Kid Cudi feat. Snoop Dogg – “I Do My Thing”

I see that Kid Cudi is already putting in moves for his sophomore album, Cudder: The Revolution of Evolution. So he gets Snoop Dogg and a beat by… Dr. Dre? Austin “Watts” Garrick and Rashad “Ringo” Smith of Tumblin’ Dice Productions.. This is definitely music to roll up to (If you do that sort of [...]

The Starting 5: 2009 All Rookie Team Project

A little background info on this one:
Our homies over at Tha Carter Cartel (Specifically longh0rn) are always putting together these massive projects of certain artists. It could be anybody from Ryan Leslie to Kanye West but these projects contains massive amounts of music sometime tipping over the 500mb scale. I’ve always wanted to help out [...]

A Year Later: XXL’s “The 10 Freshmen”

It’s been almost a year since we did the article on XXL’s “The 10 Freshmen”. The XXL magazine cover featuring their picks for “Hip-Hop’s Class Of ‘09” gave the new blood the much-needed light, caused widespread debates, and may have forever linked the careers of all the rappers involved. What have been the fates and [...]

The Numbers Game: Jay-Z Still #1 + Kid Cudi, Drake, Lil’ Boosie Debut In Top 10

I guess we can stop bitching about the lack of Hip-Hop album releases (Well, at least for this week), because we have 7 Hip-Hop debuts on the charts this week. Yeah. I can’t even do any rambling in this intro. Let’s just get to the numbers

Kid Cudi|Man On The Moon: The End Of Day

Alright, if you’ve been to the forums, then you know that I’m not the biggest Kid Cudi fan. He’s just too different. I mean, can you even call what he does Hip-Hop or rap? Plus, what is his appeal? The man can rap, but he’s not running for “Best Rapper Alive” anytime soon

XXL’s “The 10 Freshmen” Covers

Today I finally saw the covers for December’s XXL, and you know what? They aren’t bad at all (Way better than last year’s “Leaders Of The New School”). It features Wale, B.o.B., Asher Roth, Charles Hamilton, Cory Gunz, Blu, Mickey Factz, Ace Hood, Curren$y, & Kid Cudi. Now, let’s look at this list again: I [...]