March 9, 2017 1 9 Great Biggie Verses You’ve Probably Forgotten (Or Never Heard) Twenty years. It’s been two decades since Christopher George Latore Wallace was gunned down on the streets [...]
March 1, 2017 4 Why 2006 Was Hip-Hop & R&B’s Last Landmark Year 2006 was a really good year. In the realm of R&B and hip-hop, I’m talking really, REALLY good. [...]
February 24, 2017 2 Ranking the Best Usher Albums Who would have predicted that the random kid on track 11 of 1993’s Poetic Justice soundtrack would [...]
February 18, 2017 0 Album Review: Fat Joe and Remy Ma, Plata O Plomo Fat Joe and Remy Ma Plata O Plomo (released February 17, 2017) Better late than never, huh? Eleven months [...]
February 15, 2017 0 Love Letters: Should I Tell My Old Classmate I’m Dating Her Ex-Husband? Happy belated V’Day! I had planned to special super-sized Valentine’s Edition of Love [...]
February 13, 2017 2 20 Questions: 2016 Grammy Awards Recap Every year it’s pretty much the same deal with the Grammys: – A snubbed superstar decides to sit [...]
February 11, 2017 1 Album Review: Lupe Fiasco, Drogas Light Lupe Fiasco Drogas Light (released February 10, 2017) It’s hard being a Lupe Fiasco fan in 2017. It was [...]
February 8, 2017 0 New Music: Mariah Carey, ‘I Don’t,’ Lion Babe, ‘Rockets,’ Missy Elliott ‘I’m Better’ & More A new year brings new music, and we’ve seen a handful of notable tracks trickle through our speakers [...]
February 4, 2017 0 Album Review: Syd, Fin Syd Fin (released February 3, 2017) You had to know we’d be here eventually. Diana Ross did it. So did [...]
January 30, 2017 27 Ranking the Best Mariah Carey Albums In case you needed a reminder of the universal appeal of Mariah Carey’s music, my wife comes home with [...]