hip hop

Kanye West has always been about pushing boundaries. For several LPs it was about stretching the outer-limits of what a hip-hop record could be: recording with live instrumentation at Abbey Road, sampling King Crimson and making soulful R&B records in spite of the fact he can’t sing a note....

The decade long sequel to The Game’s breakthrough 2003 album The Documentary has been well appreciated by many critics but is it all it’s cracked up to be? Is it on the same level as his previous works such as the original Documentary album or even the 2012 tape...

Every area has their own music legend, but I doubt many have one quite like the one Southern USA has in DJ Screw. Self promoted and for most of his career just selling his tapes from his house in Houston, Texas, he doesn’t quite seem to fit on the same...

This joint project from Future and Drake represents the coming together of two of the biggest artists in hip-hop right now. Future himself had come off releasing 3 acclaimed projects culminating in the Billboard 200 chart topping DS2. On the other hand, Drake’s year saw him doing what Drake...

1994 was a big year for hip hop in America. East coast had the likes of Nas’s Illmatic and Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die coming through, Warren G was debuting Regulate… G Funk Era in the West Coast and Outkast were making headlines from the South with their first...

What does it say about us when this is the music that moves us? One man holding a beer playing beats off a laptop to the left of stage while to the right another spits foul-mouthed vitriol into a microphone. What does it say about the sentiment of a...

Biopics are the most awkward of genres. We all live our own lives and we know from them that unlike movies they aren’t neat; the overarching themes don’t become obvious until years after the fact and things happen by chance and luck that in a movie would be nothing...