Rap is an innately collaborative genre - even the most mundane "solo" material necessitates the contributions of countless producers and studio technicians - an... Read More...
Our editor Steve 'Flash' Juon closed his January 2000 review of DMX's quintuple-platinum third album "...And Then There Was X" as follows: "With a demanding au... Read More...
Hip-Hop has always been reverent of jazz, yet oftentimes rap producers use jazz sampling as mere means to a new end. The masters from Pete Rock to Buckwild to ... Read More...
Teenage rappers are a phenomenon almost as old as hip hop itself, and the most lucrative were those marketed to a teeny-boppers' audience. If one looks back at ... Read More...
The original "H.N.I.C." was the product of a nurturing environment. Released at the height of New York's rap dominance, a time when Gotham rappers dominated ai... Read More...
8Ball's a regional hero and an underground legend, a veteran of two decades and a Southern innovator responsible for putting Memphis on the hip hop map. After ... Read More...
