The first IllSide Radio of the New Year brings a new format, a new focus, and the same dope flavor. Take a ride on the Ill Side.
Sean Price teams up with Agallah for the street album Rising To The Top, a work full of rugged beats and rhymes from two seasoned veterans.
As usual, there is rhyming and stealing going on. Planet Ill takes a look at some of the culprits.
This week’s edition of And The Beat Goes On features some impossible covers of timeless songs with differing results. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” nailed. “Imagine,” not so much. These and more in Planet Ill’s And The Beat Goes on.
Planet Ill takes a second to address the scourge of 2010: The Rise of the ‘Net MC. We also stop to note the top 100 acts in Independent Hip-Hop.
Planet Ill returns for the last week of beat biting and dope style taking for 2010. Does Nipsey really need to call the bank. Is Diggy really relaxed? Do Joell and Roman get along? All these questions answered and more in this weeks And The Beat Goes On.
The week in freestyle features rappers in cuffs, Black Thought rhyming at the lunch table, Kweli trying to start things up, the inevitable freestyels over Dre’s “Kush” and a Vampire Weekend sighting.
This week’s Indiesent Exposure featires Margo who blends 80’s Pop, Funk and AfroPunk sensibilities.
Planet Ill is here to give you the best of the beat swipes this week. On tap is Benjamin Leftwich, Naledge, Consequence and more.
In this week’s Indiesent Exposure selection, we have some fly downtempo & Electrotronic based music jams straight from the United Kingdom. Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson have been making high quality music & video eye candy as the VJ/DJ/Producer/Audio-Visual Art crew Hexstatic since 1997.