Somebody will stop at nothing to expose Solar. On Sunday, AllHipHop reported that the Twitter account of Guru’s controversial associate (@Solar_7Grand) had been taken over by a hacker. And the tweets that followed were far from jesting. The raider, who initially identified himself as a female,... Read more...
Jay gave The Most Influential an interview when he was in London at Spine’s headquarters. Jay Electronica is the rapper’s rapper- the modern hip-hop avatar. Beyond the confines of real vs. fake, street vs. studio, he simply exists as an example of what happens when you apply pure skill, int... Read more...
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11/05/2010,
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In the wake of one-time Gang Starr rapper Guru's death at the young age of 47, his latter day producer and partner Solar emerged as hip-hop's most loathed villain, accused of everything from denying Guru's family access to their dying kin to fabricating a deathbed statement from th... Read more...
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10/05/2010,
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Rah Digga talks about rappers not taking the time to write their raps. Taken from an interview for the book How to Rap: The Art & Science of the Hip-Hop MC. Via: Read more...
I think Ice Cube reads my site... Vulture: One of the films kicking off the Tribeca Film Festival is Ice Cube’s Straight Outta L.A., his made-for-ESPN documentary that details the cultural and economic impact his late-eighties gangsta-rap group N.W.A. had on one of professional sports' m... Read more...
YN discusses M.I.A. and her place in hip-hop. He purposely avoids her Lady Gaga diss... Interesting. YN Editorial: Who’s That Girl?: Don’t know much about M.I.A. Truthfully, I’ve been avoiding her music like a plague for the past few years. Even the “Paper Planes”/”Swagger Like Us�... Read more...
By: Dell Frost With hip-hop heavyweights like Outkast on hiatus and T.I. serving time, Young Jeezy has officially taken the top slot in Atlanta's pecking order. Of course, Jeezy's ascent to the upper ranks of hip-hop would not have been possible without the assistance of the now infamous Black... Read more...
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Boston-born Keith Elam, who rose to fame as Guru, founder of the rap group Gang Starr and a person who sought to merge rap and jazz, died earlier this week. His brother, Harry, a distinguished professor of drama at Stanford, has written this remembrance). “Positivity, that�... Read more...
Mr. Slow Flow talks about rapping to his own beats and how J Dilla did it. Taken from an interview for the book “How To Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC.” Big Shout out to Paul Edwards. Via: Read more...