One of hip-hop's great lost masterpieces, 93 'Til Infinity is the best single album to
come out of Oakland's Hieroglyphics camp, and ranks as a seminal early classic of the West Coast underground. The Souls of Mischief weren't even out ...
Black Eyed Peas bring some positivity and fun back into hip-hop. Musically there is almost
no realm this group does not touch -- right from the jump, the stylistic innocence of Fallen Up, complete with striking guitar licks, sums up ...
On his impressive debut solo endeavor, Brooklyn's mighty Mos Def delivers the album most true
school hip-hop fanatics have patiently awaited since the original Native Tongues collective stopped speaking. BLACK ON BOTH SIDES is at once thoughtful (the anthemic Hip ...
On Everything's Fine, rappers Jean Grae and Quelle Chris reflect on what it takes to
stay normal and sane while dealing with intense personal issues and living in an increasingly corrupt, crazy world that constantly seems on the brink of ...
A nervy, garage-punk-blasted amalgam of Beastie Boys, Beck, and Pissed Jeans -- with a little
bit of Wu-Tang Clan tossed in for good measure, the Dangerbird-issued Freaked Out American Loser is the sophomore studio long-player from the idiosyncratic, Milwaukee-bred, Brooklyn-based ...
Straight outta South Central, but far from what you expect, is an apt description for
the Freestyle Fellowship, a quartet of rappers who released this often overlooked classic in 1993. The group, Aceyalone, Mikah Nine, Mtulazjl PeAce and Self Jupiter, ...
Leave it to Kanye West to make live hip-hop exciting again. On his first live
album, released officially only in Europe, West ditches the hypemen and instead enlists the help of an all-female orchestra. Sprinkle in a few guest appearances ...
Can you remember the last time you heard a hip-hop artist who didn't dis other
MC's or floss about luxury cars, expensive liquor, or shagging with gold-diggers? You can't, can you? Well, on their debut disc, LET'S GET FREE, Dead ...