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Contributed by Chris Gaerig on 11/5/07
Being a white rapper is hard enough. Trying to make it as a white duo? You’d better have some serious chops. Being a group of white rappers, coming out of Brooklyn and not being named The Beastie Boys? Impossible, right? Not necessarily. New York troupe Iller Than Theirs (members Tone […]

On this sophomore release from the Minnesota emcee, Musab seems, more than anything, conflicted. He’s got kids now, but it doesn’t appear he can ditch his past – which includes hustlin’, stealin’, and most prominently, pimpin’.
Slicks Box is far from a grab bag. The entire album is produced by fellow Minneapolis native King Karnov, […]

The best way to take in Chamillionaire’s latest release, Ultimate Victory would be to go buy it. Now. Don’t finish this. Reading this review (or other publications for that matter) might sharpen your ear to what sets it apart. It might force you to give this CD a good hard listen. […]

When you’re best known for being the fastest rapper in the game, why would you slow down? Apparently Twista thought there was a good reason to do so, and the result is the sub-par Adrenaline Rush 2007.
It’s been ten years since Tongue Twista’s major-label debut (Adrenaline Rush), and two since his last release (The Day […]

If Drop’s Kanye West review gets more hits than my 50 Cent review in September, I’ll no longer write for Drop Magazine. Now that I see how ridiculous that looks in print, I take it back. How could I pit myself against another review? The success of the album in question dictates […]

Kanye West doesn’t want to have much fun anymore. At least that’s the impression you get from his third album, Graduation. Kanye proved he wasn’t joking around when he pushed his album up to September 11, a date that just happened to coincide with a release from one of the biggest selling artists of this […]

One of the seemingly forgotten aspects of hip hop is the role that the DJ plays in a song. In the early days of hip hop, it was not just rapping, but break-dancing, tagging, and probably most importantly, DJ-ing, that made up the culture that was hip hop. In fact, in the late […]

Shortly after Fast Cars, Danger, Fire, and Knives was released, I went to see Aesop Rock at St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit. After the show ended, Aesop came down from the stage, mingled, and signed whatever piece of clothing his fanatic fans would shove in his face. I awkwardly bumbled my way over and asked […]

The maturation process of Talib Kweli, while progressive, has been rather atypical. A Brooklyn native, Kweli was raised by academics (his name, roughly translated, means ‘true student’) and came into the hip hop world already properly cultured, educated, and driven. He moved from New York to Ohio to start his career while his […]

Producer Sharkey, even when juxtaposed with Europe’s DJ Sharkey, can be easily confused. Both are DJs who spell their name with an ‘e’. Both seem to push their genre’s envelope. Both watch it bend. But hip hop’s Sharkey is from DC, and his UK counterpart is a hardcore dance pioneer. It’s the American Sharkey who […]