The 2014 hip-hop release re-imagined as 1964, 1974, and 1984 albums

Detroit-based Tribe Records was one of the brightest lights of America's jazz underground in the 1970s

“The book that defines Houston hip-hop” – Bun B

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib's Bandana was released June 28, 2019 by Keep Cool/RCA Records & Madlib Invazion/ESGN. This album was produced & A&R’ed by Madlib, Fre...

We’ve been getting a lot of questions about a collaborative album that Madlib and Mac Miller supposedly created. Here’s the real story.

Photo: MacDermot in 1968, by Larry Ellis. Composer, pianist and arranger Galt MacDermot died at 4 AM Eastern Standard Time on December 17th, 2018, a day shy of his 90th bir...

Rappcats is proud to present the full-sized, hardcover, thick-as-a-brick Gangster Doodles book.

J Dilla's “The Anthem” produced by Kanye West, and an alternate-vocal version of “Fuck the Police,” taken from a demo version of The Diary found on CD-R in a storage unit.

Freddie Gibbs is the product of violent, drug-laden streets, but unlike most rappers with similar resumes, he brings the block to the booth without inhibition or an exagger...

Madlib's Medicine Show series (2010-2012, on Madlib Invazion) was originally planned as a one-release-a-month series on CD format. The conventional logic was that CDs were ...