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- Kheyzine – Product Of My Environment Act I – IV | Review 28 February 2026Kheyzine’s Product of My Environment arrives as a remarkable four-part journey, released in February 2026 in rapid succession. These albums form a cohesive whole, spanning nearly two hours over 48 tracks, each act functioning as a chapter in an extended narrative about how our surroundings shape perspective and resilience. The French producer directs this sonic film […]HHGA Staff
- RJD2 & Supastition – According To… | Review 28 February 2026According To… is the kind of record that reminds you why you started caring about underground Hip Hop in the first place. It is also the kind of record that could only exist now, made by two artists who have already lived through the hype cycle, industry promises, and algorithm era, and walked out the other […]HHGA Staff
- Hip Hop Isn’t Dying. The Youth Just Aren’t Hungry Enough. 27 February 2026The current date is February 27, 2026, and the debate refuses to die down. Fresh threads on X keep reigniting the same question: is Hip Hop dying because veteran artists in their 40s and beyond refuse to step aside, or because the younger generation simply isn’t delivering the innovation and raw energy that defined the […]HHGA Staff
- A Tribe Called Quest “Check The Rhime” (1991) 27 February 2026“Check the Rhime” is the first single from A Tribe Called Quest’s second album The Low End Theory. The music video, directed by Jim Swaffield, starts out in front of houses and moves to a cleaners store where the group performs on the roof, in Queens, New York in front of a large crowd. The cleaners […]Daily Video
- J. Cole – The Fall-Off | Review 6 February 2026J. Cole brings his studio album career to a close with The Fall-Off, a double-disc project that stretches across more than 100 minutes through releases on Cole World, Dreamville, and Interscope. This album carries the weight of years of anticipation. Cole first teased it on the final track of 2018’s KOD, framing it as a potential bookend […]HHGA Staff
- By Storm – My Ghosts Go Ghost | Review 30 January 2026Injury Reserve built a name through jagged, boundary-crossing Hip Hop out of Tempe, Arizona. After Stepa J. Groggs died at 32 in 2020, the group released By the Time I Get to Phoenix in 2021 as a raw processing of that loss. RiTchie and Parker Corey retired the Injury Reserve name out of respect, then […]HHGA Staff
- Stu Bangas & Wordsworth – Chemistry | Review 30 January 2026Stu Bangas and Wordsworth connect on Chemistry with the kind of seasoned interplay that turns a collaboration into something greater than its parts. This 2026 release follows their well-received 2024 project 2 Kings, building on that foundation while introducing subtle refinements. Bangas mans the boards across all 13 tracks, delivering his recognizable raw boom-bap sound. Dark, atmospheric loops […]HHGA Staff
- Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon – As Of Now | Review 30 January 2026Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon arrives at Lex Records with As of Now, a record that captures him somewhere in the middle of his ascent, weighing recent victories against lingering personal questions. The Charlotte rapper spent years grinding underground, building through mixtapes like Beautifully Black and I’ve Really Never Been Better, work that deserves full recognition for its consistency and […]HHGA Staff
- Roc Marciano: Reviver Of East Coast Street Rap 23 January 2026The Origins of East Coast Street Rap In the mid-1990s, New York street rap captured the raw energy of East Coast Hip Hop. West Coast gangsta rap ruled the airwaves through albums like Dr. Dre’s The Chronic and Snoop Doggy Dogg’s Doggystyle, with their smooth G-funk synths shifting attention away from New York. The response […]HHGA Staff
- Roc Marciano – 656 | Review 23 January 2026Roc Marciano moves on a different clock than the rest of the game. For more than a decade, he has been the originator and gold standard for this strain of gritty street rap, the one who helped revive and refit the mafioso lane opened by 1990s icons like Kool G Rap, Nas, AZ, and Raekwon […]HHGA Staff
- Marley Marl “The Symphony” (1988) 22 January 2026“The Symphony” is a song produced by Marley Marl featuring Juice Crew members Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, and Big Daddy Kane. The track appears on Marley Marl’s 1988 Cold Chillin’ Records release In Control, Volume 1. Rolling Stone ranked “The Symphony” the 48th greatest Hip Hop song of all time, calling it […]Daily Video
- DJ Eprom – We Are The Biobots | Review 21 January 2026DJ Eprom’s We Are the Biobots is turntablism as sci-fi cinema, a fully wired concept record about “digitized” humans made with nothing but human hands. Rooted in Hip Hop but leaning hard into electro and techno, the album plays like a broadcast from a bunker somewhere between 1984 and a future where everything runs on code. […]HHGA Staff