5 Questions Raised By The BET Hip Hop Awards

We haven’t dealt much with the 2009 BET Hip Hop Awards outside of the cyphers this year, but I can’t act like it didn’t happen. This year’s show was, performance wise, one of the worst. However, from a production standpoint Read more

Camp Lo|Another Heist

As an artist, the thinnest of lines are the ones between growth, signature style, and success or failure. Camp Lo hit the music scene hard with the debut album Uptown Saturday Night which featured hit singles like “Lucihini (This is it)”, “Coolie High”, and Read more

Turn Yo’ Headphones Up: Brother Ali|Us

I’m not going to lead into this one lightly or anything. Simply put, this is an instant classic and album of the year. Who the fuck is Brother Ali? Hands down the best rapper you don’t know. I’ve said folks are one of this, and that album Read more

Song of the Week: Donny Hathaway – “To Be Young, Black, And Gifted”

For any soul that has had a conversation with me or read my blog, you know that there are 3 things I love. Women, Hip-Hop, and My People (all of these being used as very broad, open terms.) After hearing about, and watching Read more

KRS-One & Buckshot|Survival Skills

Typically, when we think of Pro Black, prideful, conscious rap, KRS-One tends to triumphantly erupt from our souls as the poster child and is highly regarded as a top 5 emcee…probably more like top 3. It doesn’t take much effort or digging to get into a Read more

Song of the Week: Danny! feat. Von Pea – “Hoedown Showdown”

Here at The Fro, we’ve been on our indie artists and underground/under-hyped Hip-Hop shit this year. One of these artists is D.Swain aka Danny!. He won my coveted “Turn Yo Headphones Up” award for 2008 for his 4th album. Still, most of you are the uninitiated Read more

Beanie Siegel|The Broad Street Bully

If one were to chart Beans’ career/hype on a graph, it would look like the Rocky Mountains. Of course when The Roc was doing things and making noise, it was at it’s zenith. Beans definitely benefited from the influence of Sean Carter as well as Read more

Play It Again Sam: Chamillionaire|Ultimate Victory

With “Chamillitarymayne” coming out with the last of his mixtape series, Mixtape Messiah 7, I figured now was as good a time as any to start a new column…or at least write this article. I plan on doing this and hopefully the staff will get involved and do a few of their own Read more

Fabolous|Loso’s Way

We all can spell it by now, eff-aye-be-oh-el-o-you-ess, he’s successfully spelled his name right into most of our consciousness. One of the more recognizable artists to rise up from mixtapes to mainstream, Mr. Jackson Read more

Will Victory|Spit ‘N’ Envy Vol. 1 [Mixtape]

Another STL rapper, cause I love my city. You gotta admit, we have some good shit in Da Lou. I hit you up with Soul Tyde, Rockwell Knuckles, Unladylike, Black Spade, we have some talent. This new cat is one of the hottest ones doing it in the 314 right now Read more

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