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Avg Rating: 4.9 The Renaissance
The other night I ran into an old girlfriend. It’d been a bad break-up, mostly because she was …
Avg Rating: 4.3 Halfway House
The last five years have not been kind to Joe Budden. Once a rising star in the rap …
Avg Rating: 3.6 Stick 2 Tha Script
Today I almost died. It was a bus that almost sealed the deal - one of those Tour …
Avg Rating: 4.7 Evolver
Full disclosure: I’m a John Legend fan. First of all, I admire anyone with the balls to change …
Avg Rating: 3.8 Product of the 80s
It’s time for another thrilling edition of everyone’s favorite game, Guess the Mid-Level Rap Star! Ready? Ok, who …
Avg Rating: 3.0 Unexpected
You want unexpected? I’ll give you unexpected. The year was 2002 and Michelle Williams, the third member of …
Avg Rating: 3.8 White Van Music
I was going to start off by calling Jake One the most underrated producer in hip-hop. Then I …
Avg Rating: 4.0 Jennifer Hudson
Some people are born to do one thing. These people possess the extraordinary ability to do something better …
Avg Rating: 3.9 Murs for President
My people, it’s that time again. Time to choose a new president. We need a man who can …
Avg Rating: 4.1 Fearless
So the music industry walks into a club. Dressed head to toe in Gucci, the music industry walks …
Avg Rating: 4.1 Something Else
I was walking down Market Street in San Francisco, enjoying a delicious carne asada burrito, when a man …
Avg Rating: 4.4 Paper Trail
There’s nothing more beautifully unpredictable than hip-hop slang. It seems like every few months a new word suddenly …
Avg Rating: 4.0 Colby O
It’s not easy being a pretty boy. Sure you’ve got thousands of girls hyperventilating at your concerts, but …
Avg Rating: 4.4 The Way I See It
Well before The Way I See It ever crossed my desk, Raphael Saadiq was already responsible for some …
Avg Rating: 2.9 Brass Knuckles
A few months ago I wrote that Nelly was in danger of falling victim to Ashanti Syndrome, a …
Avg Rating: 3.2 We Global
What is it, exactly, that DJ Khaled does? Well, let’s start with what he doesn’t do: He doesn’t …
Avg Rating: 4.5 Year Of The Gentleman
For too long the citizens of this great country have been searching for a true R&B king, a …
Avg Rating: 4.1 Not 4 Sale
It’s hard to have a conscience, especially in the music business. That’s why the list of rappers willing …
Avg Rating: 3.9 Exit 13
If you could become any man for one night, who would you be? 50? Diddy? Jibbs? Personally, I’d …
Avg Rating: 4.8 Mixtape Messiah 4
There was a time when I thought Chamillionaire was just another here-today, gone-tomorrow rapper. I assumed that once …
Avg Rating: 3.7 The Recession
Like China under Chairman Mao or Russia under Stalin, hip-hop has its dictators too. Everyone has their personal …
Avg Rating: 3.0 Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams
Superstar artists can light up the world, but they can also infect other artists with the dreaded Not …
Avg Rating: 4.2 L.A.X
Somehow I had convinced myself The Game would be the one to deliver the classic album Los Angeles …
Avg Rating: 3.9 First Love
Who was your first love? For me it was Salma Hayek in the movie Desperado. Sweet Jesus, that …
Avg Rating: 4.1 Raw Footage
If the first time you saw Ice Cube was when he was attacked by a crazed deer in …
Avg Rating: 4.1 Metropolis: The Chase Suite (Special Edition)
There are very few times in my career that I get to write something like this, so excuse …
Avg Rating: 3.1 Look What You Made Me
It’s been more than a year since I first took Yung Berg to hip-hop court. The charge? First-degree …
Avg Rating: 4.4 The Humdinger
These days, the phrase “nappy roots” is more likely to conjure up images of Don Imus’ radio fiasco …


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