Scott Storch

The Graying of Hip-Hop

What happens to the youth-obsessed genre when its greats reach retirement?

Questlove Extras: Leftover Quotes and Anecdotes From This Week's Cover Story

This week's cover story is an in-depth look at one of music's most talented and intelligent, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of the Roots. It's a great longread, if we do say so ourselves. (Check it out). And it could've been much longer. As writer Jenna Sauers discovered, Quest is full of insight and an ... More >>

Hit Machines: The Ten Best Singles Runs From Post-Confessions R&B Albums

In his recent review of R&B singer Miguel's fantastic Art Dealer Chic series of EPs, The A.V. Club's Evan Rytlewski explained the singer's rise in popularity by floating the idea that his 2010 album All I Want Is You contained "arguably the most engaging singles run of any R&B album since Usher's Co ... More >>

Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories

The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>

Kelly Rowland Gets Down Like That

The Top Ten Failed First Singles Off The Game's The R.E.D. Album

​This list began as a joke, but the longer I contemplated it, the more depressing its basic concept became. Consider: not only could I easily string together ten of Game's fruitless attempts to force label executives to release The R.E.D. Album, his followup to 2008's LAX; I had to make decisi ... More >>

50 Cent's Greatest Hits Of Late 2010 And 2011: A Surprisingly Long List

Anything to keep him off Twitter​Don't look now, but 50 Cent is off in his little corner making compelling music again. Actually, you had better look now -- he only does this once a year or so, in between failed commercial projects. (Although here's a secret almost no one knows: His last such ... More >>

Daddy Yankee . . . In Space!

Reggaeton gets increasingly interstellar; Latin-pop sci-fi freaks rejoice

On Big Boi's New Single, "Shutterbugg," From The Solo Album That's Actually Finally Coming Out This Year, Thank God

​Get the MP3 here or here. "I'm shittin' on niggas/And pissin' on the seat," avers Big Boi on the massive, glitzy, delightfully garish (i.e. Scott Storch-produced) new single off the (finally!) imminent Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, hip-hop's most appalling endless-delay hosta ... More >>

Interview: The Clipse on Till the Casket Drops, Their Official Position on "Girl Songs," and Whether Kanye Got Them on Their Own Song

"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 >>

The Long Strange Path to This Surprisingly Good Esmee Denters/Justin Timberlake Single, "Casanova"

Esmee Denters was a goofily pretty Dutch pancake house waitress who, in 2006, began uploading videos of herself singing covers of Beyonce and Alicia Keyes songs to YouTube. In 2007, she posted a clip of herself covering of Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around" in which, at the end of the video, ... More >>

Young Jeezy Tackles Our Wintry Economic Climate

Fat Joe vs. the Volcano

He's joined forces with the South, whether you like it or not

Eliot Spitzer's Hooker, Reviewed!

Preview: Bun B's New Album II Trill

Kelly Rowland's Ms. Kelly

Destiny's neglected child lets her dimmer light shine

Daddy Knows Best

At least one Yankee sounds like he'll be enjoying himself this summer

Status Ain't Hood's Quarterly Report: The Year's Best Singles

YouTube Rap Videos, Please Break Up

Scott Storch is an Idiot

Jay-Z's Kingdom Come: It's Official

Billie in a Bottle

On Xtina's noble but knuckleheaded plea for diva greatness

Status Ain't Hood Interviews Method Man

Outsourced

Vociferous MC thinks globally, acts less locally

Surgical Strikes

R&b hitmakers attack with precision, be they vulgar or merely lonely.

Late Breaking Paris Hilton Setback!

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

I'm My Favorite Game

Proof that no matter how hard we pretend to be, we're all fragile

A Business, Man

Coffeehouse song-and-dance star and his lady friend beat back boredom

From a Different Place

The notorious K.I.M. finally lets the sex boasts go and spits from her gut

Status Ain't Hood's History of White Rappers

TP.3: Rehashed

R. Kelly gets a little too comfortable with his mysterious failure to come to trial

Ignorants and Know-Alls Keep Out

Eight inauthenticities hard to resist, even when hard to understand, or impossible to love

Big Verdict: Lil' Kim Is Seriously Fucked

Girl, what were you thinking?

Dirty-Dirty Deeds

As O'Reilly's nemesis lip-smacks toward financial future, Rubber Band Man one-ups him

Body of work an extreme-makeover St. Lunatic wonderland

On the Outside, Kickin' It

When You Doin' What You're Doin' Get Movin' the Tongue

Pop the Question, Jigga

Miss Fat Booty Gets Some, Gives Some Up Without Shame

Power Nana Club

Time Will Reveal

Vagina Monologues