Killer Mike has a great history with Williams Street, the production company behind Adult Swim. In fact if it wasn’t for them giving him the creative freedom to make an album any way he wanted then he never would have hooked up with BFF El-P and the world would be a much gloomier place. Now [...]

The great rap producer the Alchemist has gone through a number of fascinating career phases in the past two decades: Teenage novelty, proven hitmaker, gutter-rap stalwart, and on to his current run as a tripped-out underground stoner-rap elder. In the past year, he’s released full-length collaborations with Mobb Deep’s Prodig...

The clothing designer Dr. Romanelli, who repurposes vintage items into new things, has a new collection based on the Coca-Cola logo, and to promote it, he’s tapped the great bleary-eyed rap producer the Alchemist to make “Diagnosis,” an eight-minute rap innervision made partly from stitched-together Coke-commerical ...

The rapper's affiliate Alchemist shares secrets from inside the studio    

A few years ago, the veteran Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy linked with the producer Alchemist to release Return Of The Mac, a deeply excellent album of wizened soul-sampling New York tough talk. Prodigy and Alchemist have once again linked for a new collaborative album called Albert Einstein, and on the prettily slow-rolling track “YNT,&...