Hip Hop

Hip Hop 

Hip-Hop Still Runs On Dilla Time

August 9, 2022August 8, 2022 Michaelangelo Matos 1 Comment Books, Dan Charnas, Dilla, Dilla Time, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm, Hip-hop, J. Dilla, James Yancey, Janet Jackson, Jay Dee, Q-Tip, Slum Village

In a new biography, author Dan Charnas dissects the soul of the gifted and complicated Detroit beat guru

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Hip Hop Rap 

ALBUMS: Trying to Give E L U C I D and billy woods My Money (But That’s a Whole Thing)

July 6, 2022July 6, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2022, Aethiopes, Armand Hammer, Backwoodz Studioz, Billy Woods, Elucid, Hip-hop, I Told Bessie, Preservation, RZA

Auditing the best rapper alive and his stranger half

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Hip Hop Rap 

Some Thoughts on the New Kendrick Lamar Album

May 13, 2022May 7, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments Aftermath, Ghostface Killah, Interscope Records, Kendrick Lamar, Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers

Does Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers step up to the social media hype surrounding it?

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Hip Hop Rap 

ALBUMS: Pusha T’s It’s Almost Dry Proves the Well Is Anything But

April 25, 2022April 25, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2022, Clipse, Def Jam, G.O.O.D. Music, It’s Almost Dry, Kanye West, King Push, Pusha T, Timbaland

Is this the Virginia rap great’s finest solo album yet?

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Funk Hip Hop Punk 

Be True To Yourself And You Will Never Fall: Check Your Head at 30

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 Ryan Bray 0 Comments Ad-Rock, Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, Beasties, Biz Markie, Check Your Head, Kojak, Mark Nishita, MCA, Mike D, Money Mark, Ted Nugent

On their third record, the Beastie Boys lifted themselves back up and set the tone for the 90s

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Hip Hop Rap 

WATCH: The Manifestation of Wildchild

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments Big Daddy Kane, California, Fat Beats, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Guilty Simpson, Hip-hop, Lootpack, Madlib, Manifestin', Miles Brown, Murs, Omowale, Oxnard, Police Brutality, POS, Ras Kass, Sadat X, West Coast, Wildchild

The onetime Lootpack MC recounts his police brutality experience on first single off his new album Omowale

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Hip Hop Soundtracks and Film Scores 

FILMS: Still Uncrushable After All These Years

March 9, 2022April 3, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments Biggie Smalls, Documentaries, I Got A Story To Tell, Netflix, Notorious B.I.G.

A touching and insightful documentary gives the story of the Notorious B.I.G. the telling it deserves

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Funk Hip Hop Pop Punk Soul 

LISTEN: Florida’s Set It Off Face Their Fears With “Who’s In Control”

February 24, 2022February 25, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2022, Anderson .Paak, Cody Carson, Elsewhere, Fearless Records, Maxx Danziger, pop-punk, Set It Off, the Weeknd, Who's In Control, Zach DeWall

The celebrated pop-punk trio’s new album Elsewhere is due March 11th

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Funk Hip Hop Music Journalism Remembrance Rock 

Elegy to a Flyboy

December 10, 2021December 13, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 24-7 Spyz, Bad Brains, Basehead, Ben Tyree, Chocolate Genius, Defunkt, Fishbone, Flyboy in the Buttermilk, Follow For Now, Greg Tate, Hip-hop, journalism, Justin Warfield, Living Colour, Miles Marshall Lewis, Music Journalism, Ronald Shannon Jackson, The Veldt, Urban Dance Squad

Paying respects to Greg Tate, the man who gave music journalism its groove

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Hip Hop Music Journalism Rap 

The Thin Line Between Rap and Reality

December 6, 2021February 19, 2024 Michaelangelo Matos 1 Comment 2 Live Crew, 2021, Books, Death Certificate, Eric Harvey, Geraldo Rivera, Ice Cube, Michaelangelo Matos, Oprah Winfrey, Run DMC, University of Texas Press, Who Got The Camera: A History of Rap and Reality

An interview with Eric Harvey, author of the new history of hip-hop and tabloid TV, Who Got the Camera?

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Hip Hop 

The Future?: To Whom It May Concern… at 30

October 8, 2021October 9, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, A Tribe Called Quest, Aceyalone, De La Soul, Dr. Dre, Flying Lotus, Freestyle Fellowship, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Kamasi Washington, Kendrick Lamar, Myka 9, Open Mic Eagle, P.E.A.C.E., Self Jupiter, Snoop Dogg, To Whom It May Concern

It was three decades ago today when Freestyle Fellowship took rap music to its threshold of enlightenment with influential debut

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Hip Hop 

ALBUMS: Introverted Swagger

October 1, 2021October 3, 2021 Kara Tucker 0 Comments Certified Lover Boy, Donda, Drake, England, Kanye West, Lil Simz, SAULT, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

Released on the same day as Donda and the new Drake, Little Simz’ follow-up to 2019’s GREY Area is every bit the impressive star turn its predecessor was

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Art Pop Hip Hop 

P.M. Dawn’s American Utopia

September 28, 2021February 19, 2024 Jason Thurston 1 Comment 1991, 30th Anniversary, Arrested Development, Digable Planets, Gee Street, Hieroglyphics, KRS One, Minutemix, Of the Heart, Of the Soul and Of the Cross: The Utopian Experience, OutKast, P.M. Dawn, Paper Doll, Prince Be, Set Adrift On Memory Bliss, Spearhead

Looking back on 30 years of the debut album by one of hip-hop’s most misunderstood acts

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Hip Hop jazz 

Back In The Days When I Was A Teenager: The Low End Theory at 30

September 27, 2021April 3, 2022 Daniel Offner 0 Comments 1991, A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Check The Rhime, Jarobi, Jazz, Phife, Phife Dawg, Q-Tip, Ron Carter, Scenario, Skypager, The Low End Theory

How A Tribe Called Quest’s sophomore masterpiece put the spotlight on their secret weapon and changed the course of rap music

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Hip Hop 

The Juggalo Variant

August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 Jason Webber 6 Comments 2021, COVID-19, DJ Paul, Gathering of the Juggalos, GWAR, ICP, Insane Clown Posse, Kid ‘N’ Play, R.A. The Rugged Man, Shaggy 2 Dope, Tech N9ne, Vanilla Ice, Violent J

Spreading the cheeks of America’s last subculture at the Gathering of the Juggalos

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