The other day, we caught up with Marietta, Georgia rapper Submit for a quick Q&A on his style and upcoming projects…
RS: So who is on your IPod right now?
Submit: uh. Charles Hamilton, Wale, Drake, Lupe, D.Julien. & J.Nolan…and myself [I have]a bunch of unfinished songs
RS: Nice!
Submit: and Cudi!
RS: You and everybody else! Read more…
Talk about getting lost in a record! The Epic by Kid Konnect is like a time capsule from the end of New Y
ork’s hip-hop golden era. If you know an ill lyricist from NY, get them the Kid Konnect beat tape immediately. I was imagining verses from active artists on each of the tape’s 5 solid tracks. The feeling on these beats is that someone harnessed the power of early RZA with the spirit of the late J. Dilla and remade their beats with Guru’s drum kit. (There are also some sounds that remind of DJ Premiere, only with slightly less polish.) The Epic is a breath of fresh air for those of us that have been attempting to extract clean breathing air from the production climate of today’s hip hop scene. Read more…
My favorite Somalian emcee mixed up with some flamenco. Thanks to Ivan of Hip Hop Is Read for the video and check out Gnawledge’s page HERE.
I was able to do an email interview with one of Scandinavia’s largest hip-hop artists, Adam Tensta, and ask him some pretty in-depth questions about himself, his career and hip-hop.
What brought you into rap?
My big brother got into it [rap] in the early 90’s, listening to The Notorious and acts like Mobb Deep, Nas and Wu-Tang. I couldn’t help but getting pulled in to it since it was spinning in the speakers 24/7. I first got infatuated with a song off of OGC’s Da Storm called No Fear. From that point there was no turning back; I was hooked. It was the honesty of it all, it didn’t sound like anything I’d heard before. Read more…
If there is one thing that I’ve learned over the years it’s that there’s a time and place for everything. Well, almost everything. There is no time and place, let’s say, for walking in on your parents creating your next sibling or watching your grandmother change her dentures. Images like that have no business being burned onto the retinas of an impressionable six-year-old. Read more…
It’s hard to hate on a Christian hip-hop artist who gets away with comparing God to herpes. Jacksonville, Fla.-based God Chaserz Entertainment and Clean Rich Records have launched gospel rapper Big R’s latest project, Rated R, the North Carolina performer’s sophomore solo album. In a word, the record is approachable. Read more…
The reason why hip-hop is in the state it’s in is because it has no love handles.
Pause.
Reflect.
Let me explain. Read more…
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