By Christina Lee, eMusic ContributorIn 1998, Talib Kweli said, "Every day someone ask me, 'Where all the real MCs at?'/ They underground." He was proudly pinpointing a shift in hip-hop's values, how mainstream rappers wanted to be Hugh Hefner… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorSo we've already shared Kanye West's contribution to The Man With the Iron Fists, as well as a bruised blues collab between the Black Keys and the film's director, RZA. Now here's the entire thing,… more »
By Nate Patrin, eMusic ContributorParisian producers OJ and Gold are driven by a shared aesthetic, one in which the more bohemian and blunted corners of North American independent hip-hop have been steeped for more than a decade. It's an… more »
By Hua Hsu, eMusic ContributorI was once hanging out with the manager of a semi-well-known major label rapper, and he handed me a stack of his mixtapes. "You're a DJ?" I asked, reading the names of the local up-and-comers… more »