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Kurupt Details The Classic Death Row Songs That Began As Freestyles

Kurupt Details The Classic Death Row Songs That Began As Freestyles

For more than 20 years, core fans kept hope that the HRSMN might release an album. As one of Rap's earliest super-groups, the quartet composed of Kurupt, Ras Kass, Killah Priest, and Canibus hurdled label challenges, leaks, bootlegging, legal woes, and all that comes with four separate lives and careers.... Read more
July 13, 2021 Exclusive, Video
Ghostface Killah’s “The Lost Tapes” Album Is Here. Listen Now (Audio)

Ghostface Killah’s “The Lost Tapes” Album Is Here. Listen Now (Audio)

Wu-Tang Clan has been bringing the ruckus lately. The surviving members of the legendary group appeared on Logic's song "Wu-Tang Forever" last week. Today (October 5), Ghostface Killah dropped his first project of 2018. On The Lost Tapes, Tony Starks enlists Big Daddy Kane, Snoop Dogg, E-40, Raekwon, Masta Killa,... Read more
October 5, 2018 Audio
Tragedy Khadafi Says Marley Marl Did Him Dirty. His New Song Tells All (Audio Premiere)

Tragedy Khadafi Says Marley Marl Did Him Dirty. His New Song Tells All (Audio Premiere)

Tragedy Khadafi (fka The Intelligent Hoodlum) has been releasing music steadily over the three decades but it's been nearly four years since he released his last solo album. That's all changing now though. The Queensbridge legend has been in the booth heavy since 2014's Pre Magnum Opus and is slated... Read more
August 1, 2018 Audio, Exclusive
Prince Paul Explains Why He’s Bothered By 1 Important Gravediggaz Credit (Video)

Prince Paul Explains Why He’s Bothered By 1 Important Gravediggaz Credit (Video)

Prince Paul was a founding member of The Gravediggaz. At a time when he was still very active in producing De La Soul records, the Long Island, New Yorker assembled a quartet with Stetsasonic band-mate Frukwan (aka "The Gatekeeper"), as well as onetime Tommy Boy Records label-mate Poetic (aka "The... Read more
July 6, 2018 Throwback, Video
Killah Priest Attacks ’70s Breakbeats On A Mixtape Featuring Ghostface & Raekwon (Audio)

Killah Priest Attacks ’70s Breakbeats On A Mixtape Featuring Ghostface & Raekwon (Audio)

The whole Wu-Tang Clan family has a deep respect for Hip-Hop's earliest days. RZA's production, and the swarm's rhyme routines often call back to the park-jams and pioneering days of the culture. That's true of Killah Priest, the former breakout star of Sunz Of Man and a Brooklyn, New York... Read more
November 21, 2017 Audio
The 1st Rhyme Masta Killa Ever Wrote Was For Wu-Tang Clan’s 36 Chambers (Video)

The 1st Rhyme Masta Killa Ever Wrote Was For Wu-Tang Clan’s 36 Chambers (Video)

Masta Killa made a last minute debut on a Rap classic: Wu-Tang Clan's Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). What Heads may not realize is that was the Brooklyn, New York MC's first rhyme and his first time in the studio. Having described himself as the "little brother" within the Clan,... Read more
August 8, 2017 Exclusive, Now You See Me, Video
J.U.I.C.E. Once Beat Eminem In A Battle. Now He Bodies Hulk Hogan In A Freestyle (Video)

J.U.I.C.E. Once Beat Eminem In A Battle. Now He Bodies Hulk Hogan In A Freestyle (Video)

In February of this year, famed freestyle and battle MC J.U.I.C.E called out Eminem for a rematch. Before Em' would sign with Aftermath Entertainment and quickly go on to super-stardom, he lost to the Chicago, Illinois MC in a controversial 1997 Scribble Jam final round battle. Proud of his title,... Read more
August 6, 2017 Video
Ghostface Killah & Killah Priest Bring Soul to a Smoker’s Anthem (Video)

Ghostface Killah & Killah Priest Bring Soul to a Smoker’s Anthem (Video)

Since launching his line of concentrated marijuana - Wu-Goo - Ghostface Killah has added cannabis entrepreneur to his ever-growing resume. The Wu-Tang Clan MC has not stopped delivering smokin' hot raps, however, and along with longtime collaborator and Brooklyn spitter Killah Priest, Tony Starks has released new music to promote... Read more
February 17, 2016 Video
Ghostface Killah Rips Apart A Slick Rick Break Like It’s A Park Jam (Audio)

Ghostface Killah Rips Apart A Slick Rick Break Like It’s A Park Jam (Audio)

