Longtime friends Danger Mouse and Black Thought are teaming up on a new collaborative album called Cheat Codes, out in August. This marks Danger Mouse’s first hip-hop venture since his DANGERDOOM project with the late MF DOOM in the mid-2000s. The last album-length collab he did was with Karen O on 2019’s Lux Prima. As for Bl...

More than 21 years ago, I saw the Minneapolis rap group Atmosphere open a show at New York’s Knitting Factory. At that show, the late Eyedea was Atmosphere’s hypeman, and they were great. The bill also included a couple of standout New York underground acts, J-Live and MF DOOM, all opening for Chuck D’s terribly and...

A street in Long Beach, New York, where MF DOOM grew up, has been renamed in honor of late rap legend. KMD – MF DOOM Way, named after the MC and his early group with his younger brother Subroc, stretches one block between Riverside Boulevard and Long Beach Road on East Houston Street. The street sign was officially unveiled in a ceremo...

The Maryland rapper IDK is releasing a new album, USEE4YOURSELF, tomorrow. It’s the follow-up to his 2019 guest-heavy debut Is He Real?. He’s already dropped a few singles from it, including ones with Young Thug and Offset, and he’s just dropped another one right before the whole thing is out in full. “Red...

Your Old Droog has shared a previously unreleased collaboration with MF Doom, who passed away last year. YOD has teamed up with Doom a couple of times over the years, including on his own tracks “BDE” and “RST.” The new track is called “Dropout Boogie” and was produced by Edan &#821...