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 ...
The cover shot of a Fat Albert-ized Pharcyde roller coastering their way into a funhouse
makes perfect sense, as the L.A.-based quartet introduced listeners to an uproarious vision of earthy hip-hop informed by P-Funk silliness and an everybody-on-the-mike street-corner atmosphere ...
Like most hip-hop movie soundtracks, Black Mask features a bit of everything. There's some West
Coast underground rap, a bit of fast-paced Southern hip-hop, a heavy dose of New York thuggery, and even a dash of turntablism. Nothing on the ...
The murder of DJ Scott La Rock had a profound effect on KRS-One, resulting in
a drastic rethinking of his on-record persona. He re-emerged the following year with By All Means Necessary, calling himself the Teacher and rapping mostly about ...
The ninth studio LP from the East Coast rapper and member of influential Yonkers based
hip-hop crew the Lox, G-Host is Styles P's first solo outing since 2015's A Wise Guy and a Wise Guy, and follows on the heels ...
Jeru the Damaja returned from a three-year absence with Heroz4hire, an independent album released on
his own Knowsavage label, featuring both production and mixing by Jeru himself. His rapping style, as dense and inventive as ever, entails listening to the ...
Nas (a.k.a. Nasir Jones) kicks off his musical eulogy to hip-hop with the nostalgic Carry
On Tradition, on which the Queensbridge MC details how members of the younger generation have abandoned the values instilled by rap pioneers like Big Daddy ...
In the years between his 2013 debut LP, Nostalgic 64, and his sophomore set, Imperial,
Denzel Curry evolved from a shadowy cult presence into a full-blown, game-ready voice. While hints of this direction were already present on Nostalgic -- a ...