During the 1990s, Ishmael Butler, then known by the alias Butterfly, was a key member of the jazz rap trio Digable Planets. Alongside Doodlebug and Ladybug Mec... Read More...
Shabazz Palaces have been steadily refining their afrofuturist take on hip-hop for the past ten years. Each successive album improves upon the last, adding mor... Read More...
I've always found live hip-hop to be an iffy proposition. I've been to some amazing shows, but too often it is a guy shouting into a microphone over a backing t... Read More...
After an action-packed 2013 in hip hop, many of the heavyweights decided to have a "rest year" it seems.
In fact, the following Top 10 will be conspicuously de... Read More...
There were several points this year where I had a crisis of faith about this whole hiphop thing. I'll be forty in a week, which is Too Damn Old to be listening... Read More...
It's a cliche but it is true: hip-hop is a young man's game. Rappers rarely age gracefully, and the most successful rappers either fade out of the game or fall... Read More...
