The headliner made his way to the stage, and as expected, the crowd greeted him with open arms. Obviously familiar with the material, the crowd recited nearly every word with Tha Ripper as he delivered an array of songs from his various mixtapes, including his recently released “The Cleveland Show”.

The entire planet seemed to be up in arms about an impending doom that so many had predicted would come. There were tons of films and television shows that raked in tons of earnings by playing the “world’s gonna end” card, but in the world of music, no one did it better than Busta Rhymes. Read the review of Extinction Level Event

Late Wednesday evening, the news of the passing of one of this generation’s most revered soul singers, Teddy Pendergrass was a shock to many people, including myself. Early reports were posted on social networks like Twitter and just like with the death of Michael Jackson last year, the news was at first abrupt and unbelievable.

Their biggest break didn’t come until they met with Russell Simmons and signed to his Def Jam West imprint. Uncle Rush felt that the same women that were purchasing music by the likes of N.W.A. and Ice Cube would also buy into the same type of rap from females if given the opportunity to do so. Read the review of Born Gangstaz

“The Year In Review” is a tradition over at RapReviews.com that they’ve upheld for a decade. Experimenting with a few different approaches, they finally found the most successful formula in 2004 – individual editorials from each of the site’s contributors, allowing them to choose their “best of the best” as they see fit.

The Mozaik Lounge in the Arena District of Downtown Columbus was the scene of the party to celebrate the end result of endless hours of hard work and legwork as HiPolicy Magazine and Dwain Thomas of Digitallure Photography released the calendar they had been working so diligently to produce.

the cassettes on my desk were Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s “Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version”, Jodeci’s “Forever My Lady”, a mixtape of Redman songs and the debut album from the Seattle-based rapper who would go on to become hip-hop’s most revered booty-ologist, Sir Mix-A-Lot. Read the review of Swass

Eazy-E’s death left many wondering about the future of the group, but just a short four months later, BTNH would release what many (including this reviewer) consider to be their magnum opus, “E. 1999 Eternal”. Read the review of E. 1999 Eternal

You see, this time around, Spice was taking no prisoners and leaving no witnesses after unloading the clip. With fourteen in the clip and one in the chamber, it should be a foregone conclusion that he is indeed the fuckin’ murderer. Read the review of 187 He Wrote

Here’s the other half of my photos from the Ohio Hip Hop Awards ceremony for this year. Hopefully next time around I’ll be accepting the award for best photographer, but they need to create the category first. We’ll see, I guess.