To compete for a championship, you gotta assemble a team that has the perfect balance between superstar, experienced veterans, rookies, and free agent pick-ups. Dame Dash, Jay-Z and Roc-A-Fella have been getting their GM duties on by constructing super group State Property. And with a franchise player in place in Beanie Sigel, and Freeway approaching […]

Since 1991 only one white rapper has sold more than one million copies of a single album. In the past 12 years (post Vanilla Ice) only one white rapper has attained platinum status: Eminem. For all of you out there that subscribe to the theory that white artists in hip-hop are rapidly gaining control of […]

Sheek Louch! Solo effort. Sick. September 2003. All Lox slash D-Block fans salute! What’s really good with D-Block and their empire in the making? Please bookmark the history of the hood’s phenomenon. From the slick streets of Yonkers to Bad Boy on to Double R, The Lox/D-Block remained loyal as a group and to the […]

When you see Method Man on TV, you see an element of the master. You see a clown, a jester holding court, you see a great veteran MC, you see a comedic entertainer and you see that gleam in his eye. When you get Method Man in a truer element, those aspects are still there. […]

The music industry is universally known as a business that can make or break partnerships, as well as family ties and life-long friendships. One of the West Coast’s most influential groups, Da Lench Mob, knows this theory to be a fact. As an upstart three-man team of politically biased militants, founded by post-N.W.A. Ice Cube, […]

Beef is not what’s going on between hip-hop magazines XXL and The Source. But, it truly is a rivalry never seen before between a pair of hip-hop magazines and journalists. XXL has finally, and legitimately challenged the monarch, however not without widespread effect. But, when Nas dissed both publications, claiming they were not playing their […]

The new artist is a catch twenty-two role. You have to bring something new, but you have to fit within the familiarities of the listener’s ear. Rosco P. Coldchain might be doing the impossible. At a time where nobody believes the thug anymore, Rosco’s stories echo with an eerie truth. In an era where everybody […]

Cappadonna has run a gauntlet of trials and tribulations in the recent past. A man who came up with Wu-Tang in their later years with his tiger style rhyme flow and unique delivery has done a lot and seen a lot. In the span of a few years, he has observed more than many men […]

AllHipHop.com: Do yall have any particular views on the war? A lot of people especially with hip-hop came out against the war. There wasn’t a lot of support for the war, but there was support for the soldiers. NR: I hate to see soldiers dying. A lot of people don’t really want to be out […]

Nappy Roots have endured and struggled through trials and tribulations that would break up the most tight knit groups. Hailing from Kentucky, an area of the country that’s not known as a hot bed of hip-hop activity, the Nappy Roots have pulled in platinum sales, fed the homeless, traveled the globe and performed during a […]

If you open a textbook and read the history of the Black Panther Party, you will see how prevalent they were in the social movement. For almost 40 years, they have been on the frontlines, tackling and confronting America’s most important issues with action as their weapon. This elite group of black men and women […]

Allhiphop.com: Talk about your most current project and what else may be in the works for the Black Panthers. JC: "All Of Us" is the first album from the Black Panther Fugitives, which I am a member of. It’s myself and two other members (Terrence "Jug" Trotter, and Jeffrey "Bones" McMullen). Like Dorion talked about […]

Allhiphop: Ok, Doom, talk to me about what Nas an artist means to you, and why you ran to his album? MF Doom: Yeah, no question. Nas is an MC the way that he approaches the joints that he do. If you think about it, all of us get the beats plain. Then for whatever […]

Nas is certainly a producer’s favorite MC. The way that he drives his words, his cadences, and overall the content matter – are all true to hip-hop of the past, future, and present. Since Illmatic, Nas has never settled with one sound, while some of us may have wish he had. Instead, Nas evolved to […]

AHH: Is that were the title " The Awakening " comes from? PMD: Yea because I was supposed to have got caught up in all of this. But God was like come on, yall seen " Strictly Business," yall seen "It’s My Thing," yall seen "Gold Digga." Red Man still runnin around here. It was […]

Masked gunmen storm your house and tie up your friends in an attempt to find you. Meanwhile, you are on a tour of the country with your boy Erick and crew the Hit Squad (Das EFX, Redman and K-Solo). You play it cool and continue with the business of hip-hop legacy building. While most people […]

Hip-hop is defined by character. Tupac, Biggie, Snoop, and LL Cool J all were icons to the world due to that element of character. Sadly, hip-hop is dry on character these days. While there’s a plethera of great artists, even great people…we seem to be lacking the individual who has the charisma, the candor, and […]

The Four Horsemen collaborators have had quite a year: Kurupt moved back to Tha Row. Killah Priest dropped a highly slept-on new album. Ras Kass was arrested after being on the run. And Canibus got dog tags and joined the US Army. Like the others, getting in touch with Canibus these days is not easy. […]

AllHipHop: Do you really want to get out the grind? You seem like the ultimate businessman. DD: Honestly? I’de rather party. I’de rather laugh then yell, but things have to be taken care of at this particular point in time. Everything I do is a direct vision that comes directly from my heart and soul. […]

Dame Dash is that dude. You see him in the videos with his lil’ patented dance holding onto a bottled of Armadale equipped with a cocky smirk. Still, on the other side, he’s that dude that holds down several businesses along with his Roc-A-Fella cohorts. But, on yet another side, there is a more private, […]