"Straight from the slums of the Shaolin, it's... THEM!" Well, it's a few of them, at least. Last week we got out first taste of Only Built For Cuban Linx 2, Raekwon's eagerly anticipated sequel to his immortal street classic OB4CL, with the Ghostface-assisted "Criminology 2". While "Criminology 2" fit Rae's description of what we could expect fr...

Fresh off the nostalgia circuit, EPMD return with a surprisingly enjoyable reminder of the potency of a group often overshadowed by their more name-dropped contemporaries. Raekwon, Method Man, 9th Wonder, and Redman guest.read more

While not quite at Chinese Democracy levels of will-this-record-ever-come-out-and-do-we-still-care like Dr. Dre's Detox, Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2 is long-awaited and much-anticipated, to say the least. The two albums he has released since Only Built 4 Cuban Linx came out in 1995 (Immobilarity and The Lex Diamond Story) have been met w...

Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon are close to releasing an LP from their N.A.S.A. (North America/South America) project. The duo cook the beats, and turned to their enviable contact list to collect a headspinning list of contributors, including Tom Waits, Karen O, Nick Zinner, Spank Rock, David Byrne, M.I.A., RZA, Method Man, George Clinton, Chuck D...

The last EPMD album was 1999's Out of Business, and between its title and the fact that it was released almost a decade ago, it seemed to be the end of the EPMD story, at least on record. But not so: Erick Sermon and Parish Smith have returned with a seventh studio album, and yes, it has "business" in its title. We Mean Business arrives December...