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

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

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

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

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! Read more

The Red Giants|Chain Reaction: The EP [Album Download]

The Fro is vowed to keep bringing it to you. I stumbled upon this album EP via a blast from Tanya Morgan on Facebook. The Red Giants are a duo consisting of Jermiside of the Lessondary & Brickbeats who you may know most recently from Tanya Morgan’s projects Read more

Ocean’s 7|3000 And 9 Shit [Mixtape]

Lodi Dodi, we like to party, let me take a chance to put you onto somebody. Enter Jermaine JD Dupri as the General, Usher as The Light , Johnta Austin as J. Sinatra, Trey Songz as Songz 007eleven, Nelly as Read more

Re-Brooklynati: Saule Wright Interviews Tanya Morgan

While the mainstream radio seems obsessed with shoving remedial Hip-Hop down our throats and obsessed with presenting an arrested development of the culture, rappers, and minorities in America (Eminem and Asher not withstanding of course) there seems to be a rebirth of underground Hip-Hop Read more

Turn Yo’ Headphones Up: Chip Fu|Stop Playing! [Mixtape]

The older contingent of us that still loves the Hip-Hop culture and rap music remember the Golden Age. We talk about it like it was the best time for music ever…and well, it’s damn close if it isn’t the winner. There was something for everybody and plenty of room for it. Read more

If I Were Starting A Label…

Let’s imagine that I had the capital to start a label, only caveat is that it had to consist of all YouTube artists. Now, before you scoff, your man Soulja Boy came from YouTube as well as So So Def’s newest artist Dondria. There is some legit talent on there, and yea, there are some Read more

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