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Weekend Visuals

Your weekend playlist of the videos you should be watching.

Story originally published on The 5th Element Magazine Spring/Summer 2014 Issue Do you remember Hip-Hop in 1994? Some key events may come to mind: Warren G heralded the G-Funk era previously established by Dr. Dre, with his West Coast anthem, “Regulate.” Southern hip-hop flourished with OutKast’s debut and the release of Scarface’s The Diary . […]

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2015’s Best: The Most Memorable Hip-Hop Moments

Just as any year before it and sure to come, hip-hop’s 2015 was momentous, disastrous and triumphant in a slurry of events, often dissected both as mega and minutiae. There were beefs, there were memes, there were endorsements and reunions. We saw many a classic album hit a milestone and many a rapper ignite and […]

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Jam On It: Anderson Paak – “The Season/Carry Me”, “Am I Wrong”

It didn’t take long for LA singer-songwriter Anderson.Paak to grow on us and music’s landscape at large. His lauded project, “Venice” plus a slew of guest spots on Dr. Dre’s “Compton” soundtrack turned heads toward his unique brand of music defined by velvet vocals and raspy verses. Just to give us a little teaser […]

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Brain Food: How the 1995 Source Awards Changed Rap Forever (via Complex)

I was born in 1990, a little bit after Yo! MTV Raps began its effort in bringing rap to the mainstream and a little before hip-hop’s golden year of 1993. Rap crept its way into my childhood memories by way of Dr. Dre’s “The Chronic,” and Snoop’s “Doggystyle,” (also where I first learned about weed […]

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Peep This: Hip-Hop History Orchestrated By Poland’s JIMEK

Just like any youthful endeavor, when hip-hop was first gaining its bearings in the 1970s and 1980s, higher authorities questioned its staying power. Fast-forward a couple decades and the mere idea is laughable. Expanding beyond its music into a culture, hip-hop has transcended into every bit of our everyday lives both within and outside of […]

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The Top 20 Summer BBQ Hip Hop Anthems

Okay, so you’ve got your grilling game right. And yeah you’ve got a cooler full of cold drank. And of course, you have all the homies coming through. Cypher complete right? Not quite, player. Because what’s a summer bbq without the proper music to serve as the official soundtrack to it? Now since we at […]