Tosten Burks wonders if Slim the Mobster wears slim-fitting suits. There is something bitterly ironic about the fact that Bishop Lamont reemerged from the post-Dre doldrums the same week that his replacement, the to-this-point relatively faceless, cliché low-register thug growler that is Slim the Mobster, debuted his first mixtape to the world. Bishop used to […]

The funniest rap video of the year thus far. Bishop Lamont as a basketball-playing Prince, Kurt Cobain in white face, and a nerd-chic schoolmarm. And as Aaron Matthews pointed out: Pootie Tang references are always warmly welcomed. Download: MP3: Bishop Lamont-“Sadatay”

Clearly, Harry Belafonte has seen better days, judging by the Fester-like countenance the Day-O don sports with ex-Aftermath refugee, Bishop Lamont. But a half-century ago, when he ran the Catskill Resort circuit, Belafonte wooed my grandmother, who was reportedly once quite “a dish.” The story goes that the efforts were unsuccessful — thanks to my […]

Bishop Lamont on his beef with The Game: “I’m not trying to hate on the Game. At the end of the day, his mom and my mom are close friends. They go on vacation with T-Pain’s mom and Lil Wayne’s mom. It’s an issue of disrespect. He knows what it’s about. I’m not on some […]

Q: What was it like for you growing up in Los Angeles during the 80s? A: It was the LA of the Reagan administration. Drugs were really heavy in the streets at that time…more crack addicts…crack babies. It was a good time simultaneously because there was more creativity within the music and it showed. You […]

I…listened to all that Death Row stuff….and Lords Of The Underground, Busta Rhymes, Redman and Keith Murray, where your takes had to be so clean and ill to get off the phonetics that you were dropping. Your lines had to be crisp. Other cats don’t come from that school. It took me studying Redman, Method […]

Oumar Saleh speaks to the legendary sibling producer duo about their upcoming album Stifled Creativity, what they've learned after being in the game for 30 years, nearly getting to work with 2Pac and more.

Dweez’s go-to phone greeting remains “How ya living on your block?” “I spot the crew, standing where they always stand, between the liquor store and the corner store, next to the Fern Rock Apartments fence, under the train tracks, and across the street from Rock Steady, this bugged ngh who sits on a crate all […]

It’s an odd conceit to suggest that there may be other creative LA rappers who mock celebrities, rap about murder, and loathe Kid Cudi and every last drop of liquid cocaine clogging his cranium. Call me crazy, but there might be one or two who formerly recorded for the same label as the guy previously […]

  If you’re kind enough to link, use this post, as the complete list will be added tomorrow. Yes, there will be a ZIP file at the end.  Yes, we have no bananas. 50. Magr ft. Blu – “Laminated Looseleafs”   Odes to the pen and pad seem prosaic in 2009. We’ve all heard a […]