Articles by Andrea Woo

Bobby Creekwater Parts Ways with Eminem's Shady Records

PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2009

Bobby Creekwater has left Shady Records. The Atlanta rapper made the announcement over the weekend, saying his decision to leave Eminem's i...

Slum Village's Baatin Dies; Friends and MCs Pay Respects

PUBLISHED Aug 4, 2009

Hours after the sudden and unexpected death of Slum Village's Baatin, friends and fellow MCs paid their respects by shouting him out at Van...

Classified Is Satisfied

PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2009

For some underground artists, signing to a major label is perhaps the most important goal of their careers. Long-shot fantasies suddenly ar...

Exile

Radio

PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2009

Los Angeles-based artist Exile first gained a buzz in the '90s producing for MC Aloe Blacc as one-half of hip-hop duo Emanon. In 2006, he d...

Johnson&Jonson

Johnson&Jonson

PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2008

Since the summer 2007 release of Below the Heavens, with producer Exile, Los Angeles MC Blu has established an impressive reputation as an...

N*E*R*D's Pharrell Williams

PUBLISHED May 26, 2008

The creation of N*E*R*D’s latest album has been a long and meticulous process. Unlike with their first two albums, In Search Of… and Fly or...

Living Legends

The Gathering

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2008

To kick off 2008, the eight-man Living Legends collective holed up at Encore Studios, birthplace to Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, 2001 and Eminem’...

Kanye West / Ludacris

GM Place, Vancouver BC October 17

PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2007

Kanye West has said that he crafted his latest album, Graduation, as a collection of songs meant for performing, and this was evident durin...