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Scene Guide: New York Hip Hop

- Source: ClashMusic.com

It seems churlish, nigh on disrespectful, to even question its wellbeing considering it's, well, New York - the birthplace of rap, realness and foundation within a big city of dreams, and long the cause for street Dick Whittingtons to sling rhyme-filled bindles over their shoulders.

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Sheek Louch - Donnie G: Don Gorilla

- Source: Pitchfork Media

Over the past decade-plus, Sheek Louch has had the ignominious distinction of being an obvious third wheel: he's the only member of veteran Yonkers trio the LOX never to rap in a shoe commercial, Jadakiss and Styles P do their awesome back-and-forth thing only with each other, and while those two have managed hits independently, the only things you really knew about Sheek as a solo artist was that Ghostface seemed to like him, and he may have released an album on Koch. And yet, now that the album in question, Donnie G , finally arrives it's as his debut on the iconic Def Jam label.

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