Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Nas is back and more controversial than ever on his new untitled Def Jam release. On this, his 9th studio album, Nas studies and lyrically dissects some of the our most divisive issues: race, inequality, poverty, and power. And who better to stir up debate than the man most consider one of the top five emcees in the history of the game? From his brilliant 1994 debut Illmatic, to his mainstream success with It Was Written, to anthems like 'Hate Me Now' and 'One ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Explicit Version. Exit 13 into the 2008 release by LL Cool J who has enjoyed one of the most successful and sustained careers in Rap history since releasing his recording debut as a youth. His aggressive style has achieved Grammy Awards and platinum sales with massive crossover success. This album has several songs featuring special guests like It's Ya Girl Nicoletter, Jiz, Lyrikal, Richie Sambora, Ryan Leslie, Funkmaster Flex, Wyclef Jean, Fat Joe, Sheek Louch, Elan of The DEY, Grandmaster Caz, Ticky and The ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Explicit Version. We Global is the third album by Miami based producer DJ Khaled. Guest appearances include Rick Ross, Ace Hood, Plies, Young Jeezy, T.I., Lil Wayne, Akon, Trick Daddy, Lil Boosie, Nas, Cool & Dre, Kanye West, Fabolous, Fat Joe, Chris Brown, Sean Paul, Brisco, Busta Rhymes, Flo Rida, and many more. Khaled Khaled born in New Orleans, Louisiana, is better known by his stage name DJ Khaled is a Palestinian-American DJ, record producer, and radio personality for the South Florida radio station ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Graduation is the 3rd installment in the Kanye West series of ground breaking albums, targeting every school kid, from those that have dropped out (Debut Album, College Dropout), to those late registrants (sophmore album Late Registration), to those that have gone on and completed school (current album Graduation). Though technically this earmarks a junior year, West's approach to crafting this album was very much senior. Kanye teams up with veterans Daft Punk and Edwin Birdsong on 'Stronger'- Graduation's forthcoming single; as well as enlisting ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:One of the most renowned and continually relevant Hip-Hop emcees of all time, GZA returns with his fifth solo album, Pro Tools. GZA is an original member of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan. GZA has established himself as a perennial force in Hip-Hop, having amassed sales of over 1.5 million units in his 13+ year solo career. GZA's contributions have driven the phenomenal success of the 2008 Wu-Tang Clan reunion album '8 Diagrams' as well as two of independent Hip Hop's flagship releases: 'Think Differently ...
Editorial Product Review: :Their remake of 'Killing Me Softly' was the hit, but that's only the beginning of the story. A hip-hop trio whose talents reach out into the world of the pop song (Wyclef Jean is a fine guitar player, and Lauryn Hill's a heck of a singer), the Fugees are also all distinctive, inventive rappers--you find yourself waiting for each of them to take the next verse in turn. The beats are the familiar crossed-armed boom-bip, but the group's understated grooves and subtle effects lie low ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:The King of Brooklyn, Biggie Smalls, busted through with an instant hip-hop classic on his first album, Ready to Die, but he outdid even his standard on Life After Death, an audible, posthumous autobiography about the life of the former dope dealer. The 2 CD set revels in death, especially on 'Niggaz Bleed,' 'Somebody's Gotta Die,' and 'You're Nobody ('Til Somebody Kills You),' but it's painfully clear that this chestnut-cheeked, fun-loving father of two wanted to see his kids grow up on 'Sky ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:The joke of Licensed to Ill's cover--that the Beasties could crash their jet into the side of a mountain and keep on tickin'--serves as a good metaphor for a career that even some of their 1986 admirers thought might be over after the one-time-only shock of this full-length debut. That thousands of funk-junkie wannabes have since failed at re-creating its groove, breaking-the-law vibe, and ear-splitting mix of rock and rap is an even better joke. And funniest of all is the record itself, ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:The concept behind the album coming is built around relating the streets here in the US to those around the world. To illustrate that no matter what we face here, our native post-colonial lands are suffering 1000 times worse. This project was made to create more dialogue and communication between this country and Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, The Middle East, and South East Asia, all those lands that were under European or American rule (less than 20 years ago in some places). For ...
