Prince Paul

RJD2 Looks To His Own Past For Inspiration

Today In Music News: Paris Hilton's Got Balls, Chris Brown's Got Problems and Q-Tip's Got A Mixtape

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, February 11, 2009... That no talent ass-clown known as Paris Hilton apparently approached Sir Paul McCartney backstage at the Grammy's asking if he would consider doing a duet with her. I believe he answered by doubling over in laughte ... More >>

Beat Kings The History of Hip Hop (Nature Sounds)

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, February 11, 2009... That no talent ass-clown known as Paris Hilton apparently approached Sir Paul McCartney backstage at the Grammy's asking if he would consider doing a duet with her. I believe he answered by doubling over in laughte ... More >>

On the Down-Low

Shovel away all that Usher, Prince and Lil Jon you've been jamming and dig this year's buried black-music treasures.

Handsome Boy Modeling School

White People (Elektra)

Gang Starr

The Ownerz (Virgin)

Gold Chains

June 19

Bad Rap

Prince Paul's latest concept record attacks lame commercial hip-hop--by co-opting it

J-Live

All of the Above (Coup d'Etat)

Pop is Dead

Hip-huh? Antipop Consortium doesn't expect you to get it at first.

Masta Ace

Disposable Arts (Yosumi)

Deltron 3030

Deltron 3030 (Ark 75)

De La Soul isn't dead

Rumors of De La Soul's imminent demise are proved untrue with the Art Official Intelligence series

Get yer ta-ta's out

Porn and Pimpadelic collide on the Southern devils' first video shoot

Tell me when it's over

The world might not be coming to an end, but maybe it should be

Wu-Tang forever?

U-God's solo album is only the latest in a series of Wu-Tang Clan misfires

Handsome Dan

Dan "The Automator" Nakamura loves hip-hop -- but he loves music more

Summer suns and some aren't

Going steady with the singles of the summer

Rock on

Chris Rock's Bigger and Blacker than anyone, and his new album may be the funniest hip-hop album ever made

Royal trix

Prince Paul used to be hip-hop's leading court jester. Now, he's dead serious.

Into the groovy

Raving about Simon Reynolds' techno history, Generation Ecstasy