who says nyc hip hop is dead…?

It’s the return…of one of New York’s finest. It’s been a long time. A really long time since we last heard from Anti-Pop Consortium, the seminal art-rap trio long considered one of our fair city’s underground treasures since their formation in 1997. A slew of singles and four full-length records, most notably 2000’s Tragic Epilogue [...]

oh my god…

The record that most hip-hop fans…make that all hip-hop fans never believed would see the light of day along with Dr. Dre’s alleged Detox may finally see the light of day. The almighty G.O.A.T, Rakim is back. The album eight years in the making The Seventh Seal is supposed to hite stores the 15th of [...]

kanye! the clipse! it’s kinda like a big deal!

It’s always a good day when you find out one of your favourite hip hop groups have come out of the woodwork to grace us with something new. In this case, It’s Virginia’s Clipse and their brand new single featuring the one and only Kanye West called Kinda Like A Big Deal. I must say [...]

identity theft?

 
“That party last night was awfully crazy I wish we taped it
I danced my ass off and had this one girl completely naked
Drink my beer and smoke my weed but my good friends is all I need
Pass out at 3, wake up at 10, go out to eat then do it again
Man, I love [...]

that’s hot…

I’m noticing a trend. Two straight Philly artists… There must be something wrong here being that I am a proud New York sports fan, it’s pretty much not allowed that I acknowledge anything out of the Illadelph. I guess today’s a good day for rule-breaking especially since thanks to the fine people at Urb, word [...]

apparently he’s a rock star…

 
Okay well a couple of months ago I introduced you to a new song by the one and only Eminem called Crack A Bottle. Thank goodness it’s not the single and was only a leak. My hope is that it gets left on the editing task never to see the light of day especially if [...]

funkman…presented by red bull…?!

As you may or may not have figured out by now, I have a love/hate relationship with the rap realm.  There’s very little worth talking about since Outkast abdicated their throne and we’re now left with fakes, charlatans, bling merchants, LL Cool J’s desperation for continued relevance and as the Wu-Tang [...]

jimmy fallon has actually done something right…

Public Enemy…and the Roots…on the same stage? Have I died and gone to hip-hop heaven? Rap royalty on stage is always a good thing but on Fallon’s show? I guess we’ll take what we can get. It’s good to see Flava Flav take a break from his busy schedule of providing [...]

metal fingers coming back at ya…

 
“Waste of space, face hastily, bow out gracefully
Disappear, reappear, disappear again
Villain not his hair, he’s no Afro American (?)
If that’s the case, he be a bald-headed African
Takin all the credit and jetted, astro-travellin
Turn the man into a mannequin for Affleck-in
And bein tough actin, tinactin bluff jackin
He’s wears a mask so when [...]

that’s why they call him slim shady. he’s back, he’s back…

Well it’s about time! The Clown Prince of Hip-Hop aka Eminem aka Slim Shady aka Marshall Mathers has come back to the land of the living. It’s been a while since we last heard our favourite anti-hero. Encore was a decent record but was still missing the fire and brimstone of the two records that introduced [...]