Aesop Rock

Murs for Sures

Luscious Lyricism

Come on out for the CunninLynguists.

Rapper Camu Tao Passes Away at Age 30

Junc Ops

2013 (Circuitree Records)

Bleubird, Astronautilus and DJ Immortal at Central Pub in Margate

Rock's Hard Place

Aesop on turning 30, getting hitched, and leaving New York

Aesop Rock

None Shall Pass (Definitive Jux)

Super Soundz

As producer Kentsoundz, and one half of the group Junc Ops, Kent Hernandez is slowly expanding Miami's musical minds

The El Word

After years as an underground MC hero, El-P drops a sonic bomb that will rock your world

Fishing for Inspiration

Aesop Rock's cure for writer's block includes a comic book collabo

World Party

A heavy bookend tests festival's endurance

Where's the Beat?

SouthBeat Records is set to finally live up to its potential

The Independent Juxtaposition

Def Jux reasserts its status as this decade's most important independent hip-hop label

C-Rayz Walz

Year of the Beast (Definitive Jux)

Zion-I

True & Livin' (Live Up Records)

Prefuse 73

Surrounded by Silence Warp

Basshead

Whose Culture?

2Mex

Vast Aire

Look Mom ... No Hands (Chocolate Industries)

Wake Up!

A year-end rant or rave for the rap music industry

Where's the Roc?

Wrekonize may have won MTV's latest MC Battle, but he's still looking for a little respect

Fabled Aesop

The rhymes are strange and the beats are bleak, but Aesop Rock insists that his latest is anything but experimental

The Me Country

For some, 9/11 was life-changing; for others, it was just another bad day

He Said, He Said

No matter what happens between Push Button Objects and Seven, their friendship is over

Prefuse 73

One World Extinguisher(Warp)

Different Slides for Older Guys

Brooooce! -- and the year in pop music

Hangover Records

Records worth hanging on to, for Auld Lang Syne