Since his debut effort Follow Me Home dropped in 2011, Watts MC Jay Rock landed
on Saturday Night Live thanks to an appearance with his old crew member Kendrick Lamar. Don't think fame has gone to his head though, as ...
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 ...
Producer Dan The Automator Nakamura thrives on collaborations -- he's worked with Kool Keith on
his Dr. Octagon project and with Prince Paul on the Handsome Boy Modeling School's album. The Automator's newest project, Deltron 3030, is the perfect extension ...
On the tenth anniversary of the release of his first Collabos collection, Kansas City rapper
and Strange Music label head Tech N9ne issued the seventh set in the series, Dominion. Not as scary and horror-centric as earlier installments, Dominion once ...
Following the surprise success of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's summer 1994 anthem Thuggish Ruggish Bone, the group
returned a year later with E 1999 Eternal, an impressive debut full-length that dismisses any notion that the group was merely a one-hit wonder. From ...
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 ...
He gets co-billing, but Kanye West's contribution to this set is his endorsement, access to
his Good Music label's back catalog, plus a scratchy, recorded phone call at the beginning of this liberated mixtape. In other words, this would not ...