Rap & Hip-Hop

Video: BlakRoc – Ain’t Nothing Like You

Blakroc is The Black Keys along with rappers Mos Def, Jimmy Jones, Raekwon, RZA, Q-Tip,…

Theophilus London – Humdrum Town

Theophilus London reworks his This Charming Mixtape favourite for Green Label Sound, the free download…

Michael Jackson x J Dilla = ?

What would happen if you put hip-hop’s most venerable producer with the greatest pop star…

What happens to hip-hop in a recession?

Wyatt Cenac of The Daily Show helps Slim Thug downsize his posse in light of…

Freestyle 101 with Themselves

XLR8R sits in as Anticon’s Doseone teaches his weekly freestyle class to budding Oakland MCs…

You be like Hello Nasty where you been?

The latest in the line of Beasties reissues is out next week with one of…

Kamaal The Abstract finally released

I wrote about Q-Tip’s shelved yet brilliant jazzy / hi- hop album album back in…

Kid Cudi
Kid Cudi feat. Ratatat and MGMT

‘Pursuit of Happiness’ is a great three-way collaborative effort due to appear on Kid Cudi’s…

Video: Why? live in Paris

Go to Grand Crew to watch the concert in full.

Oh No – Ethiopium

Oh No (that’s Madlib’s brother) follows up 2007’s brilliant instrumental album Dr. No’s Oxperiment with…

Madlib & Guilty Simpson = OJ Simpson

Madlib and Guilty Simpson have teamed up to release ‘Coroner’s Music’, a 12 inch single…

Height with Friends – Mike Stone

Height is a Baltimore rapper on Wham City Records with two decent albums under his…

Nialler9 Weekly Chart

I’m off to London today for this which should be great. Full report tomorrow hopefully.…

Win tickets to Oxegen / W.H.O.A

In Day and Night today, it’s the fourth week of the Oxegen giveaway so pop…

Benji B DJing in Solas tonight

A quick heads up to fans of head-nodding beatmakers, hip-hop, soul and proper R&B, Radio…

Hot Sauce Committee Pt.1

The cover of the new Beasties album. So there may be a part two? Yessir.…

The Catchup Mashup – Post Oz edition

With the jetlag firmly behind me, it’s time for a quick catchup post. More Oz…

Video: Mayer Hawthorne – When I Said Goodbye

Barber shop quartet. Nice. Video by Ross Harris. Previously by Mayer Hawthorne. We’re on our…

Mos Def’s The Ecstatic – A return to form?

It’s certainly a step in the right bloody direction. While Mos has been off doing…

J. Dilla’s posthumous fifth album Jay Stay Paid

February marked three-years since the inspiring hip-hop producer J. Dilla aka Jay Dee passed away…