Spotlight / Features

Wax Reform

Intercontinental Crates - Lending production and guest verses to each others albums has proved to be the focal point that makes Wax Reform the greatest collection of production talent in hip-hop today.

Dminor, Munshine, ILLmind, Raks-One, Presto, & M-Phazes

The Knux Mocha Twist
Hero Need One?
R.P.M. Raw Poetics
Dan Johns Carolina Cadence
P.P.T. Quirky Soul
Frequency Notherground
U-N-I The New Cali
Yea Big + Kid Static The Farside Duo
Toca LA's Everything
The Cool Kids Throwbacks
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Columns/Editorials!

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Graffiti

Glow of the Krylon Scepter

Splattered over city structures, subway trains, brick walls, and tunnels are words and symbols covered in a rainbow's urination. Graffiti.

Krs-One Before they were legends, they were just two dejected young men trying to get back to the Bronx. Here is the story of Krs-One, Scott La Rock, and B-Boy Records.

Cold Chillin' Long before the Wu-Tang Clan, G-Unit or Ghetto Revival, there was rap's first bundled super-group, the Juice Crew.

Madlib Hua Hsu takes a deeper look into one of the most intriguing, creative, original, and elusive hip hop artists living today.

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NY is Not Hip Hop's Birthplace? Anthropology Professor, Frank Rochester, says he has proof that New York is not the birthplace of hip hop. Then what is?

Mantronix Socolov started Fresh as a way to tap into the burgeoning rap scene. And one of his secret weapons was Kurtis Mantronik, who pulled double duty as Fresh A&R and one-half of the group Mantronix.

Duck Down The return of Smiff n' Wessun and Duck Down Records.

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