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- Mike – Showbiz! | Review 31 January 2025MIKE’s Showbiz! is a hazy, free-flowing meditation on movement and memory, built from warm loops and scattered thoughts that linger like smoke. His delivery is unhurried, his voice thick with experience, letting each bar settle into the grainy, off-kilter production. Recorded between tours, the album captures the push and pull between transience and stability, with […]HHGA Staff
- Pink Siifu – BLACK’!ANTIQUE | Review 31 January 2025Pink Siifu’s BLACK’!ANTIQUE is loud, layered, and unshaken by convention. Over its sprawling runtime, Siifu pulls from punk, jazz, soul, and Southern rap, colliding these elements into something unpredictable but intentional. The album doesn’t hold the listener’s hand—it throws them into its world, where beats dissolve and reform, voices weave in and out, and the […]HHGA Staff
- Ghais Guevara – Goyard Ibn Said | Review 31 January 2025Ghais Guevara’s Goyard Ibn Said is loud, chaotic, and razor-sharp. The Philadelphia rapper and producer crafts a record that moves fast, throwing out references, history, and jokes like he’s dodging bullets. It’s a concept album told in two acts: the first a ride through success and excess, the second a collapse into something more personal […]HHGA Staff
- Kool Keith – Sex Style (The Un-Released Archives) (2007) | Review 31 January 2025Kool Keith has always been ahead of his time. From his days with Ultramagnetic MCs to his surreal solo experiments, his approach to Hip Hop is as unpredictable as it is inimitable. Sex Style: The Unreleased Archives pulls back the curtain on a period when Keith was at his sharpest—before his later career dips, before […]HHGA Staff
- Public Enemy “Night Of The Living Baseheads” (1988) 31 January 2025“Night of the Living Baseheads” is the third single released by Public Enemy, from their critically acclaimed album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The lyrics deal with the effects of crack cocaine on African-Americans during the 1980 scrack epidemic, referring to the slang for cocaine “base”. The song uses more […]Daily Video
- LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out (1990) | Review 24 January 2025LL Cool J’s Mama Said Knock You Out is an album fueled by urgency and a drive to reclaim respect, making a significant impact on Hip Hop culture. It resonated with fans and critics alike, serving as a defining statement of resilience and reinvention at a crucial point in LL’s career. After the lukewarm reception […]HHGA Staff
- billy woods – Known Unknowns (2017) | Review 23 January 2025Born in the U.S. and raised between Washington D.C., Africa, and the Caribbean, billy woods‘ music reflects a life spent moving between cultures, absorbing different perspectives, and developing a voice that is sharp, observant, and often enigmatic. Since the early 2000s, woods has been carving out his own space in underground Hip Hop, first with […]HHGA Staff
- Kool Keith – Sex Style (1997) | Review 23 January 2025Kool Keith is a figure who stands out in the world of Hip Hop as much for his eccentricity as for his lyrical dexterity. Born Keith Thornton, the rapper has long cultivated a reputation for his offbeat personas, creative storytelling, and unapologetically bizarre lyrical content. First gaining significant attention as a member of the groundbreaking […]HHGA Staff
- Naughty By Nature “Hip Hop Hooray” (1993) 23 January 2025“Hip Hop Hooray” is one of the biggest hits from Naughty By Nature. The song spent one week at number one on the US R&B chart and reached number eight on the US Pop chart. It contains samples from “Funky President” by James Brown, “Don’t Change Your Love” by Five Stairsteps, “Make Me Say it […]Daily Video
- Wu Tang Clan “Method Man” (1993) 14 January 2025“Method Man” is the B-side to the single “Protect Ya Neck” from the critically acclaimed debut album by the Wu-Tang Clan titled Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). It was a solo track for the first successful solo star of the Wu-Tang Clan, Method Man. The song was chosen for The Source magazine’s 100 best rap singles. […]Daily Video
- Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Piñata (2014) | Review 12 January 2025When you first think about the pairing of Freddie Gibbs and Madlib, it feels somewhat unexpected. Gibbs, a hard-nosed rapper from Gary, Indiana, with a raw, no-nonsense style, doesn’t seem like the natural collaborator for Madlib, an eccentric producer known for his layered, often left-field beats. But that’s exactly what makes Piñata such a standout—this […]HHGA Staff
- Celph Titled – The Gatalog: A Collection Of Chaos (2006) | Review 11 January 2025Celph Titled’s The Gatalog: A Collection of Chaos is an ambitious deep-dive into one of underground Hip Hop’s most distinct voices. Spanning four discs and 75 tracks, this colossal compilation gathers a mix of unreleased material, collaborations, and rare cuts from the self-proclaimed “Rubix Cuban.” More than just a collection, it is an exercise in relentless […]HHGA Staff