J.Cole self-produces this short but potent track featuring Fashawn and Omen titled “Relaxation.” The flows on this track are anything but.
Investigative journalist Ron Chepesiuk debunks the lies told by Frank Lucas in the creation of his American Gangster mystique. What is fake and what is real? Get the lowdown
Waka Flocka Flame drops his own brand of fight music on his debut album Flockaveli. A host of guests and his own Brick Squad crew do the heavy lifting while Flocka takes it to the paint.
A Chicago grandmother shoots a teen for throwing bricks through her window, Kanye takes over magazines, Square One turns 29 and we interview Dame Grease and 2 Hungry Bros. in this week’s edition of Ill Side Radio
Today he is Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, but 40 years ago he was H. Rap Brown. In recognition of his birthday Planet Ill takes a look at the tragic irony that now finds Imam Jamil in prison, probably for the rest of his life.
Young Chris drops a banging street anthem for the City of Brotherly Love with “Philly Shit”
In a Planet Ill “In The Studio” Rewind, we look back at the making of Loss 4 Wordz and the multi-talented Scratch’s take on production and promotion in the age of digital recordings and downloads.
Faith blends her patented feathery voiced ballads with uptempo, varied production on Something About Faith. Does she still have what it takes?
Bruno Mars takes his music through twists and turns of heartbreak, love, casual sex, depression, drug use, marriage proposals and bad relationships on Doo-Wops & Hooligans. It’s nothing that would be expected of Mr. Mars, but welcome nonetheless.
15 years after the most racially polarizing verdict ever, we still don’t get that the victims in this weren’t the justice system or society at large. It was Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. How did this get twisted?