Hip Hop

“The saddest thing is to hide your gifts. I never want to regret not living…” — Rob V In a few months, hip hop will be 51 years old. Yeah…that’s right. FIFTY-ONE! And if there’s anything about hip hop that can be said, it’s that it is everything but consistent. …

Hip-hop music, often called “rap,” began as an underground phenomenon in the African-American communities of the Bronx and Harlem in the late 1970s. Initially, the genre allowed young people to express their social and political frustrations and celebrate their African-American culture. …

on music as Language, lyrical wizardry and blooming talent in Appalachia. — “every hero needs a home” A man sits on a rock in the middle of a square in ancient Greece, he recites sonnets and spits rhymes for passers-by, he is not asking for money, just just making art. This is the scene I imagined as I read the words of…

A Review to Read Before Watching Spider-Man: Across the SpiderVerse — Fans eagerly await the release of Spider-Man: Across the SpiderVerse, the highly anticipated sequel to 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse. Miles Morales (Shameek Moore) will venture through the SpiderVerse to save the multiverse again. In celebration, I dusted off a review that I wrote in 2021 for a Hip-Hop Cinema…

I wrote these bars in difficult times — I was so angry at life back then. I’m better now, but I’m still amazed at the self-aggrandizing and aggressive attitude I used to have. In spite of the darkness of these bars, the rhymes and the wordplay are all right, I’d say. I wanted success, but how the fuck…

The peak of rapper Fetty Wap’s career was when he released “Trap Queen” and “My Way.” Since then, it has found some success, but it wasn’t as much as in 2015. But, aside from having a shit ton of kids and different baby mommas and one failed marriage, what has…

Jack Harlow shockingly released his complex, self-reflective and interpersonal third album, “Jackman”, less than a year after his last one. — After the heavy promotion of his 2022 sophomore album, “Come Home the Kids Miss You”, Louisville rapper Jack Harlow took a different route and surprisingly announced the release of his third album a few days before it came out on April 28. Although Harlow seemingly put a lot of effort…

Who says that rap and hip hop isn’t important or that it can’t have a huge impact on the world around us? — “Oh my God Becky, look at her butt. It is so big… I can’t believe it’s so round, it’s like out there…” The other day I was getting a kick out of reading people’s comments in response to a post on whether or not rap and hip hop played any…