What’s Beef?
While Biggie wrote about the extreme in What’s Beef?, luckily, most artist beefs just bless us with some monster dis tracks. As long as there have been hip hop artists, there have been hip hop artists that don’t like each other. This can make for...
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Battle of the Producers
In hip hop there’s the age old debate about the greatest Emcee of all time. Everyone who’s listened to hip hop for any extended period of time can likely tell you who they think the top 5 of all time are and why. What doesn’t get...
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Gangster Rap Origins
Who Started Gangster Rap? What a great question! We all know that gangster rap was a huge influential part of hip hop in the 90’s, but where did it come from? If you do any kind of google search, you’ll find multiple answers to this. I’m here to...
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Memorizing Lyrics
If you’ve ever sat down to write rhymes, you know that it can be a daunting task. What do I talk about? Does it fit together? Does it fit within the bars? Most people, it takes years of practice to get this art form down. There are a handful of artists...
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New Talent of Hip Hop
As much as I am a purest at heart, I’m always a fan of good music. Because of what I do, I’m always getting new artists sent to me for review. I love hip hop so it’s always exciting when I’m able to find a new artist that shows skills from the...
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Who’s Your Favorite Artist?
You might as well ask me to explain astrophysics. It only takes about 2 minutes for people that talk with me about hip hop to ask the dreaded question…”So, who’s your favorite artist?” I guess if there were only 4 amazing hip hop artists, this...
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Miami Sounds
I grew up in south Florida. Started off in Miami and then made my way to Broward county. It didn’t matter where, specifically, you lived as the sounds that were coming out of Miami resonated throughout all of south Florida. There was not a party or...
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Albums to Ride To
I think we’ve all been there. You get turned on to a song, either by a friend or by the radio. Has a killer beat…lyrics are off the chain. You then decide that you NEED that album. Nowadays, its much easier to just go download that song but back in...
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