Once a member of the St.Louis R&B group Soul Tyde Black Spade’s dissonant keyboard pieces from Worrell world, doleful belting and earnest rapping has pulsed since the ’90s. To Serve With Love is his first proper album hip-hop version 3.0 for a prominent triage of soul, R&B and funk that take sonic favor. Rapping in […]
Big Gates/Slip-N-Slide/Atlantic recording artist Plies has announced details of his very own non-profit organization, Big Gates and Plies Power Of Visions Foundation, Inc., as well as a scholarship program, the “Somebody Loves You” Scholarship Fund. This all comes as the Ft. Myers […]
In the wake of Obama’s recent nomination, N.Y.Oil offers some
insightful commentary on the future of race relations in the U.S., the
effect on the black community and what we can all do to individually
further the historic progress being made.
Just as Obama endeavors to take back the country, N.Y.OIL again
reasserts his candidacy as an agent of change: […]
New York, NY – Although most of the details are sketchy, the one thing that’s certain is that the once highly influential underground hip-hop DJ/Producer and Perceptionist member, Fakts One, one day, simply disappeared. Some blame problems with his record label that folded right before the scheduled release of his debut solo album. Others […]
One of the most critically acclaimed West Coast emcees of all time,
Ras Kass is renowned for his complex lyricism, sharp battle rhymes and
witty punchlines.
1996?s debut “Soul On Ice” established Ras as one of the front-runners
of the post West Coast gangsta rap movement pioneered by seminal acts
such as N.W.A. and nationally popularized by modern day icons […]
Hell Rell unveils the first webisode in his “Ruga Stories” series: a
rare glimpse behind the scenes at the photoshoot for the forthcoming
album, “Black Mask Black Gloves (The Ruga Edition)” in stores July 22nd
on Babygrande Records.
Rell reveals some gems about the forthcoming record, as well as his
lofty plans for the future, which include films, books and […]
Atlanta, GA - SnitchCraft, an urban novel by Edrea Davis, recently landed on the required reading list in a curriculum guide examining snitching at the Yale National Initiative of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
The Introduction to Criminal Justice course, Police Investigative Challenges: To Snitch or Not to Snitch, That is the Unanswered Question, seeks […]
(Monday, June 23rd, 2008 New York, NY) Renowned rapper and activist Immortal Technique, in conjunction with Fat Beats Record Store, will be encouraging the hip-hop generation to register to vote at his record release party in New York for his third album, The 3rd World. The party will start at midnight on Monday, June 23rd […]
Eminem emerges from the shadows to rework Masta Ace’s classic “Slaughtahouse” for Delicious Vinyl’s RMXXOLOGY. Originally released on 1993’s Slaughtahouse, the track called for a “death to the wack MC’s” and the gangsta rap era. The original video featured Masta Ace and crew rhyming in an actual slaughterhouse. Dressed in white butcher suits, drenched in […]
If you’ve been following the hit MTV reality series Run’s House starring Reverend Run (of Run-DMC), then you already know about the hip-hop trio Team Blackout. Team Blackout consists of Rev Run’s teenage son JoJo Simmons and his childhood friends Zach, and Reggie. The Queens / Long Island natives have been rhyming together since the […]
Sunz of Man members and deeply rooted affiliates of the legendary
Wu-Tang Clan, Hell Razah and Shabazz the Disciple are no strangers to
the game.
With the July 8th release of “T.H.U.G. Angelz: Welcome To Red Hook
Houses,” Razah and Shabazz expose their personal journeys, from their
upbringings in the Red Hook housing projects and its significance as a
breeding ground […]
Hip-Hop ain’t dead…it’s gone global. The Snowgoons, the renowned German
production team consisting of Det, DJ Illegal, Torben & DJ Waxwork prep
for the June 24th bow of their sophomore release, “Black Snow” with the
video for the track “Who?” feat. Jedi Mind Tricks/Army of the Pharaohs’
affiliated Outerspace.
Big Gates/Slip-N-Slide/Atlantic recording artist Plies makes an impressive debut this week with the release of his sophomore album. “DEFINITION OF REAL” lands at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling more than 200,000 copies in its first week, doubling first week sales of his first album, “THE REAL TESTAMENT.”
A founding member of legendary hip-hop crew Group Home, Lil Dap is a
product of the renowned New York mid-nineties “golden age” of hip-hop
that spawned such classic groups as M.O.P., Gang Starr & many more.
Group Home’s widely hailed release, “Living Proof,” solidified Dap as a
frontrunner of this widely renowned and respected era and has since
seen him […]