Articles by Neil Acharya

Mantis
Still Life
PUBLISHED Aug 4, 2009
The subway car rattles along the tracks; inside is a young man rapping to himself, reading from the sheet that possesses his freshly writte...
Black Eyed Peas
The E.N.D.
PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2009
The Black Eyed Peas, who double as hip-pop's version of Up with People, are making sure they get the biggest bang for their buck out of pot...
Mike Jones
The Voice
PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2009
If your only interest is making music for the club then making rap music is as easy as painting by numbers. Houston's Mike Jones is living...
People's Poets
No Life Without Roots
PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2009
No Life Without Roots is the first album from the People's Poets, an outfit from Edmonton, AB. The group are comprised of three MCs —...
The Discounts
Part One
PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2009
Conway Pacheco, front-man for the Discounts, proclaims that he and his group have come "to drop the rock on your head." That is to say, the...
Rick Ross
Deeper than Rap
PUBLISHED May 24, 2009
Rick Ross is back with his third studio album, and second in just over a year, and what a year it has been for the self-proclaimed boss. De...
Asher Roth
Asleep in the Bread Aisle
PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2009
Asleep in the Bread Aisle is a pretty clever offering and more importantly, it is very catchy. This bodes well for Steve Rifkind's SRC labe...
Big Tone
The Art of Ink
PUBLISHED Apr 8, 2009
The auto industry may be struggling in the Motor City but musically, Detroit has been flourishing for quite some time. Big Tone has kept so...