Review

If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late is as curious a title as any, but if Drake’s actions up to this point are any indication, the reasoning behind it must lie in the music itself. Ever since his ascendance from television personality to worldwide hip-hop icon, Drake has captured the attention of audiences mostly with brutally honest confessions. Despite the fact...

Far from simmering down, the Lil Wayne / Birdman beef proves to be just heating up, as new talks of legal action emerge with figures in the millions. Tha Carter V still has no release date and what some initially side-eyed as a publicity stunt to hype the album looks more like legitimate bad blood with each passing day...

Photo By: Jason Griffin Common is at the top of his game. You can tell by his near-flawless performance, barely missing a beat as he flows from one song to the next. He's not a young rapper anymore, but he's got the performance stamina of someone half his age...

New York struggles to effectively hold the title of its status as the birthplace of hip-hop, and this is evident more and more with each new wave of Empire State MCs. Rappers from NY have one of two choices: they can find inspiration outside of their state’s history and borders and risk the ire of fellow New Yorkers, or they can dig in and create a sound akin to what rap listeners have come to exp

In 2008 Grand Theft Auto IV graced both the Xbox 360 and PS3 systems for the first time, and the title was met with critical acclaim. It was the first time a GTA game had a soul as it put gamers into the shoes of Niko Bellic. Fast forward to the present and developer Rockstar North has ended its self induced five-year exile and blessed the masses with the follow-up in Grand Theft Auto V... Read Mo

Drake Makes His Claim For The Throne With 'Nothing Was The Same'

Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise; turning 30 is the worst. Jay Z might have spent the last decade attempting to make good credit score rap the modern embodiment of nouveau riche cool but ask any 22 year-old with rock-hard abs and a nuclear-strength Krebs cycle about the prospect of getting old and Jay’s “30 Is the new 20” sloganeering will elicit sarcastic guffaws. For the 99% of us, the... Re

The Underachievers hit the ground running this year by capitalizing on the inescapable buzz for their project Indigoism. Looking to re-assert themselves in the scene as leaders of the Beast Coast—a loose-knit collective of New York rap groups including Pro Era and the Flatbush Zombies—the Underachievers recently relinquished an 8-track EP titled Lords of Flatbush, which finds Ak and Issa paying ho

Paparazzi Princesses—the debut novel from Birdman and Lil Wayne's daughters Bria Williams and Reginae Carter—could have easily been a memoir from the young heiresses to the YMCMB empire. Most of the content is just as powdery as the title, and it's as if their co-writer Karyn Folan asked them every day, “What happened today at school?”, and the response to that...

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