Seriously, how cool is Uncle Rapi*? —Rapi Nobody that spends as much time as you do in Springfield, Ill., can be cool. Even the legislators don’t kick it there after sundown. And if you try to get me to refer to you as my uncle again, I'm gonna have you registered. Do you think the Lakers will »»

In retrospect, I should have known better. Hanging all of my hopes for a good evening on a DOOM performance is like getting excited for a rendezvous with a really easy girl. Sure, you hear she's good... but she's probably got AIDS. I should have known better than to think that a guy in a mask woul »»

LAST WEEK'S FREAKY PEN PALS Akomplice writes: Slightly Autistic- Liked the Iron chef reference yet Illuminati Blues and Ziggy's Interstellar are still some of my favorites (not sure if they're even on the album) but as ive stated I will be waiting for the whole album as well. Peace I was hoping »»

Frank Zappa, Prince Paul, Robert Anton Wilson, John S. Hall and John Linnell beat each other up in my head most of the day. Just about every action that I take is the result of one of them bashing the other over the head with a shovel. Most of the time they don't make direct contact with each other »»

I'm 26 years old. Twenty-six revolutions around the sun from my birth 'til now. Not only have I managed to stay alive this long, I've had the fortune of landing and losing a few jobs, having a few graduations and losing my virginity a few times. I have a pretty decent job now, a beat-up but paid-fo »»

Underground hip-hop is a big, dead dragon. It's a huge, dark green corpse with a fat, scaly corn-colored belly. Everything that lives must die. The sad part is that there's no dragon-control wagon to call and haul the carcass away. There's no dragon forensic unit to inspect the crime scene. It j »»

Yes, I know… I've been pretty inconsistent of late. Actually anyone who's been savvy enough to keep up with my random postings over the last few years knows that I have all the consistency of a Herpes outbreak. Before now, my work ethic was to blame. And in a sense it still is. I'm sure that »»

D-n-A - Hip-Hop and The Black Arts Movement Sound Mind Productions Rap/Hip-hop There was a time not so long ago when one could walk into the local music shoppe and be pleasantly surprised. During my formative years, I used to frequent a spot called Dr. Wax in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. I n »»

I’m so confused… Lil’ Wayne is now dissing Jay-Z. Not subliminal jabs, or veiled references, but literally calling Jay out (in an interview with Complex Magazine): "I don't like what he's saying about how he had to come back because hip-hop's dead »»

A lot of people say that folks like me are just “haters”. They say that the only reason that people like me have a problem with hip-hop nowadays is because the sound is “growing and changing” and I just can’t bear to change w »»

So you guys know I'm a rapper right? I don't know what kinds of images that conjures up in your mind, but whatever you think a rapper is, I'm willing to bet it ain't anything like me. I'm a grimy, gritty, underground MC. I rap about shit like pharmaceutical companies and banana slugs. My shit is s »»

Mya plays 50 and Banks. "I'm confused, I like Megan, Monica and Mya, Missy's freaky and Brandy's shy," Fif shared on G-Unit's "Poppin Them Thangs." Actually, Fif may wanna edit Mya's name the next time he performs the song. The muscle-bound rapper has been linked to the R&B songstress in the past »»

You know what I spend a lot of time doing? Trying not to read the hip-hop rumors at this certain web-site. You know what site I'm talking about, the one that gets a billion hits a day because it's got that damned rumors page. I used to read them religiously. Part of my morning routine was to read »»

Link: Busta Rhymes The Inside Pulse: With The Big Bang, Busta Rhymes presents the rap world with his seventh solo LP. Probably having wished that he hadn't already used the title Genesis for his fifth LP, this record marks a deliberate attempt to change the trajectory of Busta's legacy. By l »»

Last Friday, I entered a rap battle. A big, expensive rap battle. A few years ago, I was known as a "battle rapper". Which only meant that I was very good at embarrassing other rappers at public events. I kind of retired from that in 2003. The reason that I give to most people is that I was tire »»