The Smithsonian announced a Kickstarterpage on Tuesday to raise funds for the nine-CD Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap. The compilation is a joint project between Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the National Museum of African American History and Culture and an executive committee containing prominent members of the hip-hop community like …
Read More »Review: Prophets of Rage, Rap-Rock Supergroup, Calls for Revolution
This rap-rock supergroup – featuring Public Enemy’s Chuck D and DJ Lord, Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk, and Cypress Hill’s B-Real – revved up old PE and RATM classics on their debut 2016 EP. The band’s first full-length contains 12 hardrocking lefty diatribes against …
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