The trio have been hailed as the saviors of New York rap, but they've set their sights higher
Here are the10 best concerts to check out around the city this week, in no particular order.
Five legends spin records at Santos Party House
'Minor league rappers' get major
These are the best concerts in New York this week, in no particular order.
By Joseph "JP" Patterson Dutty Artz is a NYC-based independent record label that knows a thing or two about nurturing talent from a grass roots level up. Ever since Matt Shadetek and DJ Rupture started it up in 2008, the label has churned out left-field grime, house and techno to bass music lovers ... More >>
Angie Martinez's Backyard BBQ The Garden At Studio Square Saturday, August 18 Better than: Getting lost coming home from Queens. CBS sitcoms, Tom Wolfe and Republicans alike have all painted New York City as a noisy, grimy nightmare, a melting pot of sex and kvetching, guns and soupy hot dogs, wh ... More >>
Nas Tammany Hall Tuesday, July 17 Better than: Listening to Nastradamus. "I don't even know how to start this shit..." lamented a young Nas right before presenting the most complete, most timeless rap album in historyand doing so his first time out of the gate. Illmatic was a lot to live u ... More >>
Now that the calendar has flipped to May, and the schedules for the area's big sheds have been announced, and the Hot 97 Summer Jam lineup is on the verge of being made public, it's time to think of other musical concerns related to the year's hottest months. Today, let's wonder about what song will ... More >>
XXL Freshman Class 2012: Don Trip, Kid Ink, Iggy Azalea, Roscoe Dash, Macklemore, Hopsin, Danny Brown, Future, French Montana, Machine Gun Kelly Best Buy Theater Monday, April 9 Better than: Ten rappers you're completely unfamiliar with. Every year, XXL selects a group of rappers to label as "fres ... More >>
Lloyd Banks invites you for Thanksgiving
It's a long weekend! (Really long, hopefully.) To celebrate, we decided to give you a full week's worth of nightlife options, dance-music-oriented and otherwise: Our recommended picks for each day of the week feature some established parties, some underrated gems, and a few one-off shows, all ... More >>
RomanceLet's just say multiple members of the Voice critical braintrust are generating possibly dozens of hundreds of words about Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday even as you read this, and leave it at that -- we are excited, is all. Nicki herself, meanwhile, is ubiquitous. Her "If I'm Lucky I'll Fi ... More >>
Welcome to my life, Weezy.So Lil Wayne is finally a free man. Perhaps a lonely free man, but a free man nonetheless. It's been a hell of a two weeks for the law around here, in all honesty. After last week's barrage of club closings, this week brought news of yet more: 171 Lombardy was raided ... More >>
Left to right: Pusha T, Funkmaster Flex, Kanye West. Photo via In Flex We TrustIt is a measure of Kanye West's proximity to the heart of the zeitgeist that even on the day after a disastrous midterm election, his name is front and center in the news cycle. The Internet is aflame today with th ... More >>
The latest from The NYPD Tapes case files: Terrence Battle, an executive at Hot 97 and KISS FM, was pulling up to his house in a livery cab early last Saturday morning when a sergeant anad two officers from Brooklyn's 81st Precinct stopped the taxi. The cops were doing a routine check as pa ... More >>
Hopefully Drake got a free camera out of this. Pic by Puja.Drake/Trey Songz Best Buy Theater Tuesday, October 5 Secret, invite-only hip-hop shows don't exist, even if we went to one last night. Then again, with a lineup of Drake, Trey Songz, and Pitbull, we couldn't be too surprised at the l ... More >>
"When you've run out of peaks," Jon Caramanica wrote in yesterday's Times, by way of reviewing Monday's ridiculous Jay-Z extravaganza, "all that's left are ridiculous, sublime stunts, new ways to climb old mountains." This is counterintuitive but true: a guy like Jay-Z has been a ... More >>
He did it on Hot 97 at noon; Rap Radar's got the stream and the download. Commercial-free and gleefully relentless, it's an excellent tribute to "a great man, a great rapper, a great humanitarian for hip-hop," as Mister Cee puts it, the heartbreaking catch in his voice eventually replaced by ... More >>
That sample at the beginning there is the sound of man placing himself squarely on the wrong side of history. But what a thing to have said. Hear Mr. Magic do it to himself in context, courtesy of Unkut, right here:
"If they say anybody got us on anything, who better than Kanye?" Right around this time three years ago, the Clipse were on the verge of releasing Hell Hath No Fury, their terminally delayed follow-up to 2002's Lord Willin'. Anger--at their label, Jive, for failing to promote them, and at t ... More >>
via dennischang's photostream Dinosaur Jr. Music Hall of Williamsburg Thursday, June 25 Dinosaur Jr. did bring up Michael Jackson from the stage last night, frontman/guitar wizard J. Mascis muttering something about Farah Fawcett and MJ and, later, when Lou Barlow took requests: "What are we gonna ... More >>
A return as hyped as Brett Favre's, and about as successful
Hot 97 brings nostalgia to Rastafarians
Time for Summer Jam
Macy Gray soldiers on where her formerly mighty neo-soul cohorts fear to tread
Mobb Deep cashes in and craps out
Latin freestyle's dreamboys and dreamgirls dance back into the spotlight
New Yorkers revisit last year's promises and share hopes for 2006
Bust at Mondo Kim's exposes record-industry hypocrisy
The corporations murdered hiphop and all I got was this lousy G-Unit throwback jersey
Black radio buries the Rev
Obsessive-compulsive rap artist repeats repeats repeats
One of the rapidest guest-rappers around thinks as slow as he helps everybody else jam
Hey Get Ya Mom a Crazy Milkshake in Da Club
Mix CDs Radically Transform the Business and Culture of Hip-Hop
Freestyling About Freestyling, for a World That Couldn't Care Less
Next-Big-Thing Rappers Arrive With Wheeze, Breeze, and Cheese
Houston Screws Off the Cough-Syrup Cap
More Than One Way to Rawk a Funky Joint
