Articles by Del F. Cowie

Azealia Banks

Broke With Expensive Taste

PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2014

Fraught with interminable delays and self-sabotaging Twitter beefs, Azealia Banks' career was about to take yet another, potentially career...

Black Milk

If There's A Hell Below

PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2014

On If There's A Hell Below, Detroit's Black Milk picks up where his 2013 album, No Poison No Paradise, left off. That album focused on narr...

Black Milk Talks Random Axe, Jack White and Lyrical Growth on 'If There's a Hell Below'

PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2014

Black Milk initially built his reputation on his production skills, but on his new album If There's a Hell Below, due out on October 28 on...

Kendrick Lamar Talks Working with Flying Lotus, Prince and the Spiritual Origins of "i"

PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2014

The release of the single "i" was the opening salvo of what to expect from Kendrick Lamar on the follow-up to his acclaimed 2012 album good...

Nas: Time Is Illmatic

One9

PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2014

It's been 20 years since Nas' seminal debut Illmatic was released, and there has been no shortage of the celebration of this fact throughou...

Diamond D

The Diam Piece

PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2014

It seems an antiquated notion now, but at one time the idea that a top-rated hip-hop producer could also be a highly competent MC were almo...

Nas: Time Is Illmatic

One9

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2014

It's been 20 years since Nas' seminal debut Illmatic was released, and there has been no shortage of the celebration of this fact throughou...

Common

Chicago State of Mind

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2014

Common's 10th album Nobody's Smiling focuses on the trials and tribulations of his hometown Chicago. Produced entirely by frequent collabor...