Nasty Nas and Com Sense’s vintage-sounding “Ghetto Dreams” went from blip on my radar to possibly my most repeated song of this young month. It’s been more than a couple years since anything by either of these two emcees really hooked me, it’s really hard to describe how invigorating a song like this is, Read the rest of this entry »

“If I poured my heart out, would you leave it on the floor, Or would you pick it up and place it in your chest for me?”

When asked what they think their legacy will be, artists claim they just want to be remembered through their records. On “Immortal,” Strange Music lieutenant Krizz Kaliko employs his beating heart as a metaphor and runs with it. Read the rest of this entry »

Come September 9th, Kevin Hart’s new stand-up comedy flick, Laugh At My Pain, hits AMC theaters exclusively meaning I will finally get a chance to hear what all the hype is about. Read the rest of this entry »

Before Weezy tape dropped, Zo!’s Just Visiting Three was going to be my listening focus today and I think I’m going to stick with it. The latest release in his Just Visiting series of covers features the extended +FE Music family and comes fully produced by Zo! and Phonte for Chapter 3hree Verse 5ive Music/The Foreign Exchange Music. Read the rest of this entry »

Wayne shouldn’t have to apologize to fans and critics but he’s chooses to with the title of his Sorry 4 The Waitmixtape. Yeah, the prison thing slowed his roll of sorts but he’s come back and been extremely active. Read the rest of this entry »

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Netflix Boosts Prices By 60 Percent [WSJ]

Meme Watch: The Zuckerberg Note Pass Is the Meme That Keeps on Giving [Uproxx]

First Preview Of George Lucas’ Tuskegee Airmen Film [Indie Wire]

What Shall We Name The Nation’s 51st State? [LAT] Read the rest of this entry »

Even though SXSW took place in March, the release of Watch The Throne’s official tracklist has offered this footage new life and Vevo is poised to fully take advantage. Read the rest of this entry »

“Let’s get one thing clear, the name of the record is “Don’t Fall In Love With A Bitch,” not don’t fall in love period.”

With a title so brash, Jon Connor’s elaboration was almost necessary. Unfortunately for Captain Save ‘Ems worldwide, though, so is the song. To help promote the release of his much-anticipated Salvation project dropping today on iTunes, Read the rest of this entry »

All the BS aside, Prodigy is one of my favorites and Mobb Deep is, in my ears, the greatest duo to grace the Hip-Hop stage. There’s no denying that P lost a couple steps over the years, but his paradoxical personality remains intriguing because I’ve never been able to understand how his thought process works. Read the rest of this entry »

The march to King’s Landing has been an interesting one and today, the Roc Boys are in the building as they officially unveil the songs that made the cut for their collaborative effort, Watch The Throne. Read the rest of this entry »

“God bless the nonbelievers, they teach the dreamers how to fly…”

Tomorrow is the day Nikki Jean releases her album Pennies In A Jar, but for today she’s allowing the world to hear her collaboration with Lupe Fiasco and Black Thought free of charge. Read the rest of this entry »

This is about right. Canadian DJ/producer/cool dude Skratch Bastid has catered his latest remix to big chilling worldwide, by melding together War with Bob Marley. Yes, somewhere there’s irony in there. Read the rest of this entry »

There are a lot of reasons to second guess Cormega’s new visual featuring a ’90 All-Star squad. That said, there are also five reasons not to (six, if you count the beat). First off, so what if the video for “Fresh” looks like marionette crayon drawings and leaves Big Daddy Kane looking like Muhammad Ali? Have you ever tried computer animation? It’s impossible. Does it matter this single from Mega’s Born & Raised album that came out two years ago? Not on TSS. Lastly, even though these MCs are passed their prime for the most part, are we going pass on an opportunity to pay homage to these foundation layers, just because of this slice of awkwardness? Never that.

One piece of advice though. As a fan, if these are your prized MCs and you’ve been wanting to enlighten your youngbloods, please refrain from sharing this video. The animation might frighten them.

Unless you happen to be in a committed relationship and neither partner strays from the other, every time you have sex, the chance of waking up the next morning and taking a piss of razorblades is at least 50%. And if you’re one of those people who practice the all natural method – raw doggin’ – then that ups the ante to somewhere above 60%. Now, as if AIDS, herpes and more weren’t enough, Read the rest of this entry »

If you remember at the end of The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne self-imposed exile on Batman for the greater good of Gotham. Come this time next summer, we shall see the character resurrected from the slums for the close of Christopher Nolan’s trilogy with The Dark Knight Rises. Read the rest of this entry »