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Reviews Review: Lupe Fiasco's "Tetsuo & Youth" Lupe Fiasco's newest album has many listeners saying that old Lupe is back. It looks like that may in fact be the case. By Dallas Darden January 26, 2015
Original Content Busta Rhymes: The Energetic Showman Of Hip-Hop Striving to pivot the lyrical stereotypes surrounding hip-hop, Busta Rhymes changed the blueprint of the genre's sound for good. By Caleb Hardy May 22, 2023
Original Content DJ Kool Herc Reflects On Hip-Hop's 48th Birthday On hip-hop's 48th birthday, we connected with the culture's founding father DJ Kool Herc, who made history at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. By Mitch Findlay August 11, 2021
Sports 5 Lovable Benchwarmers 5 of the NBA's most lovable benchwarmers. By Kyle Rooney September 14, 2016
Original Content Is G.O.O.D. Music A Good Label? 5 Artists Whose Careers Stalled While Signed Examining five careers that stalled, hit roadblocks or faded out on G.O.O.D. By Patrick Lyons August 05, 2015
Original Content 5 Reasons You Should Be Listening To Kehlani Kehlani's poised to be the next big thing in R&B. By Patrick Lyons April 14, 2015
Original Content Origins: The Samples From The Game's "Documentary 2" A breakdown of the notable samples that appear on The Game's first disc of "The Documentary 2." By Chris Tart October 14, 2015
Original Content Origins: The Samples From Jay-Z's "Magna Carta Holy Grail" "Origins" offers a break down of the samples in each track featured on Jay-Z's "Magna Carta Holy Grail." By Mike De Leon July 15, 2013
Music Everyone Taylor Swift Seemingly References In "The Tortured Poets Department" From Kim Kardashian, to Travis Kelce, and many more. By Demi Phillips April 23, 2024
Original Content Blurred Lines: The Integration Of R&B In Hip-Hop As the evolution of Hip-Hop continues to ascend into higher heights in the music industry, it seems that R&B is slowly but surely losing its soulful edge and assimilating more into the Hip-Hop genre. These days the rappers are "singing", and the singers are trying to rap. The question is, what happened along the way? We do some digging to answer that question. By Audrey N. April 02, 2014
Music Redman's "Whut? Thee Album" Turns 31 Redman has conquered multiple creative career paths, but his debut album, “Whut? Thee Album,” is proof of his superiority as an MC. By Demi Phillips October 10, 2023
Original Content Meet IllaDaProducer: Producer Of Lil Pump's "Pinky Ring" & Eminem's "Offended" IllaDaProducer is poised to take over the game. By Mitch Findlay December 19, 2017