The Return of Clean
While most of you are booed up with bey or laying low in player on the run mode. The lyrical legend, Pharoahe Monch decided to give a dope valentine to all lovers of dope lyricism and artistry with his mixtape “lost in translation”. It appears to be a compilation of previously released material and features … Read More “Pharoahe Monch-lost in translation” »
Amen J-live for this one. J-live has a project coming out March the 17th entitled “His own self”,on his indie lable Mortier Music. This ATL indie hip-hop legend has kept it thorough for sometime and you know he is going to keep hitting us with dope lyrics and thoughtful content. I just don’t give is … Read More “J-Live – I Just Don’t” »
The good folks at medium, Brian Coleman in particular has put together this beautifully done story on MF DOOM and how hip-hops most beloved masked man came into being (Medium is one of my favorite sites on the web for well written pieces involving hip-hop history). I know this story all to well because I … Read More “Check The Technique: KMD’s “Black Bastards” and the Birth of MF Doom” »
Your old Droog is showing a healthy work ethic. After the release of his self title first full length. He is back with Kinison and he continues to destroy tracks lyrically. Any self respecting hip-hop head should grab a copy of this. A lot of folks went overboard with the Nas cadence comparison but if … Read More “Your Old Droog – Kinison EP” »
The Sun Moon and Stars EP is the final link in the EP trinity from Zion I, which started with Masters of Ceremony, and Libations. The project captures the mounting tension of the ongoing clash between the police and the community, with Dreadlock and Unity. On the other side it features savvy storytelling over bass … Read More “ZION-I: SUN,MOON and STARS EP” »
Striving to hit home he caters and plays with emotions and feelings, trusting his beat choice to grab you and his words to keep you always looking for a connection. Warm hearted and well intentioned Anthm likens himself to the sun and assures us that this is a new dawn in hip hop… and it … Read More “ANTHM-In Broad Daylight” »
Chester Watson is a up and coming emcee who I would place in the cloud rap genre. Cloud rap is a subgenre of hip-hop that uses down-tempo atmospheric production like chill music and a subject matter that covers a full range of things but a common theme is life through a stoners perspective. Chester does … Read More “Chester Watson-spliffs featuring bobby raps” »
Mr Len of company flow fame connected with Murs to create this banger oddly enough entitled “My Final underground song”. You never know what real artists mean and that is what make it fun to listen and follow along. I can’t say if Murs is being a little tongue in cheek or is he making … Read More “Mr Lens X Murs – My Final Undground Song” »
Mellow Music group is dropping a great compilation showing off their amazing roster of talent and some guests who came along to add heat in March of this year(March 10th). Nottz, Oh No, Rapper Big Pooh, Ras Kass, yU, Apollo Brown is just a small example of some of the folks who will appear on … Read More “Oddisee & Phonte – Requiem” »
If this is the first time you’re hearing of somebody called Your Old Droog, don’t even trip. Some people know the name; those people spent the spring and summer speculating if an unknown entity who posted a better-than-it-should-be debut EP on Soundcloud was in fact Nas, our (hip-hop’s) Jeff Buckley, minus the tragedy. Those same … Read More “Stream your old droog new album” »
