Archive for the ‘hip-hop’ tag
The Enthusiast Radio Hour Podcast Episode 4
More audio enthusiasm! This time we examine the worst rappers the internet has to offer, journalistic cock-ups, Boxing Day films, best TVCs of the '00s, and giggle idiotically with List Operator Richard Higgins.
Whatta Mighty, Good Man
Salt-N-Pepa are not the first band to accept God as their newest member. But as they serve up a modified take on their earthy hits at the Good Vibrations Festival, we hope their feminist message remains unscathed.
Ladies, Where My Fellas At?
The art of the rap solo in contemporary pop has only come into its own over the last 20-odd years. Here, we pay tribute to the best rap performances by men in songs sung by women.
Review: Style Wars and Beautiful Losers
Two documentaries, filmed 25 years apart, show how graffiti culture has moved from the street to the gallery, and from public menace to mainstream success.
The Stupid Question: What’s Your Favourite Rap Simile?
Rappers love similes like Joanie loves Chachi. In a bonus stupid question, we ask MCs Pressure, Bliss and Ozi Batla about their favourite rap similes.
The Tough Question: Is Oz Hip-Hop Popular Because It’s Finally Good?
According to charts and ticket sales, Australian hip-hop has finally come of age. The Enthusiast asks current luminaries Hilltop Hoods, the Herd and Bliss N Eso, are sales a reflection of higher quality?
Review: Relapse by Eminem
His best friend was murdered, he remarried and divorced, he went through rehab. Yet over the last five years Eminem found the most platinum-coated inspiration from Christopher Reeve jokes.
The Travails Of Rappin’ Joaquin Phoenix
Is Joaquin Phoenix's increasingly shambolic rapping odyssey a legitimate career change, an elaborate piss-take of Hollywood hobby bands, or a sign that heroin is a helluva drug?








