TRUMPED! Did Lazarus & Crooked I just drop a Trump Diss? It’s 2016. And the Grinch stole Christmas. Wait, I meant to say, Donald Trump screwed over a nation by appearing on people’s Social Media News Feeds when that was…

The New will feature hiphop from emerging artists, or artists/scenes bubbling just below the surface. This week features bluesy and soulful, uber-talented Oxnard, Cali native (and Dr. Dre co-signed) Anderson .Paak, with his excellent new album Malibu. (Don’t worry, The…

2015 has been just the perfect year for Desi Hip Hop. It involved several videos, music, gigs and events which laid down the foundation for 2016. 2016 is ours…..2016 will be the year of Desi Hip Hop. Slowly and steadily…

Sikander Kahlon has been making headlines since he got signed by Manj Musik. He made sure to capitalize on the attention and launched his latest mixtape, “Last Resort“. The mixtape justifies why he has reached, where he is. The mixtape…

Welcome back to the The Catch Up, an mini-update/communique from America, on the latest happenings. This past week saw Kanye (somewhat) politely making a request ahead of SWISH, news on Heems’ new television deal, and a resurgent Charles Hamilton comes…

Here we have a quick summation of Introduce Yourself – Battlefield (Vol. 2) hosted by Prabh Deep The event was organised at The Founders Cafe on the 29th of last month. The event has it’s share of people of attending…

To understand where hip-hop is going, like everything else, we must review where it’s been – and where it hasn’t. The latter refers to the seismic shift in rap and hip-hop that stemmed from the Dec. 17, 1991, ruling on…

Welcome back to the The Catch Up, an mini-update/communique from America, on the latest happenings. This week saw the releases (at least the streams) of new material from notables MPC monster araabMUZIK, New Orleans spitter Curren$y, and the forever emo…

Lazarus is having one of the best years of his music career, and his year is about to end with a banger. His recent single with Royce da 5’9″ caused a lot of buzz among Hip Hop heads around the…

One of the perks of being a Musician is that you get to meet a lot of people in the various practices of music, be it performing, recording, composing, writing, producing. Imagine what a treat it will be if you…

Welcome to the Catch-Up, a quick rundown of American hip-hop culture. In the last seven days, we saw Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole traded beats, Drake (sort of) responds to Adele‘s “Hotline Bling” request, KOOL A.D. dropped 100-track album (yes…

Understanding hip-hop just isn’t not possible with understanding its origins, to include the samples used from soul and funk, in order to understand its cadences and bounce. Arguably two of the most important and ubiquitous songs/samples in the history of music,…