end of Master P and the run by No Limit as the most incredible hustlers and piss-poor rappers ever in hip hop, and now the Ruff Ryders are on top of the world off the strength of two DMX albums [...]

By – Dank Lucas

Cali Bay Area emcee Paulie Rhyme has blessed stages all over the world. But before moving to The Bay he was a longtime staple of the underground Cleveland hip-hop scene as a solo act, as well as a front man for the eclectic Finless Brown outfit. A true road warrior, I have [...]

By – TimS
Some may know The Last Emperor from the collabo he did with KRS-One and Zach De La Rocha on Lyricist Lounge Vol. 1, released via Rawkus Records in 1998. Some may know him from his brilliant Secret Wars records in which he assumed the voices and flows of some of his favorite rappers, as he [...]

By – TimS
I’ve tried to get this review started five times now, but I just don’t know how to introduce the fact that Brother Ali is fucking ridiculously talented. Or to find a way to talk about his recently released EP The Truth Is Here without sounding like a Rhymesayers Stan (my previous P.O.S. post [...]

By – Dank Lucas

I’ve decided to take my “This Shit Right Here” column in a different direction. I don’t want to lazily rush through whichever uninspiring album, by whatever recognizable name that gets put on my plate for me to write an absurd review about. I feel these reviews are oftentimes rushed. And seriously, what [...]

By – TimS
The third full-length album from Minneapolis native P.O.S. falls into the same category as recent releases by El-P and Saul Williams, brilliantly unlistenable.
Let me clarify that by stating how utterly amazing those two releases were by the aforementioned artists, both in production and lyrical content. But you don’t just ride around to The [...]