Brooklyn’s Masta Ace has been there and done that with a career that only the legends can match. So why has he been consistently ignored for so long?

For years now, I’ve always been memorized by the sheer lyrical abilities of Roots member Black Thought. I know many emcees consider him to be at the top of the list when it comes to G.O.A.T. but the rest of the world needs to recognize.

While most of the hip-hop world has mourned and given praise to the late, great J-Dilla, I always thought Madlib was the real champion of beat making. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a Dilla fan, but I was more blown away by the production abilities of Madlib, who has been perfecting his craft since the [...]

Hip-hop music is full of movers and shakers but very few have had a long lasting impact on the actual music. Yeah, I know, there are innovators like Dre and Premier who have also had a profound impact on the music but everyone owes something to Luther Campbell for his censorship trial victories from the early 1990s.

If it wasn’t for Chicago born producer No I.D., it’s safe to say that the hip-hop world might not be familiar with the work of Common and Kanye West.

Historically, the West Coast has produced some of the most game changing music in hip-hop. N.W.A. comes to mind as being one of the first major acts that crossed over but the Left Coast has also given us one of the most underrated lyricists in hip-hop, Ras Kass.