Fort Minor: Gold Diggin’

As far as track records go, the path for rockers-turned-rappers isn’t quite paved in Gold plaques these days. But Linkin Park frontman, Mike Shinoda has the confidence to walk that lonely walk. Under his Rap alias, Fort Minor, he’s, for the moment, stepping away from the safety net of his multi-Platinum band and venturing into […]

Kanye West: Sky High

Kanye West’s “Touch The Sky” tour is yanking the heavens to terrestrial venues across the nation and a tremendous effort has gone into the performance. The self-proclaimed "international a**hole" takes a moment to talk tours, censors, clothing and acting. AllHipHop.com: Speak on the “Touch The Sky” tour. Kanye West:We are doing a lot of groundbreaking […]

Red Cafe: Tha G Code

Brooklyn’s Red Café has patiently waited his turn. From a five-year bid, to uniting with 50 Cent and DJ Whoo-Kid, now to aligning with Mack 10 to attempt to make history. In all of these movements in phases, Red clearly can, I Got a Story To Tell. Like the title of his forthcoming Hoo-Bangin’/Capitol release […]

El-P: Bombin’ the System

Producers are growing on trees lately. Despite a surplus of rappers in 2005, it’s still not easy to make money pushing beats. Often, bedroom producers think they can make a buck doing film-work. Producer/emcee El-P has adjusted with the times and recently scored the just-released independent film, Bomb the System. Like the “End to End […]

Tony Yayo: Real Thoughts

Meet the other side of a predicate felon. While every Hip-Hop fan is familiar with Tony Yayo’s criminal background and history within the music industry, AllHipHop.com decided to give you the lighter side of G-Unit’s O.G.. While promoting 50 Cent’s new video game, Bulletproof and introducing his own game, Free Yayo, Tony Yayo touches on […]

Black Rob: Soul Survivor

Black Rob hadn’t put out an album in five years prior to his latest release and that ain’t whoa. Once the backbone of Bad Boy Records, B.R. put the label on his back with his Buckwild-laced hit, “Whoa,” and led an Uptown resurgence long before Cam’ron painted the town pink. Since then, however, the troubled […]

Speech: Poor Righteous Teacher

VH1’s I Love the 90’s opted to poke fun at Arrested Development as a short-lived fad. Though the Georgia-based outfit may’ve been regurgitated by the Pop market, they have continued to have no problem finding cult-followings, and arenas of fans to hear them overseas. Plenty of groups who gained success in more recent years, would […]

Big Mike: Free Man

Before Killer Mike was the talk of Hotlanta, Big Mike was the adopted son of H-Town. By way of The Geto Boys’ personnel change, Mike began his Rap career in a predator’s position on everybody else. Outside of the mid-years with the Geto Boys, Mike’s solo albums like Still Serious remain critical gems in Rap-A-Lot’s […]