The Starting 5: The Group Edition
As we get closer and closer to March Madness, and I whimper to the reverberations of confirmation that Little Brother will put out there last album this year I thought this would be a good time not only to start this series of articles called The Starting 5, but to focus this first edition on [...]
Double Duty: Artist Transitions
The transition of Phonte to a singer (who’s Foreign Exchange is nominated for a Grammy this year) and the anticipation of Lil’ Wayne’s Rebirth Rock album, I’m looking for other transitions this year. Now, I’m not talking about transitions like Flavor Flav’s transition to singing on his new song, but those moves that have potential [...]
Turn Yo’ Headphones Up: 2009 Edition [Mixtape]
Here is a mix that I’ve been working on – a late Christmas gift for our viewers. There are a total of 3 mixtapes below. The files are zip, so they just need to be extracted after downloading. And in case you’re wondering, that’s Brother Ali in the background during Paid Dues last March.
Disc 1: [...]
Turn Yo’ Headphones Up: R&B Grammy Thoughts
I haven’t done a good job of putting you onto R&B lately like I should have, but with the Grammy’s around the corner, I thought I’d take a moment to talk about some of the nominiees
Turn Yo’ Headphones Up: Danny Swain [Double Feature]
I ran across Danny Swain’s music a while ago in some forum where folks were sharing music. Now, the thing that made me check him out was that he was the only artist that had replies and co-signs. There were the Kanye comparisons
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
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
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
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
Turn Yo’ Headphones Up: Unladylike|Certified
This weeks topic is dear to my heart. You’ve heard me talk about the importance and absence of women in Hip-Hop and my beloved hometown of St. Louis…I get both of them this week. Unladylike dropped their debut CD Certified this last week, shout out to under promotion!
