When MadChild was in the depths of drug addiction, he would spend weeks on end holed up in his home. As the sun rose, he would close the bli...

With a month to go before the scheduled release of Rick Ross's fifth album, his imprint, Maybach Music Group, has released Self Made ―...

This just in: Rick Ross is rich. But wait, there's more: he plans on staying that way ― forever! In case you didn't know, you can hear...

As Matt Lashoff tells me about his last 72 hours, he sounds like many other musicians I interview. He has performed three days in a row, and...

Chuck D is a renaissance man of sorts, he has had and continues to have a prolific career, not only with Public Enemy, but he has also been...

Bun B's steady rise to prominence in the world of hip-hop began in Port Arthur, Texas, where along with Pimp C, he formed Underground Kingz,...

In just a few weeks, pioneering Southern rapper Bun B will return to his posting as distinguished visiting lecturer in religious Studies at...

It's been a hard run for Mad Child, whose road back from the depths of an oxycontin addiction was well documented on the DVD portion of the...

Freddie Gibbs has what every musician dreams of: momentum heading into the release of his first EP, released by Decon, which is also home to...

At face value, it may not seem to be, but Rick Ross has been one of the hardest working artists in the business of making rap music over the...

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony have been around for very close to 20 years and in that time, besides just a few fleeting glances, I've never paid them...

Three years after releasing his second album, Hang Your Heroes, and two years after releasing a remix/compilation of his first two bodies of...

Distant Relatives was the perfect concept for Damian Marley, long overdue for a follow up to 2005's Welcome to Jamrock, and Nasir Jones, a m...

Every track on The Chase sounds like it belongs in the start-up menu for a sports videogame. If you start the game and come back to the main...

Trew's press release states that he is "the stylistic breath of fresh air the industry has been missing" and his album has "eleven classic t...

In the '90s, the face of Western Canadian hip-hop was predominately that of the Rascalz, in the years since, groups like Sweatshop Union and...

Despite performing just their second date on the Rise Up tour, Cypress Hill were a well-oiled machine during their Toronto stop. Sen Dog and...

Saskatchewan Moosmin First Nations' Joey Stylez's The Black Star contains a lot of artist-driven bubblegum pop turned slightly on its ear wi...

Since Grade Eight, it has been Manu Malik's ambition to rock the microphone. Don't call him a rapper though; he is a chemical engineer by da...

Ludacris has too much of a restless spirit to sit still, so when it came time to make LP number eight, the quickest mouth in the South decid...