Once again, Nardwuar continues his improbable but ridiculously fun run of giving densely prepared nerd-out interviews with rappers. His latest target: El-P, who meets Nardwuar backstage at his Vancouver show with Killer Mike. Mike himself gets in a cameo, and we learn the following things: El-P (if his hat is any indication) has made the [...]

Well, this morning just got significantly more awesome. “Big Beast,” the ridiculously badass all-star first single from Killer Mike’s excellent El-P-produced new album R.A.P. Music, has a nine-minute new video, and holy shit is it ever awesome. The clip features a Steven Seagal-style foiled convenience-store robbery...

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...