Over the course of 2021, Cannibal Ox have graced us with a few singles — “Metal Ox” and “Raspberry Jelly” back in May, and now a new one called “Abyss.” (This year also marked the twentieth anniversary of Cannibal Ox’s beloved debut The Cold Vein.) The latest track i...

Ask an ’88 hip-hop head steeped in Public Enemy and EPMD what rap would sound like in 2001, and even their wildest futurist visions would have a hard time anticipating what Cannibal Ox would accomplish with The Cold Vein. Twenty years ago this week, the Harlem MC duo of Vast Aire and Vordul Mega — with a legendarily evocative...

FACT recently put together a fun, fight-starting list of the 100 best underground rap records ever. Up at the #1 spot, they listed The Cold Vein, the 2001 El-P-produced debut from the Harlem duo Cannibal Ox. Can Ox broke up before they got around to making a follow-up, but they’re back together now and about […]

A decade and a half after putting out their celebrated debut album, The Cold Vein, subterranean hip-hop duo Cannibal Ox will drop their second LP, Blade Of The Ronin, on March 3. Lead single “Iron Rose” was a forceful, thumping track complete with a brief but notable appearance by MF Doom. Now, we have “Harlem [...]

The Harlem rap duo Cannibal Ox are back together and getting ready to release Blade Of The Ronin, their first album since the clattering 2001 nerd-rap masterpiece The Cold Vein. The biggest name to kick in a guest-verse on the album is MF Doom, Can Ox’s free-associating backpacker peer from back in the day. (I [...]