Sometimes in life you just can't win for losing. James Yancey worked as hard as any beat producer in the rap game. He made his childhood friends from Detroit in... Read More...
LL Cool J is the "dot com" in DefJam.com. Without him they would not be a company, let alone a commercial entity. He was their first big star, and if they ever ... Read More...
"Monkey Business" is not my favorite Black Eyed Peas record, and never will be. Even though I had no problem with the musical backdrop of the tracks (perhaps t... Read More...
Clifford 'T.I.' Harris is all about his hustle. The title of his 2001 debut album "I'm Serious" probably should have been a tip-off but it was slept on by a lo... Read More...
Conceived by Jedi Mind Tricks frontman Vinnie Paz as a rap supergroup with a membership rivaling the Justice League, Army of the Pharaohs is a name that describ... Read More...
Ghostface Killah is an institution unto himself. While the Wu-Tang Clan has suffered a general decline over the years, for reasons that are their own fault (po... Read More...