Graveyard Shifter – The Lost HoloTape (Prod By King H)

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Gang Starr – Step in the Arena #TBT

This week we take a look at New York hip hop duo Gang Starr’s seminal second album “Step in the Arena”. Released in 1991, this album positioned Gang Starr as one of the leaders in the hardcore hip hop scene of the early 90’s. Gang Starr – Step in the Continue Reading

THIRD SIGHT: AN ORAL HISTORY OF RAP’S MOST RELUCTANT LONGSHOTS

THIRD SIGHT: AN ORAL HISTORY OF RAP’S RELUCTANT LONGSHOTS Iconoclastic rap group Third Sight has stealthily built a resume over the last two decades as one of the more prolific and consistent backpack-style acts left. They have effectively outlived the two genres with which they were initially associated— Underground Hip-Hop and Continue Reading

Meet Brooklyn’s most accomplished hip-hop record label manager turned brewer

Having ridden freight trains and managed a record label, Brooklyn’s spirited Jesse Ferguson faces his newest adventure: running NYC’s next great brewery and distillery. Written by JOSHUA M. BERNSTEIN , FEBRUARY 6, 2017 http://draftmag.com/interboro-brooklyn-jesse-ferguson/ On a recent weekday morning in Brooklyn’s anything-goes East Williamsburg neighborhood, where delivery trucks commandeer bike lanes Continue Reading

E-40’s Eternal Comeback – Story by Willy Staley

E-40’s Eternal Comeback http://www.thefader.com/2017/01/25/e-40-interview?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email E-40 has been selling water to the sea since before you were born. It hasn’t always been easy. Story by Willy Staley Photography by Carlos Chavarría We were halfway home from the Warriors game when E-40 told me that he was perkin’. “You know what perkin’ Continue Reading