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In The Crates by Hubert Sawyers III
With his new album, Popular Demand, rapper/producer Black Milk’s certified himself as hip hop’s next big thing. We met with the versatile star to get the drop on all things Black Milk.

by Ben Goldstein
The presidential race is heating up and Barack Obama is a top candidate dem’s. The road will not be an easy, but 2008 may deliver our first black president.

Contributed by Alex Viard on 6/15/07 
Hailing from Detroit’s Conant Gardens, Slum Village has been a hip hop tradition since they debuted as Baatin, T3, and Jay Dee aka J Dilla (R.I.P.) on their fabled Fantastic, Vol. 1 (1997). With a revolving door of members and labels, the Motor City mainstays have received love from listeners, […]

Contributed by Alex on 6/15/07
For the past 15 years, Miami based DJ Khaled has been wowing crowds with his charisma and signature catch-phrase ‘listennn’. A regular feature on illegal underground radio stations, the Terror Squad DJ has, at various times in his career, gone by the monikers of “The Arab Attack” (discontinued shortly after September […]

Before there was Eminem and D12, there was Phat Kat and J Dilla. We caught up with Detroit legend, Phat Kat, to get his thoughts on his new album, his city, youtube videos, and more.

The Creole hip hop movement is lighting a fire in the hip hop world these days and artist Mecca aka Grimo is at the center of it. Find out why everyone needs to know his name.

Filling this month’s slot for gravely under-promoted Def Jam release from an established superstar comes Red Gond Wild: Thee Album, the oft-delayed sixth solo studio album from Brick City’s favorite son, Redman. Originally slated for a 2004 release, Red Gond Wild finds the Jersey native offering his first album since mixed critical success, 2001’s Malpractice. […]

Heroes in the City of Dope, the first collaboration between Oakland-based hip-hop artists the Grouch, of Living Legends fame, and DJ-emcee duo Zion I, is a collection of songs about the artists’ experiences growing up around drugs and violence in Oakland, Calif. Group DJ/producer Amplive, along with emcee Zion, delivers a performance that dares the […]

With his platinum-selling debut album, Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101, Atlanta- based rapper Young Jeezy (Jay Jenkins) showed the world that there was still a place for an artist who filled albums with metaphors, ad-libs, and numerous odes to guns, drugs, cars, money, and women. The success of Young Jeezy’s debut album lead many […]

With his debut album, Already Platinum, Houston-based rapper Slim Thug proved that he had the ability to be the next big thing out of Texas. While the album fell slightly short of the platinum mark, it was a strong selling record that had a few hits and cemented Slim Thug as someone to keep an […]