"Rap is something you do; Hip Hop is something you live." ­ KRS-One, "Hip Hop vs. Rap" About a month ago, a reporter from our local ABC affiliate contacted me via e-mail and asked for s  

"Doc (Dre) wanted me to bring the guns back out ... but I don't think the world wanted that from Ra ..." -- Rakim Allah, January 2004 A wise and intelligent MC once told me that Hip Hop was 5 pe  

"Been here, done that, sold crack, got jacked/Got shot, came back, jumped on Dre's back" ­ The Game Somebody's running a game on us. And the 586,000 people who copped Compton newcomer Th  

"I am the teacher from the far and beyond/Turn an apple to a lotus, turn a rib to a wand" -- Grand Verbalizer Brother J I recently stumbled upon a blog suggesting that the early '90s Hip Hop   

"Not a thug, not a drug seller, not a gun shooter/Not a stripper, sex symbol or anything you're used to." -- Jean Grae On "Shine," a track from Jadakiss' 2004 Kiss of Death album, Calvi  

"I come with that un-local, style from my vocal/ Couldn't peep it with a pair of bifocals/ I'm no joka, play me like a joka / Be on ya like a house on fire, smoke ya!" ­ Ol' Dirty Bas  

"I know I'd be the man if I cold yanked the plug on R&B, but I can't and that's bugged..." -- Q-Tip Picture the scene: I'm sitting in a crowded Red Lobster lobby on a Saturday afternoon in  

It's fairly safe to say that my wife isn't a huge fan of Hip Hop. Sure, she'll nod her head to the "clean standards" -- the songs we've all heard at wedding receptions, family reunion cookouts and h  

"It's been a long, long time coming, but I know a change is gonna come" -- Sam Cooke I should feel some sense of vindication at seeing the cover of this month's XXL Magazine. Guest edit  

"J-a-y are the letters of his name/ Cutting and scratching are the aspects of his game." -- Run D.M.C. Somewhere -- perhaps in that ubiquitous kitchen "junk drawer" or packed away in that du