Once again, we welcome back Golden Arms of the one and only Wu-Tang Clan to the table for 2018, with U-God delivering already his second project for the year. This time around he’s gracing us with his fifth solo studio album entitled Venom, which was released last week Friday, March 30. Venom comes after the […]
From the shadows of London’s underground has emerged a dark silhouette straight into the limelight. CASisDEAD (formerly Castro Saint) has been on a tear in recent years and he ticks all the boxes that an MC in 2018 should do: quality music, visuals, live shows and a cult-like following. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information If […]
On October 1, 1991, Long Island’s Public Enemy released their fourth studio album Apocalypse 91 … The Enemy Strikes Black on Def Jam Recordings and Columbia Records. It proved to be their fourth classic album in five years following 1987’s debut Yo! Bum Rush The Show, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us […]
Zip up your Ralph Lauren ‘Stadium’ jacket, break out your dead stock cement Jordan 3’s, serve yourself some exotic dipping sauce for your shellfish and pop your finest bottle of Champagne. Queens’ Meyhem Lauren has blessed us with another jewel celebrating luxury, releasing his Glass EP last Friday produced by Brooklyn’s Harry Fraud. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more […]
Hip-hop and comic books have had a somewhat close relationship in recent years with Kendrick Lamar curating the soundtrack for the box office hit Black Panther, the Netflix original series Luke Cage having each episode named after a Gang Starr song – but it doesn’t stop there. Jumping straight from the pages of an illustrated […]
Strange Music founder and multi-platinum selling rapper Tech N9ne has announced another large international tour, this time heading back down to Australia and New Zealand later this year. Tech brings with him long time collaborator and Strange Music signee Krizz Kaliko. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Tech N9ne has most recently dropped his 20th solo […]
Ever since the iconic The Simpsons ‘Homerpalooza’ episode 20+ years ago were Cypress Hill teamed up with the London Symphony Orchestra to perform, hip-hop fans have been waiting for the day when the cartoon collaboration becomes reality. Their exchange of tweets last year set the development wheels in motion, and it seems more likely than […]
Ice Cube has announced that he will play a string of four intimate shows at Australia’s iconic Sydney Opera House, becoming the first rapper to play the famous Concert Hall during Vivid LIVE festival. Cube joins the likes of Solange, Irish rapper Rejjie Snow and dozens of others for the massive annual Light, Music and […]
The month of March has certainly lived up to expectations for battle rap fans after SMACK proclaimed it to be SMACK Madness, with another stack of quality battles dropping over the last couple of weeks. The best battle to drop on SMACK/ URLTV since the JC vs. Nu Jerzey Twork from the SMACK Volume 1 event […]
Widely discussed as the battle of the night from King Of The Dot’s Gully vs. Ganik 2 event held early last month in Toronto, the full battle between Brooklyn’s Cortez and Kansas City’s A.Ward dropped this week. The battle speaks for itself as to why it was so widely talked up over the last seven […]
Hip-Hop has become a major musical genre in recent years in Russia in the post-Soviet space, notably coming to great recent international attention with Oxxxymiron‘s record-breaking rap battle versus Dizaster on KOTD. But if Russian pop music is greatly influenced by musicians from Ukraine, then a special chapter in the history of Russian-speaking rap is […]
Promising Pennsylvania up and comer GQ Nothin’ Pretty brings his bars to a reality with a brand new video for the single Everybody Knows. The track was the one and only single off the rappers latest debut album entitled Animation and was produced by Montez. It blends a combination of live video (shot on tour) […]
It didn’t take long before Detroit pioneer Royce Da 5’9″ and legendary Brooklyn producer DJ Premier were back in the studio again. After releasing their self-titled debut album PRhyme back in late 2014, the pair’s first project left fans hanging for more to say the least. Now come early 2018 and the duo have released […]
Los Angeles rhyme general MURS has delivered his first highly anticipated solo studio album of 2018 entitled A Strange Journey Into The Unimaginable. As promised to fans, the 40-year-old rapper unveiled the album on March 16th (the rappers 40th birthday). The album was released under Strange Records Inc (headed by none other than Tech N9ne […]
Don’t Flop rap battle league out of the UK recently dropped videos to four of their major battles from last year, featuring Serius Jones, Detroit’s Calicoe, Harlem’s Charlie Clips and New Jersey’s Arsonal Da Rebel. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information The remaining matchups from the checkpoint 4 event in London held in April 2017 were […]
Common is one of the very few names that needs little introduction in hip-hop. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Not only has he grown into a much-celebrated veteran of the scene since his 1992 debut album Can I Borrow A Dollar?, but he has expanded his versatility to producing movies, acting and performing Disney voiceovers. […]
Bigg K of Norfolk, VA was announced the inaugural fan-voted King Of The Dot Battler of the Year for 2017, ahead of the other Top 5 Nominees in Pass, Head I.C.E, Illmaculate and Cortez. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Bigg K returns to SMACK/URL to battle T-Top on March 31, following his previous classic vs. Rosenberg […]
One of the hardest working and also ultimately one of the most influential rappers in Australia over the last decade in Western Sydney’s Fortay At Large has announced his new album Business & Pleasure is set to feature Dizzy Wright, Kurupt of Tha Dogg Pound amongst a host of talented locals. With this tenth studio […]
Much more than one of the best multi-syllable rhymers in battle rap over the last decade, Canada’s Bender helped to position King Of The Dot as one of the premiere battle rap leagues in the world. Often utilizing some of the rhyming techniques which made Big Pun the legend that he is today, the creative […]
In the lead up to the highly anticipated SMACK Volume 2 event on March 31st, URL has released one of the main events from the all-American SMACK Volume 1 card – JC vs. NU JERZEY TWORK – that went down on Saturday December 9th in the small private room setting. The close, highly debatable battle […]
