Stevie Stone – New Kid Comin’ The intro caught my attention, just a list of a few Gangster Rappers/Groups that I consider legendary. I was hoping that those names would foreshadow what were to come, not really. The bass is well pronounced throughout this album. Tech N9NE is featured on this album, listening to him [...]

I hope there is a little more content to 6treg’s album than on this “fresh” single. I’m sorry, but I can’t take someone who raps about rocking Ed Hardy and thinks its “fresh” seriously. His flows were simple and nothing really caught my attention. But I can see it being a mainstream interest.

etnies is re-creating the skateboarding classic shoe the Rap. Coming from the first skateboarder-owned shoe company, the etnies Rap was different than anything else on the market at the time. etnies is bringing back the Rap model in 2009 with the addition of several technical upgrades including vulcanized soles alongside mid/low cut models. A video [...]

For the rapper known as Skillz, hip-hop music is a passion that comes with a price. Surviving the game as an underground emcee took both talent and the realization that the business had entered a new era. Firstly, with the 2005 release of Confessions of a Ghostwriter, he exposed a controversial practice within the game: [...]

  RZA as Bobby Digital Digi Snacks Koch Records Rating: 3/4 Parliament-Funkadelic once sagely recognized that “America Eats Its Young,” but I doubt even those forefathers of rap could’ve predicted how hip-hop would eat its old. While the rock world reveres its veterans (see: Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton), hip-hop’s here-today-gone-tomorrow aesthetic tends to reserve icon [...]

The Hip-Hop Generation. It’s the label that’s been affixed to everyone who has grown up involved in hip-hop in any way, shape or form. According to Ice Cube, however, it’s a tag that was created with the intent to debase. “That’s a dismissive kind of label,” he says with aggravation, “it’s damn near like calling [...]

    Killer Mike I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II SMC Recordings Rating: 3.5/4   “This is not your regular rap album.” While most rap albums set the mood by expressing how many hoes they’ve got, how many niggas they’ve shot or how high their stacks are, Killer Mike starts the show by letting [...]

Shaya Fallen Awake Interdependent Media Rating: 3/4 Rappers like Shaya often have distinctive repertoires that consciously flirt with the golden-era formula.  For those too young to have experienced that time in all its glory, the good ole days of hip-hop boasted music that tended to lean more toward lyrical depth, sampling, scratching, and was basically [...]