By Odeisel
Dame Dash and friends have been creating more than a few waves with the coming of the 24 hour Karate School. While rap continues to drift closer to the business end than the artistic …
By Malice Intended
Movies and rap music have more in common than people realize. Both are forms that sample and appropriate elements from other facets of popular culture. They swallow these elements whole and regurgitate them …
By Odeisel
Welcome back,
Your dreams were your ticket out.
Welcome back,
To that same old place that you laughed about.
Well the names have all changed since you hung around,
But those dreams have remained and they’re …
By Odeisel
Hip-Hop is preoccupied by death. An art form that began celebrating life and partying has become tethered to darkness. Whether that is coincidence or by design, I will leave to you to decide but …
By shelz.
We are all products of our decisions. The roads we travel are littered with forks and inevitably the side we choose is either cause for celebration or a reason to mourn missed opportunity. Sometimes …
By Odeisel
As its May7th release date approaches, Iron Man 2 is drumming up major momentum. The follow up to 2008’s box office smash finds Robert Downy Jr. back in the saddle as billionaire narcissist arms …
By Elianne Halbersberg
You’ve been there: in line at the grocery store, the waiting room in a doctor’s office, an afternoon matinee, Sunday service at church, a cross-country flight. One minute you’re minding your own business, …
By Odeisel
Good evening and welcome to today’s edition of Sick Sundays. It’s been a minute, I know, but we’ve had so many good things going on that I just got buried in it. But the …
By Malice Intended
In the Borough of Brooklyn, three cops are fast approaching their breaking point. Detective Salvatore “Sal” Procida (Ethan Hawke) is a family man whose salary as a cop cannot cover his financial obligations. …
By shelz And Odeisel
Last week the beat heist pool shrunk to such a low level that the only freestyles I had to chose from were Snoop’s own remixes of his own song that had already …
By Odeisel
There Is No Competition 2 finds Fabolous returning to the streets on the vehicle that brought him to prominence: the mixtape. After a disappointing Loso’s Way, Fab finds himself recentering himself returning to the …
By Malice Intended
Friday: The Complete Animated Series chronicles the humorous misadventures of Craig and Smokey in their South Central Los Angeles neighborhood. As the two spend their days and nights meandering aimlessly about, they find …
By DJ Fusion
What’s the word Planet Ill?
It’s time during this first week of March 2010 (and happily, slowly getting closer to spring) to hit the masses again with another weekly installment of Indiesent Exposure.
For those …
By shelzp.
Growth is a problematic concept in the music industry. It’s tough to stray outside the path laid by the powers that be, particularly when your creativity pushes you much further than earthly boundaries set …
By Fawn Renee
After more than a year in the making, the seventh studio album from Atlanta rapper Ludacris, entitled Battle of the Sexes, is finally dropping. Originally due in 2009 and intended to be a …
By Odeisel
Remember high school? Senior year. You finally get up the nerve to ask the girl you’ve been chasing for four years to the big dance. You’re working overtime shifts at your corner store job …
By DJ Fusion
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By G.I.N.A. (Game Is Not Allowed)
Male sensitivity sounds like fuel for parody. However, it is a tender subject many men aren’t willing to acknowledge. Unless of course you’ve known them for a good length of …
By A Negro And A Keyboard
Seriously, the only thing left for us to see from model Naomi Campbell is a television commercial in which she is portrayed to be in labor, clad in some shrubbery-laden …
By Fawn Renee
We first got wind of the beautiful, talented Keke Wyatt in 2000 when she teamed up with R&B sensation Avant on his single “My First Love,” and by wind I mean blown away. …
