In follow up to our recent post, “Even Wiggaz Are Saying Hell No“, here is a look at Hip-Hop’s highest wage earners as published by Forbes magazine. Despite Hip-Hop record sales steadily declining, the industry generates millions in revenues - most of which aren’t directly attributed to record sales. Basically, the music has evolved into [...]

Time Magazine recently published one of the best articles we have ever read on the current market state of Hip-Hop culture. With industry sales dramatically declining - 33% this year alone - wannabe hardcore suburban white’s (Hip-hop’s largest consumer base) seem to have finally had enough of the unnecessary cussing, scantily clad video broads and [...]

This episode of AP Radio is a mix of rare Hip-Hop tracks. Don’t slip on the butter! Enjoy.
Track Listing:
Down Ta Erf - Insertion Of Thought
Encore - Defined By The Dollar
Kardinal Official - On Wit Da Show (Remix)
Laster - Searching For Meaning
Group Home - East NY Theory
All Natural - Negro League Baseball
Godfather Don - Depressed (Instrumental)

Next to Arctic crab fishing, Hip-Hop is probably the most difficult industry to stay afloat in. All the cutthroat competition, government pressure, fickle consumers, corporate greed and street-level violence make it easy for successful rappers to easily drop into obscurity. Not many artists are able to last longer than a decade, but bay-area lyricism magnate [...]

The other day Adrian and I sifted through crates of old records in search of Hip-Hop butters that were released between 1991 and 1997. In the minds of many, these were the golden years of the genre. All the tracks in this edition of AP Radio experienced minimal commercial success, yet remain much more relevant [...]

With image as the sole selling feature of Hip-Hop records these days and a lot of untrained ears buying, it’s easy for an emcee to succeed without needing talent or innovation. Arguably, for the last decade, little has been done to re-shape the genre’s status quo sound.
Fortunately, Washington, DC is home to a breath of [...]

My buddy Yuro is a self professed “Mongolian Dutch.” His hobbies include smoking blunts and pa-rousing through loads of musical genres for tight sounding samples. The other day while catching up with him, he passed on a CD of his latest beats and told me the following story:
A while back, I gave a [...]

Dear Mr. Reggie Noble a.k.a The Funk Dr. Spock a.k.a Redman
You used to be one of the illest, most consistent lyricists in Hip-Hop. What happened? For the past 11 years, I have been patiently waiting for you to drop some tight-ass shit like you did back in ‘96 with Muddy Waters. That album to [...]

The opinions surrounding Hip-Hop these days are as vast as the genre itself. The Hip-Hop debate was recently rekindled by the on-air racial slurs of radio personality Don Imus. This led to a full scale media assault and within a few weeks all the heavy hitters were involved: Snoop, Russell Simmons, Anderson Cooper, Rev. Al [...]