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Dilla is the greatest producer I’ve ever heard. Slum Village, Dilla, Royce Da 5’9, Eminem, Dwele, and so on. Both the underground and overground of hip-hop have been dominated it seems by one Midwestern city. Detriot, often ridiculed and maligned, has had a longstanding musical history, and the torch has been passed in recent generations [...]
Photos by Neil Maclean (neilmaclean.com). Please Support Last Thursday, Black Milk rolled through DC, courtesy of the peoples at UNDER.CULT. Milk, fronted by a live band (big up to the amazing Daru Jones on drums), rocked a spot in a back alley in Capitol HIll. The Detroit rapper went in, blessing the crowd with jams [...]
I think I’m one of the last er…”hip-hop” fans that hasn’t listened to Tronic yet. There are people who worship this album like the Bible. Is it that good? Now that my musical tastes are slowly swinging back to hip-hop, I figure that now is a good time to check it out, and with songs [...]
I’ve been diggin’ Colin Munroe for a hot minute now, and I’m glad the dude is not only getting major promotion, but now has some heavy hitters behind him. “Piano Lessons,” is off of Colin’s Unsung Hero mixtape which dropped last month.
Black Milk This year, instead of just having me yap on about my Best of lists, I reached out to several of our readers to give their Top 5 of the best releases of the year. I’ll be profiling a new reader each day until the end of the 2008. Today’s reader is Stephen, who [...]
Colin Munroe is the Unsung Hero Mixtape (zip file) The long awaited mixtape from Toronto artist Colin Munroe is finally here. Colin Munroe is the Unsung Hero features collaborations with Wale, Mickey Factz, Joell Ortiz, Blaqstarr and Drake, with production from Black Milk & Dallas Austin behind the boards. Munroe is going to be a [...]