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Album Review: Che Grand – Everything’s Good Ugly (2009)

Album Review: Che Grand – Everything’s Good Ugly (2009) Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Potholes

Download: The Remix Project: Mixtape [Mixtape]

Before I even talk about this project, major shouts to Objektiv One for hooking up one of the freshest pieces of album art. Moving on, the homie Apple Juice Kid along with several others conducted a number of classic hip-hop…

Download: Ilwil – “So Far” ft. Jameeze (prod. Nicolay) [mp3]

We have continued to follow Nicolay’s Off the Shelf blog series almost religiously over the past few months, and today he hits us with another excellent track, this time from the homies Ilwil. This song goes back all the way…

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Download: The Away Team (Khrysis & Sean Boog) & Nervous Reck – The Warm Up [Free Album]

Just swiped this off Okayplayer, a free LP from The Away Team & Nervous Reck. This really caught be by surprise, I hadn’t heard the name The Away Team tossed around in quite a bit,  I started to think they…

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Discussion Poll: Most Debated Hip-Hop topics

It’s amazing how certain topics will always be debated to death when it comes to hip-hop.  Whether it is the great producer, greatest emcee or greatest album we all have our favorites. Obviously it’s all subjective. The ability to defend…

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Are blogs the new DJ?

In hip-hop the DJ has always been the tastemaker. The DJ was responsible for breaking records and exposing the audience to new music that may have not been available through urban radio. As hip-hop reached the height of its popularity…

Old school versus new school…

I gotta thank Okayplayer.com for the inspiration as usual. Seeing all unexpected responses the recent Large Pro versus Kanye West post made me realize two things; one – just how much Large Pro is revered (which is dope) but also…