Articles by Del F. Cowie

A Tribe Called Quest

Verses From the Abstract

PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2008

A Tribe Called Quest’s hip-hop legacy is virtually peerless and while all the group members played a crucial role in the group’s chemistry,...

Lupe Fiasco Is Not Cool

PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2008

Lupe Fiasco is excited. It’s been a couple of days since he was nominated for a Grammy for "Daydreaming,” a song from his 2006 debut album...

CunninLynguists

Dirty Acres

PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2007

To those unfamiliar with the CunninLynguists, their name would suggest they make juvenile, booty-obsessed rap music. However, this assumpti...

Freeway

Free At Last

PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2007

It’s been four years since Philadelphia MC Freeway released his debut, Philadelphia Freeway, and in the interim, mix-tapes have made being...

Nomadic Massive

Nomad's Land

PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2007

Montreal’s Nomadic Massive are probably one of the most aptly named bands around. Boasting 12 members and vocalists that rap and sing in fi...

Boot Camp Clik's Buckshot

PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2007

While they don’t have the high profile of the Wu-Tang Clan or the pioneering legacy of the Juice Crew, the Boot Camp Clik are arguably one...

Jay Z

Classic Album: Reasonable Doubt

PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2007

While Jay-Z seems to have revived interest in his career with the release of American Gangster, it’s worth remembering that he’s never topp...

Jay Z

American Gangster

PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2007

To say Kingdom Come wasn’t exactly the homecoming coronation Jay-Z expected would be an understatement. The disc’s lacklustre production wa...