Articles by Kevin Jones

88-Keys

The Death Of Adam

PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2009

Back when Rawkus represented the holy ground of underground hip-hop divinity and "neo soul" was the hot new descriptor rolling off the tong...

Ghostface Killah

Ghostdeini The Great

PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2009

Ghostface Killah is one of those rare MCs seemingly incapable of coming wack, with a personality as strong as his mic skills are deep and a...

Illa J

Yancey Boys

PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2009

If you found yourself rolling your eyes the first time you chanced upon Dilla sibling John Yancey's choice of artistic name, count yourself...

Black Milk’s Reign

PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2008

For all of the social and economic turmoil that has long been synonymous with Detroit, nothing seems to slow the culture-defining musical c...

Talib Kweli

Live At The Shrine

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2008

One thing you can almost always count one when watching concert DVDs is that you’ll be left feeling a lack of total satisfaction as you lon...

Moka Only

Carrots and Eggs

PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2008

At an unimaginable clip of roughly four releases per year, you'd expect at some point to see a noticeable drop in production value at the M...

Now On

Tomorrow Already

PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2008

Upon hearing the first few bars of the '60s folk-styled opening track from L.A.-based rap trio Now On's new set Tomorrow Already, what they...

Insideamind

Scatterpopia

PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2008

Toronto turntable technicians iNSiDEaMiND have long been stretching the creative limits of hip-hop’s most consecrated music instrument with...