| A Mixed Bey: Mos Def, Live at the Shrine in Chicago | March 26, 2013 |
Photos via Tito Garcia & Quayvo Shots. Joshua Lerner teaches at a school, accredited. If most rap artists still make their bread and butter through touring and stage performances, as Harold Stallworth stated last week in an article for this site, it serves us well to wonder: what are the factors that make for a […]
| September is the Cruelest Month: The Event Horizons and Turning Points of Kanye West | September 13, 2012 |
B. Michael Payne steps into the arena. It must feel weird being even a relatively old-school hip-hop head. Back in the late 90s and early 00s, you only knew Kanye West as a Roc-a-Fella producer with occasional placements on semi-underrated Jay-Z projects. The College Dropout leak and College Dropout album were game changers, but for […]
| The 50 Greatest Producers of All-Time #40-31 | November 10, 2011 |
See Also: The 50 Greatest Producers of All-Time #50-41 The Greatest Producers of All-Time: Honorable Mention 40. Battlecat At the risk of excluding forgotten pioneers, you can trace the local roots of LA hip hop production to five names: Dr. Dre, Joe Cooley, Egyptian Lover, Arabian Prince, and DJ Battlecat. The latter broke in as […]
| The 50 Greatest Producers of All-Time #50-1 | November 9, 2011 |
Yesterday, I realized that everything was out of whack. There were Honorable Mentions that should have replaced people in the Top 50. The order of this list was all wrong. Why is Rashad Smith on it? Should DJ Screw have been eligible even if he never produced anything? How many of those classic Fresh Prince […]
We’ll never be able to forget the 90s. Even if we ever eradicate the cult of Cobain, VH1 will mercilessly bludgeon us until the dialogue from Reality Bites is finally memorized without a glitch. Ricardo “Speedboat” Rozay will continue to keep the memory of MC Hammer alive and well on the obese and ursine front […]
| The Top 50 Albums of 2007 (Day 10, Brought To You By Zack, The Erstwhile Legomaniac) | January 2, 2008 |
| The Half-Assed Live Blogging Continues | March 2, 2007 |
Does anyone buy music anymore? Does everyone download it? These questions have been going through my head all day long as I try to fight the urge to take a nap. However, a more important question is currently plaguing me right now. As in why doesn’t Sea Level’s Ms. Pacman machine work? I’m a video […]
| Give Me Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free and Your Used Kenny Loggins Records | March 2, 2007 |
In four years of college, my three closest friends and I must’ve watched Half Baked roughly 50 times. And one thing that invariably occurred during these sessions was a brief debate over which character in the film we most resembled. One friend became a schoolteacher. He obviously was Kenny. Another applied for a job as […]
| Mexico City’s Next Generation of Ballers Has Arrived | November 1, 2024 |
An on-the-ground look at the Aztec capital’s booming basketball culture from Alan Chazaro.
| The Rap-Up: Week of October 28, 2024 | October 28, 2024 |
Harley Geffner's latest instalment of The Rap-Up features new Quando Rondo, two new tracks out of Florida, the latest verse from Earl Sweatshirt and more.
