You don’t see the kind of unity today in hip-hop that there was back in the day, when moments such as this one on the Arsenio Hall Show could be expected and appreciated by fans. There are appearances by KRS-One, Guru, Wu-Tang, Naughty by Nature, Das EFX and Tribe Called Quest, among others.
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By – Dank Lucas
The Akron Film Festival has hosted a 48-hour film challenge over the past couple years now. The premise of the challenge is to write, shoot, edit, render and burn a DVD of a short film you’ve created over that 48-hour period.
There were maybe 15 teams that showed up at the University of Akron [...]

Words by – J.C. Carnahan
Photos by – Dank Lucas

If the thought of strikingly swift kicks to the body and submission-inducing choke holds is an image that causes queasiness, then let’s assume the story of Ryan “The Lion” Madigan is of little concern to you.
But before making such a sudden rush to judgment about a competitor in the [...]

By – TimS
As I sit here preparing to write a couple album reviews (not really reviews, just a couple short articles explaining why I like what I like in a charmingly obnoxious manner that infiltrates your brain matter, therefore causing you to deeply respect my opinion and adhere to it’s merits), I feel obligated to [...]

By – AMC
Is there really much difference between escaping and getting lost somewhere? That’s what I’d eventually do with a video camera in the middle of one of the most beautiful natural wonders along Route 33 in Hocking County.
Ditching the 9-to-5 riggers of manual labor in favor of a creative release elsewhere, I packed up my [...]

By – Dank Lucas

I stood in a lobby full of applauding students and teachers Tuesday at a technical school full of laid off workers and unemployed mothers in one of the most hard hit regions of this country over the last eight years, Canton, OH. I marveled at history. My president is black. Wow.
We here [...]

Because his opinion is very important (even if only to himself), Joint Contrast contributor TimS offers up his picks of the 10 best non hip-hop albums of 2008…
Get Your Mind Right – Included are the 10 non hip-hop albums that didn’t make me want to throat fuck myself with a soup spoon. Seriously, extremely bad and nonsensical [...]

Warning: Not for the faint of heart (in case the headline doesn’t get that point across!)
The Vitals: Redneck reindeers? Christmas in jail? Would somebody actually have the balls to pop a cap in Santa’s ass? Those are just some of the twists and turns on the 2008 version of Happy Muthaf—in’ 2008 Holiday Season. Somewhere between the [...]