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