Pharoahe Monch

Okayplayer chopped it up with Talib Kweli, 9th Wonder and Pharoahe Monch during this year's A3C Festival in Atlanta to discuss their latest business partnership. As a collective, the rappers have joined together their respective companies, Javotti Media, Jamla Records and W.A.R....

Previously: Jimmy Iovine Leaves Interscope Records After 25 Years Dr. Dre And Jimmy Iovine’s Beats Electronics To Apple Sale Is Confirmed Apple Is Closing A Deal To Buy Beats Electronics For $3.2 Billion Dollars Dr. Dre, Eminem And Jimmy Iovine, “Three Kings” (Originally Published April/May 2014) 63 Hip-Hop Songs About Rappers Making Billions

Brooklyn based indie imprint, Coalmine Records commemorates a decade in the game by dropping compilation Unearthed. Arranged by DJ Revolution of The World Famous Wake Up Show, the project boasts appearances from Pharoahe Monch, Kool G Rap, Large Professor, The Artifacts, Blu, Sean Price, Billy Danze (of M...

Pharoahe Monch takes it straight to the head on his fourth solo release P.T.S.D. (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). The concept album has the Queens MC detailing the life of a man struggling with depression. Each track is a chapter that reveals something new or gives more insight...

The Queens MC Pharoahe Monch asked the packed room at SOBs, “Where was hip-hop?” And the crowd replied, “Right here.” From the diehard fans vigorously reciting lyric after lyric verbatim to the slew of guest performers taking the stage, hip-hop was definitely in the building. Last night, the rapper...

Teaming up with Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch releases one more track before P.T.S.D. drops on Apr. 15. On “D.R.E.A.M.,” the pair rides out on the head-nodding cut. You can stream the track above.

Pharoahe Monch is re-emerging from a slight absent with a new album called PTSD. Considered one of hip-hop’s purist lyricists, Monch teams up with The Roots’ own Black Thought on “Rapid Eye Movement.” With two titans going head to head, the song defines what good rhymes are about....

Pharoahe Monch releases the official artwork and tracklist for his upcoming album P.T.S.D. (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) which drops on on Apr. 15. P.T.S.D. features guest appearances by Black Thought, Talib Kweli and more plus production from Lee Stone, Marco Polo, Jesse West and Quelle Chris. You can view the tracklist here a...

Pharoahe Monch is staying on his grind. The veteran MC is putting out his fourth solo album P.T.S.D. (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) on Apr. 15. The concept project shows Monch tackling the topic of PTSD, where he narrates his struggles of an indie artist against the mainstream machine...

Pharoahe Monch is out to prove he’s the baddest motherfucker behind the mic. The Queens-bred rapper is putting out another album (what he says is a “sonic motion picture”) in April. It’s called PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Here’s the first offering “B...

Brownsville bred rapper Sean Price is a man of many aliases; "Sean P", "Kimbo Price", "Sean Mandela"... the list goes on. Even if you're not exactly sure what to call him, you can be sure of one thing: The man can rap. Whether he was "Ruck" rapping as a part of Heltah Skeltah and the Boot Camp Clik, or rapping solo, Price has spit some memorable bars over t

"I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means." Kanye West said those words in an interview with the New York Times back in June and he's been hammering this point home in almost every press appearance since then...