Album Reviews

Tyga’s Debut Album, Careless World: Rise of The Last King was released yesterday, after suffering numerous delays. [...]

Cape Town based Rapper Dazzflexx released his debut EP titled “A Star Is Born” last December, and I was fortunate enough to get a copy from his manager Eddie who I met at the Head Honcho 3rd Birthday Bash. I must admit I was a bit sceptical having never heard any music from Dazzflexx before [...]

Cashtime Fam released their debut album “Now Or Never” November of last year, which was supported by the smash single “Goodbye”. The group comprises of of two Groups, namely; CashTime which consist of Kid X, AB Crazy and Smashis, who are joined by KO, MA-E and Ntukza from Teargas. This makes for an interesting fusion [...]

Common’s Hip-Hop career spans back nearly 20 years from when he released his debut album, Can I Borrow a Dollar, back in 1992 and last week he released his 9th Studio Album aptly titled The Dreamer The Believer. Can a real Hip-Hop Emcee like Common still survive in today’s digital age of Drake’s and Lil [...]

Drake’s Take Care has finally seen the light of day and make no mistake about, this is one of the most eagerly anticipated albums of the year. Drake splits opinions amongst Hip-Hop fans quite unlike any other artist can. Half of the game thinks he’s a genius, while the other half think he’s an emotional [...]

Since this album everyone and their uncle has had something to say about it ranging from good to just scathingly bad. But one thing that most do agree on is that this was a vast improvement from Thank Me Later, but still lacking in areas. In my opinion I think Drake is transitioning himself from [...]

Wale’s highly anticipated sophomore album aptly titled Ambition, dropped last week. The album is Wale’s first since leaving Interscope to join Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group. A move which left many fans wondering if Wale would change his lyrical style to fit in with Ross’ lifestyle of Ice, cars, money and women. [...]

After three successful mixtapes in The Come Up, The Warm Up and Friday Night Lights, J.Cole finally gets his time in the spotlight with the release of his debut album, Cole World: The Sideline Story. Will Cole live up to expectations as the first Roc Nation artist Jay-Z signed, and successor to Hov as some [...]

In May 2009 Game announced the release of his 4th studio album,The R.E.D. Album. The album is not nearly as great as his classic debut The Documentary or his sophomore album Doctors Advocate or even his 2008 album LAX. However it is still the kinda hip-hop album I can listen to in traffic on my [...]

So Entity fell off then Aka got back and he did it with a bang (do people still say that?) Victory lap was his first single and that had clubs banging to South African hip-hop for the first time in a long while. He somewhat changed the game with that alone. It seems rappers were [...]