Most songs that are less than 100 seconds long just aren't worth the attention. However, when it's Ghostface Killah lyrically going for broke on a 1970s breakbeat it changes things. On "Disco Airlines," Tony Starks makes the style of music that Heads can imagine he was making in Stapleton Houses... Read more
February 13, 2016 Audio
Martin Shkreli Threatens To Erase Ghostface Killah’s “Once Upon A Time In Shaolin” Verses (Video)

Martin Shkreli Threatens To Erase Ghostface Killah’s “Once Upon A Time In Shaolin” Verses (Video)

The story-line surrounding Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon A Time In Shaolin and its $2 million sole owner Martin Shkreli continues to get more bizarre. Following last week's disparaging remarks from Wu member Ghostface Killah, the pharmaceutical mogul has replied. In a TMZ video, the 32 year-old Brooklyn, New York appears... Read more
January 28, 2016 News, Video
Ghostface Killah’s Wu-Goo Will Melt Your Mind. This Video Is A Literal Head Trip

Ghostface Killah’s Wu-Goo Will Melt Your Mind. This Video Is A Literal Head Trip

Wu-Tang Clan listeners already know that the nine member collective loves Rap cyphers and smokers cyphers alike. Method Man is not the only Wu member to profit from recreational mind elevation (thanks to the How High franchise). Ghostface Killah is now in on the hustle too. The Staten Island, New... Read more
January 18, 2016 Video
Killah Priest Gets Back To Heavy Mental Form In Body Of Light (Video)

Killah Priest Gets Back To Heavy Mental Form In Body Of Light (Video)

When it comes to stuffing raps full of information, historical and religious context, and still opining on social issues, could any crew rival the HRSMN? While Ras Kass and Canibus amassed reputations for these traits, another true master in the realm of dense lyricism is Killah Priest. Twenty years removed... Read more
August 16, 2014 Fresh, Video
Members Of Wu-Tang Clan, Terror Squad & Four Horsemen In Animation (Video)

Members Of Wu-Tang Clan, Terror Squad & Four Horsemen In Animation (Video)

Fresh off of producing ONYX's WakeDaFucUp, German crew the Snowgoons got to work on "Wulocks," a video single by Aspects, featuring Raekwon, Killah Priest, and Geddy (f/k/a Armageddon). Boasting ties to Wu-Tang Clan, Terror Squad, and Sunz Of Man/Four Horsemen, this star-studded lineup from August 29's Grind Over Matter gets... Read more
August 2, 2014 Fresh, Video
Canibus Details The End Of The Modern World With “Fait Accompli” (Album Stream)

Canibus Details The End Of The Modern World With “Fait Accompli” (Album Stream)

It's been three years since Canibus dropped his last album, Lyrical Law, and fans of The Hrsmn member can get their fill yet again with his fifteenth studio album, Fait Accompli. Listed as one of the Top 50 Lyricists by The Source Magazine in 2012, the New York City wordsmith... Read more
June 10, 2014 Audio, Fresh
Canibus, Kurupt, Ras Kass & Killah Priest’s Four Horsemen Unit Is Back With New Music (Audio)

Canibus, Kurupt, Ras Kass & Killah Priest’s Four Horsemen Unit Is Back With New Music (Audio)

Canibus, Kurupt, Killah Priest and Ras Kass reunite as the Four Horsemen (a/k/a HRSMN) and drop their first single ("Historic") in almost five years from the upcoming Canibus LP, Fait Accompli, releasing one week from today (June 10). Alongside the highly-influential scholarly MC Tragedy Khadafi, The Four Horsemen dive into... Read more
June 3, 2014 Audio, Fresh
Sean Price – Rumblestick ft Killah Priest (Video)

Sean Price – Rumblestick ft Killah Priest (Video)

It's hard to believe it's been 10 months since Mic Tyson released. Sean Price and Duck Down keep promoting the Brownsville bully's best-selling solo work of his career—with new music. Two mid-'90s alums link up in this Heltah Skeltah-meets-Sunz Of Man connection. Simple and effective... with an album worth checking... Read more
September 3, 2013 Fresh, Video
Ghostface Killah & Killah Priest Doing A Collaborative Album?

Ghostface Killah & Killah Priest Doing A Collaborative Album?

If you would have asked me in the late '90s for a Top 10 of Hip-Hop's elite lyricists du jour, it would have been hard not to praise Killah Priest. From the Sunz Of Man's stellar debut album, to one of the most conceptually-dense LPs of the last 15 years... Read more
August 14, 2013 Audio, Fresh
Ghostface Killah, Masta Killa, Killah Priest & Adrian Younge perform I Declare War on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (Video)

Ghostface Killah, Masta Killa, Killah Priest & Adrian Younge perform I Declare War on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (Video)

Ghostface Killah, Masta Killa, Killah Priest and Adrian Younge perform with The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Check out the video of I Declare War. Related: Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge – Twelve Reasons to Die (Full Album Stream)... Read more
April 9, 2013 Video