Longevity is not a common thing in Hip-Hop. Nor is consistency. Only an elite few artists can count themselves among those whose careers have lasted ten years or more.  Even fewer are those who have released more than five albums, each posting similar numbers. And fewer still are the ones who have accomplished this as […]

Remy Ma checks in with AllHipHop.com to answer some advice questions. From the absurd to the serious, Remy Ma may just know the answers to the universe! Dear Remy, Me and my girl have the worst fights…she likes to make it physical by hitting me…. Sometimes, I get the urge to knock her a** out, […]

You may not be familiar with Encore, but after this week’s release of Layover, you will be. In fact, the span of Encore’s career is probably longer than your favorite rapper’s. When he wasn’t a Handsome Boy in Modeling School (the album that is), he was taking over the Bay Area underground with his conscious, […]

AllHipHop.com: In the last interview you said that you wanted tto make history. So, why don’t rappers want to make history as much? Cormega: The rap game has been an economic monster from like ’96, ’97 on. Artist are seeing their peers blowing the f*ck up. Like, if I see Jay-Z with a Maybach or […]

What’s wrong with Bill? The kid just ain’t right. As one third of Brooklyn’s heavy hitters Non Phixion, Ill Bill has carved his name in blood with his rugged, rapid-fire spray of rhymes and his dominating presence. Non Phixion’s debut; The Future is Now was an instant underground classic, and while everyone is awaiting the […]

            When Rawkus Records closed their doors this season, hip-hop fans by and large were hurt. It also meant the end of a great notion, the saving grace to Hip-Hop music. That same excitement that was prevalent in those early Rawkus releases might very well be what’s to come over at Halftooth Records.             Kenn […]

From the time Mississippi native David Banner and his Crooked Lettaz partner Kamikaze dropped their debut album, Grey Skies, in 1999 on Tommy Boy/Penalty, it was clear that David had something special going both as an emcee and a producer. David followed up solo, and sold over 10,000 copies of his independently released album Them […]

As the youngest affiliate of the Wu-Tang Clan, Shyheim “The Rugged Child” hit the scene at the age of 14. He was lyrically impressive and dropped 1996’s The Lost Generation way before Lil’ Bow Wow and Romeo would hit the scene. He came up as a native of Staten Island and even lived with Ghostface […]

October 30, 2002 shattered the lives of more than just the man the world knew as Jam Master Jay. On the day the news broke, families, friends and loved ones of Jam Master Jay’s seemed to have cracked as well. It’s now apparent that Jason Mizell was more than just a Hip-Hop DJ. He was […]

According to a quote by Henry Bromel, “We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package.” This quote is the absolute essence of the music brought forth by Bronze Nazareth. The young RZA protege possesses the unique […]

AllHipHop: There is a police station in the area that Jay was shot and killed. How could that have happened with the police being so close? CMP: I don’t know. That’s what makes me think it was all inside. If the security tape was working all along, why wasn’t itworking that night? AllHipHop: What do you think about […]

My how things have changed. Six years ago, Cormega was a member of rap super group The Firm, and he was signed to the most storied label in hip-hop, Def Jam. But even with a deafening buzz, he hopelessly waited as the release date for his debut album, The Testament, came and went. Nothing. Since […]

Game tells his side of the story behind the beef with Joe Budden. Read on. AllHipHop.com: Let’s just talk about the whole beef situation and how it started. You know Joe has already kind of said what he felt how it started but, what’s your view on how it started? Game: Everybody wants to know […]

Rappers Joe Budden and The Game have a bit of a lyrical feud going on. After an appearance on a DJ Clue song, in which they recorded separately, Game took one of Joe’s lyrics as a personal diss to G-Unit and eventually released the scathing diss song dubbed "Buddens" Set to Ice-T’s “Colors,” the Compton-reared […]

Lil’ Flip personally requested that writer Kay Konnect relay a message to his fans regarding the flock of filter in his last Allhiphop.com interview about the drama surrounding Hump and Sucka Free Records. Flip wanted to expand his original statements. Lil’ Flip: Yeah, yeah, we gotta clear some stuff up that they had on Allhiphop.com. […]

AllHipHop represents for those who can recite a verse from beginning to end, those who quote lyrics to explain serious life situations, and those who have an arsenal of punch-line snaps in they raps. But AllHipHop has just as much love for the producer. From eight bar loops, to live instrumentation, to the Trinitron, we […]

AllHipHop: What is the personal highlight of your career in your eyes? Prince Paul: Wow, mine are very simple. It’s not even one big highlight. It’s just the fact that – Yo, I’m still working! Everyday I wake up and man, it amazes me. I could easily say that when the Chris Rock records won […]

JT The Bigga Figga may not be a household name, but those who have followed Hip-Hop music and specifically the independent rap game know his name very well. JT, who heads up Get Low Records, has been dropping albums since 1991. Since the company’s founding, his label has released an astonishing 70 albums. After using […]

Status Quo is like the average, which is the bar that most common folk live by. But new Shady/ Aftermath signee Stat Quo is set to change the bar that hip-hop is judged by. “Like I’m real cocky with that. Like that’s some cocky s**t right there,” he says, “but we going to go ahead […]

While many people may be unaware of the strong Native American Hip Hop scene that thrives independently in Native communities across the United States and Canada, one of it’s pioneers, Litefoot is calling on Outkast and the broader Hip Hop community to take notice and check the way they view Native culture. We spoke to […]