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The latest rapper to take a break from a successful acting career in order to release an album is Will Smith. After LL Cool J, Redman and Ice Cube all successfully proved last year that they hadn’t lost their ability to craft a good record, “Based On A True Story”… Read more »

“Question — nigga, have you ever heard of Sean?Hell yeah, but I prefer my Uncle Murda songs.” – Sean Price, “The Unexpected“ A comical bar from the late great Sean Price, but whenever I hear his duet with fellow dearly departed rapper MF DOOM, I wonder why we don’t talk… Read more »

There’s nothing quite like thinking you’ve dug up every rap fossil from the 1980’s or 90’s only to find out there’s another substrata you haven’t hit yet. Today’s discovery was East Palo Alto, CA rapper C-Funk. He had four albums on four different labels, arguably hitting his peak in 1995… Read more »

Is it all over for 6ix9ine? You might question why I’d start a review of “BLACKBALLED” that way, but I had similar questions when I looked up the album. Wikipedia is ostensibly not supposed to have any kind of editorial bias, but the anonymous writer who penned the words “the… Read more »

In the 1920’s a woman named Dorothy Parker became famous (and accrued fortune) for her sharp tongued reviews and acerbic wit. She committed one of the literary sins almost all of us are warned away from in journalism from the first day of school — inserting yourself into your stories.… Read more »

RapReviews is crowd funded but we need your help! I’m not going to mince words — the decline of community funding month over month puts RapReviews.com in an increasingly perilous position. We went from earning $120 a month last October to $106 a month in March. If those trends continued… Read more »