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In The Crates by Hubert Sawyers III
While anyone can get a hit single submitting to the latest trends, it’s good to know there’s still artists like Jake One gaining ground by working hard and paying dues.

July 30, 2007 - Chamiliionaire’s “Evening News” video has cause a major stir in Canada, home to a Toronto rapper named Seazon. Seazon is saying “Evening News” highly resembles his video he released last year named ”The Reporter”.
Chamillionaire’s video has been aired on BET Access Granted and has garnered national attention. Seazon recently won a […]

July 25, 2007 - G-Unit Member Tony Yayo rejected a prosecutor’s deal in a NYC courtroom yesterday that would have sent him to jail for nine months if he pleaded guilty to assaulting the 14-year-old son of Jimmy “Henchman” Rosemond.
Yayo whose government name is Marvin Bernard was charged with assault, and harassment and endagering the […]

July 25, 2007 - Lil Wayne and Ja Rule were arrested in the same night on separate occassions in Manhattan’s 20th Precinct. The ironic thing is they both had 40 caliber handguns. They both were charged with criminal weapons possession.
According to the New York Post, police say they stopped Rule’s 2004 Mercedes Maybach around 10:30 […]

July 26, 2007 - As first reported by the Associated Press and widely syndicated, the Camden, NJ Police Department threatened to pull their sponsorship of a “Peace on the Streets” rally if Swizz Beatz didn’t openly denounce the “Anti-Snitching Campaign.” The department claimed that the producer/rapper promotes violence against snitching, exemplified in the lines, […]

The phrase “finding forever” carries a laundry list of connotations — perpetually finding something, finding the endlessness of time, etc. — none of which are very concrete and none of which can be said to be wrong. But the rendering that seems to describe Chi-town mainstay Common’s latest release Finding Forever is much more ominous: […]

July 26, 2007 - We reported on an interesting conflict between Usher and his number one fan site usherforever.com last month. This made the press because lawyers from his camp attempted to shut down the fan site in light of negative comments made by members towards his fiance Tameka Foster. The most notable of these […]

I’ve had Pharoahe Monch’s Desire for a little over three weeks now. The editors here at Drop came to me and asked if I’d be interested in reviewing it, and naturally, I jumped at the opportunity. As someone who had always heard about Pharoahe Monch but wasn’t very familiar with his material, I was intrigued.
Weeks […]