Like Fine Wine, These Get Better with Age: The 10 Best Rap Albums from 1989
25 years is a long time. 300 months. 9,125 days. It is a true testament to anything when it is still as highly regarded now as it was a quarter of a century ago when it was first introduced. And Hip-Hop is an accelerated art form, so for music from that culture to have maintained […]
Greg Mack Shares More KDAY History and Discusses Racism In Radio
We now conclude our two-part story with radio legend Greg Mack and for those who might dispute that, yes he is a legend. Back before the artists that you now refer to as legends became legends, they needed a home to be heard and 1580 KDAY was that place whether it was an East Coast […]
EXCLUSIVE: Tray Chaney Talks Fatherhood, “The Wire” & Leadership In Hip Hop
TRAY CHANEY DISCUSSES HIS “FATHERHOOD MOVEMENT”, THE WIRE’S BEST SEASON & THE STATE OF HIP HOP
EXCLUSIVE: Deniro Farrar Says, “This Music Ain’t Hip-Hop. I’m Rap.”
Leading a cultish existence, Deniro Farrar, transforms his thoughts into art. Never hesitating to spit legitimate lyrics, Farrar’s, growing musical family appreciates the unfaltering depth of an expanding perspective. A message, which originated in North Carolina, continues to resonate with a growing global audience. The MC’s natural gift, organic showmanship, and pure humanity helped to […]
15 Producers That Got Our Attention In 2013
In 2013 we heard a ton of producers that grabbed us and shook us by the shoulders with their choices of high hats and bass, horns or keys…samples of songs we never knew and ones that we’ve loved forever. A few stand out to us specifically for various reasons. Some had songs that were super […]
The AHH Community Presents 2013’s Winners (and 1 Loser)
THE AHH COMMUNITY WEIGHS IN ON THE BIGGEST WINNERS OF 2013
AllHipHop.com's Top 50 Underground/Indie/Emerging Artists Of 2013
un·der·ground Existing, situated, operating, or taking place beneath the surface of the ground, hidden or secret; not open, published or produced by political or social radicals or nonconformists:avant-garde; experimental. In other words, unique, different, something special that is not like everything else. The Underground. We are back with our picks for the Top 50 Underground/Independent/Emerging […]
The Most Memorable "Fresh Prince" Moments with Uncle Phil
RIP JAMES AVERY: THE BEST MOMENTS WITH “UNCLE PHIL”
3 Questions With: Dice Raw – 'Jimmy's Back'
DICE RAW REPS FOR THE DISENFRANCHISED
Young Scooter Talks Hope, Industry Frauds, & Upcoming Projects
“I think that all my music is classic and timeless. It’s stuff that people can listen to forever. I make that type of music,” the South’s Young Scooter shares his truth. Born in South Carolina and bred in Georgia, Kenneth Bailey, became baptized in rhyme and began to craft street scriptures. Periods of an incarcerated […]
Exclusive: Greg Mack Breaks Down The History of 1580 KDAY
No story about KDAY can be complete without going back to the beginning of where it all started and to do that you have to talk to the man responsible for putting together the format that would alter radio to this very day – Mr. Greg Mack. In the early to mid-80’s on an AM […]
KDAY's DJ Brandi Garcia Rebounds From Houston 97.9 Firing
BRANDY GARCIA KEEPS IT HOT FOR REAL HIP-HOP
EXCLUSIVE: Kurtis Blow and The Story of ‘Christmas Rappin’
KURTIS BLOW EXPLAINS HOW HE CO-CREATED ONE OF HIP-HOP’S MOST ENDURING SONGS…”CHRISTMAS RAPPIN'”!!!!
“The 10 Most Memorable Hip-Hop Christmas Songs”
HERE ARE THE BEST CHRISTMAS HIP-HOP SONGS OUT THERE!
Jurassic 5 Rises Again To Help Gratify The World's Hip Hop Jones
AKIL THE MC GIVES DETAILS ABOUT NEW JURASSIC 5 PROJECTS & HIS OWN SOLO WORK
The Coolest, Oddest And Most Outrageous Urban Christmas Pictures
HAVE A GOOFY LIL HIP-HOP CHRISTMAS WITH ALL THESE PICS!
TRY THIS: The 10 Best Beats That Use Strange, Non-Musical Elements
From beat-boxing to Grand Wizzard Theodore developing scratching, it became clear early on that Hip-Hop music was being created by unconventional means. With Hip-Hop continually reinventing sounds from samples and various DJ techniques, it was inevitable that production would evolve to the point where beats could be made by incorporating entirely non-musical elements. Rap is […]
KDAY's Class1c & DJ Dense Discuss The Station's New Sale
Folks are happy in Los Angeles because as we reported late last week, KDAY has been sold to a company that’s keeping it alive! Earlier in the year, the station was close to being sold to RBC Communications, who were looking to give Hip-Hop the boot in favor of a Mandarin Chinese format. After that […]
LeShaun – Still "Doin It" Well Since LL
LeSHAUN: STILL “DOIN’ IT” WELL
Kendrick Lamar, 2 Chainz, Rick Ross, J. Cole & More Light Up Cali Christmas
Power 106 FM of Los Angeles held their annual Cali Christmas concert at The Honda Center in Anaheim on Saturday December 14th and brought out Hip-Hop’s brightest stars. The sold out event ran almost flawlessly with only slight delays here and there, which is pretty remarkable for an event of that magnitude. No fights and […]
