As I’ve mentioned countless times on this site, I receive an enormous amount of email on a daily and weekly basis, and naturally some emails fall down the unfortunate wormhole of my inbox. And as […]
Tag: underground hip hop
Best known as a member of the Brown Bag All-Stars, one of the more prolific and underrated crews in contemporary hip-hop, the Queens-based producer/emcee/DJ J57 has been a part of the city’s hip-hop scene since […]
“Searchin’” the latest single by Kyle Rapps and Hefna Gwap featuring Aaron Cohen was produced by Fudge and employs the use of a horn and keyboard sample from Roy Ayers track of the same name, […]
Although New York is a large city with some 8 million souls pushing, fighting, dreaming and scheming, there are actually countless times in which it feels extremely small – especially if you roll in a […]
Before the 2013 release of their debut effort, Midcity, the Los Angeles, CA-based hip-hop trio of clipping, which consists of Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson never expected to find much of an audience for their sound. […]
Before the 2013 release of their debut effort, Midcity, the Los Angeles, CA-based hip-hop trio of clipping, which consists of Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson never expected to find much of an audience […]
Formed by Ishmael “Butterly” Butler, of Digable Planets flame, Shabazz Palaces continues Butler’s reputation for creating a sound that uncompromisingly defies easy description of categorization. With his collaborative partner, Baba Maraire, the sound on the band’s last release, Black Up was […]
Freddie Gibbs may arguably be one of contemporary hip-hop’s best and (shamefully) most unheralded emcees. Sure, his songs talk about the street life but with a stark, unvarnished honesty. Indeed, unlike most mainstream emcees who […]
Madlib may arguably be one of the most playfully inventive and unique producers hip-hop has ever known. Early in his career, Madlib was a member of the Oxnard, CA-based act, Lootpack featuring Wildchild and DJ […]
If you’re true hip-hop head and you were a child of the 80s, you’d remember the hip hop group KMD – if anything you’d remember that KMD’s Zev Love X had a guest spot on […]
As a blogger, I receive tons of emails from PR firms, labels and from the artists themselves. I recently received an email from a young Louisiana-based artist Brooklyn White. Admittedly, her email made my day, […]
Over the last ten or fifteen years or so, there’s been a trend within underground hip-hop to get increasingly psychedelic and outright weird – think of MF Doom, Kool Keith, Shabazz Palaces and others. The […]
Local Legend is the debut effort from the White Plains, NY-based rapper Stan Ipcus, and from the first single “How I Met Your Mother,” you can tell that he’s a unique voice: the first single talks […]
New York-based emcee PremRock recently released an album Mark’s Wild Years, which pays homage to the legendary Tom Waits – yes, hip hop can be that diverse. After a nation-wide tour with stops in places such […]
There are several things I enjoy about this line of work – introducing you, friendly reader, to music that’s worthy of your time and your love is a critical aspect of what I do. But […]