J. Cole fills a strange space. For all of his skills and accolades he’s never quite commanded the respect he rightfully deserves, as one…
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LittleSister has her game face on. She stands on The Opera House stage, surrounded by dozens of mostly male hip-hop heads as her beat…
Talk about a hip-hop purist’s wet dream. The incomparable legendary producer DJ Premier and arguably the second best rapper from the D, team up…
Gently reclining in a single seat, leather sofa inside a downtown Toronto coffee shop, Charles Murray slowly places his cell phone on the square…
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Hundreds gathered in New York City’s New World Stages theatre for the third annual Global Spin Awards. The intimate event, hosted by LaLa Anthony,…
As professor Farnsworth would say, “Great news everyone!” – Wu-Tang’s new album A Better Tomorrow isn’t horrible. It’s an RZA-laced, heavily versed, Kung Fu…
Hip-hop forum dwellers have long heralded Nino Bless as a special talent. His R.O.A.M. series is vaunted as underground gold too pure for the…
Over the last few months, Urbanology Magazine worked in partnership with a special group of eight young people – six artists and two documenters – to create a special multimedia production entitled “The Reason”. The purpose of this project was to bring together young people from both sides of youth/community violence to discuss the issue and put together a single/video to speak to their thoughts, experiences and feelings.