Guess who gets two points from TSS for playing Shenmue? Although, the Kooley High collective aren’t strangers to winning, thanks in part to their Cap City classic Read the rest of this entry »

If David Thompson, the NBA great, was known for getting higher than hot air balloons, what’s the over and under that by Kooley High choosing to name their album after him, that they would take it a couple notches above their competition? Read the rest of this entry »

“Carolina, we got now and next.”

As a general rule, I avoid female rappers like I do this heat and I generally with both when I have to. Kooley High’s Rapsody gets a pass for bringing along Mez and Laws to snag my attention and “Top Five” was worth the few minutes spent listening and then rewinding Read the rest of this entry »

Get up in the morning, pour the coffee, put on the headphones. Press play. Kooley High’s “All Day” comes bumping through. Smooth. Tab-One, Charlie Smarts and Rapsody split a little slice of life, a little good-natured wordplay. Read the rest of this entry »

Get in the proper time zone if you’re not reppin’ the East. Kooley High put together a colorful cipher to encompass all five elements of Hip-Hop straight off their Eastern Standard Time tape. Hell, make it 5½ with Rapsody holding it down for the b-girls. Read the rest of this entry »

Kooley High may be a band of sixteen-spittin’ Tar Heels but their time zone still reflects the big E on the compass. But map spots and other intagibles are irrelevant when you have a crew that represents a forgotten art in the traditonal sense of crew love in Hip-Hop. The beats aren’t layered in generic bass thumps and other simplicity and they embody the traits that made De La Soul great and Digable Planets pop. Read the rest of this entry »

Directed By Napoleon Wright III

Brand new visual by the clique who hails from N. Carolina: Kooley High. Read the rest of this entry »