During a year where hip hop saw big releases from superstars like Nas, Snoop Dogg, Fugees, Redman, and Busta Rhymes, Pac came through and crushed them all with the blockbuster All Eyez on Me. But that wasn’t even his best album he dropped that year; The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day ...
Also leaving a mark on 2024 was the person who was there at the very beginning of the conflict that defined it: Future Hendrix. While he was eventually overshadowed by Kendrick, 2024 Hendrix should be considered nothing short of monumental. He unloadedWe Don’t Trust YouandWe Still Don’t ...
That’s where the story of 8 Mile came from. Oh shit, I forgot, how am I supposed to send this shit out? I need to stress none of the tips that I mention here matter unless you take action on them. Reading and watching a hundred videos doesn’t matter unless you start implementing...
Ghostface came off the top ropes in 2000 to steal the crown of Most Consistent Wu-Tang Solo Act. Wielding his up-tempo, unpredictable rhyme flow like a shiv in a prison yard, Ghost and producer RZA bless us with a wild, loud thrill ride of a record that crackles with urgency and yanks...
Street's Disciple came and went, however, without the level of commercial success that had become customary, as it struggled to go platinum. More troubling, new kid on the block 50 Cent took a swipe at Nas on "Piggy Bank," a call-out song on The Massacre (2005), further bringing the...
The song soon started bubbling on social media and in the streets thanks to a From the Block performance clip from its release day in February that went viral. A couple weeks later, when Brooklyn rapper Kareem Gadson (aka Reem) did “The Reemski” dance to the song...
I wasn't one of them younguns up on the block who had nothin' to lose I must've wanted this a lot I had somethin' to choose Hah look at that I can say there's somethin' to prove up in your ass Yeah I guess That's enough of the past ...
From the title of Big Sean's mixtape to the accompanying intro that recounts the first time he met his mentor, Kanye West, it's clear the then-teenage Detroit MC would accept nothing less than being recognized as a rap star. A boastful claim, yes, but it's one that came to fruition...
Oak Park native Luke Gawne reclines in a mansion in Los Angeles, under the glow of the Hollywood sign in a scene from his latest music video, and reflects how far he has come in his life. Rather, he raps it. With Shaquille O’Neal.Yes, that Shaq, the leg
Still walk with a Diddy Bop, through any city blockFlash a smile to a pretty young thing that make her kitty hotPardon me y'all, I'm blessed with the charmSurrounded by chicks as if I'm on the Birdu farmI get it on! Make no mistake, there's only oneChaundon, Boogie Down's in...