Posted on 10/13/2008
He was well worth the wait. Four score and seven years ago, well actually just 7 years ago, a bright eyed and bushy-headed young man strolled onto the R&B scene with his pitch perfect falsetto and free-flying 'fro, blazing the trail for new millennium romance. Four albums later, just as quietly as he appeared, Maxwell was gone. In the time since, fans scoured the Internet for any tidbit they could...

Posted on 10/08/2008
Last week Okayplayer was in the house for the taping of this years VH1 Hip Hop Honors, which featured The Roots performing a tribute to Isaac Hayes along with Mos Def, Public Enemy, Estelle, Cee-Lo, and Scarface.  Additionally, we saw performances by honorees Cypress Hill, De La Soul, Slick Rick, Too $hort and Naughty By Nature.  Check out our exclusive photos below (shout out to Lil Burt), as well as...

Posted on 09/30/2008
Accurately titled, the break/s is the fractured story of poet, teacher and hip-hop head, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, as he chronicles the role of hip-hop and poetry in his life. Traveling around the world from America’s Midwest to Tokyo to Cuba teaching classes about the music he loves, Joseph examines the influence hip-hop has on the international scene and how his own relationship to the culture expands and shifts as he...

Posted on 09/17/2008
Inspired by the LA Weekly’s revelatory interview with Ms. Maureen Yancey, mother of deceased producer and hip-hop luminary James Yancy aka J Dilla, Anti-/Epitaph recording artists Solillaquists of Sound have decided to put the power of change into the hands of the people.