Category Archives: hip-hop

Teebs – Why Like This

Teebs – Why Like This from Erik T. Butts on Vimeo.

A Hip-Hop compilation from 2003

I found a cd I made from 2003 on an old computer;  it’s a compilation of some of the best club hip-hop from around 1999-2003. It features Ludacris, Styles, Nas, Mobb Deep, Alchemist, Pharoahe Monch, High & Mighty, Mos Def, Dilated Peoples, Killah Priest, Brand Nubian, Atmosphere and Wu-Tang. Enjoy again. Download: http://jump.fm/THVAN

Post Hip-Hop

If you are in your 20′s and grew up listening to Hip-Hop music, you experienced a great musical culture – some of the best music came out of the 90′s and early 2000s. You also saw it mutate into various unsavoury forms as it became heavily commercialised (see: gangsta rap, crunk). If you’re also a [...]

Thank you Jay Dee

Do the knowledge J ROCC on Stones Throw has been putting out these Thank You mixtapes and they are incredible. Although this one is two years old now, it’s one of the best J Dilla mixtapes I have heard. Here is Act 3 of this amazing series. If you are unfamiliar with the late Hip-Hop [...]

Refined vibes

2010 is getting crazy now. Midrange in dubstep drove it out of from its dark origins and we’re seeing Garage make a come back. Early oo’s instrumental hip-hop which was largely bass-driven and menacing is heavily influenced by electro and dubstep. The IDM of our time should be a label for the likes of Mount [...]