Four years ago when "Blue Collar" dropped I anointed Che Smith b/k/a Rhymefest the next great thing in hip-hop. "Rhymefest achieves his potential with an outst... Read More...
Dear Rhymefest,
How are you? How's that Chicago summer treating you? It's actually sunny here in San Francisco, which is pretty rare in the summer. I was writi... Read More...
Mixtapes, in a sense, have recreated the wild, Wild West climate of the '80s in terms of what an artist and/or producer can get away with rhyming over. Allow m... 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...
A Funky Look Back at the Year that Was(n't): Another year gone, another slew of terrible rap music. But in what was seemingly a disappointing overall year for H... Read More...
