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FEATURE: How a mysterious Svengali dominated the final days of the hip-hop and jazz…

The New Diggers (1992-1994): Overview

How Listing Sample Sources In Liner Notes Forever Changed Both…

Meet the Rap Super Producer Who Made Himself Disappear

He walked away from everything except himself. 

The Rise and Fall of 50 Cent

Nothing Lasts Forever

On Rap’s Ever Growing Generation Chasm

Thoughts from an old man who grew up in a “youth culture”

Inspirational Rap: Biggie Smalls “Things Done Changed”

Biggie Smalls used his words and metaphors to help the lower class and low income families of America find an identity through the cultural citizenship of hip-hop music, and allowed the reasoning and motives behind their raps become…

Outtakes From Suge Knight in ‘Rolling Stone’

What didn’t make it into the article

Waiting On The World To Stop Putting Up With Kanye West

Kanye West was merely a petulant manchild…

Hip-Hop Frankenstein

Blue Scholars Bring Hip-Hop’s Fundamentals Back from the Dead and Create Cultural…