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Clipping producer William Huston contemplates Jeez’s status as the platonic ideal of gangster rap, and the value of quality mastering.

At some point in the fall of 2010 I realized that, with the help of the right websites, I could start watching U.K. television in semi-real time.

This is the type of hip-hop that can make you feel invincible. It makes you drive a little faster, scowl a little harder, move your head...

When I Googled “Lil Ugly Mane Interview” the first thing that came up was a q&a that the Virginia producer and rapper did in a New York publication...

In 1999 in Wasilla, Alaska, there wasn't a lot going on. I was dropping out of my senior year in high school, working shitty jobs and partying with...

The beats on Pusha T's My Name Is My Name make you want to install and then blow a set of very expensive speakers as you drive your hooptie...

There is something enormously satisfying about 2 Chainz, and his most recent offering, B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME is concomitantly released with...

I once saw a briefly-posted video on the Stones Throw label's website of a lecture Otis Jackson, Jr., aka hyper-prolific producer/rapper/musician...

I’m on the B41 bus cruising north on Flatbush Avenue through Brooklyn towards my homestead. (Or am I really headed to Peppa’s Jerk Chicken?)

"Ladies Love Cool James" was ill as hell when he popped out the couch in full couch camo in Toys, the movie that predicted drones like 20...

Obey the Altar Native, which is a three-man crew out of Arizona consisting of emcees named Obey, Denone, and Ro Ruckus, just put out...

The new Kendrick Lamar album is hella good. Like, fuck Batman, feel me? Fuck Looper, this shit was better than Looper.