Kanye Says “Swish” Is The Greatest Album Ever
Source: Gabriel Olsen / Getty In a statement that should come as a surprise to none, Kanye West tweeted that his new album “Swish” is the greatest album of all time. He also attached a picture of the...
View ArticleCheckout The Handwritten Tracklist For Kanye’s First Album “College Dropout”
Source: KAREN MINASYAN / Stringer / Getty Frequent Kanye West collaborator Consequence took to Instagram today to share a different handwritten Kanye West album track list. After Kanye tweeted his new...
View ArticleDJ Menace’s Top 5 Hip-Hop Documentaries
Source: DJ Menace / DJ Menace People often talk to me about my knowledge of hip-hop. They assume I know it all. I don’t. I know a lot though, and I stay learning. Hip-hop doc’s are a great place to...
View ArticleFoxy Brown “Chyna Doll ” Dropped 17 Years Ago Today
Today marks the 17th anniversary of the release of Foxy Brown’s second album “China Doll”. Featuring the lead single “Hot Spot”, the album would go on to be certified platinum by the RIAA. Check out...
View ArticleClassic Dallas Hip Hop – Something Fresh “Oak Cliff”
Source: Jeremy Woodhouse / Getty Another classic Dallas banger. Let’s take it back to 87′ …
View ArticleKanye Spazzes On Wiz Khalifa Via Twitter
Source: JUSTIN TALLIS / Getty So I just checked Twitter for the first time today, and woah, Kanye is going ham sandwich on Wiz. See Kanye announced his new album’s name has changed from “Swish” to...
View ArticleTwista Dropped “Kamikaze” 12 Years Ago Today
Today marks the 12 year anniversary of “Kamikaze”, the 4th album from Chi-town MC Twista. Featuring the hits “Slow Jamz” and “Overnight Celebrity”, the album would be Twista’s most commercially...
View ArticleDJ Menace’s Top 5 Rakim Songs
Source: Rick Diamond / Getty Rakim means a lot to me personally. And he means even more to hip-hop. Your favorite rappers favorite rapper may just have saved the music at a time where it was certainly...
View ArticleStatik Selektah And Crooked I School The Kids
Crooked I and Statik Selektah have a new album together. Due out February 12th. AllHipHop recently sat down with the two and the topic turned to new school artists who don’t respect the ones who came...
View ArticleSunday Night Sessions 2-14-16
Source: DJ Menace / DJ Menace In case you missed last night’s show, I dropped 90 minutes of classic hip-hop samples. The originals. Listen, enjoy, and see how many you can identify.
View ArticleDallas Hip-Hop Comes Together For DJ Whiz T
Source: DJ Whiz T / DJ Whiz T In a showing of unity not often seen in Hip-Hop, it seemed like all of Dallas’ DJ & Hip-Hop culture came together yesterday to raise money for the family of the...
View ArticleDJ Menace – Prince Tribute Mix
Source: Evan Agostini / Getty In case you missed it, or you just want to hear it again, here’s the Traffic Jam mix with DJ Menace from earlier today. A tribute to Prince that includes a few of your...
View ArticleDJ Menace Traffic Jam Mix – 5/6/16
Source: Radio One / Marketing I took it back to the skating rink’s on Friday. Please return your skates after listening …
View ArticleATLiens Turns 20
Source: Michael Ochs Archives / Getty August 27th marks the 20th anniversary of a certified classic hip-hop album. Outkast’s “ATLiens” was released on August 27th, 1996. In true classic fashion, the...
View ArticleToday In Hip-Hop History – UGK Release “Super Tight”
Source: Photo by Ray Tamarra/Getty Images / Getty August 30th, 1994, UGK released their second album “Super Tight”. Featuring “Front, Back Side to Side”, and “Pocket Full Of Stones Pt.2”.
View ArticleToday In Hip-Hop History – RIP Chris Lighty
4 years ago today, Chris Lighty was found dead in his apartment from an apparent suicide. Lighty cofounded Violator, a label, management company, and marketing firm. He represented several of the...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Fab 5 Freddy
An absolute hip-hop icon turns 57 today. You know Fab 5 as the first official host of Yo! MTV Raps. But he’s so much more than that. He’s a legendary graffiti writer. He helped hip-hop expand in to...
View ArticleToday In Hip-Hop History – Don Cartagena
Source: Rick Diamond / Getty 18 years ago today, Fat Joe released his 3rd album “Don Cartagena”. This album is full of features including the amazing posse cut “John Blaze”.
View ArticleHappy Birthday Eazy-E
Source: Al Pereira / Getty The late great Eazy-E, aka Eric Wright would have turned 53 today. He was born on September 7th, 1963. Eazy founded Ruthless Records along with Jerry Heller, who passed away...
View ArticleToday In Hip-Hop History – Canibus Drops His Debut
18 years ago today, Canibus released his highly anticipated debut album “Can-I-Bus”. Fueled by the buzz of his lead single “2nd Round KO”, which was a diss track aimed at LL Cool J.
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