Riding dirty on a soulful bluesy track laced with blues guitar licks, driving organs and a rolling baseline Underground King Bun B and Cash Money‘s Lil Wayne let us in on just how cold they are. Produced by Chopz the track has the perfect UGK feel Pimp C (RIP) would be proud of complete with [...]
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The uptown soldiers from the NO are letting us know they run this on the new remix for Birdman and Weezy‘s “I Run This“. The beat is heavy and of course Lil Wayne steals the show from his simplistic braggadocio “daddy” Birdman. Despite the stale topic matter Lil Wayne spits some heavy metaphor laden verses [...]
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Kardinal Offishall is one of the most talented yet slept on rappers in the world. So we advise you to get familiar! Check out Kadi’s new video for the song “Dangerous” featuring Akon from his new album “Not 4 Sale” which drops June 24 on Konvict Live/Universal Music.
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The Game‘s first single featuring Keisha Cole finds him reminiscing of days gone by, paying dues and paying homage to those who brought us this Hip Hop shit. While Keisha laces the hook eloquently with her superb vocals in usual Game form the Compton rapper name drops a number of artists. The beat is smooth [...]
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Rapper Young Jeezy comes back with that fire on “Put On” featuring Kanye West. Over a Synth horn driven southern beat produced by Drummer Boi Jeezy and Yeezy go hard for their city. Young Jeezy spits “y’all sing happy birthday yeah I got that super cake” as he drops that southern braggadocio. Kanye West perhaps [...]
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Over a reworked version of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s “Deep Cover” The Game rides on the Police with his supposed response to the Sean Bell verdict. Interestingly enough, Game didn’t mention Sean Bell’s name or discuss the verdict on the track but I guess we can give him credit for saying “51 shots they [...]
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On a guitar in fused track which sounds a lot more folk/rock than Hip Hop Wyclef Jean shares his talent for harmony and positive lyrics on the genre defying “Fast Car”. Visually the video is beautiful loaded with amazing visual effect and computer animation based on it’s video game theme. We need more songs like [...]
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On this slow tempo track driven by high pitched guitars and organs T.I. bares his soul about all the trails and tribulation he has faced over the past year. Clearly bothered by all that he has gone through TIP raps flawlessly as most great artist do while sharing his drive to over come everything thrown [...]
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Nas comes with another single to spark more debate. “War Is Necessary” is the title of the track and it has recently leaked on to the internet. This track will be featured on the up-coming GTA IV (Grand Theft Auto) soundtrack. Although there is no word on if this track will make it on the [...]
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Rap legend Nas drops yet another thought provoking banger in his new single “Be A Nigger Too” from his highly anticipated album “Nigger”. Over a classic east coast Hip Hop beat Nas delivers lyrically on this gem. We won’t even say much more about this song in the rap review. Just listen and read the [...]
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