For a long time there, Godfather Don was an elusive creature of legend. Robbie Ettelman’s work at Unkut trying to piece the mystery together and finally interview him was blog journalism at the highest level. It was also a testament…

After a long hiatus due to a vocal injury, one of Rochester’s finest is back with a vengance. Not some Hollywood-ass Van Damme vengance, either, I mean something far slower and crueler. This is Old Boy vengance, this is I…

Mickey Diamond has been on an impressive grind for many years now. Like Canibus or Curren$y, he’s polarizing: heads either collect him or dismiss him. He keeps his fanbase fed with his sheer volume of releases and duly limited merch,…

Dave Blunts had one hell of a wild 2025 and made it out alive, too. That wasn’t a safe bet. Then as now, old boy is looking mighty grim, but we also live in a world where God took Big…

Banjamin Landy Pavlon is a former pro skater who has wisely pivoted out of the hurt game, in order to preserve his bones, joints and overall quality of life. That pivot brought him to rap, a genre he’s using to…

Norman Sann’s delivery occupies the same limnal space as a crazy person on a packed subway train, coasting somewhere between freestyling unwanted sermons and actually accosting some strangers. This beat is too loud, the vocals are too low, the video…

I copped this jonker entirely based upon the features. Anyone who would aim to get Fat Ray, Von Pea, Lee Scott and Thirstin Howl the 3rd on their album is on a rare & refined wavelength, so I was curious…

Hear me out: I think this is going to become a classic. Nine minutes of dead serious Afrofuturism animation accompanying another fever dream from the Akashic Records of Killah Priest. His role in the Wu has always seemed to be…

This was pitched to me as the hot new shit, an urgent slice of cutting edge underground rap. That was a fair assessment. Yet it’s also oddly depressing, a reminder that “underground rap” has been treading circles around the same…

I have watched Style Wars well over 500 times. Every moment that Kase 2 was on camera, he laid down a dozen timeless turns of phrase, easy. However, “if I really get into it and start camouflaging it, I don’t…