You are in a dark alley. You sit down in an old wooden chair. You don’t even move and it creaks. The wood is soft like it has water...

The other night I sat down with “I Learned from Little Brother 2” by Prince Wiser. While I was listening I started jotting down some...

Most boom bap heads know about Buffalo. How can we not? The Griselda crew is everywhere, even appearing on late night talk shows....

When something rises to the level of cult classic like Below the Heavens by Blu and Exile why not let the cult followers speak? That’s...

I remember it clearly. I was at my cousin’s house in Indianapolis when I saw it. I saw, for the first time, a copy of 3 Feet High &...

“Nas picks trash beats.” You’ve probably heard that before. Sure, in the span of his nearly 30 years in Hip-Hop, has Nas picked some...

Four Finger Ring is the hardest boom bap album of the year. No doubt about it in my mind. In some ways The Bad Seed is like the Roc...

I was reluctant, but I agreed. I would select and play 20 songs from Digable Planets during a Pharcyde vs Digable Planets song-for-song...

Sometimes an album is so timely and feels so perfect that you just can’t stop listening to it. That’s the case with Nothing Less by Awon...

I was in middle school sitting front in center in our school auditorium. I was looking up at a guest speaker that seemed like a pretty...

Sometimes an album comes out of nowhere to surprise me. I don’t know the caliber of the emcee and have relatively no expectations going...

When I was a young child, maybe 5 years old, my family stopped by a gas station in a predominantly black neighborhood. It was dark. I was...

By Big Sto Jurny Big and Peace 586 (both part of The Tunnel Rats) are pioneers in Hip-hop. I was five years old when LPG’s (a group...

Five years ago Skyzoo gave me a birthday present. Okay, he didn’t wrap up a gift and send it to me via UPS. But, just a few days after my...

“Glory” with its rolling snares, cloudy choir esq. vocal samples, and choppy horns opens up the Champion Sounds by Wordsworth & Pearl...

By Michael Stover For ‘The Boom Bap Review’ series I’ve tried not to write about EPs because that adds sooo many records to an already...

I've said it a few times and I'll say it yet again. We are living in a new Hip-hop golden age. It is different from the past. Back then...

Hip-hop is competitive. Artists claim to be the greatest of their city. Others say they are the greatest period. Hip-hop fans follow suit...

Apollo Brown. Che Noir. Features by Black Thought, Skyzoo, Ty Farris, and Planet Asia. If you know these names, you know where this is...

If you follow KRS-One at all, you have heard the phrase “You are not doing Hip-hop, you are hip-hop.” But, what exactly IS Hip-hop? In...