Red Bull Music Academy's hit us with this short documentary film Revolutions On Air, a celebration of just a few of the essential innovators of NYC mix show radio of the 1980s. This includes the icons of hip-hop radio such as Mr Magic, Marley Marl, and Kool DJ Red Alert, but also garage and house broadcast pioneers like Tony Humphries, and tape edit maestros the Latin Rascals and Shep Pettibone. Also features none […]
Blasting off into beginning of May is the video from Ghostface Killah & Pharoahe Monch off of Tony Stark's 36 Seasons album, the video is for the track Emergency Procedure and illustrated by artist Artyom Trakhanov. The video plays out like a real grimey comic strip that follow a mad scientist creating mutants in his own laboratory. The clip presented as a series of animated stills, places both rappers bang in the middle of […]
Kingpin releases this well needed track at the right moment leading up to the UK's general election, and highlights the social inequality the population is experiencing. Kingpin illustrates the social strive individuals and families in the UK are going through due to high unemployment, high inflation, causing a deposit for an house purchase to average at a staggering £65,000. The lyricist conveys while all the above is going on, the […]
Courtesy of Watchloud.com Havoc and Prodigy of the infamous Mobb Deep explained how meeting fellow Queens Bridge rapper Q Tip had a big influence on their creative output. They go on to explain their respect for him as a Queens Bridge legend and their appreciation for Tip dropping some words of advice when they were on the come up. Both Havoc and Prodigy explained how he definitely gave them something […]
Cuban Hip Hop artist attended the Seventh Summit of the Americas in Panama which discussed subjects such as Prosperity with Equity, and The Challenge of Cooperation in the Americas". Hip Hop artist David Escalona (a.k.a David D’Omni) was present at the summit with his Hip Hop group Omnizonafranca, a Hip Hop collective consisting of six other rappers. Escalona proclaimed at the summit “When you do Hip Hop in Cuba, you already know […]
For a very long time fans of The Roots rapper Black Thought have been begging for their man to bring out a solo album, and it looks like their wish has been granted. Recently over twitter Black Thought replied to one of his fans questions of whether or not he was planing to bring out a solo project. Black Thought's reply was "Yes. Working on it. Next time someone asks this, you gotta […]
Large Professor who has done a substantial amount of production work with Nas, has a new solo album entitled "Re:Living", due to drop June 9th. The A Class producer stated "I’m moving forward,“But I went back to an earlier formula. With this project I feel like it’s the closest that I take it back to that Main Source style." Singles to date include Nas tribute "In The Scrolls," Fortune-assisted "Own […]
The Alchemist and Oh No are to release new collaboration album April 21. The Alchemist and Oh No created "Welcome to Los Santos" to coincide with the release of Grand Theft Auto V for PC. The album has a staunch features from no other than, Earl Sweatshirt, Freddie Gibbs, Killer Mike and Action Bronson. The Welcome to Los Santos tracklist: 1. Gangrene – Play It Cool f. Samuel T. Herring […]
Recently De La Soul's Kelvin “Posdnous” Mercer and David Jolicoeur recently told Bloomberg why the legendary groups older music isn't available on streaming platforms such as Spotify. They stated “Unfortunately, a lot of the earlier stuff we did on Tommy Boy Records, from what we understand, a lot of the legal language that needed to a part of the contracts between ourselves, the owners of the master and the publishing, […]
