So I took the role of the Snakeman's camera man a few weeks ago for SnakemanTV (call me CameraSnake). I kinda forgot about this until it appeared in my inbox late last night. It's essentially J the S and Slaine backstage @ the Mass Movementz CD Release Party at the Middle East. Slaine voices his opinion on Virtuoso's highly controversial new "NightStalkers" video . A little tough love from Slaine, but you can't really blame him for keeping it 100 with Virt! You can also hear [...]

[See post to listen to audio] DOWNLOAD: Earatik Statik feat. Sean Price - Knock 'Em Out Gravel Records sent over this leak off the new Earatik Statik LP, "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly", dropping March 17, 2009 on Gravel Records. The album features certified hiphop legends from the beats to the rhymes, including production by Pete Rock , Large Professor , J-Zone , and Single Minded Pros , as well as guest appearances by Sadat X , Sean Price & Edo.G [...]

Like I promised before here are three new songs from La Coka Nostra 's new album "A Brand You Can Trust" . Their new single "I'm An American" ft B Real and as well as "Where Hope Goes To Die" and "Hating Me" . Related posts: La Coka Nostra | I'm An American ft B Real (Video) Ill Bill | [...]

La Coka Nostra recently released a video directed by LCN/House Of Pain member Danny Boy for their new single "I'm An American" featuring B Real from Cypress Hill. Their "new" album A Brand You Can Trust will be released sometime before March. The album contains about five new songs plus twelve previously released songs from the 2006 Unofficial/Official La Coka Nosta album and various LCN projects. All I have is the video for you today. "runtime error 63 is message I get everytime I try [...]

For me, dropping an annual best discs list is like stripping myself naked and moseying through paintball warfare. There are lots of snipers on the prowl who are eager to dent my dome, and this gives them a ripe opportunity to blast me silly. Yet I'm here anyway – unbound from any and all generic "Top 10" constraints – offering my favorite twenty-or-so albums of 2008 (in alphabetical order). By rough estimate I checked anywhere from 200 to 250 projects this year, and, unlike cats who obsess over the depraved hip-hop landscape, I have [...]
The track is coo...its good to hear B. Real's ridiculous vocals on a track again...The video is dooope! source: Ill Bill TV
The big homey Slaine put me up on this. BRAND NEW $LCN$ that dropped a few hours ago. Very dope song, very dope video. Watch & learn on some whiteboy will kill your life and everything you got shit.

It's a good thing my grandmother stayed home from Necro's show at the Middle East this past Saturday. She hates when musicians dump buckets of ice water on groupies' heads, spit in their faces, and talk nasty to them in front of throngs of degenerate suburbanites. We all expected what we got. Before the show began, Lateb and Slant of Heddshotts – who were opening the fandango – told me that they planned to drop the nastiest joint in their arsenal. "The Necro fans will lick this one up," they all agreed. [...]
It's a good thing my grandmother stayed home from Necro's show at the Middle East this past Saturday. She hates when musicians dump buckets of ice water on groupies' heads, spit in their faces, and... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .

Nary is there a message board out there with a Boston hip-hop track posted that doesn't have at least one comment along the lines of "Yo fuck Boston. Mother fuckers ain't gettin' it on up there. Bitch ass space rap. Shit don't even make sense." Other than the obvious stupidity of those comments - as if people from New York and Los Angeles were endowed with better rap skills than people born in smaller cities - it doesn't even hold weight now that Boston, Philly, Chicago and a host of other mini-metropolises are [...]

You know I keep an eye on my alma mater crew at The Boston Herald . Props to my homegirl Lauren Carter for this dope piece today on Special Teamz and their slapping down the hip-hop establishment on Big Top . Like most hip-hop articles in the Herald, this one caused a bit of controversy. Check the comments...

My homie Hamza feels "It ain't hip hop unless you can rob a bank to it!" Being so I thought I'd post on my favorite bank robbing hip hop collective, La Coka Nostra . Ill Bill just shot this single & video out on the blogosphere, packed with a potent message and that grime that the new school "hipster hip hop" has left a void of. La Coka Nostra, I fucks with you, shoot me over some gear I rep hard! haha... Video+Mp3 below: His new CD The Hour of Reprisal is in [...]
Pacifist observers of the ongoing beef between Providence indie rap hero Sage Francis and Southie rhyme king Slaine should be excited to know that the Internet-fueled feud between the two heavyweights has not ended in a blood bath. Sources on the ground at this past night's Scroobius Pip show at The Paradise report that while the two finally had a heated exchange in person, no punches were thrown, nor were any weapons pulled. I think I speak on behalf of all mature rap fans when I say that this is a good thing, and not just because a Slaine-Sage rumble [...]