The rock/rap album has had mixed results. Read More
Damon Dash recently took MTV News on a tour of his new Lower Manhattan art gallery/ studio compound, DD172. Read More
Rap/rock is as old as Run DMC and Aerosmith, but The Black Keys -produced BlackRoc album has something on every Jay-Z mashup: a freaking Camaro SS . 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
D.J. Cinema and D.J. Mello-The Commission (a.k.a.-B.I.G. and Jay-Z, The Album that Never Was) (2005-Mixtape) and Bobb Deep-Queensbridge (200?-DJ Swindle) . Read More
I usually traffic in artists that have 1 or 2 posts on MOG, but it was Vancouver,British Columbia, Canada interviewer Nardwuar ,along with Lykki Li (well over 200 MOG posts) who hipped me to a modern iteration of an obscure Stax tune by an obscure Stax artist, Wendy Rene. Read More
Rap-rock, as a genre, has a bad connotation. Read More
As we approach 2010, I set out on this mission with the expectation of wrapping up a decade's worth of the best samples of the 2000's, but the task was too great for me to finish by December 31st. Read More
While an official explanation has not yet been revealed, a representative for the project said that project and Redman 's new solo effort have both been delayed. Read More
NPR recently chronicled the story of a sample - in this case, The Charmels' 1967 single "As Long As I've Got You" - which RZA copped for "C.R.E.A.M." on 1993's Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Read More
The Wu-Tang Clan's chief producer, the RZA (aka the Abbott, Prince Rakeem, the Rzarector, Bobby Steels, and Read the full RZA bio.