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He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper Review: Was It Actually That Big of a Deal? Short answer: yes. He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper, released in 1988 by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, was hip-hop’s first-ever double album. It went on to become triple platinum, and its single “Parents Just Don’t Understand” won…

Coloring Book Chance the Rapper Review: Does It Still Hold Up? Short answer: yes. Coloring Book, released May 13, 2016, is still Chance the Rapper’s best-reviewed project. It’s gospel and hip-hop mixed together in a way almost nobody else was doing at the time, and it made history as the first streaming-only release to chart…

Starline Chance The Rapper Review Six years is a long time to wait for anything. Chance the Rapper made his fans wait six years between albums, and when Star Line finally dropped on August 15, 2025, people had one big question: did he actually fix what went wrong last time? Short answer: mostly yes. Star…

The Evolution of Hardcore Coast Beats and Lyricism Here’s the answer you came here for: on Red Bull Spiral’s West Coast episode, YG, Mozzy, and Jay Rock go bar for bar over a single funky beat from producer SmokeyGotBeatz, filmed in one continuous take, and the general fan and critic consensus is that all three…

Breaking Down Modern Underground Hip-Hop Beats Here’s the short answer, right up front: JPEGMAFIA’s Experimental Rap is a good album, not a great one. Critics gave it a mixed reception — NME landed at 70/100, Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop gave it a 6/10 calling it “a bit of a step down,” and Pitchfork’s…

Growing Up Hip Hop Review: The Quick Answer If you just want the bottom line: Growing Up Hip Hop is a WE tv reality franchise about the adult children of hip hop legends, and it’s been running since January 7, 2016. The original series sits at 3.9/10 on IMDb (272 ratings), the Atlanta spinoff sits…

If you typed “indie hip hop review Twitter” into Google, here’s the short answer: the biggest real accounts still doing this work are @IndieHipHopREV (Indie Hip Hop Review, out of Houston), DJBooth.net’s editorial team, Karen Civil, and blog-backed accounts like Underground Hip Hop Blog and IndieHipHop.com. That’s it. That’s the list most “top 10” articles…

Anthony Fantano First Hip Hop Review: discover the truth now The origin story of modern digital album reviews Straight answer up front, because this deserves honesty instead of a made-up headline: there’s no single confirmed video that’s documented as Anthony Fantano’s very first hip hop review. Here’s why, and here’s what actually is confirmed and…