Last week, we skipped this list so that we could run our list of the 25 best videos of the year thus far. So I'll just take a moment to point out that last week's list, if we'd done it, definitely…   Read Story »

In the video for "The Full Retard," the intensely banging first single from El-P's excellent new Cancer For Cure album, El and a ratty squirrel puppet go on a ridiculous…   Read Story »

Once upon a time, I hated Company Flow. Their music sounded like rap as rigid noise-attack, all funless bellowing and construction-site clang. El-P's solo yammer "Patriotism" was the one track I…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

At this point, it's pretty expected for every big indie rock type to make the late-night rounds whenever a new record drops. But there's still a transgressive charge to seeing El-P, patron saint of…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

Earlier this year, we got a pair of look-ins on Killer Mike's El-P-produced R.A.P. Music, one of Most Anticipated records for this spring and summer. It's out next week on Williams Street, but you…   Read Story »

The rattling skronk-rap godfather El-P returns next month with the long-awaited solo album Cancer For Cure, which runs a very good chance of being fucking awesome. We've already heard "The Full…   Read Story »

"Don't Die" is a fresh one from Killer Mike's forthcoming, El-P-produced LP R.A.P. Music, a gritty, sample-heavy cut backing an urgent, tough flow from Killer Mike. Stream it below. R.A.P.…   Read Story »

This was an incredible month for free hip hop MP3s, and it was an incredible month for songs by Lemonade because "Neptune" is one of this year's finest. And so the paramaters I gave myself with this…   Read Story »