New Bell Biv DeVoe – I’m Betta
Pioneering New Jack Swing trio Bell Biv DeVoe is readying their highly-anticipated comeback album, Three Stripes, which is due for release this Friday Jan. 27th. An offset of legendary group New Edition a...
Nello Rubio Interview with Sevyn Streeter
I recently got a chance to sit down with rising R&B/Soul singer/songwriter Sevyn Streeter, who is currently on her Girl Disrupted Tour in support of her upcoming long-awaited and highly anticipated debu...
TheHipHopDemocrat’s First Annual Best Albums of the Year List, Who Makes The Cut?
We here at TheHipHopDemocrat are obviously a mostly Hip-Hop based website, but obviously cover a lot of R&B and Soul, as well as some other genres like Jazz, Funk and Reggae at times to name a few others. ...
KXNG CROOKED Brings Political Fears To Life On Lyrically Sharp Concept Album, Good Vs Evil
Westcoast Long Beach emcee, KXNG CROOKED, is one of the most lyrical and greatest emcees of all-time, as well as one of the few more politically charged emcees left in Hip-Hop. So it should be no surprise...
The Game Gives Us Very Vividly Autobiographical Account of Childhood, Growing Up In Compton, With 1992
Westcoast emcee The Game has always been one of the most vivid at painting pictures of his environment growing up in Compton, California. Whether it be with his globally critically acclaimed debut album, Th...
BJ the Chicago Kids Adds Another Soulful Masterpiece To Motown’s Storied History, With Major-Label Debut, In My Mind
In 2016, after years of grinding, R&B/Soul singer/songwriter BJ the Chicago Kid showed that patience is a virtue and that sometimes, timing is everything. Whether it be the long time between his actua...
Anderson .Paak Takes You On A Soulful, Fun and Honest, Dreamy Ride To A Paradise of Sound With Malibu
Singer/Rapper and multi-instrumentist, as well as musician Anderson .Paak entered 2016 riding the wave of his big break as one of the most significant contributors on Dr. Dre’s opus 2015 album, Compton: A...
KING Give Us Timeless Debut That’s Like No Other, Would Make Mentor Prince Proud With, We Are KING
Dreamy, surreal, lighter and sensuous with a heavenly like easy atmospheric blend of Dream Pop and R&B, which harkens back to the likes of such legendary artists as Sade, Janet Jackson, Erykah Badu and ...
Royce Da 5’9″ Finally Sheds More Layers We Haven’t Heard Before, Delivers One of His Most Cohesive and Best Albums of His Career On Layers
Detroit emcee Royce Da 5’9” has always been known as a very ill lyricist and one of the best lyricists there is in Hip-Hop, not only now, but arguably of all-time. Though he is arguably at some of his l...
New Uncle Murda – Rap Up 2016
Brooklyn and Easstt New York native, Uncle Murda, started doing end of the year, year-in-review Rap Up's a few years ago in much the same way Virginia rapper Skillz has been doing for years. So keeping the tr...
