Articles by Neil Acharya

D-Ray / Various

Heads Connect Presents D-Ray's Supertoke 3

PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2009

D-Ray's Supertoke 3 is a mixtape that champions itself on two major fronts: its homegrown production and its "everyman lyrics." If one were...

Jeru the Damaja

PUBLISHED Sep 29, 2009

When facing the assignment of interviewing Jeru the Damaja, I didn't know what to expect. I had become aware of the Brooklynite with the re...

Warren G

The G Files

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2009

It's been 15 years since Warren G released the commercially successful Regulate... G-Funk Era. Now, almost four years on the nose since his...

La Coka Nostra

A Brand You Can Trust

PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2009

With Danny Boy at the Helm, Everlast, DJ Lethal, Ill Bill and Slaine set course, anchored in the stale waters of rap music, their mast bede...

Junclassic

Imaginary Enemies

PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2009

"You give me a shot, just give me a chance to get my voice heard; I wouldn't even have words for that, man," says Terence Howard's characte...

Fabolous

Loso's Way

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2009

Already brash, Brooklyn, NY-bred rapper Fabolous will have yet another reason to toot his horn, as he recently unseated the late Michael Ja...

Raekwon

Sound Academy, Toronto, ON August 15

PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2009

Fashionably late, Raekwon made the stage as the patrons of the Sound Academy were beginning to get restless. The Chef has had some bad luck...

Poison Pen

The Money Shot

PUBLISHED Aug 14, 2009

What you see is what you get with Brooklyn-based battle rapper Poison Pen. Pictured on the front of The Money Shot, Poison Pen welcomes peo...