From the Record Crate: Raekwon – “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…” (1995)

If there’s one hip-hop group – and symbol – that’s likely to be immortalized in music culture forever, it’s the Wu-Tang Clan, and their unmistakable “W.” With one of the most iconic albums in rap history, the 1993 release, Enter…

Album Review: Ghostface Killah – “The Lost Tapes”

Wu-Tang’s own Ghostface Killah needs no introduction for hip hop heads at this point. New York’s own Michael Rapaport (who narrates parts of the album) makes that notion clear right from the beginning (“Shit, the motherfucker needs no introduction, I…

Album Review: Wu-Tang Clan – “The Saga Continues”

I’ve been reading Shea Serrano’s The Rap Year Book lately, where the author goes through each year from 1979 to 2015 and decides on which rap song from each of those years is the most important.  One of the sections that caught my…

Best Hip-Hop Records of 2014

[tps_title]Albums #10 – #6[/tps_title] 10. The Roots: And Then You Shoot Your Cousin The Roots, a band never afraid to confront the darker side of music, find themselves doing exactly that on And Then You Shoot Your Cousin. Honest and…