First of all, I should start out by sending a big shout out to Mr. Len from the group Roosevelt Franklin, who showed up in the comments of my post yesterday about his free rap album Bare Food and offered what prominent hip-hop journalist Oliver Wang likes to refer to as "context." Thanks, Lenny. I was a big fan of Company Flow as a child, and once reviewed a solo album (er, shameless repackaging of Funcrusher Plus) he did on my own site way back in its infancy. Never would I have guessed he would actually have the free time to comment ...

It’s been a week of heated debate in the blogsphere on the North/South divide in hip-hop. It started with 50 Cent telling MTV News that ...

An underground rap group called Roosevelt Franklin, consisting of Mr. Len from Company Flow and a fellow named Kimani Rogers, recently made the decision to ...

As if the Notorious BIG didn't already have enough problems, a judge recently ordered copies of his classic 1994 debut Ready to Die pulled - ...

See, I'm not a religious person, but there's a certain line I don't cross. I won't want to offend peoples' beliefs, faith in their god ...

As we all know, Bubba Sparxxx’s “Ms. New Booty” is catching hell right now. Here’s some thoughts on the single (check the remix)—which is climbing ...

Granted, Ghostface Killah's new album won't be out - in stores, at least - for another week or so, but I'm going to go ahead ...

I’m gonna get back to international hip-hop (Canada I see you!), but I’ve got a few other things on my mind today. Yeah, so an acquaintance ...

In case you haven't heard, Young Jeezy was arrested in Miami this past Saturday after a shooting incident involving "members of his entourage" and some ...