Review: Theophilus London – Vibes
For the past few years since the release of his first albumTimez Are Weird These Days, Brooklyn’s Theophilus London has been bubbling just slightly under the surface of mainstream success. He and his music was featured in a television advertisement…
PopMatters | Review: EPMD – Strictly Business (25th Anniversary Edition)
1988 was a very good year for the then-still blossoming music form of hip-hop. Many critics and historians have even gone as far as to refer to this time period as the Golden Age of Hip-Hop. The dubious title doesn’t…
PopMatters | The Best Hip-Hop of 2013
Over at PopMatters, we put together a list of 2013’s best hip-hop. Yeezus isn’t #1. Feel free to check it out. My contributions are a blurb about Big K.R.I.T.‘s ‘King Remembered In Time’ which comes in at #8 and The Stuyvesants‘ ‘Refined’ which…
PopMatters | 20 Years After ‘Enter The Wu-Tang’ Ghostface Killah Leads The Swarm
The year is 1993. A cassette is placed into a tape deck and played. After a series of beeps, a kung-fu sample plays, followed by a war cry of “Bring the muthafuckin’ ruckus, bring the muthafuckin’ ruckus”, repeated over and…