Eight years ago, Omillio Sparks caught the biggest break of his career. After auditioning for Jay-Z, he and partner Oschino Vasquez were signed to hip-hop’s biggest label: Roc-A-Fella Records. Shortly after, he met fellow Illdaelph native and labelmate Beanie Siegel and within a year, Omillo guest starred on Jay’s “I Just Want To Love U, (Give It 2 Me)” from, The Dynasty: Roc La Familia. By 2001, Beanie Sigel had formed the Roc-A-Fella group off-shoot, State Property and recruited the Roc’s Philly artists to round out the roster. The move proved successful, producing two State Property movies, soundtracks ...

Yesterday one of my colleauges here at xxlmag.com put up a post that defined the term "bitchmade" as any guy that was raised by a ...

NaS was one of my favorite rap artists of all time because of his immense lyrical talent and the fact that he tries to portray ...

I never did get a chance to check out that PBS documentary on hip-hop, but last night I did catch the last 15 minutes or ...

Since February is on the wrap up I thought I should squeeze in a drop or two for Black History Month.  It’s not like you ...

Sometimes in the evenings I like to stop by the local Barnes & Noble to read all of the rap magazines for free and drown ...

This evening, PBS will be airing a documentary having to due with issues in hip-hop like masculinity, misogyny, and homophobia. I've yet to see it ...

Like I said before at this site, ‘Brandy is more hardbody than your favorite rapper’, but Foxy Brown is on the come up. There’s ...

I finally got around to reading this weekend’s New York Times Magazine piece on the mixtape crackdown and subsequent arrests of DJs Drama and Don ...