hip-hop

Lupe took some time out from the road to pen a few bars in response to the request for a battle between him and Jay Electronica on the Okayplayer message boards yesterday.  While not a battle verse, some fans are already reading between the lines on this one:
Coexist,
the devils in the dealer, the poltergiest is [...]

In case you haven’t noticed there’s a little something that’s been happening this past year or so.  I’d like to think of it as a historical appreciation of hip-hop production.  By this I don’t just mean looking back at the history, but an appreciation of the historical value of hip-hop production.  Earlier this year I [...]

At the turn of the 20th century, the technological revolution in music was shifting in favor of the populous. With the advent of sound recording technology, music was no longer restricted to the concert halls, but being given directly to the people, by the people and for the people, allowing them to dictate new music [...]