On this solid follow-up to “Prepare For Glory”, underground hip hop producer Cartel continues the onslaught with “Tha Throwback”. Named “Tha Throwback” because it represents a throwback to when hip hop artists actually cared about lyrical content. It’s comprised of some of the most promising, upcoming MC’s in the game and features improved production [...]

The Historical Society and Universal Indie Records have teamed up to bring you the The Schmagilla Incident, the debut album by Scholarly Pursuits.

This first studio album represents a combination of strong passion and artistic creativity. The Schmagilla Incident is at it’s most powerful when experienced as a single audio experience, taking the listener on a [...]

  
As a way of saying thanks for supporting his first album, “Prepare For Glory”, underground hip hop producer, Cartel has cooked up a special treat with this exclusive album of tracks that he produced and recorded between the years of 1990 and 1997. The song, “Nobody Plays Hard In The [...]

  Underground producer Cartel, one half of the Hoodgrown Productions duo, makes his debut with a throwback album of sorts. Combing hard beats provided by him and “real” lyrics from some of illest new upcoming artists on the scene, Cartel’s Prepare For Glory represents a time when hip hop was still [...]

“Finally out of Woodside, Queens, comes a hot independent single from newcomers the EAST SIDE HUSTLAS. “Pourin’ Moe” (Mad Street) and its accompanying numbers, “Project Vet” and “Places, Diamonds And Oasis,” are clever criminology tales showcasing the fluent and vivid lyrics of the group’s MC, G-Que. You’ve been warned, don’t sleep on New York’s constantly [...]