Disclaimer 1: This is a Pre-Review of a show that is taking place Thursday (1/24). Mr. Lif is a fun rapper. Akrobatik is a talented emcee. This may be the key difference between the two, who make up The Perceptionists along with…
Alright so I?m terrible and didn?t manage to write this little column last week ? my second week into it?that?s a bad sign I will admit. But I?m back and ready to try my hand again. In all honesty I tried to…
Ill Poetic, unfortunately for me, fell victim to being a CD that I received towards the end of a year as Music Director for my school’s radio station. I say victim because by the end of last school year I couldn?t get…
Hello & welcome to What It Is! This is a column that I’ve been telling myself I should start for awhile (ever since Matt asked me to contribute to the site!) but just haven’t really known what to talk about — then…
Isaac Hayes has probably been the greatest discovery I’ve made since my record collecting took a turn for the serious. Not being familiar with anything by the Black Moses I was blown away by the two songs included in the film “Dead…
Cover of Desire [Purchase CD] Pharoahe Monch should be a star. But he isn?t. If not a star than he should be a legend whose name is on the tip of any head?s tongue when discussing the best emcees to bless us…
Cover of Bayani [Purchase CD] The Scholars, or The Blue Scholars to those of you that don’t call the 206 home are Seattle’s long hyped and only recent claim to Hip Hop fame. They are emcee Geologic & producer/instrumentalist Sabzi and with…
Why do I collect records? I ask myself this from time to time (usually when I?m feeling as though I?m wasting a whole lot of money) and it?s at times like tonight that I realize exactly why I do. I?ve recently been…
I wrote all sorts of gibberish yesterday about this record and today I take a breath and start again. Scribes. The name implies what we (Him and I) do. Hell, it is what many people do. We write. Everybody writes. Some just…
Music… We all love it or else you probably wouldn’t be here. For me I think that it was those weekend afternoons I spent washing the car with my mom listening to Casey Kasem & then Rick Dees count down the top…