EDITORIAL

Saturday, April 19, Hip-Hop Wired traveled to Washington D.C. to see if the hubbub surrounding the second annual Broccoli City Festival was warranted. But before we get into the experience, it’s important to understand that the cause behind the concert is much grander than the event itself.

In the beginning, Zev Love X was originally half of the Rap duo KMD. It came as a shock when his group was dropped from Elektra Records back in 1994  because they’d been using variations of their soon to be released album’s artwork for close to a year before it was deemed too controversial for wide […]

Being classified as the underdog represents the overall notoriety of a person’s status but doesn’t hinder on their actual caliber of talent. When Hot 97 announced the 2014 lineup for their annual Summer Jam concert, it boasted of Hip-Hop’s biggest names such as Nicki Minaj, 50 Cent and Lil Wayne.

Of all rap categories today, Christian rap has to be the single most slighted. It’s wack, a gimmick, bogus, devoid of lyrical aptitude, and quite frankly, corny, but Andy Mineo is debunking that stigma one day at a time. 

Today Nas’ debut LP Illmatic is regarded as an unadulterated Rap classic and is arguably the greatest Hip-Hop album ever recorded. Nasty Nas was considered the second coming of Rakim and his album was declared a classic months before it ever even surfaced by leading Rap publications like The Source and Rap Pages.

US Airways is only the latest in a series of companies that have tweeted something stupid, offensive, or otherwise just plain head to desk-worthy.

Nicki Minaj has been forging a return to the game, spitting edgy bars as heard on her previous single “Lookin’ Ass Ni**a” which angered the family of Malcolm X AKA El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz over use his image. The Queens rapper joined forces with Chicago’s Lil Herb for the song “Chi-Raq” and threw a jab at the […]

Rappers and their crews work hard in going the extra mile to entertain the fans. A lot of the additional efforts tend to go unnoticed from time to time but that’s the breaks when you choose the life of an artist. Hip-Hop Wired recently checked in with Rostrum Records’ Boaz to get the details on […]

Run-DMC almost singlehandedly ushered in the New School Era of Hip-Hop and ended the Old School Era with the release of their 1983 smash single “It’s Like That”/”Sucker MC’s.”

Stones Throw Records was known chiefly as an independent West Coast Hip Hop label. In October 2003, Stones Throw released the Jaylib Champion Sound project which was a collaboration between J Dilla and Madlib who shared both production and rhyming duties. The album was a sensation that not only ignited the independent Hip Hop world but […]

So Jay Z drops a new verse on a new Jay Electronica song (“We Made It (Freestyle)”), and the Internets loses its sh*t. The reactions weren’t just because of the snazzy wordplay or the acute and subtle homages to the NGE‘s Supreme Mathematics the Supa MCs dropped. It was mostly due to Hova sending shots […]

Labeling someone a snitch is a very serious accusation. Things get even more serious when the accused is Suge Knight. Lloyd Lake is saying just that with a new documentary tentatively titled Justice For Tupac & Biggie.