Internal Affairs Entertainment and Planit Hank present The Omen Featuring Canibus, Kool G Rap, DJ Evil Dee and Chris Rivers. The idea behind this song was to give Hip Hop…
…Rhymes, Ice Cube, and more who took influence from that song. In a time where there were literally only a couple rap records on wax, what The Sequence did was…
…of the soon-to-be-martyred rap legend Notorious B.I.G. As Jay-Z later remembered his childhood in one of his songs (“December 4th”): “I went to school, got good grades, could behave when…
…Midwest! As a native of Detroit, my Midwest pride is strong. So strong that my hometown pride for local rap groups like AWOL and Detroit Most Wanted made me, for…
…to be taken over by part-time fans and rappers more concerned with their image than the quality of their work. Cormega silently began to appear on most rappers radars as…
…presumably from lashings, in the shape of an “N.” Turning the CD over in my hands, I notice the name on the side: Nas. I skim the tracklist written in…
…his or her game simply by being himself and doing his own thing. And that thing is being able to perfectly balance the street with the spiritual, the heartfelt with…
…microphone. Setting out on the New York City rap circuit, the teenaged rapper began performing locally at school contests, on park benches and inside local hole-in-the-walls. It wasn’t long before…
…rappin for smack This beat alone should get platinum plaques I’d rather see a million of us ecstatic to scrap Cause if we bappin’ ’em back we automatically stacked Really,…
…in 1996 on The Great White Hype soundtrack, with their single, “Coolie High”. The smooth party song was a minor hit, peaking at #25 on the Billboard Hot Rap Singles…
Before Slick Rick, KRS-One, or Kurtis Blow, the first commercially successful rap song to hit the airwaves was Rapper’s Delight by the Sugarhill Gang. The 15-minute track is the common…
…TV and it sounded like everything I had been searching for in a rap song – quality scratching, loads of cool brag lyrics, a mega smooth flow, and a really…