MF Doom

A Cool Open Mic Night? It Exists.

Bonus MP3: DeepSpace5 -- "Killing With Kindness"

Fine. It's Christian rap. Whatever. But here's the thing about the 10-piece hip-hop supergroup known as DeepSpace5: They're pretty damn legit, having moved over 100,000 discs since its first release in 1998, and having shared the stage with the likes of KRS-One, Atmosphere and MF Doom. Check the abo ... More >>

Year in Review: The Best Hip-Hop of 2009: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love da Bomb

While year-end, catch-all wrap-ups are common to every musical genre, in no other style of music do they turn into the hand-wringing, "state of the game" examinations that hip-hop seems to provoke. (I've certainly written a few.) We worry because we care, of course. But at some point, like a thirty- ... More >>

The RZA as Bobby Digital

Thursday, June 12, at The Loft

Why?

Alopecia (Anticon)

RJD2

Wednesday, March 14, at Hailey's, Denton

Various Artists

Stones Throw and Adult Swim Present: Chrome Children (Stones Throw Records)

Ghostface Killah

Fishscale (Island)

Dallas Decides

Local musicians put the mikes down and pick up the pens to choose their favorite albums

Dangerdoom

The Mouse and the Mask (Epitaph)

MF Doom

MM..Food (Rhymesayers)

God Save the Scene

Plus: Smells Like Indie Spirit

God Save the Scene

Sassy Brits, hoochie mamas and a dude named Beans attempted to invigorate a stagnant year for hip-hop.

Prefuse 73, Nobody and Beans

October 16

Sneaker Pimp

A lifetime of hip-hop and hoops comes together in Bobbito Garcia's new book

Beyond Good and Evil

Rapper MF Doom's new works of hip-hop fiction reinvent the hero principle for the modern age