Kobe Raises Rank, MIA Raises Finger, Giants Raise Their Rings, Ja Rule Raises Ridicule on this week’s IllSide Radio.
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By Tora B
Presented by Reebok, legendary Hip Hop photographer, Jonathan Mannion, debuted his “Classic” photography gallery exhibit at Milk Studios in Los Angeles. Alongside the legendary photographer, many of Hip-Hop’s elite, including Swizz Beats, DJ Quik, Big Daddy Kane, and new comer Dom Kennedy, made appearances to support the gallery opening. Read the full story »
Does Drake make this better? I don’t think so, but listen anyway.
By Malice Intended
This is the second in a series of articles in which I reflect on my upbringing in Lithonia, Georgia. Much of it relates to Hip-Hop, and how I truly discovered a …
By shelz.
The 54th Grammy Awards are right around the corner and per our normal custom, Planet Ill is going to take a shot at predicting the winners. It’s not rocket science. Country is always …
Waka Flocka Flame takes you behind the scenes on “Round of Applause.”
By Odeisel
I remember the first time I saw Vado. Cam had just come out of the wilderness after all that 50 Cent madness and he did a show at Highline Ballroom. This kid got some …
Steve Aoki gets a little help from his friends to rock the party with new album Wonderland.
Shelz gets you hip on the stories that didn’t end with the Superbowl.
Frenchie talks the Brick Squad, Waka Flocka Flame, the deaths of Slim Dunkin and Stack Bundles and his music.
Jack goes country with interesting results. Check out “Machine Gun Silhouette.”
Don Cornelius rests, New Life Church unrests and babies on the street in this latest firing squad.
FuseBox Radio looks back on the career of Soul Train progenitor Don Cornelius.
KRS-ONE bring us a blast from the past with his Kenny Parker-produced, The BDP Album.
By Odeisel
IllSide Radio is back with our regularly scheduled look at thw world around us through a Hip-Hop lens. This week”s episode is action packed as we discuss a few topics all over the map.
Rae and Era doesn’t have the same ring as Rae and Ghost but you’ll cling your glass when they raise “Just a Toast.”
By Ahmad Awadallah
Mickey Factz returns as his quasi-character Mickey Mau5 on the eponymous mixtape. Mickey Mau5 is a character that tells tales of growing up during the crack/Regan-era. To make matters a little more peculiar, …
Legendary DMC talks how Run DMC developed their sound and their musical clash with LL Cool J.
By Liz Belilovskaya
Why was it important to watch Obama’s State of the Union Address? Well, there is the fact that it was more interesting and engaging than 99% of televised programming in the last decade …
By Odeisel
In the current era of R&B style over substance, complete with racially ambiguous video vixens and everyone claiming hybrid status, it’s easy to forget James Brown exhorting the people to say out loud that …