What's in a name: Chicago Emcee ShowYouSuck
ShowYouSuck - Clam Chowder Soup Lot's of new stuff coming from some familiar faces for the new year: a Wu-Tang sponsored collaboration between Zilla Rocca, My Man Shafe, and Alex Ludovico. More...
View ArticleInterview: Sintex Era, Accountant Turned Rapper (Trickle Down)
It's a frequent complaint of mine that today's generation of emcees seems to be completely disconnected from the political and economic realities of the 21st century. At a time when the uneven...
View ArticleZilla Rocca featuring Has-Lo - Full Spectrum (Video)
Zilla Rocca featuring Has-Lo - Full Spectrum Above is the new video from Zilla Rocca, for the single Full Spectrum off of the Nights & Weekends EP. Featuring Has-Lo and a silent cameo from Curly...
View ArticleVision the Kid - Lost Summer (Minnesota Hip Hop)
Vision the Kid - Lost Summer With student loan debt rapidly climbing to an all time high of a trillion dollars, a perpetual recession and zero new jobs available (literally) to offer any way of paying...
View ArticleTimeless Truth - Memorex Massacre
Timeless Truth - Memorex Massacre Thanks to the bums over at JCP&L, I've been living like Otzi ever since the great Blizzard of October 2011 came through and left me without heat or power,...
View ArticleState Champs - Full Hearts EP (Chicago Hip Hop)
As a follow up to this summer's Clear Eyes EP, Chicago's State Champs recently put out the Full Hearts EP. Full Hearts is the second chapter of a planned trilogy of EPs, and while there's a reference...
View ArticleInterview: Queens MC Rock Mecca Brings Back that ol' NY Rap
A couple of weeks ago an emcee out of Queens going by the name Rock Mecca hit me up with a song of his that was really different from the submissions I've been getting recently. The song, New York...
View ArticleDisko Dave - Code Red (Beats)
Disko Dave - Code Red I was searching youtube for some random videos and came across the above from Virginia producer Disko Dave. This beat is amazing, reminds me of the stuff that j.Depina's been...
View ArticleA Flock of Young Emcees from Kentucky (Tha Flock)
Trustin Jones of Tha Flock - Gotta Get It The State Champs' Johnny Redd put me up on this video from Trustin Jones of Tha Flock, a collective of under aged emcees from Lexington, Kentucky. I couldn't...
View ArticleA Hip Hop Western from Epick
Epick - Take Time Last time we saw Epick (of Epick and the Motherf*ckers) he was macking on a puppet, this time around it's a love story taken straight from the pages of a Cormac McCarthy novel. The...
View ArticleWu-Tang Pulp: Zilla Rocca scallops a Ghostface classic
The Wu-Tang Pulp project, brainchild of Zilla Rocca, has been through various stages of development for almost two years now. That might normally be a warning sign that the project was headed for a...
View ArticleA Trio of Videos from D.C. Rappers: Airospace, Cauzndefx and The Samurai Outlaws
Airospace - Demons I'm not sure if it's Airospace's raw acting in the above clip or the shaky view from the hand camera (filmed by Geoff Simmons), but there's something about it that makes the video a...
View ArticleAlex Ludovico - Fame Kills (Album Review)
So how was your holiday? Me, I spent the time off around Thanksgiving dealing with a death in the family, allowing commitment issues to ruin one of the best relationships of my life, and ducking...
View ArticleChachi Says Goodbye (Sodade D Bo)
P. Lowe featuring Chachi - Sodade D Bo You usually won't catch me listening to an R&B joint, but if it's got my man Chachi spitting a guest verse on it I'll definitely check it out. The song is...
View ArticleWhat to Make of Azealia Banks?
Azealia Banks featuring Lazy Jay - 212 Given that the above video already has 500,000 views, and a quick google search shows that Pitchfork and Fader have already cemented her reputation among the...
View ArticleCauzndefx serves up some Leftover Spaghetti
Cauzndefx - Leftover Spaghetti Promo Since first coming across that King of Hearts video from Cauzndefx a couple of weeks ago, I've since discovered that he has a pretty respectable back catalog of...
View ArticleCurly Castro Occupies Hip Hop
Curly Castro - They Call Me Castro I realize it's a bit of a pipe dream to expect mainstream rap fans to embrace political, intelligent rap the way that they did back when a group like Public Enemy...
View ArticleHe's Hers and DJ Benzocaine Reflect Eternally
New song from my man in the Philippines, Chris Brown aka He's Hers, flipping an old Jay-Z line over a beat produced by Ben Shirley. Operating under the name DJ Benzocaine, Brooklyn-based Shirley is...
View ArticleDregs One - Letter to the President
Dregs One - Letter to the President I told y'all three years ago where this was headed. Good to see that more of the hip hop community, at least within the underground, is finally starting to realize...
View ArticleNew Music from Mally featuring the Rhymesayers Crew and... Common??
Mally - Cloud Culture It's hard to believe that there was once a time, just a few years ago, when the only place Mally's music was getting burn was his friend Major's bootlegging site kissmyassplz....
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