Posted on 11/17/2008
Detroit producer and MC Black Milk recently emerged as one of Hip-Hop’s bright young talents. In his short career, Milk has worked alongside Slum Village, Royce the 5’9, Elzhi and talented artists from various regions all while maintaining a core sound. Chopped loops, hard drums and steady rhymes were the typical order of the day with the prodigious producer. With his latest release, Tronic, Black Milk talks with Okayplayer’s D.L....

Posted on 11/13/2008
Last Tuesday, Q-Tip not only released a sigh of relief, but also his second solo album. The Renaissance, an album proclaiming a re-birth of hip-hop, could not have come on a better day. November 4, 2008 will go down in history as a day on which hope triumphed over fear. Sure, this triumph has some interesting parallels in music, but more importantly, it renews our privilege to squander so many...

Posted on 11/10/2008
As the brother of one of the greatest musicians in the hip-hop history, Illa J’s career could potentially go one of two ways. The easiest option would be to follow his brother--the late, great J Dilla, if you didn’t already guess (which maybe you should have)--into producing and use Dilla’s style and established name to build his own resume. The other would be to consciously avoid his brother’s long shadow...

Posted on 11/06/2008
There’s not much that Diamond D hasn’t done over the course of his 20+ year career. As a founding member of legendary New York crew Diggin’ In The Crates (D.I.T.C.), the producer/emcee’s name garners instant respect; he’s worked behind the boards for classics by fellow DITC members Showbiz and A.G., Lord Finesse, and Fat Joe, and he’s lent his talents to a slew of hip-hop heavyweights including Mos Def, Busta...

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Posted on 10/14/2008
As the nation prepares for the upcoming election, AM talk shows across the country are becoming fervent battlegrounds in the war for undecided voters. Your FM dial, however, is entrenched in a battle of its own: the battle for artists with substance over those with mere marketability. Now, with the most important election of our lives less than a month away, the state of commercial hip-hop may seem more frivolous...