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Roc Marc + Alchemist + Oh No = Stellar.

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We review Chicago MC Vakill’s newest effort.

Willie Evans Jr. debuts on High Water Music.

We break down Wu-Tang’s newest compilation disc.

Remember those little grab bag parties from elementary school? Let’s say that the music industry is the bag full of assorted “treats.” One kid pulled out an iPod, score. Another kid pulled out a pair of sweet sixteen/bar mitzvah, cheap, colored sunglasses, tough break. Imagine you pulled out a Transformers action figure. Not quite an [...]

There has been a lot of pressure on hip hop acts recently to update their sound accordingly as the genre progresses. Many try, many don’t, many succeed, many don’t. It is intensely upsetting for fans of a certain group or artist to hear an effort to evolve with the times that turns out to be [...]

Few times within the last several years has Hip-Hop been fully able to get excited about some new, brash and wildly talented emcee from the culture’s birthplace of New York City. All of that changed after Queens-bred, ethnically Albanian emcee, Action Bronson, released his latest album Dr. Lecter last month. Now New Yorkers and Hip-Hop [...]