MondreM.A.N. must be a Buddhist, because his music is the closest thing to nirvana in the rap game today. Dubbed cloud rap, the Oakland emce...

Shady Blaze uses his words to empower. Like The 5th Chapter, his latest full-length from this past summer, Green Ova's Most Hated details th...

Branded to look as good as anything on the market, Sha Prince's first solo project outside the Antiheroes umbrella goes beyond the obvious t...

2 Chainz is all hype. Me Time chronicles a rags-to-riches story, with touches of paranoia characteristic of marijuana users. It's slicker th...

Seven months after dropping his debut album, Support Your Local Drug Dealer, Ricky Hil returns to the mixtape arena to educate fans on the u...

A trio of mad chemists with time on their hands, Flatbush Zombies are your worst nightmare. Having severed ties with mainstream America last...

Teens twerk to it; strippers work to it; hustlers vibe with it; and gangsters laugh at it. For all its vulgarity, predictability, repetitive...

When asked what makes for good press, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson answered, "war." The same goes for hip-hop, which is why Goodie Mob initiate a...

Since kicking his habit, Madchild has been frank about his size, so much so that on his sophomore LP he crawls right up into the mic and bur...

Three months ago, Mass Appeal magazine dropped a short, black & white film about rapper/producer Evidence, following him from his quaint, wh...

French Montana is a product of the times; he lacks substance, integrity and talent, but looks good in a photo. The snakes in big downtown of...

There are a couple of guys in hip-hop you just don't knock; Alchemist is one of them. Even the most ignorant of rap fans keep their mouths s...

Shady Blaze is chapter five of Green Ova Undergrounds, the fifth and final artist signed to Main Attrakionz' label. Inspired by the death of...

One of the few uplifting moments on Rittz's new album occurs when he's shouting out his homies in Toronto — Droppin' Knowledge booked...

There's a telling skit that divides Styles P's new collaborative album with Scram Jones; it's called "Haze vs. Sour" and has Styles arguing...

This release is for the fans that have been with Slaine (or the genre) since the beginning, satisfying expectations while still pushing them...

They might just have released their latest mixtape, Brave New World, back in February, but the Airplane Boys are already looking forward to...

With Brave New World, the Airplane Boys meticulously assemble a soundtrack for that post-flight strut up the jetway, lazy afternoons on an e...

Yelawolf talks about his Trunk Muzik sequel like it's some sort of rebirth, like he's saying goodbye to Hollywood without ever getting there...

According to Fraud, Adrift is about an inner state, which is symbolized by the cover art of something minute and hardly identifiable at the...