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…

Like so many albums of this past, fleeting decade, this shit was way too short. That’s only really a complaint when the roster is this good. Most of you muppets should be making the shortest possible albums. Songs, too. Crimeapple…

The beat is electric, the video is low rent, and the backstory is hella interesting: this right here is a mixed bag. Heartbreak JC is a rapper from Memphis with some understated charisma and a rock solid flow. His bar…

Comedy that doesn’t work as entertainment is a failure, right? The first and last defense of every boring poser in the Meme Rap game: “You just don’t get it.” They’re always right, too. The fact that every aspect of this…

In 1997, I would have checked this out just off the cover art alone. Back then, that meant buying CDs and tapes at stores full of them. I was always copping compilations and mixtapes because I wanted to be able…

I had no idea who this cat was, and in most ways I still don’t. I assumed this was a producer’s V/A LP type deal, just farming features with a guest list that included Sadat X, Project Pat and Nature,…