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

Young Chris|The Network [Mixtape]

Whoa. We posting a mixtape on Sunday? Yep. Young Chris (Who has been grinding on the internets) is back with the Don Cannon assisted The Network. After a few listens, I like what I’m hearing and you probably Read more

Jay-Z|Fade To Black (2004) [Download]

The other day I was listening to a live version of “Big Pimpin’” on my iPod. Halfway through the beat changed to David Banner’s “Like A Pimp”. I then remembered how much I like that version. Most people know that this is from the Jay-Z documentary Fade To Black. Read more

Freeway|Philadelphia Freeway 2

When I first heard about this album, it seemed almost too good to be true: Freeway was not only making another album, but it would be the sequel to his debut album, Philadelphia Freeway, a solid album that, to this day, remains a hood classic Read more

Statik Selektah|Stick 2 The Script

Back in June of this year I brought Statik Selektah to nappyafro in the form of a Rewind Review of his debut release album Statik Selektah Presents Spell My Name Right (The Album). Being the underground Hip Hop head that I am, I was anticipating this album along with Termanology’s album Politics As Usual last month, especially after seeing the video for the song “To The Top (Stick To The Script)”. Now one month and one release later Read more

Jake One|White Van Music

After taking some time to clean up my apartment, which entailed listening and going through over 100 unlabeled CD’s (I’m never making a “mixtape/playlist” CD-R ever again, it’s strictly iTunes/iPod only from now on), I decided to sit back and listen to Jake One’s latest release entitled White Van Music. Being a bigger fan of underground Hip Hop Read more

Boomin’ From The Stoop: Philadelphia Freeway STILL On His Grind

It seemed like Freeway was absolutely finished after getting dropped by the NEW Def Jam President, L.A. Reid in May. Jay was powerless to do anything since Roc-A-Fella is now owned by Def Jam, and Freeway was saved by a joint-venture: I guess now he’s signed to G-Unit or something, since he had a joint venture between Roc-A-Fella and G-Unit, but you know how they’re doing Read more

Skillz|The Million Dollar Backpack

Somehow, one of the more talented lyricists had been reduced to one hit a year, the “Rap Up”. It’s not all bad, a lot of folks learned who he was by the yearly recap…sadly, a lot of former fans lost love for him over them as well. This offering enlists the help of some HUGE names including Kwamé, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Common, Talib, Black Thought, and Freeway. Let’s see what’s in this backpack. Read more

Vibe’s Best Rapper Alive Tournament

I was on the internet and I saw a thing Vibe was doing to settle once and for all who is the best rapper alive. They made a bracket type thing to have the readers vote on who is the best; it’s like the March Madness brackets. They’ve got the four brackets based on some of the legends in Hip-Hop: The Notorious B.I.G. Bracket, the Tupac Bracket, etc. On the surface it seems cool, right?? WRONG!! Read more

Roc Nation: Will It Be Different This Time?

We’ve all heard that Hov signed a deal with Live Nation, which is called Roc Nation, and this deal will be used to fund all of Jay’s entertainment ventures, like a new record label, also called Roc Nation. This deal was signed back in April, and was reported worth 150 Million DOLLARS! However, for this deal to take effect, Hov will have to finish his contract with Def Jam. If he releases one this year, then he’ll be able to leave Def Jam and being Roc Nation. Read more

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