40 Years of Hip Hop
Those who know me know that I love hip hop more than any other genre of music. I love when stuff like this comes across my screen. Check out this video celebrating 40 years of hip hop in 4 minutes. Ha...
Tag: hip-hop
The Best Rapper Alive, Every Year Since 1979
Complex magazine has come up with a list of the best rapper for each year since 1979. It's crazy when you look through the '90s and see how much talent existed in the hip hop community. That fact beco...
Dinosaurs + Notorious B.I.G. = Awesome
You have to be of a certain age (late twenties and early thirties) to remember the awesomeness that was the ABC show Dinosaurs). If you're of the age, you remember how great the TGIF show was (though,...
I Heard the $5 Million Wu-Tang Album That Won’t Be Played Again in Public for 88 Years
Jonathan Sturgeon writes about the new Wu-Tang album The CD is housed within two nickel-silver boxes that were hand-carved by a Moroccan artist and his team of ten workers over three months; there is...
Happy National Good Day Day
Today is National Good Day Day. What is National Good Day Day, you may ask. Well, my dear friend, it is a day we celebrate every year in honor of the most perfect South Central day ever observed, on J...
Winter Breaks by Bop Alloy
My favorite jazzy hip hop group, Bop Alloy, released a new EP for the holidays. The album comes as part of their Kickstarter stretch goal for the last album, Another Day in the Life of. The new album...
Jurassic 5 release new song and video
It's been 8 years since one of the best groups in hip hop called in quits, but Jurassic 5 is back... sort of. They recently released a new song and video in preparation for their first US tour in 8 ye...
Dueling Good Days
As an amateur historian and hip hop aficionado, I found the research of what day in history is actually Ice Cube's "Good Day" fascinating. Murk Avenue breaks down the clues of Ice Cube's It Was a Good...
Blue Scholars Sign to the People
One of my favorite underground hip hop groups over the past couple of years has been Seattle-based Blue Scholars. If you don't know much about them, they are a duo comprised of producer/DJ Sabzi and M...
Kno, Kokayi, and Bop Alloy
This is probably the oddest post title on my site. For those who don't know what it means, they are the names of the artists behind three of the best albums of the year. In a time where it seems reall...
In the Event of My Demise
In the event of my Demise when my heart can beat no more I Hope I Die For A Principle or A Belief that I had Lived 4 I will die Before My Time Because I feel the shadow's Depth so much I wanted 2 acco...
Hip Hop Hipsters
I give hipsters a lot of shit for, well, being hipsters, but there's another group of people who were around before the hipster fad. They dress a certain way, listen to music "you've never heard of,"...
Blue Scholars
In my constant quest for new hip hop music I've seen one name come across my screen several times: Blue Scholars. Even though I've seen them mentioned by various underground hip hop fanboys, I've neve...
The Most Creative Hip Hop Albums
I'm very passionate when it comes to hip hop. At times I'm its biggest advocate, and others the biggest apologist. Most of the hip hop that is played on the radio embarrasses me. That isn't true hip h...
Music Goes Viral
We have seen movies and television use the tactic of viral marketing a bunch over the past couple years. The TV show LOST has had commercials for the fictional airline Oceanic and there was even a Mr....
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
Today marks the releases of another QN5 gem. I'm talking of Mr. SOS's How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb album. From QN5.com, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (named afte...
Blackout! 2
10 years ago two of the best rappers in the game joined together to finally release an album. The result is one of the better albums from the late 90's. I'm talking about Method Man and Redman's Black...
Respect Your Elders
Hip hop is, by far, one of the youngest genres of music in America, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been around for a while. It really is amazing to see that the pioneers of the music are still around...
Hip Hop History, Part III - Building the Empire
I've talked a bit about the history of hip hop music and how it quickly evolved into a profitable form of music, but no other company was able to capitalize on hip hop like Def Jam Records, and no oth...