A Week In Hip Hop #72

Hard Knock Tv's Nick Huff Barili sits down with Logic for his first in-depth interview about his new album EVERYBODY. This is part 3, where Logic breaks down the meaning of his song Black Spiderman. "I think this song embodies the whole album the most because its the song that's about diversity and being yourself" say Logic.
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Longtime Joey Bada$$ collaborator Statik Selektah recently linked up with the Brooklyn MC once again for "Legendary," a cut off Joey's sophomore album ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$.
Hip-hop record executive Steve Rifkind got his start building a "street team" that discovered, broke, and promoted fledgling artists. Here, Steve explains the "cool kid" principle that centered the street team and the chain of events that led to him founding Loud records. Watch above.
Banks and Steelz - a musical collaboration between Wu Tang Clan's RZA and Interpol's Paul Banks sat down with Hard Knock Tv's Nick Huff Barili for an in-depth interview. In part 4 of the conversation RZA and Paul break down their many alter egos and talk about some of the best monikers in music history including Davie Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, MF DOOM's many aliases including Viktor Vaughn, etc.
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Throwback to Kanye West, Damon Dash, John Legend backstage in London in 2004
"Yonkers" is perhaps Tyler, The Creator's most infamous song, drawing a ton of attention for its violent lyrics and disses aimed at B.o.B, Bruno Mars, Paramore's Hayley Williams, and more. It served as the lead single off of his 2011 album Goblin and was many fans' first introduction to Tyler.
Earlier this week Devin the Dude passed through MASS APPEAL HQ while touring in support of his remarkable new album Acoustic Levitation. (If you haven't peeped any of his self-produced drone videos, what are you waiting for?) One of the highlights of our chat was when he mentioned his very first rhyme.
With the 10th Anniversary of The Undisputed Truth upon us, we've re-pressed and re-packaged the long out-of-print vinyl to be an official Record Store Day 2017 release! The newly expanded 3xLP is limited to 3,000 hand-numbered copies containing cloudy, clear translucent vinyl, an 8-page booklet with full album lyrics, and a free digital download card.
Rapper, Layzie Bone, from the legendary group, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, joins B-Real on a long-awaited chief out in this edition of the Smokebox.
Back in 2012, Kendrick Lamar sat down with Page 31 to speak about the release of "Good Kid, M.A.A.D City." During the conversation, he revealed that Dr. Dre approved the album as soon as he turned it in, which is why one of the West Coast legend's signature beats is not on the project.