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Young Money recording artist raised quite an uproar with his recent twitter post which strongly implied his retirement.

“I AM NOW DEFENSELESS and mentally DEFEATED,” read Lil Wayne’s tweet, written sometime around 1 a.m. Saturday morning, “I leave gracefully and thankful, I [love] my fans but I’m done”.

Although the cause for Wayne’s post remains unclear, fans and followers speculate it involves Wayne’s failed attempts at deviating from his Cash Money Records contract.

On the contrary, another tweet posted after Weezy’s alleged retirement post suggested less erratic predictions. In w

According to a press release from original N.W.A. publicist Phyllis Pollack, Jerry Heller, the music executive famous for managing the legendary rap group N.W.A., passed away on September 2, 2016. He was 75 years old. Together, with the late rapper Eric “Eazy-E” Wright, the two formed Ruthless Records. With Heller and Wright as equal partners, Ruthless became the first entirely black-owned record company to release gold, platinum and multi-platinum rap albums. Eazy-E was the founding member of the group N.W.A., which rose to fame with members Dr. Dre (Andre Young), DJ Ren (Lorenzo Patterson), DJ Yella (Antoine Carraby), and Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson). N.W.A. became famous after the release of its highly publicized 1988 album, Straight Outta Compton. It

Surfacing out of the devastating 9/11 tragedies, The Black-Eyed Peas introduced their thought-provoking single, “Where Is The Love”.

With current threats and tumults on the rise, the American dance-pop group returns with an updated take on the song’s lyrics, but nevertheless, raising the same message.

“I remember when the attack in Paris happened, people would say, ‘We need ‘Where Is The Love?’ again’, spoke BEP frontman Will.I.Am. in a previous video post, “And then Belgium happened, and then Turkey,

Only few emcees have managed to preserve organic, old-school quality in a rapidly-commercialized and constantly-evolving music culture—one of these emcees is none other than Phantasm.

Popularized as one-half of underground Hip-hop duo “Cella Dwellas”, Phantasm entered the scene under the legendary Loud Records, which also rostered other iconic groups and artists, such as Wu-Tang, Xzibit, Big Pun, and M.O.P.

The duo released Realms n’ Reality in 1996, and then returned with The Last Shall Be Firstin 2000, under the simplified “Dwellas” identity. Along the span of his traversing in Hip-hop underground, Phantasm has without a doubt proven his identity as a “timeless” artist.

After

French producer Wax Tailor has teamed up with Ghostface Killah for the new single, “Worldwide," from his fifth studio album, By Any Beats Necessary. The animated video finds the Wu Tang Clan emcee navigating the track like the seasoned vet he is over a laid back, soulful beat. 

“Without going too deep into poilitics, the album’s title reflects my determination to use all kinds of sounds and textures to get to something musical,” says JC Le Saout, the man behind Wax Tailor. “The word ‘Beat’ also draws a line towards the Beat Generation, Kerouac’s famous novel On The Road, and the quest for a better place.  And so, in this time when each of us needs a little escape, I conceptualized this album as the

It’s been a pretty tumultuous year considering rising threats such as gun violence, police brutality, and the ever-recurring struggle against social injustice. Sound familiar?

Indeed, these were the same issues that first kindled the Hip-hop movement in the 1970’s. Fast forward to the current day and age, we still come face to face with familiar difficulties—but just like in days past, the Hip-hop movement calls out to the masses, like a voice chiding against a fierce storm.

We often refer to them as musicians and artists, and we are rightly-so to think that, but we often neglect that they are also revolutionaries, modern-day Luther Kings and Riders’, voicing out against recent crises, such as Alton Sterling and the murder of Mar