I’ve gotta ask… Where the hell was Portland at this Kid Sister show? Was it the Wednesday night? Was it the nearly $20+ price tag?
Whatever it was, the lack of folks in attendance inspired the promoters to section off the two main floors at Holocene for an all ages crowd, leaving the narrow [...]

The social/racial effects of poverty are hardly as evident as they are at a Ghostface Killah show taking place in a small college town. One would expect the crowd to be diverse in both color and status, due to the popular nature of anyone coming from a group so big as the Wu-Tang clan. [...]

I used to be a strong advocate for Trey Songz being the undisputed king of the sensual rap hook. Don’t get me wrong, Songz has proven himself to be above and beyond any young boss trying to claim the top spot. I dunno, maybe it’s the untimely passing of a certain other R&B/Pop [...]

I actually wanted to buy this track, and attempted to do so through amazon.com, but they informed me that I wasn’t allowed to because of “geographical restrictions.” And it wasn’t anywhere in the blogosphere.   So i tracked down Akala’s album as a torrent, and I’m releasing his track Shakespeare since I’ve been obsessed with [...]

[ November 13, 2008; 9:00 pm; ] When I first started DJing many years ago, the house parties I was doing never wanted to hear electronic, so I would blast mostly top 40 hip-hop party jams.  In my own bedroom however, I jammed to the more intelligent jazzy hip-hop sounds of Arrested Development, Black Sheep, Black Eyed Peas (before Elephunk), A Tribe [...]