Mr Muthafuckin eXquire

With so much new rap available each month, here’s a list of six of the best projects that dropped in October.

Bronson is featured on Meyhem Lauren’s new album, a collaboration with DJ Muggs titled Gems from the Equinox, as is Roc Marciano, Conway, Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, B-Real, the late Sean Price, and more.

CMJ is just barely behind us, and now it’s time to start thinking about SXSW who have just announced their first round of showcasing artists…

If you’re looking for a good rap show at this year’s CMJ, High Water Music x UP x Friends and Lovers are throwing the Squeeze Radio Showcase on Friday (10/16) at Friends and Lovers (641 Classon Ave) with the Nas-inspired Your Old Droog and local …

New York rap/production duo The Doppelgangaz have been especially prolific this year. They put out the free eight-song EP Parts Unknown, plus two instrumental albums, Rhyme Over Beats and Speak Awn Eht (which came out this we…

Mr Muthafuckin eXquire @ BVCMJ 2012 (more by Chris La Putt) As mentioned, Gorilla Vs Bear and Forest Family are curating this weekend’s Brooklyn Night Bazaar entertainment…

As always, there’s tons of hip hop shows coming up in NYC and tours passing through here. Here’s a roundup of a few of the great ones happening this month…

I fuck with her. I like gangsta bitches. We met at South by Southwest and may do a song together. She’s thick, she’s pretty, but she’s not showing her ass…

I always look forward to FACT‘s year-end list, which you can count on to be chock full of (but not limited to) forward-thinking electronic music, pop, R&B and rap, and it’s one of the lists where I’m usually guaranteed to find something new…

photo Singer/songwriter Nicole Atkins has some stuff going on in the NYC-area (as usual) before the year ends, including the 30th annual tree-lighting at the South Street Seaport on November 29, which Ronnie Spector and Darlene Love sang at in past years…