Flogging the dolphin. Peeling the banana. Killing kittens. Shaking hands with the sheriff. Watching Handah Mondana. We all know the basic tenets of male (and female) life involve spending some alone time with your no-no place. And since music is all about real-life situations, it makes sense that there have been songs about the experience of syruping your fapjack during May, National Masturbation Month. Read the rest of this entry »

This one should please all the pessimistic hip-hop heads out there. After a year-plus of talk that the prolific pairing of producer MF Doom and Masta Ace would be dropping a joint LP together, fans finally have their first glimmer of hope the project will actually happen. Read the rest of this entry »

“I was drinking my own sweat and it tasted like mystery meat seaweed stewed”

I may have mixed some of the words up, but that’s basically the gist. Putting the most mysterious metal-faced assassin with the coldest damage-resistant polycarbonate-faced killer is an ingenious blend Read the rest of this entry »

On Monday, Lupe Fiasco announced that he and Pharrell will be releasing an album together soon. Fantastic news for fans…but all it did was remind us of that now-forgotten Child Rebel Soldiers album that never manifested. Read the rest of this entry »

MF DOOM sits down with ego trip’s Chairman Mao in what may be the longest online video interview in the history of the Internuts. Filmed at a recent Red Bull Music Academy lecture in Madrid, Spain, the Chairman and the man behind the mask chop it up for an in-depth, hour-and-a-half public conversation. Read the rest of this entry »

Show of hands, who expected this project to actually happen? Read the rest of this entry »

– Word on the street is that there is a big football game this weekend. Here are three things that’ll make it better: these crazy bets, the possibility of free pizza and, if you’re a Packers fan, Lil Wayne’s new fight song.

– David D. was man enough to admit when he was wrong and gave a history lesson on MF Doom.

– Project Pat has a new side hustle. Read the rest of this entry »

Flash back to 2004. Young(er) David D. was a freshman in college and became one of those people that goes off, gets educated and feels too smart for what everyone else is in to. That meant strapping on a backpack and listening to everything underground. My iPod was full of albums like Wordsworth’s Mirror Music and Masta Ace’s Long Hot Summer. But above all, I was an MF DOOM stan. Read the rest of this entry »

It never dawned on me that albums ever went out of print until all my CD’s were stolen from my dorm room during my freshmen year of college. Between Best Buy and BMG, I didn’t have much problem replenishing my stock until I got to a particular infamous album, which played a part in Rawkus Record’s demise. And it was going for well over a resonable asking price on Amazon.

Now, an industry powerhouse is looking to do something about that.

Universal Music Group has partnered with CreateSpace, an Amazon.com company, to release classic out-of-print CDs using their disc on demand service. Read the rest of this entry »

Too ill of a concept here and OOP collectors will rejoice as the cult favorite Operation: Doomsday looks like it will finally be reissued the proper way. The newly packaged version will include 51 tracks including the original, alternate takes, b-sides and instrumentals and will come in two formats – LUNCH BOX 2/CD and METAL 4/LP BOX – each containing a 32-page lyric book and set of 10 cards with images of the Operation Doomsday MCs. Read the rest of this entry »

The one they call 4-Ize doesn’t have a lick of sense but possesses some skills in his microphone endeavors. That’s why he’s proclaiming himself as the Professional Ignorant for his album to the streets. But don’t confuse his intentional buffoonery with slacking in the studio. Not only does the ATL Hawk’s LP have a plethora of witty punchlines and Trading Places excerpts to gel the monkey business together, but there is also firepower in the hired help like B.o.B, De La Soul, Gucci Mane, and, of course, Señor Kaos. Read the rest of this entry »

The last couple of weeks have proven to be Hip-Hop Christmas around these here Internets with free projects raining down like dollar bills at your mom’s night job. Two particularly spectacular works were Wale’s More About Nothing and Smoke DZA’s awesomely-named George Kush The Button. While listening to both, I couldn’t help but notice a familiar saxophone riff sampled in each album. Read the rest of this entry »

The cafeteria is open but the only thing being served is condiments. How do you even manage? If you’re TiRon, it’s as easy as squeezing the bottle to lace your food. He gave you plenty of time to Ketchup while he hoped in the kitchen to whip up a lil’ MSTRD to compliment his verbal skills. Read the rest of this entry »

*Straps on backpack*

2003-2004 was the David D. backpack era. My prized possession in my Jansport was Madvillainy, which is a polarizing album as people either hate it or absolutely love it. I still contest that it’s a 5 Cig album. Each song flowed seamlessly, with DOOM dropping gems all over Madlib’s creepy, whimsical and comical (in the good way) production.

“Papermill” is that classic Madvillain sound with a couple of hook-less minutes of DOOM spitting non-sequitors and off-kilter rhymes. His voice is missing that gravelly sound it had in the first album, which is a shame. Still, this track is vintage Madvillain. Apparently, this it from an album that is on the way. Expect the project to come out the day after DOOM actually shows up to a concert. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re familiar with indie Hip-Hop beat machine RJD2, you already know dude’s a beast because of his work with Cage, MF Doom and CunninLynguists, not to mention his own diverse and eclectic collection of albums and instrumentals.

What you may not have known, is that he actually is a beast – an eight-foot-tall woolly bully with horns, who can’t seem to get anything right. Well, at least that’s how homeboy’s portrayed in Read the rest of this entry »