This last year of the 2010s decade was another GREAT year for Hip Hop. To give a good representation of the quality Hip Hop released this year, we’ve compiled this…
…summer evening and featured that night were Hip Hop veterans Biz Markie and De La Soul, newcomers Reflection Eternal, as well as Hip Hop’s all-in-one entertainer, Common. This was a…
By 1989 Hip Hop’s Golden Age was in full swing. Where the previous years determined the new directions Hip Hop was going to take (with 1987 and especially 1988 being…
…of mainstream ‘rap’ can hardly be called Hip Hop, but it’s a shame it sells while most real Hip Hop gets none of the spotlights these days. Real Hip Hop…
…small Hip Hop time capsules, snapshots into the state of hip-hop at the time of their release. This is best exemplified by the different rosters for the soundtracks to the…
…even Hip Hop. Real Hip Hop is alive and well – you just have to know where to look for it. There have been tons of excellent Hip Hop album…
The Cold Crush Brothers are a legendary Hip Hop group that formed in 1978 in the Bronx, New York, the home of Hip Hop, during its beginning, alongside other Hip…
…major corporations had turned mainstream Hip Hop into a dumbed-down and overall terrible shadow of its former self – but outside the mainstream, Hip Hop has ALWAYS been alive and…
…Rawkus Records, was introduced as the place where “ole boy from the Hip Hop Shop” got a track on an album (Eminem on Soundbombing II in 1999). I guess I…
Underground Hip Hop is an umbrella term for Hip Hop music outside the general commercial canon. It is typically associated with independent artists, signed to independent labels or no label…
…taking Hip Hop into all kinds of new, exciting directions. Authentic-sounding Hip Hop will forever be one of our go-to subgenres though, that’s why we will keep highlighting great boom-bap…
[Underground Hip Hop is an umbrella term for Hip Hop music outside the general commercial canon. It is typically associated with independent artists, signed to independent labels, or no label…