By Blair “Bliz” Milbourne

On the last leg of his acclaimed Liquid Swords tour, the emcee known as the Gza took a young pupil to school, a student who has since 1993, never been late to a class taught by the…

By LC Weber

Elzhi is the crowned prince of Detroit’s tight-knit yet burgeoning hip-hop community. Starting out in the ’90s as one third of the group 925 Colony, he’s now half of Slum Village. Elzhi sharpened his cutting lyricism over three…

The hip-hop scene is a fickle, funny place. Careers come and go in the span of a summer, cats that were supposed to be the next big thing fall by the wayside and talented acts get passed over in favor…

Kevin Bourgeois’ art was born in Central Florida, on skate ramps made out of discarded wood in abandoned warehouses, in graffiti painted on the walls as he crunched in the broken glass in blown-out Half-Cabs with a can of paint.…

Words by: Preach Jacobs

It may be safe to say that hip-hop years are similar to dog years. The longer you’re in the industry the faster time seems to fly by. The next thing you know there are more pups fighting…

Q-Tip-Renaissance

Universal Motown Records

Rating: 4 of 4

By: Preach Jacobs

There’s no doubt that A Tribe Called Quest helped shaped the sound of some of hip-hop’s most endearing artists. Q-Tip was at the forefront of the group…

Enough explaining. Me? I wanna start talking smack, so here it is:

Y’all Don’t Hear Me Though
Rock the bells was extra pungent this year… they might have to call it rock the smells next time… Anyone remember big pants little wheels?…

Celebrity sex tapes—o, where have they gone?! The news that R. Kelly was not guilty of any of the 14 charges of underage sex with a minor got me thinking about how there hasn’t been any breaking news regarding celebrity…

Here we are, another election year cycle, on the brink of witnessing history. Or so many of us think. The real question in our communities is not whether or not Barack Obama is ‘black enuff’—the real question is whether or…

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