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- By Storm – My Ghosts Go Ghost | Review 30 January 2026Injury Reserve built a name through jagged, boundary-crossing Hip Hop out of Tempe, Arizona. After Stepa J. Groggs died at 32 in 2020, the group released By the Time I Get to Phoenix in 2021 as a raw processing of that loss. RiTchie and Parker Corey retired the Injury Reserve name out of respect, then […]HHGA Staff
- Stu Bangas & Wordsworth – Chemistry | Review 30 January 2026Stu Bangas and Wordsworth connect on Chemistry with the kind of seasoned interplay that turns a collaboration into something greater than its parts. This 2026 release follows their well-received 2024 project 2 Kings, building on that foundation while introducing subtle refinements. Bangas mans the boards across all 13 tracks, delivering his recognizable raw boom-bap sound. Dark, atmospheric loops […]HHGA Staff
- Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon – As Of Now | Review 30 January 2026Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon arrives at Lex Records with As of Now, a record that captures him somewhere in the middle of his ascent, weighing recent victories against lingering personal questions. The Charlotte rapper spent years grinding underground, building through mixtapes like Beautifully Black and I’ve Really Never Been Better, work that deserves full recognition for its consistency and […]HHGA Staff
- Roc Marciano: Reviver Of East Coast Street Rap 23 January 2026The Origins of East Coast Street Rap In the mid-1990s, New York street rap captured the raw energy of East Coast Hip Hop. West Coast gangsta rap ruled the airwaves through albums like Dr. Dre’s The Chronic and Snoop Doggy Dogg’s Doggystyle, with their smooth G-funk synths shifting attention away from New York. The response […]HHGA Staff
- Roc Marciano – 656 | Review 23 January 2026Roc Marciano moves on a different clock than the rest of the game. For more than a decade, he has been the originator and gold standard for this strain of gritty street rap, the one who helped revive and refit the mafioso lane opened by 1990s icons like Kool G Rap, Nas, AZ, and Raekwon […]HHGA Staff
- Marley Marl “The Symphony” (1988) 22 January 2026“The Symphony” is a song produced by Marley Marl featuring Juice Crew members Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, and Big Daddy Kane. The track appears on Marley Marl’s 1988 Cold Chillin’ Records release In Control, Volume 1. Rolling Stone ranked “The Symphony” the 48th greatest Hip Hop song of all time, calling it […]Daily Video
- DJ Eprom – We Are The Biobots | Review 21 January 2026DJ Eprom’s We Are the Biobots is turntablism as sci-fi cinema, a fully wired concept record about “digitized” humans made with nothing but human hands. Rooted in Hip Hop but leaning hard into electro and techno, the album plays like a broadcast from a bunker somewhere between 1984 and a future where everything runs on code. […]HHGA Staff
- A$AP Rocky – Don’t Be Dumb | Review 16 January 2026A$AP Rocky’s fourth album Don’t Be Dumb arrives after an eight-year gap and a messy, drawn-out rollout, so expectations were always going to be unreasonable. Rocky leans into that pressure instead of dodging it, building a record that is restless, flashy, self-conscious, and deliberately uneven. This is not the clean high of LONG.LIVE.A$AP or the woozy cohesion of AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP, but […]HHGA Staff
- A Tribe Called Quest “Can I Kick It?” (1990) 9 January 2026“Can I Kick It?” is the third single from A Tribe Called Quest‘s debut album People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. The song was first recorded in 1989 when the members of A Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, and Ali Shaheed, were just 19. It contains samples of “Walk on the Wild […]Daily Video
- Pete Rock & CL Smooth “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)” (1992) 22 December 2025“They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)” is a song by Pete Rock & CL Smooth, inspired by the death of their close friend Troy Dixon (better known as “Trouble” T. Roy of Heavy D & the Boyz) in 1990. The song was the lead single off their debut album, Mecca and the Soul Brother, released in […]Daily Video
- DMX “Slippin'” (1998) 14 December 2025“Slippin'” is a song by DMX, released as the first single from his second studio album Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood (1998). The track was produced by DJ Shok of Ruff Ryders, who was a newcomer to the team. The album contains the clean version as the publishing owners of the subsequently […]Daily Video
- Nas & DJ Premier – Light-Years | Review 12 December 2025Light-Years arrives with the weight of two decades of conversations behind it. Nas and DJ Premier never promised this album, and over the years the idea shifted from rumor to myth. You would hear whispers in interviews, a hint in a bar, an anniversary teaser, a half-serious shrug from Premier on a podcast, then silence […]HHGA Staff