Published inhedrushPaying tribute to Earl Sweatshirt’s “I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside,” released 10 years ago.I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside sounds like a tape I would have bought for $8 from the ATAK website 30 years ago. And I mean that in…Mar 26Mar 26
Published inhedrushCelebrating The Perceptionist’s “Black Dialogue,” released 20 years ago.I’ve written before how the early to mid-2000s were a pretty creatively-barren time for mainstream hip-hop. Much of what major labels were…Mar 22Mar 22
Published inhedrushReview: Lu Chin Chen & Dajena Mentale keep it positive with “Dangerous Solution.”The year 2024 has been a rough one, but it has even given us a lot of great music. If you’re a golden age hip-hop head like myself, this…Dec 25, 2024Dec 25, 2024
Published inhedrushThe case for Ghostface Killah’s “Ghostdini: Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City” on the 15th…Dennis “Ghostface Killah” Coles is a man with LAYERS. He has created some of the most rough, rugged, and thoroughly bugged out hip-hop…Oct 1, 2024Oct 1, 2024
Published inhedrushReview: Lu Chin Chen makes grim return with Weight EPLu Chin Chen has been on a helluva run. In the past five years, the Massachusetts’ northern shore native has been creating dope hip-hop…Oct 11, 2023Oct 11, 2023
Published inhedrushInterview: Wordburglar discusses his “Welcome To Cobra Island” album 10 years after its release…Here’s the second part of the discussion between Wordburglar and myself about his Welcome To Cobra Island project, released 10 years ago…Sep 18, 2023Sep 18, 2023
Published inhedrushInterview: Wordburglar discusses his “Welcome To Cobra Island” album 10 years after its release…Warning: The following interview features a lot of nerdy talk related to G.I. Joe. Sean “Wordburglar” Jordan and myself spend an inordinate…Sep 18, 2023Sep 18, 2023
Interview: Wordburglar discusses his “Welcome To Cobra Island” album 10 years after its release…Warning: The following interview features a lot of nerdy talk related to G.I. Joe. Sean “Wordburlgar” Jordan and myself spends an…Sep 18, 2023Sep 18, 2023
Published inhedrushA quarter of a century later, and Can-I-Bus is as weird and dynamic as ever.Hip-Hop had rarely seen anything like Germaine “Canibus” Williams when he burst on the scene in the mid to late 1990s. Somehow it’s been…Sep 9, 2023Sep 9, 2023
Published inhedrushDagha exhaustively catalogues coping with the end of a marriage on “The Divorce,” released 15 years…It’s accepted that Marvin Gaye’s “Here, My Dear” is the best album about divorce ever recorded. Released 45 years ago, the sprawling double…Apr 22, 2023Apr 22, 2023
