Pharoahe Monch

The brainchild of The Black Keys and Damon Dash, BlakRoc will be released on "Black Friday," November 27, the day after Thanksgiving (to be dubbed "Blak Friday" by the independent record stores that will sell the album) . Read More

As the saying goes, "if it don't make dollars then it don't make cents" Adding their own testimonial to the saying is RZA and Pharoahe Monch, as they join BlakRoc's latest collaborative efforts with some of Hip Hop's most notable. Read More

I installed Windows 7 this week on the laptop I bought in Singapore last month and I have to say, it's REALLY good. Read More

I've been back in Australia less than 2 weeks and I'm already craving a trip overseas. Read More

"The thing about Chicago MCs," says Donald Mason, "the reason why we're being embraced right now, is that we ain't selling crack rock and aiming nines at your head for 16 songs straight. We giving people real hip-hop: straight conversation, introspection, battle shit, political shit. You getting it all." Read More

Back in the game, ready for more, here I am still slightly jet lagged and seriously confused as to what day it is! Read More

"Has hip-hop grown up?" [2] Besides the obvious condescension, we learned next to nothing (!) about what musical maturity truly means or how it might relate to Hip-Hop. The scantily clad article did very little to examine the dexterity and virtuosity that has sustained Hip-Hop for three decades, and kept it in a permanent state of reinvention. Read More

Yet more intriguing details have emerged of The Black Keys ' new hip-hop collaboration project which, operating under the name BLAKROC and featuring some of the most revered and respected names in the whole industry. Read More

Spoken word is clearly at a different place than it was twenty years ago, when cafe audiences would heckle a poet for using a solecism or dangling modifier. Read More

NEW YORK, NY—October 1, 2009—SPUTNIK, the Brooklyn nightclub and restaurant, announced today that it will host a live show for fans to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the iconic Hip-Hop album, INTERNAL AFFAIRS, along with (Rapper) Pharoahe Monch. Read More