If you thoroughly enjoy scaring yourself silly watching the seemingly non-stop stream of apocalypse, UFO, Bibe Code and Illuminati televsion programming there is out there, than Ill Bill’s new album with west coast production legend DJ Muggs is something you’ll treasure. Bill isn’t at all new to the world of pulp lyrics and wildly accusatory [...]
Let’s face it, America has been sliding down a slippery slope for awhile…Our educational systems are failing kids more than ever, lord knows our economy needs some work, our media has had a really staggering decline in morality, our government is spending like a rabid 17 yr. old girl at the mall (if people still [...]
When a member of a much loved and successful conscious Hip-Hop group sets out to do a solo album the results can be anything. There seems to be little connection to the group being technically nice and having good fortune to that of the lone wolf member, who strikes out on his own to test [...]
If your lucky and had a nose for dope underground Hip-Hop 12” inch records outta the west coast in the late nineties and the better part of the aughties, chances are your familiar with ABB (Always Bigger And Better) Records. The tiny indie label based out of Oakland and run by Beni B was home [...]
Cutting through the dilapidated side streets of downtown Motown their sound is heard yet again. Returning for one last go around, Detroit’s most celebrated subterranean sons have released what some believe due to a few minor in-house grumblings, will be their last record, perhaps, ever. Slum Village’s new manifesto toward a game has long been [...]
From “West siiiide!” to “one love” and even the essential “keep it real”, there are plenty of sayings that have floated through the world of Hip-Hop over the years. Some stuck around and some, well, they just won’t go away (“no homo”). Making a strong challenge to be the next useless catch phrase I blurt [...]
The fairer sex used to be a great source of pride for Hip-Hop. Not so long ago women in this genre really were spearheading a prevailing, positive feminist force within the culture. We had powerful ladies like Latifah and Rage who exuded feminine inner strength, un-afraid to mix it up on the hardcore tip. Then [...]
In 1991 a thoughtful emceeing duo from Queens that prided themselves on being conscious in their rhymes and eclectically funky with their production burst onto the Hip-Hop landscape with a sound that fit perfectly alongside their fellow Native Tongues camp member’s. Almost 20 years after he and his mans stepped in the game with [...]
MF Grimm’s life truly resembles that of your favorite comic book hero’s genesis. We now find the Manhattan bred, NYC underground legend trying to keep his brand of straight forward rhyming afloat after having gone through some of the toughest trials anyone ever could in a single lifetime. He returns with yet another issue of [...]
As hesitant as I may be to praise or elevate a man who once famously stated “In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm“, I must admit that Chicago wordsmith and perennial underground favorite Rhymefest, (who’s real name coincidentally is also Che) [...]
