Redman

Before he became a Hollywood star and deodorant endorser, Redman was one of the best, and funniest, emcees in the game. On Darkside, his second album, the Funk Doc unleashes a torrent of bugged-out rhymes focusing squarely on weed, women and wil'in out. Keith Murray, Erick Sermon and Hurricane G also appear.

As more and more former B-boys and B-girls find jobs in hip-hop outside of the spotlight –
as label heads, video directors, stylists, journalists – a trend is making itself apparent: The
jobs with the shortest tenure are the most visible ones. Nearly everyone in hip-hop, from
hot young mogul Puffy Combs to me, should outlast the rappers themselves. That's because
of the Hip-hop Slide. The Slide is the probability that after an aesthetically influe... More >