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Review Jun 28 2025

Public Enemy – Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025 | Review

Public Enemy’s Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025 arrives with no fanfare, no rollout, no radio push—just a surprise drop on Bandcamp under their own Flavor Flav Records imprint….
Review Jul 11 2025

Clipse – Let God Sort Em Out | Review

…The album opens with “The Birds Don’t Sing,” a gut-punch of grief. Over mournful piano chords and a swelling gospel choir, Pusha T and Malice process the near-simultaneous deaths of…
Concert Jul 11 2025

Clipse: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

…a chilling dedication to their deceased parents, “Birds Don’t Sing.” Before the tears from the crowd could dry, we got the moment we’d been waiting for in “Grindin’.” The first…
Review Oct 10 2025

Mobb Deep – Infinite | Review

…Prodigy delivers short, direct bars—“King of all kings, Don of all dons, Chief of all chiefs, God of all gods”—while Havoc sharpens the imagery with lines about paranoia and retaliation….
Review Dec 12 2025

Conway The Machine – You Can’t Kill God With Bullets | Review

…project features production from names like The Alchemist, Conductor Williams, Daringer, Apollo Brown, and Timbaland, alongside guests including Roc Marciano, G Herbo, Tony Yayo, Lady London, KNDRX, and Heather Victoria….
artist Jul 26 2015

Rakim

…1968, in the Long Island suburb of Wyandanch. The nephew of ’50s R&B legend Ruth Brown, Griffin was surrounded by music from day one, and was interested in rap almost…
Article Aug 15 2015

Number One With A Booklet: KRS-One Is Hip Hop

…was. If there is a better diss track out there than The Bridge is Over, then I don’t know what Hip Hop is. The fact that KRS ravaged the entire…
Daily Video Mar 6 2016

Just Ice “Going Way Back” (1987)

Co-produced by KRS One, this Just Ice classic is one of the earliest history lessons in Hip Hop. Almost 30 years later, Just Ice’s first person account of Hip Hop’s…
Podcast Oct 8 2015

The Light Podcast: The Debut and IMPACT of Public Enemy

…don’t understand? Why are we letting them get away with it? Detrone pays homage to one of the greatest emcee’s of all time and memorializes a jazz/bebop legend who’s influence…
Podcast Nov 1 2015

The Light Podcast: The Geto Boys – True Gangster Originals

https://soundcloud.com/thelightpodcast/episode-16-the-geto-boys-true-gangster-originals Powerful new episode of The Light that you don’t wanna miss! John L, Detrone, and Scott discuss some real issues revolving around the portrayal of “that life” and debate…
Daily Video Nov 7 2015

GZA “Shadowboxin’ / 4th Chamber” (1995)

Shadowboxin’ / 4th Chamber is the video for two tracks of GZA‘s classic Liquid Swords album. The video also features Method Man, Ghostface Killah, RZA & Killah Priest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oKUu1fO9KM The…
Podcast Dec 8 2015

The Light Podcast: Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik

…all time – Outkast. Andre 3000 and Big Boi came together in 1994 to create a classic LP that laid the groundwork for the Atlanta explosion that followed their lead….