Posted on 11/04/2009
The CunninLynguists are the Gulliver’s Travelers of Hip-Hop. Their sojourns have led them to the hills of Norway, a castle in Kentucky, a frat house in Vermont, and even to an Alaskan porch. They’ve lost rental cars keys, been compared to Neapolitan ice cream, and bought Heinekens for street bums. One member even recently split his head open. They narrate all like clever court jesters infusing every anecdote with a...

Posted on 10/30/2009
One can rattle off a slew of descriptions regarding the music industry, but no one’s about to identify this business as a kind one. When bullshit politics and trend-driven pseudo-movements are the law of the land, it’s not surprising when artists announce their retirement plans along with their debut album release date.

Posted on 10/27/2009
To prepare you for the release of the Idle Warship + Mick Boogie mixtape collabo Party Robot, out now at YearoftheBlacksmith.com, Mick Boogie sat down for an exclusive interview with Idle Warship's Talib Kweli and Graph Nobel.

Posted on 09/29/2009
What if you could take Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” and remix it from scratch, replacing it’s honeyed saxophone flutterings and cool guitar licks with funky arpeggiated organs and hip-hop drums? Wouldn’t that be out of this world? Well, guess what? K-Salaam and Beatnick beat you to it. The dj/producer duo recently released Never Can Say Goodbye, which reworks eight classic soul goodies. The result is pure audio...

Posted on 08/26/2009
The Good Doctor can't help but notice that the rap game has changed: newcomers like Cudi and Drake are putting hits on the board and getting the Twitterers Twittering with melodic slightly-weirdo largely devoid of rap, cliche styles that can really only be described as Post-Kanye rap. This celery-flavored beverage/music enthusiast is not particularly mad at this trend. I grew up on N.W.A. and Above the Law, but also on KMD and Special Ed and (yeah,...