I've had just a couple things up on the Baltimore City Paper's Noise blog lately, a review of the new Architects Recording Studio mixtape Street Radio Vol. 5, and a live review of the Sugarhill Gang @ Rams Head Live, although it's since come' [...]
AK Slaughter is a rap duo, comprised of Emily Slaughter and Aran Keating, that I first learned of last year when they released this, their debut EP, and Raven Baker wrote a City Paper feature about [...]
Vision is a real prolific MC that I've posted about a coupletimes on here before, and this is the album he dropped over the summer. Vision makes that kinda terse, no nonsense street music that I respect' [...]
Claire Hux - Black Is The New Wet (Morsy/Unruly Records)
This has been out for a minute, but I saw Phylicia Rashad doing a Jenny Craig commercial on TV and thought "oh yeah, I need to post about the new Claire Hux mixtape." I probably came [...]
810 is an MC I first heard on The Black Sunn's projects who sent me some of his stuff recently. He's kinda working in the same vein as Black Sunn, kinda classic headnodding cratedigging hip hop, but [...]
This week I have a piece in the Baltimore City Paper about the Rapdragons, a new hip hop duo I saw at the All-Rap Round Robin, a few months ago, which was actually only their 3rd show ever. They're playing at the Windup Space this' [...]
Mario's last album Go! from a couple years back was a really good record, but it didn't really spin off any big singles like his first two albums, so I was wondering where his career was headed and whether Baltimore' [...]
A couple months ago I posted the first video from ScholarMan's next album, Free Spirit Of A Troubled Soul, due out January 2010, and here's the second, "Reap, Sow." [...]
I talk to PenDragon pretty often and always check for his music, but between having a baby and everything else that's been going on, I've been really slow to catch up on this mixtape he released on his site[...]
Here's the video for Ty Gudda's "Life I Lead" featuring Miss Cream. According to the YouTube description, the song is on his Freshman Year mixtape, but it sure ain't on my copy.' [...]
Skarr Akbar - The Street Album B4 The Album (Akbar Enterprize)
One area of Baltimore rap that hasn't really been doing much for me lately is kinda aggressive hardcore street rap, which is a shame because I think that's one of the things Baltimore [...]
The Baltimore Scene held the Baltimore Crown Awards at 5 Seasons on Sunday, and I decided to stay home with my son that night, but I ended winning a "golden pen" award to match my "best blog/website" award from last year. So thanks to them [...]
Who Got Next, the latest Baltimore hip hop DVD that I'm apparently going to be on is having a release party next weekend -- they just taped my interview yesterday, and I think for once I actually managed to say some shit, hope it all' [...]
Bossman f/ Scola - "U Already Know" (mp3) Bossman's finally got a new single out to follow up "Break Me Off," featuring Scola formerly of Dru Hill. Video coming soon, getting played on 92Q right now.' [...]
This is NME's video for the songs "Going Hard" and "B More Careful," never heard these cats before and it's kinda low budget but I like it, although the contrast between the two songs is so dramatic it's almost funny.' [...]
