Really Smart Insight: Hip-Hop Offers Creative Outlet to Young People

May. 28 | Leave it to an academecian to make the most obvious things sound like the fruit of years of research and effort. Over at one of the blogs at Northwestern (Northwestern.edu), there’s a really insightful entry about how Hip-Hop offers a creative outlet...

A Free Rap Beats Site

May. 15 | Just stumbled upon this site that has a lot of free beats to use in your original compositions. They also have a nice selection of premium beats you’ll have to shell out $20 for. 20DollarBeats.com

Crossovers: You're Doing it Wrong!

Apr. 24 | An excellent roundup on popcrunch.com last week about 19 hip-hop crossovers that…well, just didn’t quite work out. We’re talking, of course, of Shaq’s amazing, amazing hip hop album Shaq Diesel, and the original pornstar-who-looks-like-a-pregnant-Giant-Panda,...