Lupe Fiasco Albums: Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (2006); Lupe Fiasco's The Cool (2007) Best Material: Fahrenheit 1/15 (Part I): The Truth is Among Us; Fahrenheit 1/15 (Part II): Revenge of The Nerds; Fahrenheit 1/15 (Part III): A Rhyming Ape; Lupe The Jedi; Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor; Lupe Fiasco's The Cool "Word to the nigga that took...

Pinc Gator is a artist out of Houston, TX. I first heard about him when he crashed on the scene with his huge hit, "I'm A Que."  This would only turn my eyes his way as I quickly became a fan while realizing he was speaking about a lot of things that I definitely could relate too. We were able to pull the Gator out of Vegas in order to get him to ...

Check out The Koalition's own CEO The 7 Dawg's (A.K.A Randy Ledet Jr.) version of Gamer Cribs. Gamer Cribs is a show Torrence Davis of TheBitBag created, where Gamers can show off their gaming set ups. Mr. Ledet's edition however could be broadcasted as a full fledged version of Cribs, make sure you check this one out as it will be very hard to top...

Whats good people? Back again with a fresh episode of The Co Op podcast. Not to be confused with that video podcast that just started. The Co Op podcast has been around much longer than the others. This week we get into some Bioshock 2 talk, in reference to the Game Informer cover. The new Fight Night 4 cover sparks the Ali vs. Tyson debate pt 2. S...

It has been an amazing three years for Terius "The-Dream" Nash. After being behind the scenes strictly as a songwriter, The-Dream took the world by storm in 2007, creating monster hit singles for Rihanna ("Umbrella") and J. Holiday ("Bed") before releasing his excellent debut album, LoveHate. The-Dream soon went back into the studio and lived up to...

Got a chance recently to talk to Ben Fritz. Ben writes "The Cut Scene" blog on Variety.com. One thing I admire about Ben is he always seems to break the interesting news. We did not talk for long it was a pretty busy day but I tried my best to jam pack enough information for the listeners into the ten minutes we spoke. We chopped it up about his h...

Sorry for the hiatus! But yes we are back with our usual hour (41 minutes this week) of game and hiphop chatter. House Of The Dead for the Wii gets an oral review. We speculate over who could be the potential buyer for the Mortal Kombat franchise. And who can do a podcast without Killzone 2 impressions. Will the controller issues keep it from being...

This generation has been the cause of heated fanboy wars, specifically between Sony's Playstation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 products. It has come to the point where huge exclusive titles such as Gears of War, or Killzone 2 mean much more than just providing enjoyment for gamers. Now a days you feel like you HAVE to buy a game such Killzone 2, just...

It is quite understandable why Joe Budden would title his sophomore effort, Padded Room. After seeing his original sophomore album, The Growth, reside on the shelf in development hell after numerous pushbacks, Budden was finally released from Def Jam and went on to go independent with Amalgam Digital. After releasing the well-received Halfway House...

With the Xbox Live exclusive launch of Grand Theft Auto: Lost and Damned right upon us, we decided to compose our own list of the 10 best Grand Theft Auto moments so far. Shout outs to the whole Koalition team for contributing to the list. 1. Grand Theft Auto Goes 3D With the introduction of the Grand Theft Auto series on the Playstation 2 format...

Back again with a few members of the Koalition crew to chop up game with you. I recently just came from the NY Comic Con, I talk a little about my experience there and about some of the games I got to play. Midway just filed for bankruptcy so we speculate over that whole situation. Square Enix is buying out Eidos? Can we expect a Tomb Raider rpg? C...

Welcome friends to another jam packed episode of True Gamer Stories. This episode I interview Cj Peters Of the Konsole Kingz. We talk about everything from how he got his start in gaming, the start of Konsole Kingz, how he gained his industry connections, what games he's playing and more. Usually when people type "and more" they don't really mean i...

We all knew that this was coming but today Capcom officially announced Dead Rising 2 for Xbox 360, PC & Playstation 3. This will be the first time the series will be available on the PC & Playstation 3 platforms. I think this is a great move by Capcom I know lots of people who don't have 360's that wanted to try Dead Rising now they will get the ch...

With the United States new president, and it being Black history month, I figured it was the right time to ask this question. Is it the right time for developers to start using more African American leading characters in games? (more...)...

Guess who's back? We pushed The Co Op podcast back to Thursdays or Wednesdays from now on. Plus we had to make sure we got the scoop on the new Killzone 2 demo. We got impressions on that as well as the new Halo Wars demo that dropped on Xbox Live this week. We also get into a few debates the first asks the question: Will Dj Hero be as big as Rockb...

In order to celebrate Black History month I will be doing a spotlight on a prominent figure in Black History once every week. Also every week I will post some Urban artwork from and Urban artist by the name of Aaron Ledet with each article. I hope you enjoy this ode to the great people that have come before us. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin...