HipHopDx Reviews
Wordsmith - Vintage Experience
While this solo debut album doesn't sound like a 1988 or 1994 time-capsule, it's carried with an honesty that Wordsmith longs for the substance in Rap like he heard in his childhood friends.
Army of the Pharoahs - The Unholy Terror
AOTP find themselves in this Old Reliable category. Led by Jedi Mind Tricks
Diabolic - Liar & A Thief
With over three years of work put into this anticipated project, Immortal Technique's protege, Diabolic is out to convince new and old listeners that the flame is still burning with Liar & A Thief.
Ayatollah Jaxx - Hello, Hip Hop
While This Is My Jihad: Harb & Salaam was esoteric, Hello, Hip Hop
DMX - Mixtape
This "unofficial" album from Darkman X has an intro and second song that match up to X's '90s classics, but does the Siccness Records project take a dive from there, or hold strong from onetime Rap superstar?
Usher - Raymond vs. Raymond
Is Usher's divorce album a new carnation of Marvin Gaye's "Here, My Dear," or just another link in Usher's usual repertoire?
Marco Polo & Ruste Juxx - The eXXecution
An average release overall, Marco Polo joins his inspirations such as DJ Premier (Group Home), Large Professor (Big Noyd) and Pete Rock (Jim Jones), who all, at various points in their career, produced for simpler-rhyming street scholars.
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt. 2 (Return Of The Ankh)
Erykah Badu's second release from the New Amerykah series, "New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh" is just as potent as Part One, but much more intimate.
Snoop Dogg - More Malice
Malice N Wonderland left fans divided about his progression toward more
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin: Night Shift
The nocturnal half of this double album lacks an identity. At times it feels like a mixtape with each contributing artist going for theirs and then a track or two later the entire focus of the project shifts..
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin: Day Shift
The album never even teeters on the verge of being what The Ball Street Journal was, and sadly 40
Meth, Ghost, Rae - Wu-Massacre
Regardless of where one places it among Shaolin
Sadat X - Wild Cowboys II
While it would have been nice to hear more of the sounds that made the original, Sadat still manages to pull out a throwback with mid-'90s nostalgia, reminding us why it
Inspectah Deck - Manifesto
Known for show-stealing flawless rhyme schemes, head-turning similes and metaphors, and a snug delivery. On his latest album The Manifesto, the 9th Chamber keeps up his consistency with dope rhymes
Donwill - Don Cusack In High Fidelity
When you have the kind of lyrical talent and vocal dexterity that Donwill possesses there is no need to present your art through the guise of something already familiar, as tempting as it may seem.
Brotha Lynch Hung - Dinner And A Movie
While Eminem, Notorious B.I.G. and Geto Boys were praised for it, the X-Raided protege was shunned and confined to fan pockets that heard the skill in the delivery from the rapper who influenced Snoop Dogg and Three 6 Mafia.
Davinci - The Day The Turf Stood Still
Davinci makes the most of his debut opportunity and delivers a tight set of street Rap that while not showing a wide array of styles nevertheless displays a mastery of most of the ones presented
Raheem DeVaughn - The Love & War MasterPeace
Dr. Cornel West says that Radio Raheem is the "greatest Soul singer" of his generation, and this album makes a strong case for it
B. Dolan - Fallen House, Sunken City
Sage Francis' artist brings organized chaos over-top of some sinister beats from Anticon's Alias.
Decon Presents - Never Not Fresh
Never Not Fresh is special for two reasons, and truly, two songs. Firstly, this is the first time a Jay Electronica solo song has been put on CD. The other interesting song of note is RJD2's "A Beautiful Mine," perhaps better known as the theme to AMC's M
