
The BET Awards paid tribute to MJ. Rob the Music Editor enjoyed it, but some folks are never happy.
Is Drake the next Nas or the next Canibus? Rob the Music Ed explores.
Do artists get better in the after life?
Rob the Music Editor pays respects to music’s living legends.
The BET Awards paid tribute to MJ. Rob the Music Editor enjoyed it, but some folks are never happy.
Grand Puba is The Shit!
He didn’t just say what I think he did, did he…
These classic soundtrack bangers need to get sampled ASAP…
Weezy– the most poop obsessed rapper of all time…
Has The Ecstatic Fallen on Deaf Ears?
New EIC personally responds to XXL users…
Peep XXL’s new EIC Vanessa Satten’s editorial for the upcoming issue…
Albums I still haven’t heard in full…
What rappers go above and beyond the occasional punchline?
How much will The Ecstatic sell?
On June 4, 2009, he’s better than Meth…
Why the hate for the new Drake video?
And why BET shouldn’t have allowed him to.
So I guess this means I’ll never get my $20 back.
Or was it Tito?
If not, does he have any use for them?
I mean, other than how integral Funkmaster Flex has been in his career.
Could I ever be attacked by a rapper? Should I give a shit?
He isn’t in jail, is he?
I wish the answer was yes, but it probably isn’t.
Quick, everyone, put away the weed!
My decidedly non expert analysis of today’s big rap beef.
Has Kelis been plotting on Nas all this time?
Inside Lupe’s latest beef, with my good friend and former colleague eskay.
There’s a new light skinted ninja in town, and his name is J. Cole. No, really.
People are just getting too old to hate anymore.
F. A. B. O. L. O. U. S.
Kellz wish he could fux every girl in the world
Truck North x Bear One is on they grizzly.
Big Boi reps for OutKast and the south in the heart of NYC
The Roots are a force of nature.
It’s Where Your At!
Fifty Cent is talking in codes. And he hates Ruby on Rails.
Originality is still my reality.
From wrestling entertainment to soap operas
It’s certainly not premature.
Boom > Bombs Over Baghdad
DP picks the Belmont Stakes of this rap shit.
Who is fuxing with the SlaughterHouse Collective?
SLAUGHTER! *HOUSE!*
Just give me one more week and we get back to hip-hop and such, I promise. Maybe two weeks.
They may be going a bit too far with this one.
Or “How America Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Nerds”
Technology is conspiring to keep me from finishing other vids, so in the meantime here’s a quick one by request.
Jay Smooth bigs up all his haters with this impressive little ballad…
Hateration in the GOP dancerie. I’m soooo glad you all asked for commentary on Sarah Palin and made me sit through the convention last night.
Just a station announcement before we return to regular programming. Conversate is totally a word, by the way.
Another one by request.
By request, even though I don’t have a lot to say on this one.
You gotta use some st…
Time to get my mixtape…
for the great one. on…
Rosey Grier said it’s alright to cry, and he could totally kick your ass.
I may be cynical about the politics but no matter what happens from here on in, our kids will never again have to wonder if they can really do it. That’s something.
The one that really counts.
Posthumous Dilla production rocked by unusual suspects…
Singing rappers keep multiplying…
Guest blogger Danja29 breaks down the difference between change and evolution in hip-hop…
Guest blogger Al Shipley breaks down Mr. West’s long history of co-producers
Guest blogger Shelby Powell takes a look at hip-hop fusion among other things…
Guest blogger JNOTA chops it up with K-Def…
C. Pierznik ponders on whether mixtapes have become better than albums…
Guest blogger TPAR provides some more real talk…
Hip-Hop desperately needs some estrogen…
Let the pros be pros and the Schmos be Schmos…
Just Ask Dr. Dre…
What makes the new dances less legitimate than the old ones?
Guest blogger B Nestor makes a correlation between Slumdog and Illmatic…
Guest blogger TPAR examines the concept of success in hip-hop…
I was speaking with Donny Goines a few days back about the reviews on his last project, Minute After Midnight. It’s a concept piece with an evocative title that draws a comparison between Cinderella and your favorite rapper. The Hip Hop clock strikes 12 and the Maybach turns into a Datsun; the fancy chain, [...]
Soulja Boy was wylin the fuck out last night…
Lil’ Wayne, Drake and Mack Maine really mean it.
Don’t act like you didn’t see the same shit.
If only err legislative house were a jook joint.
He can afford to be yours as well.
Shit, I’ll sell a kid some crack. I don’t give a fuck.
If you live in Toronto, 911 is the joke in your town.
It’s so cooooold after Motown. No Webbie.
Chopper’s got polyester goons and rayon hoes in Chicago.
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At age 28, I’m apparently a geriatric for knowing Sticky Fingaz as the face of Onyx. The youngsters who aren’t exactly hip to my jive [...]
You see, what had happened was…
Death to all. Jay-Z included.
worst. lawyer. ever.
The public just fails to realize when a nigga’s pouring his heart out. For shame.
At least one verdict is already in.
The BET Awards paid tribute to MJ. Rob the Music Editor enjoyed it, but some folks are never happy.
Maino and Ace Hood on track to sell in the 18-23K range…
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