She Fine- Halle Berry

I gotta admit that I thought Hurricane Chris was done by now but low and behold the young boy comes back with an underground banger, buoyed by the fact he name drops Halle Berry in the song. This new dance craze that's going on, "doing the walk" or whatever it is gave my man second life. I'm actually glad that (so far) Halle's people haven't issued any injunction stopping it from being used. She

Flunk-Flex is the lamest Jock ever

What's happening people? I'm back again to speak on the lameness that is taking over hip-hop as it continues to rake in money hand over fist. You see, some people who are/were icons and helped hip-hop grow but were often part of the problem are hilarious when the situations start to change. Funkmaster Flex is one of the biggest hypocrites in the game. I would call him gay but he isn't gay and

E. ness or Young City who you with?

From the extremely laughable beef department, I had avoided mentioning Chopper City aka Young City ( remember he couldn't keep that name when Making The Band first came out) and E. Ness as they go back and forth flapping their gums. But I mean come on at this point it's gotten really hilarious. Let's break it down, Young City (for legal reasons) is now located in Detroit. This is because of

Album Review- Asher Roth- Asleep in the Bread Aisle

So the second greatest white hope has finally arrived. That doesn't mean that this is the second white rapper or even that Asher is the second best white rapper, I still give that to Bubba Sparxx, but he is the second with the marketing muscle behind him to actually have expectations. To be sure either Ash Roth is already accepted or looked at with extreme skepticism, not much in between, so

Album Review- Rick Ross- Deeper than Rap

Before I start this let me say I hate Rick Ross. I am serious, I think the guy is lame and that he is just another "image" creation by the machine who doesn't have much merit when it comes musically. I know I'm a special sort, who actually wants to hear something different from an artist by the time the third album comes around, sue me. However I am forced to give Ross some credit for what he has

Album Review- Mims- Guilt

So a couple of years ago I guess we got hit by this dude who had a catchy single that spawned reggae remixes and was one of the biggest ringtone hits of the year when Mims released "This is Why I'm Hot". The following LP, "Mims - Music Is My Savior" didn't do much commercially but it wasn't bad. Looking at the results of that, it's safe to say that Mims wasn't in the greatest sophomore position,

A Real Show.

So I'm watching a video of Capone n Noreaga performing from their second cd, "The Reunion" and it is taken from live footage. I realize I can't find where the dudes even are amongst the crowd of people on the damn stage. I love some CNN but that right there annoyed me.Now they aren't the only people who fall victim to this sort of performance issue. It is incredibly annoying to not know where the

Whats in a name?

One of the possible details that can be overlooked when albums an album is thought of, recorded, and released is the title. Some of them make a stir and are intentional like last year when Nas decided to title his disc "Nigger". Unfortunately it never came to fruition due to label and retail bureaucracy and we were left with:It's funny, a close associate of mine was joking with me about who

Twitting with Chamillionaire

Hanging on the latest web obsession, twitter, reading some of the questions posted by Houston rapper Chamillionaire and the subject came up of being a successful artist. Chamillionaire asked if an artist could be successful if he or she only focuses on their core or original audience. There are a lot of things to think about the first of which is, from whose perspective is this success being

Stop Lying Keri

Point blank she lying and backtracking. First of all she talking about it wasn't official because it came out when the song was dying down...thats when you bring out a remix. No one brings out a remix while their song is still popping. The logic doesn't make any sense at all, the whole point is to get more interest back in the song and the artist in general. Then she saying oh no, it's not

Wack Rapper Series: Chingy

Now we all have lists of great rappers, top 5 dead or alive, top tens and g.o.a.t.s . There is always attention also paid to wack rappers. Let's start to highlight these dudes and find out if they truly are wack and why?Let's start off with St. Louis resident Chingy, and let's just say he isn't going to be the only St. Louis rapper who would make my list. Now Ching-a-ling never considered himself

Classic Material?

Now in today's climate is is very hard to determine what a hit is. It's not harder however to determine what a classic "album" is. By definition, there are more mixtapes and collections of songs than albums now, however, these all can be considered "albums" in a loose sense. There isn't very many people who can present to me the idea that there are as many classic albums now as there were in the

The karaoke generation

Hip-hop has long been a place where the best were allowed to showcase their talents in the musical arena. You have to be good at something and individuality was always given respect and props. It seems that since the late 90's lyrical innovation, which was at the time, the ultimate show of skill, has given way to what I like to call the karaoke generation.This new generation of artists is not

What happened to Houston?

It wasn't that long ago that the Southwest was coming up due to it's independent grind and the long work put in by artists like Scarface and UGK. Fueled by the explosion in Lousiana rap, the progression to the area just South of Cali seemed to complete the full hip-hop coverage of the map. All at once, Paul Wall, Mike Jones, Lil' Flip, Chamillionaire and Slim Thug threatened to take over the game