Author: Callas Lane Hip-hop has been criticized more often than usual in recent years. Hip-hop has always had it’s share of protests, but never have so many protests come from people heavily involved in hip-hop. So, what exactly is going on with hip-hop in the music industry? Is the game really wack right [...]
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Author: Maurice Williams It Must Suck To Be You… News broke the other day of yet another rapper who turns out to be not quite as real as he was once perceived. Actually I feel a little uncomfortable actually acknowledging Alfamega as a rapper since he’s only done a hand full of stuff and [...]
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Author: Callas Lane Much of the Rhythm and Blues music on radio lacks passion, emotion and the use of beautiful words. It doesn’t even seem to be any R&B groups around anymore. Thinking of great R&B groups, Dru Hill immediately comes to mind. This group became extremely popular around the late 90’s and they made [...]
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Author: Callas Lane In most recent years, it has become more common for women to be more aggressive towards men. Listening to many opinions on this recent trend, I still believe women should take a more passive approach towards men and relationships. Being more passive is playing it safe especially, if the female desires something [...]
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Author: Quinton “Q The Question” Hatfield Q The Question is a die-hard sports fan, whether it NFL, MLB, NBA, and yeah even NHL. I watch it all my people, after hip-hop sports is my heart as well. Now I’m about to get my Stephen A. Smith on [laughs]. The NBA Playoff’s kickoff today with the [...]
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Last year hip-hop duo Kidz in the hall dropped an album on Duckdown Records called “The In Crowd”. The song on the album that made me go “Whoa” was this tracked called the “Pledge” ft. Buckshot and my man Sean Price. Sean P’s verse on this song is one the best verses I’VE EVER HEARD [...]
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Cop Killings in America: 187 or 911? Author: Callas Lane In recent years, the number of cops killed while in the line-of-duty has increased. There are many different opinions on why police officers are constantly being murdered on the job. Researching many write ups on police officers being killed I have found that in many [...]
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My man Chris Figueroa hit me up and sent me this video. When I heard the record I was like man this is what I call music. M-Dot and Krumb Snatcha went hard on this one. I just love the production, Teddy Roxpin on the boards crushed this track. Gotta Be ohhhh, ohhhh, oohhhh, well [...]
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This past winter when I was home in Philly for Xmas break I just was chillin with the homies. Hanging down South Philly with my boy Trel Mack and C.H. we was just riding around playing music. Trel was like “Yo Q you gotta hear the bol(Philly slang) Baby Blak. I didn’t know who he [...]
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We’re Just Friends Author: A.L. Venable Casual-or-Long term is the question you ask yourself whenever you meet someone new. You really only have a few minutes to decide whether you want to be rolling around with this person by the end of the night, looking at the possibility of more, or walking away. But before [...]
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Slum Village is a hip-hop crew that simply makes great music. From the best records done with J. Dilla, Elzhi & T3 always gets my respect. This record “Reunion” is from their album “Detroit Deli”. It was produced by Black Milk, another Detroit upcomer holding down on the boards, GREAT SAMPLER too!!!
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We all know GZA was one of the illest emcee’s in the Wu-Tang Clan. Always know for wrecking ya brain with the dopest rhymes, the GZA vocabulary was just insane. If you didn’t know he dropped an album last year now you do. It was called “Pro Tools” and it was just insane lyrically. On [...]
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I told ya’ll Q The Question is gonna keep the dope records THAT NEED 2 BE HEARD COMING. As said before all era’s is reprensented so a hip-hop fan can’t be mad lol. Anyway I remember hearing this record last year and was like Damn!!! Keith Murray, Planet Asia, Prince Ali, and Casual went in [...]
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Hey I told you before I was gonna randomly throw up records hip-hop & R&B that NEED TO BE HEARD. Lil Mo did her thing on this record, but it was the also introduction of Fabolous. Fab kept it coming from this point with collabs with the hottest R&B stars. This in MY OPINION is [...]
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Author: Maurice Williams Today I took the time to listen to Lil Scrappy and his group’s latest effort, “Silence And Secrecy” to my utter disgust. In my opinion there’s only a certain window of time that you can over exhaust a particular subject before it just shouldn’t be mentioned anymore. The subject that has gotten [...]
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