Wu Tang Clan

it's safe to say that hip-hop has reached its Emo Era. rappers, for the first time on a major scale, are extremely comfortable expressing their darkest thoughts and lowest emotions. good for them!

la weekly's ben westhoff wrote an investigative article about the rapper riff raff, in an attempt to lift the veil on his purposely obscured "actual identity." it seems obvious that his actual identity is that of a coon, a racial caricature, a thin mockery of the genre in which he plays.

Raekwon's back, serving up a brand new FreeEP as an appetizer to his sixth studio album, F.I.L.A. (Fly International Luxurious Art), due out later this year.