9th Wonder catches us off guard with a mammoth 73-track beat tape, Bladey Mae, named after his grandma. There was me getting ready to listen to some of the latest releases from this week (The Foreign Exchange, Tanya Morgan, Drake) and out of the blue, 9th Wonder dropped a 73-track beat tape (yep, seventy-three) named …
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A kind soul has uploaded the entire transmission of FlyLo FM to YouTube.
It’s been 22 years to the day that A Tribe Called Quest released The Low End Theory.
It would have been John Coltrane’s 87th birthday yesterday so for that, we’re looking at five samples of the late jazz master’s work.
Guest writer Ashton James Brown (aka Ashtronomic) reviews Jordan James’ Love Waves EP. South London based R&B crooner Jordan James has been making some noise for a while, releasing his début the Cheeky Bastard EP in the spring of 2012. Where as that project was much more of a Hip-Hop focused affair tinged with R&B …
We take a look at five albums made using the MPC1000.
He supports Arsenal and his beats are as big as the Emirates Stadium itself. Meet North London’s own Jake Whyte aka J WHY.
Vancouver, Washington’s Gloam marks a return from duty with new track Alloyed Shuffle. Been a hot minute since I last heard anything from Gloam (he works for the US Army hence the sporadic musical output) so it’s good to see he hasn’t lost anything in the way of quality. Alloyed Shuffle is one of three …
Grammy award-winning super producer 9th Wonder steps out of the studio and into the classroom with James Peterson and Professor Mark Anthony Neal to talk about one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, the impact it made, and much more in this week’s edition of Saturday Matinée. If you’re talking about hip-hop these …