It’s been 13 years since the New York indie-rap duo released their instant-classic debut album The Cold Vein, and they haven’t dropped anything since. But Can Ox are back together now, and after hitting their fundraising goal on a Kickstarter campaign, they’ve now released their first new music since then. Their &am...

I should have seen the warning signs from the jump: duo with one classic album and a decade of rumors and unfruitful false starts on a follow-up reunite for a show with sketchy promotion and no sign of the high-profile cosigns that made them famous in the first place. I would have been more angry [...]

The one proper album released by Cannibal Ox — 2001′s The Cold Vein — stands as one of the best hip-hop albums of the aughts, and maybe the best album ever released on El-P’s Definitive Jux label. (I’d put it at No. 2 after El-Producto’s own I’ll Sleep When You’re De...

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...