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Well, it was bound to happen.  I've been on quite a tear since February, writing two posts a week, even with the new features that focused on specific songs that were a transparent ploy to not review albums.  But life's a motherfucker, and last Tuesday I finally blew a deadline, and thus ends the longest consecutive writing streak this blog has ever seen. I had planned on taking a break

A year and two days ago, the duo of DJ Premier and Royce da 5'9", with a rather large assist from producer-slash-composer Adrian Younge, formed PRhyme and recorded a self-titled effort that finally saw a full album's worth of Primo and Royce collaborations, something that the hip hop heads in the reading audience always tend to love.  Today marks the release of a deluxe reissue of PRhyme,

I had originally intended to write something a bit more substantial today, but as I sit here with a self-imposed deadline closing in, I'm saying, "Fuck it".  I'll have to adjust the rest of my publication schedule for the remainder of the year, but don't you two worry your pretty little heads, The Game will ultimately get his day in the sun.  Just not today, because I'm very busy. "Made You

(Today's Reader Review comes from frequent contributor Justa, who unpacks yet another Blu project, this one being his collaborative effort with MED and Madlib, Bad Neighbor.  Leave your thoughts for Justa below.) It’s 2015, and to echo the consciousness of the Drake and Future project released earlier this year, What A Time To Be Alive (a project I can almost guarantee Max won’t be

O'Shea Jackson's fifth solo album, the awkwardly-titled War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc), came five years after his prior effort.  During the interim, he filled the days by dropping a compilation album (Bootlegs & B-Sides), a Westside Connection project (Bow Down), a film that is considered to be a cult classic today (Friday), his weed carrier Mack 10's debut, and not by recording a