LATIN RAP&HIPHOP
Jealous One’s Envy
Album DescriptionFat Joe – as one of the best MCs in the world during the past decade, very few MCs have matched his longevity, especially within the last five years. Throughout his career, Joe has obviously been cut from the cloth of supreme mic holders. He’s held his own on songs with modern... »
Safari
Album Description2008 album from the Italian Pop artist, his 11th studio album in a 20-year career. Traces of his early rapper identity still remain in his vocal delivery, although he is also singing much more than before. The music, however, rarely depends on Hip Hop beats anymore. Over the past decade or so, Jovanotti’s... »
IV
Amazon.comCypress Hill is either hip-hop’s most secretly talented band or its luckiest. How else do you explain four albums–Cypress Hill, Black Sunday, III (Temple of Boom), and now IV–over seven years that all use the same rote formula? DJ Muggs hooks up the dusty dungeon beats, filled with slow, rolling bass lines and dirtied... »
Calle 13
Amazon.comThe music of Puerto Rican outfit Calle 13 simmers like so much sweat on the backs of b-boys and fly girls, twisting and turning its way through the cracks and crevices of modern urban music. Calle 13’s dynamic duo–half-brothers Rene Perez and Eduardo Cabra–are smart, shocking, and silly. It’s a thrilling combination that makes... »
Residente o Visitante
Amazon.comResidente o Visitante arrives less than two years after Calle 13 busted out of reggaeton’s oft-repetitive confines with its searing debut disc. But instead of playing it safe, the dynamic duo of Rene Perez and Eduardo Cabra fly further outside the safe zone. Residente o Visitante is dirtier and more diverse than its predecessor,... »
WCW Mayhem
Amazon.comThese days entertainment is all about synergy and cross-merchandising baby, from the “free” toys at the burger joint to the pay-per-view rights, soundtrack CD, T-shirt sales, and cereal endorsements, et al. The wrestling establishment has become increasingly savvy at such activity, and this CD would seem to be the culmination of this marketing ethos.... »
Love and Hate
Album Description2009 release from the Chicano rapper. Fresh from the success of his 2008 album 1218 Part II, On this album, a wiser Lil Rob shows us his different sides. On Love & Hate, Lil Rob tackles issues happening on a daily basis, telling his story through they eyes of his everyday lifestyle, looking... »
Capital Punishment
Product DescriptionNo Description Available.Genre: Soul/R&BMedia Format: Compact DiskRating: Release Date: 10-AUG-1999Amazon.comSome rappers die because they get shot. Some die of AIDS. But corpulent Latino rapper Big Punisher died of a massive coronary; at the time of his February 2000 death, he weighed over 600 pounds. While this made Punisher a suitable poster boy for... »
Skull & Bones
Album DescriptionJapanese Version Featuring A Bonus TrackAmazon.comAs rap-metal hybrids continue to sell millions, Cypress Hill fills the “Bones Disc” of this two-CD set with a half-dozen hard rockers that keep things loose-limbed enough to incite the dance floor to something other than moshing. The best music the group has released in years, it shows... »
