Articles by Pierre Hamilton

Run-DMC

Live At Montreaux 2001

PUBLISHED May 24, 2007

Audience rule number 4,085: hip-hop usually sucks recorded live. Run DMC strike that notion down with a spot-on performance from which most...

Lessons From the Teacha <b>KRS-ONE</b> Educates

PUBLISHED May 24, 2007

Any discussion about the greatest rappers of all time must include KRS-One. To deny him that would earn you his scorn and reflect poorly on...

Sa-Ra Creative Partners

The Hollywood Recordings

PUBLISHED May 23, 2007

Sa-Ra are producers/musicians Om’Mas Keith, Taz Arnold and Shafiq Husayn. "Feel The Bass” starts with a robotic-voiced introduction, "This...

Spank Rock/ Various

FabricLive.33

PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2007

Sampling filth, sweat and sex is how Baltimore’s Spank Rock made major noise in 2006. That combo makes them perfect DJ/hosts for Fabric Liv...

Ghostface Killah

Hidden Darts: Special Edition

PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2007

It’s as if the man never tires. Yes, on the heels of More Fish, and Fishscale before that, Hidden Darts: Special Edition compiles rarities...

Timbaland/ Various

Presents Shock Value

PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2007

Three tracks — "Oh Timbaland,” "Give It To Me” and "Bounce” — exceed expectations. The rest of the album fails to shock because you’ve hear...

Young Buck

Buck The World

PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2007

Down south — which is now on top in terms of dominating the rap world — lyrical progression is an afterthought. And so the endless ghetto t...

In the Loop

SOFTWARE

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2007

Bouncing from one audio/music blog to the next while seeking out hot MP3s has become a chore. No more. Icelander Hjalti Jakobsson has simpl...