Sean Price

Brooklyn rapper Sean Price has passed away at the age of 43, according to multiple reports. Details on the death are scarce, but people close to the rapper have rushed to social media posting about the sad news. According to one report, he might have died in his sleep...

Sean Price has a new album coming out, and the Monkey Barz rapper is taking a guerrilla approach to marketing it. While rappers might do in-stores or free shows (the bigger ones might even try to leverage their merchandise into a temporary pop-up shop), the former half Heltah Skeltah hit the streets public transit style. Price ma...

Statik Selektah is back at it, gearing up for the release of his seventh studio album, appropriately titled Lucky 7, and today XXL premieres his latest single "Top Tier." With UGK veteran Bun B joining New York City stalwarts Styles P and Sean Price on the track, you already know the track goes hard and isn't afraid to get gritty. Over a c...

Boot Camp Clik still strong.

Sean Price is unimpeachable. The Brownsville MC has staked his career on impeccable mic skills and a preternatural ability to attack any instrumental foolish enough to cross him. On "Garbanzo Beans," Price has the chess moves, the best writtens, drawn guns, swear-to-God bars...

Today, March 17, is the birthday of rapper Sean Price. The Brooklyn rapper has been a prominent figure in East Coast hip-hop since the early 1990's. Under the stage name Ruck, Price was a member of the hardcore supergroup Boot Camp Clik, more specifically one half of the duo Heltak Skeltah with Jahmal Bush (aka Rock), in the 90's and assisted on two collective albums before parting ways in 2000...

Sean Price, Billy Danze, and Maffew Ragazino team up to pledge their allegiance for the borough that raised them, Brooklyn. "Land of the Crooks" originally appeared on the Price and M-Phazes'  EP of the same title that dropped in Dec. 201...

Chicago based producer A-Villa has dropped his Carry On Tradition album, which he was working on full-time as the vice president of a bank, and raising a newborn baby. All of the beats on the project are produced by A-Villa himself, and has heavy features across the board, including Action Bronson, Freddie Gibbs, Joell Ortiz, Big K...

One of hip-hop's most consistent, but underrated rapper/producers will be dropping yet another album later this year. The said producer is Detroit's Black Milk. "Scum" hints that If There's A Hell Below will also swing in the darker direction that No Poison No Paradise took (although the album title should've been enough of a hint). The new song features G...

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