M.O.P. News

Blues-Rock band The Black Keys have teamed up with former Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder Dame Dash to create BlakRoc .

S tore Trek is a Voice feature profiling new shops and businesses in Noe Valley.

Just ask Cambridge duo Certified G'z. Chief C and Young Don deliver nimble wordplay and tales to appeal to thugs and ladies alike.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 So a couple weeks ago , I took a guess at how some of the major hip hop releases for Sept.

Lil' Fame and Billy Danzenie formed hardcore rap act M.O.P. The duo's debut single, "How About Some Hardcore," became popular and led to the release of their first album, To the Death, in the spring of 1994.

When people talk about "classic" or "Golden Age" hip-hop, nine times out of ten, they're actually talking about DJ Premier .

Here is the latest leak from producer Alexander The Great off his remix project, "Maybe I'm An Addict", available for free download this friday, September 25th, through SO-GNAR.COM. The tracklist for the project is below, and all artwork will be released with the tape on the 25th.

EPs made a lot more sense when vinyl reigned supreme. It was a variety-pack introduction to artists such as Showbiz & A.G. [ click to read ], M.O.P. [ click to read ] and even Jurassic 5 [ click to read ]. The Blue Scholars [ click to read ] are too seasoned to be introducing themselves, and more in-tuned with the digital age than vinyl.

The other day I was enjoying M.O.P.'s latest album, Foundation , when I realized something - there are very few artists out there making rap music today.

The Hip-Hop Herald 09.17.09: Kanye, Kanye, Kanye Posted by Patrick Robinson on 09.17.2009 This week: We're looking at the aftermath of the Kanye West incident and who really loses, T-Pain and 50 Cent address issues with Jay-Z, new material from Snoop Dogg during his time on Death Row, Ghostface Killah's tracklisting and M.O.P. accused of stealing ...

Foundation Review Posted by Patrick Robinson on 09.16.2009 After their time on G-Unit Records yielded no album, M.O.P. decided to go the Independent route with their latest album, Foundation .

September 15: Hip Hop 'Super Tuesday' - how do they stack up? Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day Album Sampler Rae Jay Day last week was major, no doubt and we'll get the final sales results on Wednesday .

M.O.P. has responded to rumors and accusations that they stole a beat from an emerging producer from Philadelphia.

All content within this section is pure rumor and generally have no factual info outside of what the streets have whispered in our ear.

Since M.O.P. [ click to read ] last spoke, they signed with 50 Cent [ click to read ] and Interscope for a shocking but subsequently fruitless deal.

The Hip-Hop Herald 09.10.09: F*** Jay-Z! Posted by Patrick Robinson on 09.10.2009 This week, T-Pain says what he thinks of Jay-Z and brings auto-tune to the iPhone, VH1 celebrate 25 years of Def Jam, Kanye West and Soulja Boy working on each other's albums and Saigon has words for Joe Budden and Slaughterhouse! The countdown continues! In just 16 ...

In conjunction with the upcoming DVD release of Big Pun: The Legacy , Vladar Films and Legacy Records are offering fans the chance to win an autographed Big Pun t-shirt with signatures from M.O.P. , Onyx , Peter Gunz , DMX , Cormega , Redman , Method Man , Swizz Beatz and over a dozen more.

M.O.P. were en route to hip-hop's greatest track record. Between 1994 and 2000, they released four classic albums - at two-year intervals - that built the East Coast gangsta-rap foundation for which Kool G Rap had drawn the blueprints.

Cathedral of Praise International Ministries in Rialto is reaching out to local youth in a language they can understand - music.

IT'S A GOOD TIME to be a hip-hop fan in the Bay Area. The season's two biggest hip-hop tours - the Rock the Bells festival and Lil Wayne's headlining jaunt - are set to touch down at local amphitheaters in the next eight days.