Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
by Black Bubblegum DOWNLOAD: Black Milk - Music From The Color Purple (ZSHARE, ZIPPED ALBUM) DOWNLOAD: Black Milk - "The Matrix" featuring DJ Premier, Pharoahe Monch, & Sean Price (MP3 Excerpt) DOWNLOAD: Black Milk - "Give The Drummer Sum" (MP3)...
Hip-Hop Is Read (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
More, more, more production kits! Here we've got a kit from my fourth favorite producer (possibly third) : Pete Rock! Lots of good stuff in here, so don't miss out. Here's the rundown: 21 Kicks 9 Loops (Very Cool Stuff!) 21 Percussion Effects 51 Snares + Bonus Kit with 50+ Various Effects: (Bass Lines, Voices, Flutes, Horns, Strings and More!)
HipHopDX.com (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
This week's edition has the latest on shows from Styles P, Murs, Tech N9ne and more!
XXL Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Don’t let the Hip-Hop Honors telecast fool you. The show usually doesn’t translate too well onto TV for some reason. I usually hear a lot of folks trashing the show, but that’s because they weren’t there to see it live. Had they been front and center when Big Daddy Kane brought Scoob and Scrap out for [...]
Oh Word (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
philaflava.blogspot.com Don’t let the name of the blog fool you – it isn’t a Philly-centric take on rap, or an ongoing ode to CL Smooth, though you should not be surprised if rare 3XDope b-sides or unreleased Pete Rock tracks show up in the mix. The blog is actually an outgrowth of philaflava.com’s “T.R.O.Y.” forum, a popular destination for bloggers, college radio DJs, vinyl junkies, and assorted...
Nah Right (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Blu and Exile is a tag team made in heaven, as their album Below The Heavens ably demonstrates. There’s not many duos making hip hop music in the spirit of the golden age, yet astonishingly fresh. Blu talks to his audience instead of at them, concerned more about the message in the music than breaking [...]
The Smoking Section (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Learn the name. Remember the face. This man deserves respect. [Kaos] promoted events with as well as shared the stage with artists and Dj’s such as: MF DOOM, Jazzy Jeff, Big Daddy Kane, Bobbito aka Dj Cucumber Slice, Maseo(De La Soul), Pete Rock, Biz Markie, Raekwon and Ghostface (Wu-Tang), Ali Shaheed Muhammed (ATCQ), Luv Bug Starski, [...]
XXL Magazine (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Term gets some Chocolate Boy Wonder production on this cutting room floor cut off Politics As Usual...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The contributions of Latino rappers have often been overlooked - but no more. Next week, members of the influential rap group Cypress Hill, known for their hits "Insane in the Membrane" and "How I Could Just Kill A Man" will be acknowledged, by...
prefix (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Last week, the top five of VH1’s 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs was released by Miss Info, now Stereogum’s got the full list. Despite my hopes, Midnight Marauders and Paul’s Boutique ...
The Smoking Section (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Words By Khalid Strickland Contrary to what the mainstream media wants us to believe, there’s still a large contingent of rap fans who like their music rough-around-the-edges. Commercial radio can snooze, but many listeners prefer hard, boom-bap beats instead of the glitzy stuff that DJ Premier dubbed “Tinkerbell” music. Don’t get juxed by 106 & Park; [...]
Strivin' (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Hip Hop has always been an art form that continues to unite individuals from across the globe with a common bond such as music. The group Definition personifies this bond to the fullest. Definition consist of Queens New York emcee K. Sparks, and Sweden based producer Pajozo. Definition is reminiscent of the group Pete Rock [...]
Soulbounce.com (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
How wack is it to straight jack a beat in front of someone's face, then usher in an era of biting as not only acceptable, but rewarded? It's kind of like this current election where ignorance in the face...
The Smoking Section (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Words By David D. A couple of weeks ago I caught an episode of The Colbert Report in which the guest was staunch conservative and Hip-Hop critic John McWhorter. McWhorter, an African-American, said he hopes Obama wins the election so we all “finally” realize how racism in America is over-exaggerated by African Americans and can [...]
Soulbounce.com (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Feenin' for some new-sounding old school? Has your Betamax copy of Wild Style been run into the ground? We understand. Enter Los Angeles' own People Under The Stairs, whose albums are considered by many hip hop heads to be instant...
