For this week’s #TBT Freestyle, 5GRAND drop’s a crazy verse to Eric B & Rakim’s classic “Microphone Fiend” For more information on 5grand, log on to LIFEIZGRAND.COM of follow @5grandlife on Twitter/IG/Facebook & YouTube Read more...
Legendary producer/host Don Cornelius was found dead early this morning and his Los Angeles home. According to reports, Don Cornelius allegedly took his life from a self-inflicted gunshot. In recent years, the 75-year-old was in failing health and according to various sources, he suffered fr... Read more...
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Over “God Bless Us All” from N.E.R.D.’s new album, Nothing. Swizz actually didnt sound half bad on this one... Swizz Beatz feat. Rakim – King Tut | Mediafire Props to Swizzy Read more...
Star talks Ice-T, Carmelo Anthony, Yung Berg, Nicki Minaj vs. Lil Kim, Hip-Hop as a culture of thieves, Foxy Brown’s need to swallow battery acid (I want publishing), Drake as the Hip-Hop Lionel Richie and how Star inspired one of his lyrics, Cam’ron being one of the best things to ever happ... Read more...
The Souls of Mischief member lends his thoughts to the How To Rap book and explains why having a large vocabulary can substitute actual rapping capabilities. Later he compares today’s rappers to the MCs of his day (Kane, Kool G Rap & Rakim) and says that you couldn’t catch it on the first ... Read more...
Nas doesn’t take himself too seriously. Phoning in to VIBE the day after Malcolm X’s convicted assassin was released, the Brooklyn-born, Queensbridge-bred MC constructs elaborate theories about the Mayan prophecies of 2012, stacking on facts like a deliberate construction worker. Moments lat... Read more...
You could be excused for believing that I spend every waking hour obsessing over rap trivia while preparing for my next interview with an obscure hip-hop character, but that’s not really the case. Admittedly, a lifetime of perusing linear notes and thumbing through old rap magazines can tend to h... Read more...