OutKast is reuniting and the Grammy-winning duo will go on a reunion run that includes a 40-plus-date festival tour throughout the Spring and Summer. This news didn't just make fans excited but plenty of hip-hop artists. Yesterday (Jan. 21), Wiz thanks Big Boi and Andre 3000 for giving him and fellow fans a chance to witness them play some of their classics records. So ...
Killer Mike and El-P, a.k.a. Run The Jewels, respond to some of the comments left about their video for "36 Inch Chain" on YouTube for Noisey’s “Vs. The People” series. Pretty funny stuff. They discuss Sharkeisha, hipsters, sampling, Killer Mike's love for mainstream and underground hip-hop and El-P's weight loss....
Chain check homie. Run The Jewels' Killer Mike and El-P let the game know anyone can "Get It" in the new video for the single. The duo gets their point across by slicing together show footage and behind-the-scenes clips from their recent tour while spitting cold lyrics over a hot track
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It seems these days that to be a rapper is to be on a Twitter. It's easy to see why. Twitter gives an artist the opportunity to promote their music, express their personality and connect with fans in ways that few media can.
Not all rapper Twitter accounts are created equal, though...
The day the United States government shut down for the first time in 17 years, there are few better artists to see live than Killer Mike, and he didn't take long to address the situation. After opening his set last night at Brooklyn Bowl with "Big Beast" and "Untitled" off his highly acclaimed R...
After congress failed to reach a compromise on the budget last night, the U.S. federal government officially was shut down at midnight on October 1. The GOP-controlled House Of Representatives continued to demand changes in Obamacare, seeking to defund the new healthcare initiative as the price of funding standard federal activities which the Democratically-controlled Senate sees as a non-starter
No television show in recent memory has captured pop culture quite like AMC's Breaking Bad. The tale of Walter White as he transfrom from meek high school science teacher to criminal kingpin of the New Mexican (blue) meth game has been one of the most riveting and tragic stories told in modern times...
Mass Appeal holds a series called “Rhythm Roulette” which challenges producers to make a beat from scratch by sampling three records at random. The series has had producers from Statik Selektah, Lee Bannon, and Illmind to 88-Keys and Party Supplies. Today's gu...
This week in the hip-hop Twittersphere was especially wild, spearheaded by a series of people unearthing tweets by rappers such as Action Bronson, Meek Mill and Travis Scott from years ago, sparking a controversy-that-wasn't-a-controversy and causing some rappers to go back and delete old tweets...
Now that the dust has settled on the frenzy of the June 18th face-off, and as we look ahead to the July 4th release of the God MC Jay-Z's new album Magna Carta Holy Grail, we're trying to stay focused on celebrating the music that's going to be soundtracking our summer...