AltWeeklies Wire
Brit-Hopnew
Mike Skinner's shambling, off-beat delivery -- mistaken by first-time listeners as a defect -- is the perfect voice for his tales of sex, drugs and mortality.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Nelson |
04-25-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Grave Diggin'new
By the time most rappers drop their fourth album, either everybody’s paying attention or nobody is, but for Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace, the truth may be somewhere in between.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Nelson |
01-05-2006 |
Reviews
Juelz Santana Takes the Keys from Cam’ronnew
In Santana, the Dips have found their Golden Child. One of the youngest of the bunch, he has the charisma and the good looks to pull the ladies, an audience key in translating street-level success into mainstream acceptance.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Nelson |
12-20-2005 |
Reviews
Canadian Clublandnew
Brooklyn DJ duo Caps & Jones, who have a reverence for good music that a lot of mash-up DJs lack, tour Canada.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Nelson |
11-14-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: DJs Caps & Jones
Paul Wall Emerges as Houston Hip-Hop’s Great White Hopenew
Paul Wall is a diminutive, diamond-grilled DJ/MC who while maintaining the sonic sensibility of Houston’s other rappers presents one notable difference: he's white. Wall’s success has run parallel to a renewed Northern interest in Houston rap.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Nelson |
09-27-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Paul Wall, The Peoples Champ
