RZA

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

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

Rap-rock, as a genre, has a bad connotation. 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

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

Comic book culture Web site Comics Alliance put up a great piece on the long-standing relationship between rap and comics. Read More

It's the second biggest move in the history of Hip-Hop free agency, surpassed only by Tupac's signing with Death Row Records in October of 1995. Read More