You can travel the world but you cant run away, from the person you are in your heart/ You can be who you want to be, make us believe in you, keep all your light in the dark/When searching for truth you must look in the mirror and make sense of what you can see/Just Be…

When it comes to music, sometimes you just need to get away from the norms. 90% of TRUE hip-hop heads, dont just listen to hip-hop. Because music is such an expression of oneself,  it can …

It seems as if every song now-a-days, has this message in it. The only difference is in todays music it is intertwined with the fascination of money, and expensive alcohol. I guess Juvenile would just rather tell you from the GET what he expects you to do. “Girl you Look good” is a good enough reason for you to “back that a*s up!”. Even though it is very deragatory to women, and it is very demeaning, it is a DAMN good song! You know, you used to bump this in …

Wow. Now I’m going to be honest with you, Rihanna never really impressed me. I mean shes beautiful but I would so much rather, lets say, Alicia Keys. But in this photo to the left, she is looking AMAZING (IMO). But besides the teal bikini, and the funny looking left arm, I stumbled across a new song from off her album that may be getting a video sometime soon. It is called “Tip Pon Toe”, and I’m not going to say that I “Like” the song, but I will say …

I mean….Call me old fashion….But this dude is TRASH (And thats an under statement). I understand where the game is going, and to be honest, I dont like it. What happened to real hip-hop? This dude cant hold a “Flame” to anybody that I listen to. I was on Facebook today, and an associate of mine posted a status that said “Not paying attention to my professor, Im just bumpin this new Wacka Flacka, this shit hard!” I mean, be serious. Tell me one person in the industry (Besides Soulja …

To be honest, John Legend has been floating around on Television, Radio and the Internet for a minute now. But it hasn’t been ’til recently that I actually sat down and listened to his album “Once Again”. Despite the fact that ALL of his songs are about “Her” (Whoever “She” is) he is very talented. At first I thought he was too “Theatrical” with his voice, and not that powerful of an artist. But to be honest, he is to guys what Alicia Keys is to women. He is soulful, …

Not only is he the best rapper to spit (In my opinion of course) but its good to see that even though his change to extremely “Difficult to listen to” new music he actually still is musically inclined. He visited with Tim Westwood (google him), out in the UK and TORE IT DOWN. I dont believe this is the entire video, but it is a good chunk of it. Real Artists/Music lovers need to see this video and appreciate real talent. He still has a very edgy and outraged persona, and …

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Ayo Mr. S+P, didnt you see this dude not too long ago? Mos Def, at a glance, looks like he should deserve more respect than he has. Wait What? Mos Def is not only an Emcee but an A-List Actor. Wait What? You mean he’s an Emmy, Grammy and a Golden Globe Nominee? He studied “Experimental Theater” at NYU, Dropped 5 albums in the last 10 years and has been in over 20 movies since 1991? Wait……What?  It really makes you think twice the next time you want to call yourself …

Nas. He is actually the physical portrayal of “Expressive Thought”. Being only 19 years old when he dropped Illmatic in 1994 and just that album alone being the ULTIMATE classic, he has continued to put out good music 15 years later. This song “Take it in Blood” is off of his second album “It was Written”, which was released in 1996 before the creation of  The Firm in 1998. Im not going to get into what the best Nas album is *COUGHILLMATICCOUGH!* Or talk about who I believe is the …

Rest In Peace Big L.
The thing about a death in the hip hop game is that it touches everyone. Not to say a death in the family isnt a harsher reality to face, but not only does it touch the people who actually knew the artist personally, but also those who knew them for their talent. Today we have a freestyle by Big L and Jay-z. The funny thing about this is that during this recording Big L says “I got my dude Jay-Z with me…”. This is ironic because now, NOBODY introduces …

Rahzel Brown, also known as the “Godfather of Noise”  is not only a well known beatboxer, but also as a true artist. He is a New York, NY resident who was formely a member of the Philly based hip-hop/soul group The Roots. This particular song was featured on his album “Make the Music 2000″ released in 1999. Throughout Razhels career, he has gained numerous amounts of fans during his prime, and is definitely worth giving a tribute to today. This is one of the videos that sparks a memory cell in your brain, …

So who actually remembers this??? Maybe I had been done with watching TV by 2000-2001, because I honestly had no idea this existed. I had a friend of mine show it to me recently and I thought it was pretty dope. Then I started to realize that this is probably when Hip-Hop had added a crack to the wall leading to “Mainstream-ism”. This specific episode has Mos Def in it, but the show also stars an Emcee by the name of WordsWorth who I think is pretty skilled. Whatever the case may be, the show finally caught …

BROOKLYN…ZOO!!! You already know what it is, The Ole’ Dirty Bastard AKA Dirt Mcgirt AKA “Ole’ Dirty Chinese Restaurant”. This is a CUTS favorite. Just his craziness on the mic is enough to keep me interested. EVEN if he was just talking about something ridiculous, I feel I’d be forced to listen. He really came out swinging on this one, just saying whatever he wants, however he wants. ODB is one of the craziest emcees known to grab the mic (Respect to Flavor Flav, and DMX [LMAO]) but he is …

Going through the archives of videos that could possibly be memorable, I somehow stumble across Red and Meth. Of course, “The Rottwieller” video is sick too, but seeing the chick hit the car on her bike is PRICELESS (and damn funny). Its missing Meth, sure, its “barely” making the years of REAL hip-hop as well, but this 1998 production by RedMan is still a classic to many of us. RedMan in himself was dope, Legendary? Maybe not, but Red & Meth together are definitely Icons to a lot of hip-hop heads. Hit the play …