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Avg Rating: 3.1 Fantasy Ride
Fill in the blank: Ciara is the next ______. Ever since Ciara Princess Harris and her impossibly long …
Avg Rating: 4.5 Sickology 101
For most rappers getting signed to a major label is like reaching the Promised Land. Before the ink …
Avg Rating: 2.4 The Voice
All you need to know about The Voice is that Mike Jones spends much of it pointing out …
Avg Rating: 3.9 Asleep In The Bread Aisle
In order to understand white rappers, you first have to understand VIPTSD (Vanilla Ice Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). The …
Avg Rating: 3.8 Deeper Than Rap
There are a lot of qualities I appreciate it in a rapper. I appreciate originality, creativity and confidence. …
Avg Rating: 4.2 Forever in a Day
Well I’ll be damned. If you had told me five years ago that a legitimate male R&B group …
Avg Rating: 3.6 Guilt
To say MIMS’ rise to the top came quickly would be an understatement. In the beginning of 2007 …
Avg Rating: 3.7 The Last Kiss
Jadakiss is the Charles Barkley of rappers. Both are bruising, outspoken, bald, black men who dominated their respective …
Avg Rating: 3.5 New Jack City II
The first time I saw Bow Wow he just a 13-year old kid with “Lil” in his name, …
Avg Rating: 4.1 UGK 4 Life
The break-up of Danity Kane is not a tragedy. The bar running out of Patron is not a …
Avg Rating: 4.3 R.O.O.T.S
When they write the history of hip-hop in 2008, they’ll have to write about Flo Rida. Growing out …
Avg Rating: 4.1 Boss of all Bosses
Editor’s Note: Since our Managing Editor and Album Reviewer Extraordinaire, Nathan S., is off enjoying a relaxing vacation …
Avg Rating: 4.2 In A Perfect World
In my perfect world auto-tune would be a distant memory, Pimp C would still be alive and Rick …
Avg Rating: 4.0 Don't Feed The Animals
The landscape of the music industry has shifted seismically in the last five years, and nowhere is this …
Avg Rating: 3.5 Round 2
It’s not easy being a male R&B sex symbol. Sure, at first it’s fun to watch girls hyperventilate …
Avg Rating: 4.4 Love vs. Money
Sometimes it’s best to just let an artist speak for himself. When describing his new album, Love vs. …
Avg Rating: 4.0 Somekind of Wonderful
2009 is a good year to be named Hope. Thanks to the audacity of Barack Obama a black …
Avg Rating: 4.0 Diabolical Fun
No matter where you live, from the narrow concrete streets of New York City to the palm tree …
Avg Rating: 4.7 Smoke N' Mirrors
The Los Angeles you know, that’s the fake Los Angeles. That’s the L.A. of The Hills and Baldwin …
Avg Rating: 4.1 Padded Room
Everyone knows Joe Budden is crazy - or at least that’s what they say. Bring up Joe’s name …
Avg Rating: 4.4 The Take Over
You know how right before they execute you, you get one last meal? The prison will let you …
Avg Rating: 4.8 So Far Gone
Drake may be new to you, but he’s no stranger to success. A rapper turned singer turned actor …
Avg Rating: 4.2 Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics
Acts come and go, but an artists’ impact can last centuries. Acts become irrelevant as soon as their …
Avg Rating: 4.0 The Rebirth
There comes a time in every man’s life when he must strike out on his own. When he …
Avg Rating: 3.7 The Spirit Of Apollo
The year was 1961. President John F. Kennedy had just witnessed the first men set foot on the …
Avg Rating: 4.1 Ryan Leslie
Ryan Leslie is a complicated man, and like most complicated things, America’s had some trouble figuring him out. …
Avg Rating: 4.7 Troubadour
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A boy grows up in Mogadishu, Somalia, during a civil …
Avg Rating: 3.8 Dope
Not everyone plays the game for the same reasons. Some rappers pick up the mic with dreams of …


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