Common
The sub-genre of hip-hop that we might call Hip-Hop For People Who Actually Don’t Like Hip-Hop is a puzzling one – why would anyone listen to Example or Gym Class Heroes, when you can have Apathy and Celph Titled? But Common is an exception, a...
Like Water For Chocolate
It weren't always multiple Wu -pseudonyms and verbose flights of mystical lyrical fantasy down hip-hop's way. Back in the day, rappers wove their rhymes from the neighbourhood, street poets quite literally keepin' it real. Chicagoan Rasheed Lynn...
