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G. Love & Special Sauce Reissue Classic 1994 Debut for its 30th Anniversary 

January 4, 2024January 4, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments Beastie Boys, Boston, Digable Planets, G. Love, G. Love & Special Sauce, Garrett “G. Love” Dutton, James “Jimi Jazz” Prescott, Jeffrey “The Houseman” Clemens, Philadelphia International Records, Soul Coughing, Special Sauce, The Roots

Remastered and expanded digital edition due out January 12th

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Funk Hard Rock Heavy Metal Hip Hop Rap Rock 

Rage Against The Machine No Longer Touring

January 3, 2024January 3, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments Brad Wilk, Instagram, Rage Against the Machine, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Run The Jewels, Tim Commerford, Tom Morello, touring

Drummer Brad Wilk made the confirmation on Instagram

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Hip Hop Rap 

WATCH: Czarface Shares Video for New Single “Czarchimedes’ Death Ray”

December 12, 2023December 12, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2023, 7L, Czarchimedes' Death Ray, Czarface, Czartificial Intelligence, Esoteric, Inspectah Deck, Silver Age, Wu-Tang Clan

Latest album out now from hip-hop supergroup ft Inspectah Deck, Esoteric and 7L

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Hip Hop Rap 

The Gift and the Curse: Jay-Z’s The Black Album at 20

November 24, 2023November 24, 2023 Ted Miller 0 Comments 99 Problems, Change Clothes, Ice-T, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Rick Rubin, Roc-A-Fella, Sean Carter, The Black Album, Timbaland

Looking back on the album that was supposed to be Sean Carter’s retirement plan

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Hip Hop Rap Rock 

The Legend of Ice-T Assessed on New Compilation

November 19, 2023 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments 2023, Ice-T, Law and Order: SVU, Midnight, Ruffnation Records, The Legend of Ice-T: Crime Stories, Tracy Marrow

But does Crime Stories tell the whole tale of the gangsta rap icon?

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Hip Hop Rap 

Enter the Wu-Tang: 30 Years of the Most Iconic Rappers Ever

November 9, 2023November 9, 2023 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1993, Cappadonna, Chef Raekwon, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Eric Adams, Ghostface Killah, GZA, Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, Method Man, RZA, Shaolin, Staten Island, Wu-Tang Clan, Wu-Tang Day

As 36 Chambers celebrates an anniversary, we look back on hip-hop’s greatest superheroes

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Devil’s Radio: 10 Great Halloween Songs

October 31, 2023October 31, 2023 Craig Peters 1 Comment Bow Wow Wow, Halloween, Link Wray, Link Wray and His Ray Men, Lou Reed, Marilyn Manson, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Starcrawler, The Creepshow, the Gaslight Anthem, The Who, Whodini

Looking beyond the standard holiday playlist

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Hip Hop Rap Remembrance 

Legendary Producer The 45 King Gone at 62

October 19, 2023October 19, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 900 Number, Apache, C&C Music Factory, Chill Rob G, Digital Underground, Ed Lover, Eminem, Eric B & Rakim, Flavor Unit, Gang Starr, Jay-Z, King Sun, Lakim Shabazz, Lisa Stansfield, Madonna, Mark Howard James, Mark the 45 King, MC Lyte, MTV, Queen Latifah, RIP, Salt-N-Pepa, The 45 King, X-Clan, Yo! MTV Raps

Remembering the man behind some of hip-hop’s biggest songs

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Return Of The ‘G’: OutKast’s Aquemini at 25

September 29, 2023October 29, 2025 Jason Gross 1 Comment 25th Anniversary, Andre 3000, Aquemini, Big Boi, Carl Perkins, Dre, Goodie Mob, Iron Butterfly, LaFace Records, Organized Noize, OutKast, Raekwon, Super Mario Bros.

Looking back at a sprawling, exhilarating rap tour de force

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Catching M1s in a Church Basement with Armand Hammer

September 27, 2023September 27, 2023 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2023, Armand Hammer, Backwoodz Studioz, Billy Woods, Elucid, Fat Possum Records, Maps, We Buy Diabetic Test Strips

billy woods and his duo with Elucid give up one of the year’s most gripping rap albums

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Funk Hip Hop jazz Rap 

Stone Age: De La Soul’s Buhloone Mindstate Turns 30

September 21, 2023February 19, 2024 Ted Miller 0 Comments 1993, Biz Markie, Buhloone Mindstate, De La Soul, DJ Maseo, Hip-hop, Maceo Parker, Maseo, Posdnuos, Shortie No Mass, Trugoy The Dove

Looking back on the rap trio’s most creative album

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Made You Look: Nas Turns 50

September 14, 2023September 14, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 50th Birthday, Illmatic, King's Disease, King's Disease II, King's Disease III, Magic, Magic 2, Magic 3, MC Shan, Nas, New York, Queens

Some thoughts as we wait for Magic 3 to drop

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Every Body Count Album Ranked

September 8, 2023September 8, 2023 Ben Apatoff 0 Comments Body Count, Common, D-Roc, Ernie C, Guns 'N' Roses, Ice-T, Jack Kevorkian, Jimi Hendrix, Mooseman, Motörhead, Raw Breed

Author Ben Apatoff assesses the catalog of Ice-T’s controversial metal band

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Noname Makes Hip-Hop Proud on Its 50th Anniversary 

August 13, 2023August 13, 2023 Ted Miller 0 Comments Chance the Rapper, Common, Jay Electronica, Jay-Z, Noname, Rhianna, Sundial

Sundial is a celebration of contradictions that gores sacred cows — sounds like a rap classic all right

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Hip Hop Rap Rock 

A Loose History of the Rock and Hip-Hop Connection in Eight Moves

August 11, 2023August 11, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 50th anniversary, Blondie, Eddie Martinez, Elvis Costello, Faith No More, Hip-hop, Judgment Night soundtrack, KRS One, Larry Smith, Lil Yachty, R.E.M., Riot, Run DMC, The Roots

From Blondie to Yachty, we trace back the evolution of this everloving junction

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