There comes a time in every veteran emcee's career where an epiphany occurs and their music begins to reflect ambitious thoughts they have kept within the depths of their mind and never acted upon. While appearing on various R&B records throughout his career as well as touching on the subject on his own records in one way, shape or form, Ghostf...

New heat released from the big homie CJ and the Konsole Kingz. They teamed up with Don Cannon to release a mixtape inspired by the NBA 2k10 game. Whats special about this, is the mixtape actually includes cuts from the game that you wont be able to get anywhere else. CJ is also a secret unlockable player in the game. Stay tuned for more details on ...

Calling all hip hop practitioners, it’s that time again. I recently was privy to the honor of being a panelist for the Dynamic Producers conference in N.Y September 16-18. There are countless times that people will reach out to me via Facebook or Twitter and ask me the same thing over and over again, “How can I get on [in the game]?” This...

Things I want to see forever? The fact that Slaughterhouse is standing behind Eminem in this video is a sight to hold forever. If I had a rap wish list Slaughterhouse working with Em' would be somewhere in there. Now lets get to this world premier video. The video is decent, alot of hype behind it , literally. Directed by Hype Williams so expect so...

Snoop Dogg has skillz in NBA2K10?! Who knew? Check out the video as he shows off some of his skills and also challenges JD and The Game to a NBA 2K10 showdown. I would love to see him and The Koalition's 7 Dawg go at it. ...

Looks like Souljaboytellem has been cranking that mouth again, this time over Xbox Live. In the video he starts shouting at someone else who was talking reckless about Souljaboy and his team, he also takes shots at Charles Hamilton and Bow Wow. Props to World Star Hip Hop for the video. One of our viewers sent us this audio of Soulja Boy heated on...

by Christopher "DiZ" Lamb "This is black emo rap" ~ Illionaire A fine-tuned combination of Kanye West's charisma and personality and OutKast's eclectic persona perfectly describes Cleveland native KiD CuDi. Apart of XXL's 2009 Freshman Edition, CuDi was joined by the likes of West Coast emcee Blu (who released the critically acclaimed Below T...

Spotted this over at Woooha after checking out Yeti's Twitter comment giving The Koalition props. Anyway, before watching this I could have sworn this was a photoshop job. Matter of fact, why didn't he just do photoshop? He could have saved a hell of alot of money to achieve the same effect. The story behind the cover is reportedly because he feels...

Kansas rapper XV released this track as the official single a while ago off his heavily anticipated mixtape Everybodys Nobody. I spoke on this song when It first debuted but only a radio rip was available. I'm hooking those of you up who missed out on the cd quality version or just don't want the whole mixtape. XV in a interview not long ago stated...

13 Years ago today Hip Hop (and the world in general) lost a legend, an inspiration and an Icon. The Koalition would like to give a big R.I.P to Tupac Shakur, let me see those comments from all you readers out there also. R.I.P Tupac, Notorious B.I.G, Big L, Stack Bundles, Michael Jakcson, Bernie Mac, James Brown, Rick James, Isaac Hayes, Big P...

I had the good pleasure on Friday to speak to Quincy Jones III also known to the hiphop and multimedia world as QD3. Mostly famous for his dvd's and video productions, but Quincy got his start on the music side which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. With the endless knowledge of the media and music industry he helped shape the Scratch Ultimate DJ...

I wanted to give you guy's a taste of what real hip hop should feel like, this year has seen albums that have been sample's of what hip hop was(Blackout 2) and should be(Slaughterhouse, Blueprint 3). With the release of Only Built for Cuban Links 2 listeners are instantly transported to the mid 90"s when the music was in it's purest form. So...

Before Jay-Z vividly painted Mafioso murals on Reasonable Doubt, before The Notorious B.I.G. rose to prominence as a kingpin on Life After Death, the Chef from Staten Island cooked up some his hardest white.... the gritty cinematic masterpiece, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. Similar to Nas, few hip hop heads will say that Raekwon has ever topped the impo...

More goodies from the Dj Hero/Jay Z event. I want to play a game. Remember the "Wheres Waldo" book series? Well, lets play "Wheres HiphopGamer?" See if you can spot him among these pictures below. Activision had backstage looking like a mini E3. Major props to Steve Gebhardt of COED Magazine for sending these over. He wrote a great review of the co...

Just a little footage of the DJ Hero/Myspace/Jay Z concert that went down, props to Miss Info. Recently T Pain fired some verbal shots at Jay for killing auto tune. Somebody send T Pain a "U Mad" jpg. But in the video you hear the crowds opinion on Mr. Pains words of wisdom as well. Shout out to Activision for throwing a good show....