A month ago, Tavis Smiley and a group of Black intellectuals and activists, which included Minister Louis Farrakhan, Dr. Cornel West, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Michael Eric Dyson, and others got together to discuss the importance of President Barack Obama addressing of a Black Agenda.  Apparently the goal was not for the group to address the […]

The New Synth Pop: Ke$ha, Young Money and Justin Bieber Got This!When it was raging about 4-5 years ago I never participated in the ‘Is Hip-Hop Dead?’ debate. Partly because I thought it was E & J (envy and jealousy) coming from the culture and industry’s New York wing and because I was already in […]

Editor’s note: The views expressed inside this editorial aren’t necessarily the views of AllHipHop.com or its employees.We survived winters, snotty nosed with no coats/ We kept it real, but the older brother still had jokes/ … Check it, fifteen of us in a three bedroom apartment/ Roaches everywhere, cousins and aunts was there/ —Ghostface Killah, […]

Editor’s note: The views expressed inside this editorial aren’t necessarily the views of AllHipHop.com or its employees.…Continued from the “Top 5 Worst Name Changes In Rap.” This ain’t serious.1) Killer Mike to Mike Bigga We know the change takes some getting used to, but Killer Mike had to do it. Sadly, America simply wasn’t ready […]

Ice Cube weighs in on the recent rumors that he’s dissing Dr. Dre and others on a recent song, “Drink The Kool Aid.” He’s actually working with Dre on the looming Detox album.What up fam, I met Dr. Dre in the studio last night. When I got there Snoop was in the booth laying the […]

Editor’s note: The views expressed inside this editorial aren’t necessarily the views of AllHipHop.com or its employees.The name change. It is the ultimate form of reinvention. Artists have long held variety of monikers to seemingly symbolize changes in persona or accentuate progress. Prince even took it a step farther and made his name an unpronounceable […]

Editor’s note: The views expressed inside this editorial aren’t necessarily the views of AllHipHop.com or its employees. Do you remember when it was cool to be intelligent?  If you do, then you may also recall a time when our music reflected that coolness.  For too many years now, people have referenced the lack of stylistic […]

Editor’s note: The views expressed inside this editorial aren’t necessarily the views of AllHipHop.com or its employees.“Not all of the rappers, but most of ‘em sound alike, I’ve been rappin since most of them knew how to ride a bike.” – ‘Ahhh Sh*t!,’ E-40 Two new albums – Wu Massacre by Method Man, Raekwon, and […]

Editor’s note: The views expressed inside this editorial aren’t necessarily the views of AllHipHop.com or its employees.“Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is … to make freedom real.” —James Baldwin When up against the wall, swing—hard. Two of the finest from the Hip-Hop community, Joell Ortiz and Erykah […]

Melle Mel is the Grand Master and we know this. However, the legendary rapper feels there are less than 10 great emcess? See the video below to see his explanation. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player What do YOU think?

Editor’s note: The views expressed inside this editorial aren’t necessarily the views of AllHipHop.com or its employees.When reviewing Billboard’s Top 10 R&B and Hip-Hop chart (the week of April 3, 2010) something jumped out at me right away – the number of artists on it who have been out 5 years or more. From Timbaland […]

Editor’s note: The views expressed inside this editorial aren’t necessarily the views of AllHipHop.com or its employees. We Need Nas. We Need Nas. We Need Nas. There, I said it. A lot of people want to forget about Nas now, act like he’s fallen off. They – behind computers – sit and laugh about his […]

Editor’s note: The views expressed inside this editorial aren’t necessarily the views of AllHipHop.com or its employees.Law 21: Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker. Seem Dumber than your Mark. Have you ever heard a rapper spit a few bars that were radically genius and wondered wow he sounds so smart? That’s because he probably […]

Editor’s note: The views expressed inside this editorial aren’t necessarily the views of AllHipHop.com or its employees. What would Waka Flocka Flame be doing if he wasn’t rapping?  A couple of weeks ago, the southern bred MC and Gucci Mane cohort acknowledged that he wasn’t lyrical nor was he into lyrics and all hell broke loose.  […]

“The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.”– Isaiah 11: 6 There are few things I enjoy more than building with the youth (from the perspective of a late 30-something and the […]

Last week Tavis Smiley held a summit/ round table called ‘We Count’.. He had a number of people speaking including Minister Farrakhan. I think this is a series of videos well worth watching.. Minister Farrakhan lays down a lot of things for us to keep in mind as we engage President Obama. He speaks to […]

A few years ago, during the early part of the 2000’s, I moved to New York City. Roughly, four months upon my arrival to the Big Apple in search of a dream, I had been laid off from a start-up urban website that I thought would be my rocket to the stars. The rocket never […]

They don’t know who we be/ They don’t know who we be/ —DMX, “Who We Be,” The Great Depression (2001). “[ O]nly a small percentage of people … have a genuine concern for Hip-Hop.” —Chuck D, Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality It’s been 30 full years since the cultural force known today as […]

Check out any Hip-Hop oriented radio show, magazine or website and if you pay careful attention in between the latest incarceration reports regarding Gucci Mane, T.I. and Lil’ Wayne, you’ll notice two themes: stories of groups and cliques breaking up on one hand; and news of previously successful groups, who have broken up, talking reunion […]

The desire to relegate one’s existence to the development of the mind presents a multi-faceted quandary. When a black man devotes his existence to intellectual inquiry, it ensures that he will ostracized by the proletariat of his race, and virtually ignored by the Anglo-Saxon academy. As Hip-Hop intellectuals, we have to be beyond reproach to […]