DJ Drama Take Off Your Hat!

Along with this being a great topic to discuss I couldn’t help but notice how out of place DJ Drama seemed to be. I know people (ahem!) who were watching this CNN special, ready to throw more fuel in the fire that is ‘hip hop haters’ after seeing how DJ Drama was dressed.

Did Rihanna Headbutt Chris Brown?!

I thought, in lieu of all the seriousness of the topic and said to myself…”Damn her forehead is freakin’ huuuuuge! She had to head butt Chris a few times right? Like Tina did Ike? Or better yet *E.Honda style!”

Medallion Mayhem! T-Pain and Chris Brown are nuts!

First T-Pain’s “BIG ASS CHAIN” now Chris Brown’s diamond encrusted “Oops”

Ya boy, C-Breezy, was seen at Diddy’s, Malaria no more”, white party rocking a $300,000 charm that displayed the words “Oops”.
Some speculate the show piece to be his way of apologizing OR it [could] be a jab at the media and masses that assumed [...]

Bum Rush The Page Episode II: Attack of the Swine

Strange things have been occuring in the last few weeks, stuff that I’ve ben taking careful notice of. At first I thought it was the normal influx of activity and restlessness that accompanies the arrival of spring. After a very long and tiring winter everyone has plenty of pent up energy that’s just bubbling to [...]

BUM RUSH THE PAGE….

In 1987, when I was just ten years old, I had three things on my mind: Music, Movies, and Comics. Growing up as a little boy in the 80s was a special thing, being exposed to several different movements in different areas of popular culture that would later be known as “classic”. The birth and [...]

Does Underground Rap Exist Anymore?

When I ask this question, I’m not asking in the sense of whether “real” rap still exist: I’m asking whether there is a cohesive aesthetic or community that can call itself underground rap? The Internet, with the help of smaller magazines and blogs have blown the lid off what can or cannot be [...]

Zebra Panties-The black and white of it all

The “angry black woman” stereotype is so played, and I don’t want this article to be an ode to this misrepresentation of myself as a black woman, but rather a declaration of my being a woman. I remember as a child watching music videos and to see a woman in a sports bra and [...]

Paranoid P is at it again

Prodigy of Mobb Deep is a small man, but his mouth belongs to a man of stature, or in this case, his pen. There has been a letter that Paranoid P (let’ s just say I prefer this name now, especially after that video for Return of the Mack) sent from jail airing out [...]

The Hope For a Diva-Less Planet

I’ve been investigating hip hop beef a bit lately and the beef that has me excited is not the 50 Cent/ Rick Ross Thrilla in Vanilla, but rather one for the ladies: I really, sincerely hope that Keri Hilson drags Beyonce’ through the dirt. Now Hilson has tried to send Polow da Don [...]

How Swagger Lost It’s Groove

Dear Swagger,
I’ve enjoyed my time with you, but I’ve come to a new place in my life and I just have to discontinue our relationship.  It’s going to  be hard and you’ll still be in such high demand among so many everywhere, but it just isn’t going to work between me and you.  After I [...]

In Defense of Auto-Tuning

It’s hard out there for the pimps who like Auto-Tuning: I have come to the defense of the practice and it’s practioners for a while now and most of the time my peers look at me as if I suggested that we all drink the Kool-Aid. I came down hard at the [...]

Dr. Boyce Watkins beef with Lil Wayne-Hip Hop Buffoonery? Or something more complicated?

Hip Hop Commercialized? Buffoonery or something more complicated?
By Dr. Boyce Watkins
www.BoyceWatkins.com
I am not a huge fan of Lil Wayne. I don’t hate him, I just don’t love him. His music doesn’t make me move, but it doesn’t make me sick. The thing that challenges my ability to love Lil Wayne is the [...]

Young Berg fails 3 times! What a loser!

By Shahendra Ohneswere via Giant

Young Berg fails three times. When he’s not out getting his chain snatched, Young Berg can often be found trying to fit not one, but two of his feet in his mouth. First his Berg-ness caught the wrath of the Internets and very specific cross section of women when he told radio show [...]

I’m Not Going to Justify This With A “No Homo”.

A furor has broken out over this show of affection between Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip and the only feeling it has produced in me is disgust…at all the gay baiting hip hop “fans” that are so sexually insecure that any show of affection between males is homosexual.  This disturbs me as a straight, African American [...]

What is Wrong With Aftermath Records?

I have some serious love for Dr. Dre, but he seriously needs to get his record releases together.  Dre as a producer is great, but his abilities as a record company owner does hip hop a disservice.  Yeah, I said it… I’m seriously tired of the not hearing the best hip hop I’ve ever heard [...]

The Assassination of Hillary Clinton Exhibit: Freedom of expression or racism?

A controversial art exhibit was raided and shut down before it could be viewed in NYC (June 2008).
According to the NY Times blog: Cityroom, Boston-born performance artist, Yazmany Arboleda, tried to set up a provocative art exhibition in a vacant storefront on West 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan with the title, ‘The Assassination of Hillary [...]

The Assassination of Barack Obama Exhibit: Freedom of expression or racism?

A controversial art exhibit was raided and shut down before it could be viewed in NYC (June 2008).
According to the NY Times blog: Cityroom, Boston-born performance artist, Yazmany Arboleda, tried to set up a provocative art exhibition in a vacant storefront on West 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan with the title, ‘The Assassination of Hillary [...]

Why Does Soulja Boy Keep Giving Us Ammunition?

If you’re even at this site, there’s a chance that you probably aren’t that big of a Soulja Boy fan. But a lot of people, me included, tried to write off his lack of talent, coonish demeanor, and silly baiting of hip hop legends (who really wants it with Ice-T, the original OG) as [...]

They’ve had us all wrong! Hip Hop must win! Vote Obama Today!

(Should we be afraid of history repeating itself?)
43
presidents have led our nation. The one who takes the 44th position is up to us. We have seen what can happen to our country when its led by a selfish, uncultured, ill informed and ignorant president, and we don’t have to stand for it again. Today is [...]

Shawn Chrystopher: I Wear Glasses Mixtape

I have a slight confession to make:  I’m the living embodiment of the Source’s East Coast bias.  My misspent youth was spent literally hating on West Coast rap, with the possible exceptions of Ice Cube and MC Eiht.  The success of Dre and Snoop literally made me break out in hives (true story) and I [...]

Charles Hamilton obviously has never watched the L-Word-Mixtape Download

DJ Skee and Charles Hamilton have joined forces to release the “L-Word”, Hamilton’s love letter to the Sapphic sisters. Now it’s obvious that Hamilton has not watched the show, or he has and just dismiss the whole point of the show. You can download it here ( big shout out to TSS) and [...]