There's no doubt in my mind that Tsutomu 'Tom' Shimura is worthy and deserving of a complation album - even one with the deliberately absurd long title "Now Loo... Read More...
An integral part of West Coast indie hip-hop history, Lyrics Born went, in the past twenty years, his individual independent route. A route that on his latest ... Read More...
The original Latyrx album was one of the most profound hip-hop experiences I had in my college years. It represented everything to me that now gets labelled as ... Read More...
As 2008 draws to an end, I probably wouldn't be completely out of line if I called it the year of the underdog. Nevertheless, to label anybody an underdog isn'... Read More...
Tom Shimura, aka Lyrics Born, makes the kind of hip hop that even people who don't like hip hop like. His music is fun, rooted in 70s and 80s funk, and free of... Read More...
Gift of Gab and Lateef the Truth Speaker are underdogs in much the same way as the Kansas and Memphis men's basketball teams – anyone who really knows their ... Read More...
