Song of the Week: LL Cool J, Redman, Method Man, DMX, & Canibus – “4,3,2,1″
I know I ruffled a few feathers this week with my post about Eminem and him never being the GOAT. So I decided to bring a real GOAT out for this installment of Song of the Week. Yeah, I know I buried LL Cool J in a column, but that was coming from a fans [...]
BET Awards ‘09 + Performances
Damn. I understand that Michael Jackson’s death threw off the whole BET Awards, but I still gotta say it: It sucked. They had their hearts in the right place but the show just seemed boring and not well put together. From a Hip-Hop standpoint, we had
Who’s The King Of Atlanta?
Why focus on “The King Of Atlanta”? Well, think about it: When Nas & Jay was battling for the crown of NYC a few years back, it was a forgone conclusion that the winner would also be the top dog in Hip-Hop.
What’s Beef In 2009?
The late great Christopher Wallace may have asked (and answered) the question “What’s Beef?” over a decade ago, but in 2009 Rap Beefs seems to be still prevalent in Hip-Hop. We are still in the second month of this year and already the diss songs are all over the place.
The Numbers Game: Kanye Goes Platinum
Damn, it’s 2009 already? After almost doing this column 40 times now, it still feels like I just started this yesterday. What does ‘09 hold for Hip-Hop on the charts? We’ll see a new Eminem album, maybe Detox, hopefully Blueprint 3 as well as a host of other releases (January looks slack as hell by [...]
Friday Night ‘Fro: “Martin & Soulja Boy”
Well I’m back again for this week’s version of Friday Night ‘Fro! This week I wanted to grant a request from two people, B-Easy and P-Body. Easy and P-Body wanted me to show some love to Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em’s new video, which they both love so much. You know I like giving the [...]
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 [...]
Vibe’s Best Rapper Alive Tournament, Part 2
What’s good, nappyafro? I had to step out for a minute to take care of some school work, but I’m back with another column straight from The Stoop. Remember that Vibe Magazine vote I told you about? If you don’t, about a month or two ago, Vibe decided that they would settle who is the [...]
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 [...]
Good Songs by Bad Rappers
When you name the greats in Hip-Hop, who do you name? 2Pac, Biggie, Jigga, Nasty Nas, Weezy, Outkast, etc. But each and everyone of those artists made a slip-up in their career: 2Pac had fillers on All Eyes on Me (and all of those albums AFTER he died), Biggie had a copule slip-ups on Life [...]
