Takin Mine is an extremely underrated album that is rarely mentioned when people discuss mid-nineties Hip-Hop music. That’s pretty odd because Heather B’s first LP is one of the strongest début albums I’ve ever heard and its rugged sound fitted perfectly into 1996 where an abundance of hardcore […]
Bishop Nehru is known for his golden era sound, and with one of the all-time greats Nas signing him to his label Mass Appeal Records, there’s high hopes for this 19 year old rapper from New York. Before he drops his first full-length studio album, Nehru has released […]
Mobb Deep’s début album Juvenile Hell was nothing special and it didn’t make much of an impact, but when the Queensbridge duo regrouped after being dropped by their label, they came back hard with their second LP “The Infamous”, in fact the word ‘hard’ is probably an understatement […]
During the late eighties and early nineties Hip-Hop was beginning to splinter into various sub-genres; we had Gangsta Rap (Ice Cube), Conscious Rap (Public Enemy), Alternative Hip-Hop (A Tribe Called West), and Hip-Pop (MC Hammer). Amongst this varied musical landscape, certain artists began to juxtapose rap with outside […]
Responsible for six albums with the group Boogie Down Productions, eleven solo releases and numerous collaborative albums, “Now Hear This” is KRS One’s twelfth solo record, and with around thirty years of his life devoted to Hip-Hop, I’m glad that he’s still releasing not only entertaining, but credible […]
Known for his gritty, sometimes eerie, echoing sounds, Kirk Knight has been responsible for producing some of Pro Era’s best music including Joey Bada$$‘ “Big Dusty” and “Hazeus View”. As a Pro Era fan I had high hopes for Knight’s début album, but after listening to “Late Knight […]
A year after their impressive début album and two and a half years after their outstanding début mixtape, Issa Gold and AK bring us “Evermore: The Art Of Duality”, and with this sophomore studio album The Underachievers bring us a slightly more mature sound and a deeper concept. […]
Ever since the Hip-Hop genre began, Rap collectives have been an integral part of the art-form. Hip-Hop groups such as The Furious Five and The Juice Crew in the 80’s and the Boot Camp Clik and Wu-Tang Clan in the 90’s showed that a varied mix of skills […]
Back in the early nineties, West Coast Gangsta Rap ruled Hip-Hop music, but once the sub-genre began to feel stagnant, Hip-Hop required some new blood and an injection of new ideas. In 1993 that’s just what it got; along with the Wu-Tang Clan, the Boot Camp Clik’s lead […]
For the past few years Raz Fresco has been making some great music, and if you heard his “Screwface Tape” a year ago then like me you’ll be waiting for his début album “Pablo Frescobar” to drop. The album is released today on Duck Down, home of the […]
Longevity in the music business is rare, it’s especially rare in the Hip-Hop genre, so it’s great to hear someone from the old-school still sounding fresh and relevant. Whereas certain Rappers from the nineties have sounded stale for the last decade or so, and with certain new Rappers […]
Those who’ve heard Que Hampton on various collabos with Bishop Nehru, have been waiting patiently for a solo effort, and although the album “The Chosen One” hasn’t yet dropped, thankfully a mixtape titled “A Piece Of BLAKK” has been released. The mixtape has a distinctly early-to-mid nineties vibe, […]
Ever since the song “Coolie High” dropped in 1996 I’ve been an ardent fan of the group Camp Lo. Once I heard their début album “Uptown Saturday Night” the following year, I’ve always felt that their style was refreshingly different. The duo’s fusing of abstract lyrics concerning sex, […]
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