
Despite our hype, it doesn’t look like Common’s Universal Mind Control is getting too much love in the hip hop community. That doesn’t mean it’s not a commercial success for Common. In case …

Playdough is a completely underrated emcee. For the most part, he’s dismissed because he’s got a pretty heavy …
Man alive, I feel like we’ve wished a rest-in-peace on so many people this year. But still, Freddie Hubbard …

The Telegraph reports that an American Professor is claiming rap music, specifically freestyle battles, actually originated in Scotland centuries ago. The Scottish tradition …
It’s become a tradition that Dave Barry will release his “year in review” article each December, and I’ve started to look forward to them.
This year is no exception.
Some highlights:…
Wu: The Story of The Wu-Tang Clan is a documentary film that traces the rise and fall of the infamous Wu-Tang clan.
It …
Some of you may have noticed our penchant for following the RIAA while they pursued a ridiculous plan to sue as many people as they could in America to try …
Maybe the most professional of the early hip-hop film classics, Beat Street was released in 1984 and tells the story of aspiring superstar* b-boys from the South Bronx. Unlike …
President Bush is hilarious in this scene. An Iraqi tv journalist literally threw two shoes at him during a press conference and called him a dog. A pretty major insult …
Dre on the piano, and the Dogg Pound on the mic.