Jesse DuckerinhedrushReview: 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
Jesse DuckerinhedrushInterview: 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
Jesse DuckerinhedrushInterview: 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
Jesse DuckerInterview: 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
Jesse DuckerinhedrushA 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
Jesse DuckerinhedrushDagha 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
Jesse DuckerDagha 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 21, 2023Apr 21, 2023
Jesse DuckerinhedrushMC Esoteric looks back on his first solo endeavor, “Egoclapper,” 15 years later.Seamus “Esoteric” Ryan is a ridiculously prolific artist. He’s been a hip-hop workhorse for over a quarter of a century and has left a…Oct 20, 2022Oct 20, 2022
Jesse DuckerinhedrushMy Favorite Hip-Hop Releases of 2021This is my list of the best hip-hop projects of 2021. I started putting this list together earlier than I have in the past, thinking I’d be…Jan 10, 2022Jan 10, 2022
Jesse DuckerinhedrushTwenty years later, J-Zone’s “Pimps Don’t Pay Taxes” still sets itself apart from the crowdBack in the early ’00s, Jay “J-Zone” Mumford was a different type of “throwback” rapper. While many artists outside of the mainstream…Sep 11, 2021Sep 11, 2021