Late this year, film critics and music reviewers alike praised the motion picture American Gangster along with Jay-Z’s album of the same name, inspired by the movie. A couple weeks earlier, a Minneapolis hip-hop emcee named Antwoyn Spencer, aka “Twig” and now “Brinks,” was found guilty in federal court of dealing cocaine and laundering money, [...]
“All aboard! Or all y’all bored?” yells Andre Benjamin on the ninth track of last year’s underwhelming record Idlewild. For the first time in OutKast’s career, yes; we were bored. Fine, second. “The Land of One Million Drums” from the Scooby Doo soundtrack was the first.
The record capped off a sharp [...]
-In the game of hip-hop, the rap industry just moved The Roots all-in-
Hip-hop is about platinum. Not wearing platinum, but making platinum records. And anyone involved with The Roots gets the small triangle next to their name on the Billboard charts.
Scott Storch went from playing the keys on “What [...]
