Upon reading the listed artists, Yelawolf’s “Throw It Up” may seem like the oddest pairing on a rap record but it’s actually not. His Tennessee roots mean he undoubtedly listened to more than his fair share of “the old Triple 6 Mafia” when the group still featured Gangsta Boo and other originals. Still, the last time I heard anything about Boo she had robbed a Dollar General and/or had found Jesus. Read the rest of this entry »

The 2011 BET Hip-Hop Awards happened last night but nobody cared. Rappers, chains and shoutouts pretty much sum up what we can assume happened without even putting ourselves through the torture. The prime reason anyone tunes into the show is to catch the cyphers and, thankfully, the Internet makes it so we can catch those without ever having subjecting ourselves to the rest of f*ckery. Read the rest of this entry »

Cory Booker Schools America [Newsweek]

“The Game” Season 5 to Premiere in January 2012 [GOT]

University of Houston Libraries Acquires DJ Screw’s Records Collection [Ozone Mag] Read the rest of this entry »

A sharp contrast to the “Writer’s Block” disco inferno, Bad Meets Evil’s “Lighters” glows to a much more subtle flame. Created for the sole purpose of letting the people know Hell: The Sequel was in stores, Bruno Mars sings his little heart out as Royce sends a kite from prison and Eminem trots the globe from the outside looking in. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been a minute since its release, but Royce is still stuck on the same stanza, frustrated with reality. With Eminem yelling in the background for motivation, the volcano erupts and all the pent up anger is released in a fiery display of lyrical dominance. There’s a clear cut reasoning for the madness, however. Read the rest of this entry »

On Sunday night, I went to bed feeling pretty smug after a successful weekend of eBaying old crap from my closet paired with a weird, but welcome influx of Karmaloop sales boosting my account there. But my come-up felt minor once I heard Eminem reportedly made $3 million for a weekend’s work at the V Festival in England. Read the rest of this entry »

In this day and age of co-signs and alliances…oh wait, I already said that today. It just seems like more and more musicians turned moguls are relying on publicity opposed to pushing the music to the people and allowing it to make a gradual impact in their lives. Read the rest of this entry »

The Bad Meets Evil union call upon the living legend himself, DJ Premier to give Success Is Certain’s first leak a last hurrah before the album drops. Consider it a traditional remix in the sense (remember those?) as only the beat gets a makeover this go ’round. Throw it at the end of your tracklist when you grab the album from iTunes. Read the rest of this entry »

Rap’s had more than its fair share of artists who found success and then fell off after failing to recapture the musical magic. Remember how great Big Daddy Kane’s career was before and after Prince Of Darkness? Thought so. For every few that have taken a tumble from the mountaintop, there are others who were able to find their ways back to peak performances. Here are 20 albums which mark the return to form for a few of rap’s best talents. Read the rest of this entry »

Adele’s 21 has officially become the second album to sell a million digital downloads in the U.S. and ousts Eminem’s Recovery as the highest digital seller of all time only one week after he originally set the mark. Read the rest of this entry »

Recovery may or may not have been Eminem’s best work in recent years. But the album is one that will put him into the history books Read the rest of this entry »

Marshall was on site when Sasha Grey put the voodoo on Vincent Chase, but he figured he could fare much better with seductive temptress of rebellious pop culture. Not exactly the smart choice. Or was it? There’s a proverbial fork in the road when dealing with relationship crisis and lucklily for Eminem, director Joseph Khan’s magic allows for both possibilities to be played out accordingly. Read the rest of this entry »

Disappointed in Bad Meets Evil’s latest endeavor? Well, Royce fans, you’re in luck. Nickel Nine is going for five–as in his fifth album, 5 Cigs and 5x platinum–with Success Is Certain. While Bruno Mars is a no-show this go around, there’s still a couple of Wu-heads, a mad drummer and the melanin-challenged rhyme maniacs of Shady Records to fill the slots. Read the rest of this entry »

For all of the bad blood that has poured out of Detroit, the reunion of Eminem and Royce Da 5’9” is a welcoming sign. Royce’s squabbles with Shady’s group D-12 have been well documented, as the former Motor City comrades spent the better part of the last decade representing two distinct camps. Although it took the death of mutual friend Proof to mend the former friendship, the two MCs are again rattling off machine gun rounds of lyricism. Together they compose the appropriately titled Bad Meets Evil, whose debut EP, Hell: The Sequel, is full of devilish malcontent. Read the rest of this entry »

Because I don’t recall ever seeing a unicorn in a rappity-rap video.

Anyone else feel like Em didn’t hit his stride on Hell: The Sequel? Read the rest of this entry »