Articles by Neil Acharya

Freddie Gibbs
Str8 Killa
PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2010
Freddie Gibbs has what every musician dreams of: momentum heading into the release of his first EP, released by Decon, which is also home t...
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
UNI5 -The World's Enemy
PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2010
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 the...
Rick Ross
Teflon Don
PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2010
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 th...
Arabesque
NuCLear Ambition
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2010
Three years after releasing his second album, Hang Your Heroes, and two years after releasing a remix/compilation of his first two bodies o...
Manafest
The Chase
PUBLISHED May 18, 2010
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 mai...
Nas and Damian Marley
Distant Relatives
PUBLISHED May 18, 2010
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...
Swollen Members
Greatest Hits - 10 Years of Turmoil
PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2010
In the '90s, the face of Western Canadian hip-hop was predominately that of the Rascalz, in the years since, groups like Sweatshop Union an...
Trew
The Morning After
PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2010
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...