You may be wondering if French Montana’s debut studio album Excuse My French makes good on French’s promise that it will be the best New York rap album of the last decade (or something like that?). It’s not. It’s not the best rap album of the decade, or of the year, and if you give [...]

Kids these days. From Drake to Tyler to A$AP, you pretty much have to drop a mixtape that sounds like an album if you want to blow up. And even that might not work (ask Dom Kennedy). So you’d better bust your ass. Chance the Rapper certainly does. The 20-year-old Chicago MC’s first full-length release, [...]

Fans of Rittz have his heard story many times. He was on the verge of giving up, stuck in a dead end job, and then Yelawolf came him an opportunity of a lifetime. Taking the ginger wild-haired Georgia native on tour opened up the Slumerican world to him. From there, he released White Jesus, a [...]

Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y go together like Cheech & Chong. The duo practically came up in the game around the same time, elevating themselves with 2009’s collaborative effort, How Fly. Since then, fans have craved a part two at every chance they could open their lips about it whenever we heard songs with them on [...]

Ghostface Killah, the most prolific Wu-Tanger (also the best rapper of the bunch, depending on who you ask), has never gone away or fallen off. He’s the only Clan member who has consistently released quality music since the group’s inception. If you’re keeping track, Twelve Reasons to Die is his tenth solo album. His debut, [...]

Kid Cudi’s Indicud is being toted as a return to form for the rapper, after fan disappointment with Man on the Moon II and last year’s recycling bin classic, WZRD.  Despite his promises, though, Cudi seems unable or unwilling to back away from the atmospheric, rock-infused sound that made Man on the Moon II so [...]

Marvel’s animated film department doesn’t rank close to DC Comics, who has ran the market for a while with their stellar Batman and Superman releases. With Marvel, they’ve ran the big screen, but most of the animated pictures failed to live up to expectations. Ones like The Avengers and Planet Hulk had a lot of [...]

Ghostface Killah has been known for his storytelling over the years, but Twelve Reasons To Die is over the top. From start to finish, it’s a story of Tony Starks in 1969 dealing with the Italian gang known as the Dukati. In anticipation of the album, he embarked on the first leg of his tour [...]

Tyga’s second release under the YMCMB umbrella is pretty much summed up by its cover. Hotel California (ahem) is lazy and sloppy, a showcase for everything that isn’t good about Tyga. It’s a thrown together collection of songs that doesn’t even have the single power of his last LP. His concepts, if you want to [...]

Nearly two years removed from the sophomore effort that made him a star, Goblin, Tyler, The Creator is back with his third LP, Wolf. It’s Tyler’s most best and most accessible work to date. Talk about rape and murder is sparse, and Tyler’s production has evolved by leaps and bounds. If you can get past [...]