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 [...]
Song of the Week: West Coast Rap All Stars – “We All In The Same Gang”
“My baby ain’t never hurt nobody, but he still got smoked at Bay Bay’s party!” If you are old as me, then you immediately know what I’m talking about. For all of you that were too young to remember that line by Eazy,
Rappers Who Should Have Movies Based On Their Lives
With The Notorious B.I.G. biographical film Notorious scheduled for release on January 2009, the obvious discussion comes up about what other rappers have big screen worthy life stories. I mean, we kinda had that with 8 Mile & Get Rich Or Die Tryin’. But those movies where loosely based on the lives of 50 Cent [...]
Song of the Week: Eazy E – “Real Muthaphuckkin G’s”
It’s time to take it to the West Coast with this installment of Song of the Week. The year was 1993, and Eazy-E was taking some major shots from some of his old associates. But that didn’t stop Eazy from releasing a diss of his own. The person that this song was aimed at [...]
NWA|Straight Outta Compton [1988]
Outside of the very first rap album ever released, this is the most important album in the history of Hip-Hop music and culture. The effects of this monumental album live on not just in music, but in our everyday lives. There was a time when the overwhelming majority of Hip-Hop music was feel good party [...]
