Articles by Chris Dart

Saigon

Warning Shots 3: One Foot in the Grave

PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2012

Many rappers like to play the conflicted gangster, walking the line between conscious and street, talking about doing dirt on records, but...

Action Bronson

PUBLISHED Dec 7, 2011

Action Bronson is, in many ways, not your typical rapper. The Queens-born Albanian-American MC grew up in a restaurant family, and was work...

M.O.P. & Snowgoons

Sparta

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2011

Sparta (the ninth record from Brooklyn, NY tough guys M.O.P. and the tenth production album by Germany's prolific Snowgoons) lives up to it...

Kidz in the Hall

Occasion

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2011

Occasion (the new album from Chicago, IL alt-rappers Kidz in the Hall) isn't bad, per se, but it is kind of a letdown. After releasing thre...

D-Sisive

Run with the Creeps

PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2011

It may be hard for long-time D-Sisive watchers to believe, but his latest album, Run with the Creeps, is in some ways his darkest album sin...

Stalley

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2011

It's been big year-and-a-half for Ohio-born, New York-based MC Stalley. In just over 18 months, Stalley has gone from relative obscurity to...

J. Cole

Cole World: The Sideline Story

PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2011

The expectations for J. Cole's debut studio album, Cole World: The Sideline Story, were almost impossibly high. Cole managed to achieve nea...

Gucci Mane & Waka Flocka Flame

Ferrari Boyz

PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2011

Ferrari Boyz, the first full-length collaboration between Gucci Mane and protégé Waka Flocka Flame, isn't a work of staggering hip-hop geni...