EDITORIAL

Few of you that are now reading this know that around the same time I’d originally decided to go back into having a personal blog (which later became Bastard Swordsman) the news came down that Guru was in a coma and his life was hanging in the balance. I was in complete shock. I’m an […]

Here’s how I ended up listening to Nicki Minaj’s “Beez In The Trap.” I woke up from an hour-long nap. Scooted over to Miss Info’s site [Editor’s Note: We trust he checked Hip-Hop Wired, first]. Saw the song up and I hit “download” (Roughly 227 seconds later, it was in my recycle bin, but that’s […]

Before Jackie Robinson became the first African-American major league baseball player, he was essentially screened by members of the Black community to make sure he was them most suitable representative to set the precedent. White peoples had no such committee and did no such screening when Vanilla Ice became the first mega-successful rapper to represent […]

In the March 1992 issue of The Source, Matty C picked a demo tape of straight rap from some Brooklyn cat named BIG over some looped up beats as a DJ did cuts. It didn’t even contain fully structured songs but that raw demo tape was still easily head and shoulders above anything else that […]

As much as the Grammys have tried to snub Hip-Hop every chance it gets, the awards show has managed to provide some pretty unforgettable rap moments. There was Eminem’s performance with Elton John, Lauryn Hill winning seemingly every Grammy besides Country Duet in 1998, Lil Wayne representing for New Orleans a few years ago and […]

Another February 7th has come and gone. Some choose to call it “Dilla Day” while others choose to refer to February as “Dilla Month.” Jay Dee AKA J Dilla started out as a producer/MC that was mostly known in underground Hip-Hop circles. He later became a revered producer and musician amongst mainly music insiders and […]

Why Common Can’t Win His Beef With Drake   Let’s not kid ourselves here, Common can and will rap circles around Drake. In an even test of skills and a catalogue comparison, Common will always reign supreme over Drizzy and 99 percent of the rappers you listen to on a daily basis. From the minute […]