Last night was Hype Machine’s Fast Forward League Night, which was put on by the Hype dudes themselves as well as Consequence Of Sound, Gorilla Vs. Bear, I Guess I’m Floating, Awesome Tapes From Africa and us. The lineup featured the likes of Beat Culture, Killer Mike (who mixed it up in the crowd), High [...]

El-P, the rapper/producer most responsible for the past decade and a half of skronky, chaotic underground rap, is on a serious tear lately. He produced all of R.A.P. Music, the utterly badass new album from Killer Mike, and it’s the first album he’s produced in full for someone else since Cannibal Ox’s classic The C...

In the years I’ve been writing about music, I’ve done a whole ton of interviews — some great, some painfully awkward. But my favorite one happened a little more than four years ago at a Brazilian steakhouse in Manhattan, where I sat down with the firebrand Atlanta rapper Killer Mike. Mike’s publicist was f...

Earlier this year, we got a pair of look-ins on Killer Mike’s El-P-produced R.A.P. Music, one of Most Anticipated records for this spring and summer. It’s out next week on Williams Street, but you can hear it now at Spin.

The rattling skronk-rap godfather El-P returns next month with the long-awaited solo album Cancer For Cure, which runs a very good chance of being fucking awesome. We’ve already heard “The Full Retard,” the banger of a leadoff track. And now El has shared “Tougher Colder Killer” another hard-as-f...