One of the biggest mysteries in hip-hop over the last 10 years is, ‘how the fuck is KRS still getting paid?’ (apart from the obvious – letting out space in his nostrils to paying tenants) Let’s put our cards on the table, dude is one the best to ever do it. A legend, an innovator, [...]

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Underhated : Pretty much any Nas album made since the year 2000
Okay, Stillmatic isn’t a bad album (though Ether will always be the most overrated dis track in the history of rap : a string of jokes and puns about poofs which Jim Davidson would’ve rejected for being too obvious over a beat which sounds [...]

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We’re not usually ones to just throw up YouTube links on the main page for the hell of it. But like many people, we only ever visit video streaming sites to relive the homemade Yo! MTV Raps VHS collections that were long ago wiped or lost 10 house moves ago, or to check out a [...]

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Extra P gets much love from us – when you’ve got ‘Breaking Atoms’ on your CV, you’re guaranteed at least an interview. But the best kept secret in hip-hop has always been how much of a turkey ‘The LP’ is. Was. Could have been. In fact, a pottered history of its release schedule traumas is [...]

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Get well soon Yauch.

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Fat Lace is on some paternity leave for a hot minute. Normal service will be resumed this weekend.

Slick Rick – It’s A Boy (Large Professor Remix AKA the Best Remix EVER)

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The place to be this Friday – but don’t expect two straight hours of MC Rell and the Houserockers.

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Vibe Magazine once had the front page splash “Mariah Carey hits the beach in heels”, and considered Prancehall to be the world’s 47th best rap blog. And yet it somehow closed down. Queue all manner of handwringing and gnashing of teeth regarding how “rap print journalism is dead”. Who cares? Let it go. The internet [...]

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Your old friend Captain Splattahouse has been laying in the cut recently, partly because he has been nursing a clinical addiction to red wine and porn, but also because this next item of pointless violence has special significance this week. I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer is, surely to goodness, the only [...]

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