Raekwon

Raekwon remixes another old school jam on his latest Throwback Thursday track. This time, the Chef jacks The Spinners’ smooth ballad “Could It Be I’m Falling In Love.” The Wu-Tang affiliate raps about a special green-eyed lady during his verse, before he lets the soulful 1970s song play out. The last few Thursdays...

"My name is Jay Electronica. And I am hip-hop." Jay Elect's first words upon taking the stage at yesterday's Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival in Williamsburg were bold yet prophetic, much like his entire career. When Brooklyn Bodega first announced the set times for the festival, with co-headliners Jay Elect and Raekwon each given an hour, the first thought that popped up was, "An hour for

Is Brooklyn in the house? Without a doubt. For the 10th straight year, The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival will take place in BK. This year's headliners will be Raekwon and the illusive Jay Electronica. Pro Era's CJ Fly and CyHi The Prynce will also grace the stage for the event...

Update (Oct. 14 12:30 P.M.):  Raekwon has announced that Fly International Luxurious Art (F.I.L.A.) is being pushed back to next year becuase he wants to concentrate on Wu-Tang's upcoming album A Better Tomorrow. Check the fly shi...

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The Isley Brothers have been sample magnets for hip-hop producers for many years. Today, Raekwon chooses their classic, "Footsteps In The Dark" to continue his Throwback Thursday series. Rae spits velure raps over the smoothed-out IB track which was famously used on Ice Cube's '92 hit "Today Was A Good Day...

We've reached the halfway mark of the year, and only six of our 25 Most Anticipated Albums of 2014 from January have been released. YG, ScHoolboy Q, Rick Ross, Freddie Gibbs and Madlib, Future and Asher Roth all came through and delivered on their promises with big time albums that helped to define how we will remember 2014...

Horace Brown's "Trippin'" is an underrated bedroom jam that dropped in '96. It's also the sample for Raekwon's second entry of his Throwback Thursday series. The Chef waxes over the track's velvet instrumentals, and of course, his remix isn't really a bedroom jam...

It's a late afternoon in mid-June, and Raekwon is sitting on a couch on the second floor of an apartment building next door to Frank's Chop Shop, the renowned barbershop on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The apartment—owned, I'm told, by an artist friend of his—is so steeped in history that it's almost suffocating: sketches and portraits line the walls; every surface holds another antique candelabra

Raekwon's highly-anticipated upcoming album F.I.L.A. (Fly International Luxurious Art) finally has a release date. The Wu-Tang veteran will be dropping his sixth solo album Sept. 16, a day that's already looking crowded with high-profile releases despite still being three months away. ...

Things are looking up for the Wu. Raekwon is back on good terms with RZA, that Wu album is on the way and the chef is still whipping up his solo album. Until F.I.L.A. drops, Raekwon will be dropping a new song over an old school cut every week. There's ...

UDPATE: Gawker is reporting that the couple who reportedly named their newborn twins Ghostface and Raekwon was actually joking. They points out the dad, Dan Lieberman,  took to Facebook to inform worried friends and family that the whole thing was just a hoax. It sucks...