Every now and then, it pays to peer into the nearest mirror. Practice a bit of the old self-evaluation. You know, size yourself up from time to time. The most effective way to better one’s self is to chin-check one’s self, I think, and this applies just as much to a person’s fandom as it does his or her career, or relationships. I do so quite often on all fronts of my life, and this week I’ve been experiencing a real stop-and-think stretch, rooted in the blog I wrote here two days back. The topic was my favorite soundtrack cuts, and, ...

My obsession with butt injections, ass implants, or whatever some video hoes are supposedly using to artificially enhance their rear ends lies in the fact ...

Back in the days when I was just freelancing for XXL, I interviewed stic.man, one half of dead prez, about his book The Art of ...

For the past few months, I’ve preferred mixtapes over albums. Not because I’m some hardcore hip-hop fan who is “anti-commercial” or “anti-radio.” I'm just tired ...

Finally, the entire hip-hop community has found something it can agree on: no not paying tribute to Biggie Smalls via Twitter, as if he was ...

Fabolous & DJ Drama There Is No Competition 2: The Funeral Service Beats: XL Lyrics: XL Originality: XL Fabolous has made a name for himself crafting female-friendly hits like ...

Willie the Kid The Cure Beats: L Lyrics: L Originality: L Willie the Kid has done a lot since releasing his first mixtape, The Day The Game Changed, in ...

On this, the 13th anniversary of Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace’s death, it’s time to pay homage to one of the all-time great lyricists. Coming into ...

Forgive me, hip-hop world, but I have movies on the brain, which, frankly, isn’t out of the ordinary. Balancing my love of rap music and ...