Before I get to my top 10, I have to say that I'm very hopeful about the state of music going into 2008. There were some great releases this year, and the combi... Read More...
Jaylib was like a fantasy-league sports team. The pairing of two unlikely collaborators was certainly something that, in retrospect, still sounds like a dream.... Read More...
Telling the James Yancey story again would first require me to find the nearest brick wall and bash my head into it until I forgot I had told it in the first p... Read More...
It's that time once again as the culmination of 2006 commences. We're faced with the difficult and arduous task of choosing the best of the best, the "cream of ... Read More...
2006 was a year full of many very solid rap releases, but rarely did a listener bare witness to a masterpiece. As always, there were the hot trends, like Jim Jo... Read More...
The issue's validity remains debatable, but in 2K6, hip-hop's supposedly critical condition was like headline news. Every other underground amateur stepped up t... Read More...
