Monthly Archives: August 2010



Metallungies Hollers @ Pete Rock, Interview.

(image) Pete Rock is usually one of the first three names mentioned on any top five producers list. During that hallowed era known as the 90s, when classic albums came out every other week, Pete Rock provided a triumphant and raucously funky answer to his East Coast counterparts whose sound rarely..


J57 – Still Phenomenal (ft. Sene, Co$$, Homeboy Sandman).

Underground lyrical slayers Sene, Co$$, and Homeboy Sandman trade their craziest Bible-themed rhymes on this transcontinental apocalyptic posse cut off producer J57’s new electronic album Digital Society, which is out now. Download: J57 – Still Phenomenal (ft. Sene, Co$$, Homeboy Sandman) Sphere: Related Content


Von Pea – The Yorker.

Pea’s Gotta Have It is a coming of age story based on Von Pea’s days at the Boys & Girls High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Said the Tanya Morgan producer in a press release, “It’s a concept album based around high school, around what I thought my album would sound..

Goodbye, Fat Beats.

(image) Fat Beats, my favorite place in New York City that doesn’t involve food, will close its remaining locations in New York and Los Angeles next September, XXLmag.com reports. I wrote about Fat Beats and the business of hip-hop vinyl last year. DJ Eclipse told me that hip-hop wasn’t part..

Bilal – Restart.

After an exciting non-album cut, here’s the first official single for Bilal’s upcoming album Airtight’s Revenge which drops September 14. “Restart” trades the turmoil of young love for a grown man’s attempt at picking up where he left off with that special someone. Something sophisticated for us young thundercats. Sphere:..

Freddie Gibbs – Str8 Killa No Filla, Mixtape.

It took me a minute, but I can now confidently call myself a Freddie Gibbs fan. You can only avoid the deafening consensus of the hip-hop blogs for so long. Gibbs & company sell a determinedly bleak, glamor-free brand of gangsta rap reminiscent of the survivalist mentality of 2Pac and..