On September 25th, Lupe Fiasco will release his new LP Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Part 1. On the cusp of his new album, we decided to pay homage to Lupe Fiasco with this Top 30 song list. Lupe has made a career out of creating inspiring, thoughtful, and lyrically driven...
Diggy rekindled old beef with J. Cole this morning on New York radio station Power 105.1’s “The Breakfast Club”. Diggy spat a freestyle taking shots at Cole; most of his rhymes called him out on rapping about having sex with his older sister, Vanessa Simmons, who Cole rapped about in his 2010 song “Purple Rain”....
The views expressed are of Asst. Editor: @SeanCK Lupe Fiasco took to his routine method of action today, standing up for his art in protest to Spin Magazine’s recent critique of Lupe’s “B*tch Bad” music video. The writer referred to Lupe’s latest work as “half-baked conscious hip-pop” and that “it is the umpteenth example of...
We’ve seen some great album releases thus far in 2012, and as the summer winds down, we turn our attention to the fall and winter, which always seems to bring out new releases from heavy hitters. That is the case again this year, as we expect new LP’s from prominent artists like Kendrick Lamar, Lupe Fiasco,...
Lupe Fiasco is set to premiere a new video for “Bitch Bad” tomorrow on RapFix. The record is off his forthcoming Food & Liquor 2: Part 1, and examines the use of the word bitch, its various meanings, and how they are transmitted via TV, rap videos, and music. Lupe’s own music videos are usually...
After lasts weeks showing of quality releases from artsits such as Suavehaus, Topaz Jones x $tan Ross, GLC, Moruf & Imam Omari and Creative Gold, (many hailing from the east coast) this week’s best projects featured a heavy dose of local emcees. We started out the week on Monday with Mikkey Halsted and his riveting Castro project, in which...
YP has been grinding locally in Chicago for sometime now, and earlier this year in mid-February the talented wordsmith inked a deal with Universal Republic. Now with that on his platter, YP has a whole new audience in his reach, and many may not be familiar with all that he has done up to this point. While some...
Chief Keef knew he would be famous. I was standing in the living room of his grandmother’s house when he gave an estimation of 3 months preparation time before he blew up. Not three months after this interview, no, three months after he was released from prison in January. He came in pretty much on...
This week brought us some very dope new projects as we fully entered the month of August. So in honor of such versatile drops we deciceded to narrow down some choices and give the fans the Top 5 Projects of the week treatment. From traveling to Chicago, resurrecting a past art, to continuing to innovate in only a way...
Earlier this week, DJ Khaled dropped the artwork and tracklist for his forthcoming album, Kiss The Ring. It is definitely a star-packed LP, and were told it even features a rapping DJ Khaled going after his critics. While the DJ album is not as prominent as it once was, it is still an important piece...
